If you only go once in a while, what's wrong with buying a three game membership? More money will go to the club you supposedly support.
Guess it depends on your definition of "a while". My old man lives in Portugal so can only go to a game once in a while i.e. max once a year.
Do you think your family support you? Or have you peed them off because they don't support you financially?
Nothing wrong with just barracking for the tigers. You're just not classified as a supporter IMHO.
Why am I not classified as a supporter?
Not you. The person that just comes to one game a year. They can be called a follower of the RFC and a person that barracks for them. Just not a supporter. Just my opinion as I look at supporters as people that financially support the club. They are the life blood of the club - its members.
Only just read the last few pages of this topic and doc you are way off the mark IMO. Way off!!
Funny because I just met a patient today who I asked if they followed the football and they said they used to be a bulldogs supporter but now isn't. I asked him who he barracked for now and he said bulldogs! So I asked him to explain and he said he stopped being a member 5 years ago so he didn't classify himself as a supporter!
This is 100% true. So I'm not the only one that thinks this way.
Mate, I think if you ask anyone who they support they just say their team regardless of if they are a member or not.
You are using the word "support" way to literately.
I think if you use the word "member" most assume you pay your money.
I've also got a storey for you, I know a guy that is highly educated but is a moron when it comes to common sense things. True story.
I think you missed the point of what I was saying.
There is no doubt that being a supporter of a club has entered the vernacular to mean you just barrack for the club. My argument has been that you really cannot be a supporter unless you support the team in some way that is either financial (member) or by helping the club somehow (e.g. volunteer work).
That is what a true supporter would do. That is what it used to mean many years ago. When I was a kid you always asked others who they barracked for. You never asked who they supported. The term supporter back then was not used unless you were talking about members. When you talked about numbers of people at the ground it would be referred to as "fans" of either teams.
So to repeat, a true supporter is someone that actually supports the club in a way that is significant. I understand that nowadays the term is used differently but not in it's correct (original) form. The old patient I spoke to obviously had the same idea.
And no, he wasn't a psyche patient. If he was I might have run into a few of you in the ward!
