What sort of fan are you?

[Ricey]

I am a season ticket holder and try to get to as many away games as possible. But due to working shifts I sometimes miss the odd one or two home games. This season I am going to try and avoid that as much as possible.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Maybe on your wage that's not much, but on mine that's quite a lot. I would also need reasonable accommodation as I like my comforts, so that soon mounts up. Plus, I would rather see my son enjoy himself than me which is why I often sacrifice my own ticket for him to go to "special" games outside of the STH ones.

I'm not begrudging you, if I had the time, the money and the kind of family who wouldn't object then I'd do the same, but in all three cases I don't.

 

[bucket&spade.f.c]

Maybe on your wage that's mot much, but on mine that's quite a lot. I would also need reasonable accommodation as I like my comforts, so that soon mounts up. Plus, I would rather see my son enjoy himself than me which is why I often sacrifice my own ticket for him to go to "special" games outside of the STH ones.

I'm not begrudging you, if I had the time, the money and the kind of family who wouldn't object then I'd do the same, but in all three cases I don't.

Oh i wasnt having a dig or a pop i was just trying 2 answer your post and the fact you cant travel very cheap and even get cheap hotels another option clubs like chelsea man u liverpool and England they lay on day trips 4 those who cant get time off and those that dont have a great amount of money, i for one aint on a great wage just a lot of overtime and i dont go out though out the week you ask the ones who know me i live for southend so i put them top of the list before anything else

 

[sufccolchester]

ST holder, try not to miss home games. Arrange my holidays to clash with away fixtures for grounds I've been to more than once - away at Yeovil. Concentrate on away grounds I've not been to, hardly missed a game last season, may need to miss more this time.
Don't bother with Youth or Reserves as usually working. Try to get to 1 or 2 pre-season matches as I think we should support the lower leagues, we've got some good players from them over the years and many of our old boys have ended up back there.

 

[ShrimperOT]

I like to get to at least one home game a month plus any away games close to where I live in Basingstoke. I also try and see the youths once each season. Fortunately as the U20 squad are at Farnboro next week I may see them twice this season.

 

[Angell Delight]

Every home game and a few away each season for me, pretty much been that way for 20 years now.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Oh i wasnt having a dig or a pop i was just trying 2 answer your post and the fact you cant travel very cheap and even get cheap hotels another option clubs like chelsea man u liverpool and England they lay on day trips 4 those who cant get time off and those that dont have a great amount of money, i for one aint on a great wage just a lot of overtime and i dont go out though out the week you ask the ones who know me i live for southend so i put them top of the list before anything else

Fair enough, just always seems really strange to me that places that are represented as having huge numbers on benefits or the dole always seem to have massive numbers of football supporters at their far flung games. Tickets alone for these sort of games have got to be pretty high in the pounds stake, without travel, and then all the beers that go with it.

 

[loz]

I'm the attractive and witty sort of fan :whistling:

 

[fredheim_holm]

95% of the home games, and around 6/7 away games per year at the moment.

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

Every home game (season ticket) and about half of the away games , would love to do more away games but cash can be a bit tight.

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Sorry, for me, being a fan is nothing to do with how many home away or friendly matches you go to..............it's something in the blood .....you have it or you don't. I see very few matches but would class myself as big a fan as someone who never misses one. It's a passion that 750 odd miles can't dampen!

 

[canveyshrimper]

Season ticket holder so I rarely miss a home game. Think I managed 5 away last season.

I'm lucky that these days I live in fairly close proximity to Roots Hall, but having been a exile I know how those that in far flung parts feel. Your passion for the club remains undiminished, even though you are unable to get to matches.

 

[ian_the_girth]

due to having no life, gf, or family...
i managed to get to all league & cup games last season.
the last game i missed was stoke away (league) 06/07.
it cost me a small fortune last season, but worth every penny to me.

to quote danny dyer from football factory...
"what else you gonna do on a saturday,
sit in your fc****ing armchair wnkaing off to pop idols ?!
then try & avoid your wifes gaze & you struggle to come to terms with your sexless marriage ?!
then go & spunk your wages on kebabs, fruit machines & brasses ?!
fckuck that for a laugh. i know what id rather do, tottenham away
kfucing love it"

 

[* ORM *]

STH (only since the recent influx a few years back forced me too, both for the seat and priority on cup games. Used to do around 10 or so away games a season dwindling over the last few years as my wife's a good cook and I can't live on takeaways. Now the only guaranteed awaydays assuming no other diversions are FA Cup, local derbies and the last away game of the season. Don't do pre-season and only been to reserve games VERY rarely and more for the off the field banter than the game.

To me how many games you get to isn't a measure of whether you are a fan or not. Economics, family and logistics play a bigger part as each year passes.

 

[bucket&spade.f.c]

Fair enough, just always seems really strange to me that places that are represented as having huge numbers on benefits or the dole always seem to have massive numbers of football supporters at their far flung games. Tickets alone for these sort of games have got to be pretty high in the pounds stake, without travel, and then all the beers that go with it.

you do know just coz the area has a high number of people on the dole/benefits dont mean the fans come from the same area does it

Everyone knows the people who live in Manchester are all City fans:)

 

[bucket&spade.f.c]

due to having no life, gf, or family...
i managed to get to all league & cup games last season.
the last game i missed was stoke away (league) 06/07.
it cost me a small fortune last season, but worth every penny to me.

to quote danny dyer from football factory...
"what else you gonna do on a saturday,
sit in your fc****ing armchair wnkaing off to pop idols ?!
then try & avoid your wifes gaze & you struggle to come to terms with your sexless marriage ?!
then go & spunk your wages on kebabs, fruit machines & brasses ?!
fckuck that for a laugh. i know what id rather do, tottenham away
kfucing love it"

maybe thats how i should of worded mine:) just with out the Stoke bit

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

I'm an horrendous part-timer. Other commitments - usually family (guardian to my younger sis - and now husband to someone who doesn't fancy being a football widow), work and singing - mean that I probably only make a dozen games a season on average. That's usually 8 homes and 4 aways, something like that.

It has been like that for a while now, and will be for some time yet, I imagine. Not living in Southend - and not having done so since 1992, a year after I first fell in love with the Shrimpers - has always made it that bit more difficult to get to games on a regular basis.

Doesn't stop me loving them. Or this site, for that matter.

Matt

 

[sufcintheprem]

In an attempt to avoid the Anorak tag which is rapidly heading my way, the Youth games were the "Big " FA Youth cup ones and were also undertaken for the night out as well as to give the kids a bit of support . West Ham away for example (I think that was a night out organised on here, i cetainly recall Mike Smith and Uxbridge being in attendance)

It's great that the youth team would have a bit of support, of course. I've just never even considered it and don't know what would need to change.

Given the number of Havant and Waterloovile games I went to a few years back, though, I don't think I'm in any position to judge anorak potential! I suppose the game's what you make of it really.

 

[jassyfa1]

use to go home and away every game during our 1st spell in the championship for 2-3 years. then work took over and the people I went with began to get clicky (excuse spelling) and the fun of watching Southend stopped.
These days im lucky if I can get to 1 game a season although I get match news on my mobile and listen to BBC Essex for the away games im still southend through and through.

 

[Harold Bishop Killer]

Before flying off to Oz and beyond I was a season ticket holder in the East stand. Didnt miss a home game in our Championship season and went to 8 away games. Before that averaged around 9 home games & 5/6 away games a season.

When I get back will be becoming a STH again and be trying to get to as many away games as possible. When you havent seen a decent game of footy in 9 months you long for it. I miss the 4/5 hour journeys on a cold december saturday to watch us play. Before driving home with 909 on the radio.