Uncle Leo
This cook is an anti-semite
Football isn't an entertainment industry.
Well it's not to us, but SUFC are competing with other entertainment/leisure options for people's spend on a Saturday afternoon.
Football isn't an entertainment industry.
Indeed, but there is no obligation in football to entertain us.
If we are entertained then great, but we are not attending anything pre-billed as entertainment.
in that cauldron of youth excitement?Let me guess. After the training sessions you really smelt?
and you have done your job... I got my son early, and now wears his shirt with prideno one wears Southend kits at the ones he goes but him
As I have said a few times on here, Basildon is less than 13 miles away as the crow flies, and yet they don't support their local football League club. I understand all about them supporting London teams, but there are many football mad families that are being priced out of the London clubs. That town and surrounding area is very big and is ripe for the picking if ever we get the new stadium. The right campaign in Basildon Town Centre and incentives could easily encourage a few hundred and maybe even over a Thousand to start to follow Southend United.
I was dropped off at Chelmsford station after the game on Saturday and the number of west ham fans getting off the train I boarded to Witham was obscene. Plenty still on the train after that too.
However, I am consoled by the fact that by all accounts the vast majority of west ham fans absolutely hate their new home and probably always will.
Yeah i drove through Shenfield on the way home. Hundreds of the ****ers.
My son's school have plenty of activity in his school in prittlewell less than a mile from the ground. Free tickets, Southend training schooles etc Yet he is the only one who ever wears a Southend shirt and we rarely ever see anyone from his school in the family enclosure. Same was when my daughter was there too. Get a few on the family days when they give tickets away, but they rarely come back.
Due to where we live there are a lot of football parties at Chase High which my lad goes to, again no one wears Southend kits at the ones he goes but him.
If it doesnt make that much of an impact in a school that close then its not going to make much to those further out unfortunately.
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Not anymore with West Ham playing at the Olympic stadium and Spurs currently at Wembley followed by a larger capacity at White Hart La.
If you're a floating supporter who would you more likely go and see, West Ham v Everton or Southend v Doncaster?
You'd probably pay more at southend by the way.
We need that poxy stadium to get going sharpish.
I was dropped off at Chelmsford station after the game on Saturday and the number of west ham fans getting off the train I boarded to Witham was obscene. Plenty still on the train after that too.
However, I am consoled by the fact that by all accounts the vast majority of west ham fans absolutely hate their new home and probably always will.
That's interesting and raises another question, if you were living away from Southend how would you feel if your kid wanted to support the local team? I think a lot of kids aren't really given the option by their parents, luckily my dad wasn't one of these types of parent or I'd be a West Ham fan:stunned:.
I thought about it myself when me and my ex talked about kids and were living in South Norwood, I don't think I'd have had a problem with them deciding they wanted to support Palace, I'd obviously push Southend as much as I could but it wouldn't be the end of the world. I would not be very comfortable with any type of glory supporting though!
Did you mount the pavement?
I live in Hertfordshire and while I am doing what I can to get my two in to SUFC (they're seven later this month and have now been to eight SUFC games) I couldn't moan if they started gravitating towards Watford.
A Premier League side pretty much on the doorstep and active within the local community - not much to complain about really, notwithstanding our rivalry with the 'orns back in the late 70s!
The test will come when they are a bit older I suppose. pressure from school mates, etc. But for now, I'm happy to say I live with two little Shrimpers.
That's interesting and raises another question, if you were living away from Southend how would you feel if your kid wanted to support the local team? I think a lot of kids aren't really given the option by their parents, luckily my dad wasn't one of these types of parent or I'd be a West Ham fan:stunned:.
I thought about it myself when me and my ex talked about kids and were living in South Norwood, I don't think I'd have had a problem with them deciding they wanted to support Palace, I'd obviously push Southend as much as I could but it wouldn't be the end of the world. I would not be very comfortable with any type of glory supporting though!
That's interesting and raises another question, if you were living away from Southend how would you feel if your kid wanted to support the local team? I think a lot of kids aren't really given the option by their parents, luckily my dad wasn't one of these types of parent or I'd be a West Ham fan:stunned:.
I thought about it myself when me and my ex talked about kids and were living in South Norwood, I don't think I'd have had a problem with them deciding they wanted to support Palace, I'd obviously push Southend as much as I could but it wouldn't be the end of the world. I would not be very comfortable with any type of glory supporting though!
My son is 9 months and he already has a Southend United beaker, an infant kit and two SUFC vests.
Born in Maldon, raised in Witham, his local club is technically Colchester. No way is he growing up to support them.