The state of the club has taken me beyond anger...

WeeGord

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...and into the world of apathy. I'm sure I'm not the only one, had my season ticket for around 15 years or more and yet I am now at the point where I don't even get frustrated or angry anymore and that, IMHO, is a dangerous place to be.
 
I’ve given up hope we’ll ever get back to being an established premier league club - those days are long gone. Just go along, have a good day with family or friends and enjoy the experience as much as you can. I enjoy away days in particular now, it’s more about the day out with mates than the game itself for me now. That’s a little bit sad that it’s come to this, but it’s where we are now as a club - Gibson has taken us as far as he can


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It’s certainly a weird feeling isn’t it.
Lots of fans go from absolute fanatics to apathy.

There was a report the other week that reflected the real problem.
 
It's an age thing WeeGord. I've been going since the mid 70s and though i'm still a massive fan the result no longer effects me to the extent that it once did, particular the Robbo years where it probably took a few years off my life! I still have my ST and I will always renew but I take it for what it is, a game of footy. During my time I've seen 6 promotion and 6 relegation seasons. We're a yo yo club and nothing will ever change that IMHO.
 
I take my youngest brother who gets very upset (very) when we get beat, quiet a few years younger than me....and i just smile and listen to the rant driving home,with a smile thinking to myself " you used to be JUST like that" now I care less, its just not that important...
 
I would take apathy right now. I was at that stage under Pulis. Since Gibson turned the emotional screw further on 14/06/2019, I seem to drift in and out of apathy and psychic akinesia.

I have to admit whilst I am going tonight, I very nearly wasn’t. I do not recall ever feeling so fed up at a match as I have the last 2 games :( What is it the advert says again? Ah yes ........... ‘when the fun stops, stop’

I do really need some hope from somewhere from them tonight, thats for sure
 
I feel sorry for you because it looks like you started when the club was at it's highest point, around 2004?

It's been downhill ever since.

And getting worse.

It’s not that I started supporting the Boro then, started following them in the late 1980s when I was about 10 years old.

Living in Northumberland and with no family / friends in Teesside I had to support from afar. I went to games semi regularly from 1999 but didn’t have my season ticket until the mid 2000s due to finances.

In all that time, even under Strachan, I never felt the way I do right now.
 
It can get you like that WG, but we have no divine right. I've been here before and its not easy as a supporter but i`ll always go.

We have a good club and our time will come again.
 
i want success NOW!!!!!!!!:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

I know you don't mean it, but not all of us are fickle, just sayin' like.

In my 40+ years of support we've had one real 'success', the cola cup in 2004.

Many supporters of many clubs have had no success, and probably never will.

I won't be surprised if we get nothing else within my lifetime.
 
I don’t think it is apathy that kicks in. I think it’s something in your metabolism that’s telling you you don’t care - as a defence mechanism for the acute disappointment. I’ve tried telling myself I don’t care but I still do.
 
Definitely apathy on my part. A bad result would have had me miserable for days now it’s barely 5 minutes before I’ve put it out of my mind.

I didn’t even realise tonight’s game was on the TV but that has had no bearing on me deciding not to attend tonight despite being a season ticket holder with my son (he hasn’t been for a few months).

This is the first season in 40 odd years (35 plus a season ticket holder) that I’ve missed multiple games for no other reason than I cba. The whole matchday experience is more of a chore than pleasure.

Couldn’t give my tickets away at work either (if anyone still wants them they’re available but you’ll have to pick them up!)

Genuinely in 2 minds whether to renew and I’ve never felt like that before. Once you’ve missed a few games it’s much easier not to go.
 
I wonder if this is an age thing? Or is it the cumulative effect of continual disappointment? Like many here a defeat (home or away) would ruin my weekend, but I've stopped going. I just glance at the score during the game and at full time. There are more important things to do nowadays.
 
I don't think it's an "age thing", because even though I went to Ayresome Park for the 2 decades we were stuck out of the top tier from 1953 to 1973 and even after Big Jack took us up Boro still had a bankruptcy to come in the 1980s , it still gets to me the complete rollocks we have made of the job since our latest relegation.
 
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