Can you be a supporter if you don't attend the matches?

SmallTown said:
If you didn't go to Port Vale when it was at Hartlepool "your" simply not a fan. Fact
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I was at Harlepool so that's me sorted although alot of fans claim to have been at the match...attendance wasn't that big if I remember correctly
 
sherlock1969 said:
Interested in comments here. I'm being told on another thread that because I don't actually attend the matches I can't be a supporter.

This despite explaining that in my almost 54 years I have had a season ticket almost 20 times. I no longer live locally and have to avoid crowds due to ongoing covid CEV risk, hence why I don't go at the moment.

This apparently means I can no longer be a fan of the club.

This is clearly nonsense. People can't attend for a myriad of reasons and following this logic, Boro could only ever have about 30,000 fans at one time.

Just interested in other views?
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There's only one measure that matters............
If you are completely p!ssed off when the Boro lose and your whole weekend is bloody ruined then you're a supporter.👍
 
Maybe the term supporter suggests some financial chipping in. I remember that when I lived locally, if a friend was too ill to go to a match, they would jokingly be asked if their gate money could be taken down and handed over. Anyone know how much the club benefits from the £10 video streaming?
 
When asking the question, do people ask "Who do you follow ?" or "Who do you support ?" I'd say the latter is the most common, therefore we're all supporters.
 
Maccarone said:
I was at Harlepool so that's me sorted although alot of fans claim to have been at the match...attendance wasn't that big if I remember correctly
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I am happy to admit I wasn’t there, I was in Devon on holiday so missed it. I was 14 so had no choice. The utter joy I felt at us fulfilling the fixture, after a summer of gut wrenching pain and feeling sick thinking my club was gone, was almost beyond words though.
 
Followers must use iFollow
whereas fans /supporters must use onlyFans

its best to remember and stick to your digital domain because some things seen on onlyFans , even by accident, can't be 'unseen' or forgotten for months and in fact may lead to new 'things' being followed 🤷‍♂️
 
100% yes. We sent to the 1st game and going to the last game. We cannot afford 2 season tickets and 1 game for 2 people is £76 so we pick and chose
 
Buying shirts, mugs, boro live, paying for sky and watching boro matches or even going to the pub and watching sky is all supporting the club in some way, so anyone doing that would be a supporter (if they want to be considered that), I count that more as a lifetime thing too, providing you don't support other English teams also.

Sure, paying to go to the match, and all matches, might be supporting them more, but loads can't do that because of work, commitments or cost, so it's not a measure of who is a bigger fan, or has the best knowledge or whatever.

Some people might not be supporting the clubs, but might still watch when it's on, they might not be considered a supporter, and maybe not even a fan if they don't know most of the players etc, who knows.

I suppose nobody can define who is a supporter or fan though, as it's effectively immeasurable/incomparable for various circumstances.
 
Boro in Devon said:
In normal seasons I prefer to call myself a sympathiser
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Be careful with that, people with that label usually get shot at dawn in some countries.
I go occasionally not even every season but have the bug again after the Warnock time and going to his South West tour.
I do have 2 tickets for matches at Burnely and Coventry at home waiting to be used and still waiting for the Bristol City ticket to turn up. It's just an exceptional end to this season and I know I regret it if I didn't put an effort into see them.
 
You can be a supporter whether you have been, or never been, or attend every game. Anyone daft enough to suggest you have to go to games is an idiot. If such a daft idiot thought it through, by not going to a game themselves because of holidays, ill health, a funeral or wedding (for example), then you are ceasing to be a supporter yourself at those games, it is probably a term used by the bereft of brains to claim some sort of false superiority. Sad really.
 
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