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Astute

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I wonder how many ex-W'don fans still travel to Milton Keynes every home game.

Not that many now they have another club to support. A good mate of mine is a Dons fan. Most of them went with their new club. They don't see MK Dons as their club now. But there are exceptions. And there always will be. Just like our exceptions are the ones travelling to Northampton.
 

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Depends if his dad calls him a scab

Did you call him a scab Nick? Because I haven't seen him called a scab on here.

But there again his dad knows him better than us so he might have :p
 

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Did you call him a scab Nick? Because I haven't seen him called a scab on here.

But there again his dad knows him better than us so he might have :p

He hasnt called me Super Fan either. Or a Sisu Apologist.

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He hasnt called me Super Fan either. Or a Sisu Apologist.

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Do you tell him he is wrong for not going like you tell us we are?
 

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Astute is in "troll mode" best to ignore him and his infantile jibes.
 

Grendel

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I put this forward as ironic post of the week.

Hardly on another thread you have suggested some fans want to stay in Northampton. Absurd and you know it.
 

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Do you constantly have a go at your dad for not going like you do us on here? Or is he right not to go but we are wrong?

Just point me to where I "constantly have a go ". Ta.

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Duplicate.
 

Sky Blue Kid

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I love the way people say that they are funding the losses like they are making a charitable donation. Is it not fair to say that they are borrowing the money from either their investors and/or ARVO? Surely this money is then saddled to the club as debt and the club pay interest on this debt. Sounds more like a pay day loan to me only no one knows when or how the pay day is coming.
Top reply mate, SISU won't do anything unless it's making them money.
 

Sky Blue Kid

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That was the hard faced businessmen we wanted
I'm proud to say I was in the minutest of minorities in never wanting them as our owners. I said before the ink was dry on the takeover papers that they would strip our Club to the bone. Sadly I've been proven right :(
 

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We are having a conversation and it centres around Astutes absurd and deliberately provocative comment as to teaching a child what is right and wrong. What is wrong is to show disrespect to authority, to commit crime, to show xenophobia or racist behaviour -- it is not wrong to attend a football match.

Curiously I suspect Astute would think it was wrong to follow a club at a temporary home as it supports the owners but if he was a fan of, say, Blackpool he would see no moral issue in giving that owner his and his childs money as they play in their home town.

Right and wrong are entirely subjective. For example, personally I think questioning authority is far more important than respecting them. Similarly, I believe it is possible to commit a crime and not be in the wrong.

If someone believes that patronising a club that actively attacks its fans is wrong or supporting the further commercialisation of a former community game is wrong, then it is entirely their right to pass that belief system on, just as you have every right to teach Grendel Jr whatever you want about the world.

And if you want to use the majority view as a universal barometer to gage "wrongness" I think you'll find yourself on the losing side there again.
 

Grendel

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Right and wrong are entirely subjective. For example, personally I think questioning authority is far more important than respecting them. Similarly, I believe it is possible to commit a crime and not be in the wrong.

If someone believes that patronising a club that actively attacks its fans is wrong or supporting the further commercialisation of a former community game is wrong, then it is entirely their right to pass that belief system on, just as you have every right to teach Grendel Jr whatever you want about the world.

And if you want to use the majority view as a universal barometer to gage "wrongness" I think you'll find yourself on the losing side there again.

Spoken like a true socialist - missing the irony that challenging authority in any socialist state will mean being frogmarched to the local gulag for a spot of rock breaking.

Power to the people - do me a favour.
 

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Spoken like a true socialist - missing the irony that challenging authority in any socialist state will mean being frogmarched to the local gulag for a spot of rock breaking.

Power to the people - do me a favour.

All a bit bizarre from somebody who was loving a hedge-fund taking over the club, and thought that Ranson was worth every penny.

A far cry from being a brave defender of football from commercialisiation.
 

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why are we all arguing about this ?

90% of fans have voted with their feet. Any fan organisation / representation that didn't support this wouldn't be representing the fans.

As you like facts Grendal, the majority of ccfc fans do not want to support SISU by watching CCFC play home games outside Coventry, FACT.
 

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why are we all arguing about this ?

90% of fans have voted with their feet. Any fan organisation / representation that didn't support this wouldn't be representing the fans.

As you like facts Grendal, the majority of ccfc fans do not want to support SISU by watching CCFC play home games outside Coventry, FACT.

We are arguing about it because of the boycott. The ones that go feel as though they have to let us know their reasons for going when most of us won't. They try to twist the words of others that won't go. And of course they will get a reply.

Going to games was a big part of our lives for a lot of us. I used to arrange my time off around games. Yesterday I arranged my weekend around the game. I had worked the night before the game. So I got my wife to drive me to Crewe. Too late to get the train. Needed some sleep. My wife is very understanding as she also loves football, and she knew my love for CCFC before we got together. We all have our vices :p

I am told that I am wrong not to take my youngest lad to Northampton. Why should anyone tell me how to bring my kids up. I show them right from wrong. He is only four and wouldn't know the difference now, but as he gets older and asks me why I didn't take him in previous years he will get my reply. And I don't take youngsters of his age to away games for two reasons. One is you can't 100% predict how the home support will be. The other is I normally have a good drink and can mingle with both home and away supporters so having a small one with me would stop this. It can also take me 8 hours or more to get to a game. Then I have the journey home. Not good for a small one. He will be a Sky Blue one day though. Just hope it isn't too many years away.
 

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We are arguing about it because of the boycott. The ones that go feel as though they have to let us know their reasons for going when most of us won't. They try to twist the words of others that won't go. And of course they will get a reply.

Going to games was a big part of our lives for a lot of us. I used to arrange my time off around games. Yesterday I arranged my weekend around the game. I had worked the night before the game. So I got my wife to drive me to Crewe. Too late to get the train. Needed some sleep. My wife is very understanding as she also loves football, and she knew my love for CCFC before we got together. We all have our vices :p

I am told that I am wrong not to take my youngest lad to Northampton. Why should anyone tell me how to bring my kids up. I show them right from wrong. He is only four and wouldn't know the difference now, but as he gets older and asks me why I didn't take him in previous years he will get my reply. And I don't take youngsters of his age to away games for two reasons. One is you can't 100% predict how the home support will be. The other is I normally have a good drink and can mingle with both home and away supporters so having a small one with me would stop this. It can also take me 8 hours or more to get to a game. Then I have the journey home. Not good for a small one. He will be a Sky Blue one day though. Just hope it isn't too many years away.

Who has said you are wrong for not taking them?
 

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Who has said you are wrong for not taking them?

If I am wrong for not going I am wrong for not taking him. Have you not read the threads about where our next supporters are going to come from?
 

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If I am wrong for not going I am wrong for not taking him. Have you not read the threads about where our next supporters are going to come from?

So who has said you are wrong for not taking him to sixfields?
 

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