by Millsy »
23 Jan 2022 17:41
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There was a Club 1871 banner today that read:
No desire, no drive, no direction.
Sounds more self-referential, if I'm honest.
Seriously??? Losing to Harriers, then 7-0 at home, then a couple more defeats, utterly clueless manager most people want out and the best the whole stand can come up with is something nebulous about desire, drive and direction? The boys showed all of those three, they are just lead by a muppet.
I mean fair play to whomever did that, better than nothing, but I'm stunned quite frankly.
Club 1871 are a new group and so are learning as they go so to speak, and all power to them IMO. The banner today was one of those occasions where I don’t completely agree with it but as they’re constructively trying to do something to improve the fan experience at Reading I’ll still support them. My gripe is that the banner looked professionally made. For a banner criticising the club having it professionally made makes it look like you’re going to stash it away for later use, and will wheel it out whenever we’re shit, which is wrong IMO as it looks like you plan for the club to be shit on the regs going forward. For me it would have been better to paint the message on a cheap wallpaper role and discard it at the end of the game like European groups do.
Tldr: They do things better on the continent.
Good points, completely agree. Plastic fans, plastic banners.
Of course I do respect C1871 but this is more a reflection of the club and general attitude of the fans. They may be a new group but grass roots loudmouth passionate footy fans is as old as football itself so there should be nothing new about that.
Has RFC sunk so low in its depths of apathetic plasticisation that we need to compartmentalise passion into a synthetic group of soulless voice boxes, in the same way that people reduce and compartmentalise spirituality to a tacky Buddha statue in their garden and an hour of meditation a week, or philanthropy into a self-gratifying weekly donation of £2 to adopt a hamster in Africa somewhere?
Ffs guys… the club is in turmoil, and every club has counted on its young passionate loud folk to be spontaneous, daring. vocal, put up banners, sing out protests loudly and show like they care.
We can blame the owners, managers, players all we like but at the end of the day we deserve the club we have.
Apathetic plastics who need to be prescribed a singing area, as long as it doesn’t do anything too daring. Not a go at C1871, a general one.
Rant over.