The Breakfast debate

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Evening Elland, was just breaking up a boring night shift with some, as always excellent, debate. Gotta ask what has been changed on Glory's account? Feel like I'm missing something.
 
hemase said:
Evening Elland, was just breaking up a boring night shift with some, as always excellent, debate. Gotta ask what has been changed on Glory's account? Feel like I'm missing something.
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Alright pal, hope your night shift is going alright. Glad you enjoy the debates.

I think one of the supermods overwrote his post. His status has also changed twice in as many days
 
Ah ok.

As for the plastics debate- I think with finances as they are at the moment throughout the UK it would be very harsh to label anyone a plastic if they do not go as much as they used to.
These people are different however to the ones who say they support Leeds but have never been to a game or bought any merchandise, and I know plenty of these people. If you have put money into the club, regardless of whether its as much as you used, you are a supporter. If you just like to watch Leeds then you are a fan, plastic or not. Not that I like that term.
 
TC (Lovely Geezer) said:
Never have and never will understand why people would chose to support a club that is not local to them - whether they are Surrey based Man Utd/Liverpool fans or even fans from different countries - why attach yourself to a club that's hundreds/thousands of miles away unless you are a "glory-hunter".
Can understand it if you or your families origins are from that area (then its in your blood) but these fans that have no right to support a team miles and miles away are pure plastic <ok>
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This is a very good point to be fair but I think everyone always has some form of reason for it. I'm from London, I support Leeds because my dad does, my first ever game was Fulham vs Aston Villa, I saw a couple of other games in London before watching my first leeds game (including arsenal games, chelsea and spurs) but the second you watch a Leeds game as a fan in the home crowd then it truly does get under your skin, there is no atmosphere in any sport anywhere in the world that I have experienced like it (which sounds incredibly cheesy I know). I truly believe that is the way you really know who you support
 
I agree Josh.

My Nan was from Leeds. She moved to Lincolnshire during the war to be a land girl. She stayed and married my Granddad. Growing up my Mum was often taken to Leeds to visit family and would always be taken to Elland road. She is a firm Leeds fan. I was therefore brought up a Leeds fan despite being, and proud to be, from Lincolnshire. Am I a plastic fan because of where I am from?

In the last twenty years I have been a shareholder as well as an avid merchandise buyer. I buy a membership every year and attend as many home/away games as often as money and work will allow. Am I a plastic fan because I do not go to every game?

Sadly in the last few years of my life my granddad suffered with dementia. He struggled to remember who we were, what day it was and he constantly had to be reminded my nan had died when he went looking for her. However, when you mentioned Leeds United he could describe beautifully to you the match days he would go to with his in laws and my six year old Mum. Was he a plastic fan because he was from Lincolnshire and didnt go to a game after the nineteen seventies for various reason?


(Its not about how hard we hit, its how hard we can get hit and keep moving forward. Thats how winning is done.)
 
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