I really wonder about that. Even the pre game buzz I used to get with the mousers and abu dhabi city are gone.
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your dead inside
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Nothing to do with glory, MUDD said he was excited during the Moyes season.
It's to do with crap football
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It really is not about that at all.
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Didn't we win a couple of trophys last season
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Even when we won the Europa, I was like, yay! We have the set, what's for dinner?
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similar to when we won the league cup, the initial euphoria is there but then realisation sets in that they are 2nd tier trophies, im pretty sure if we won the league that year your reaction would have been different
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I really wonder about that. Even the pre game buzz I used to get with the mousers and abu dhabi city are gone.
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I'm a bit like that with those games atm, but its more to do with our expected approach to them under Jose
Don't really want to take this thread in that direction... But they're the games you should look forward too most and the caution in the away games almost kills my enthusiasm.
In fairness... That second half last season was the biggest buzz in years... I sort of hope it can convince him to have a go more often
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Considering we have had our most successful seasons in the past three years, how do you work that out?
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Or you could read the thread and see its about changing priorities, family issues, getting older and realising there's other stuff going on in the world
Instead of being a snide spazzer.... Too much to ask of you maybe
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Think it naturally wanes a bit with age, I was much more into football in my 20's, used to be down for days when we lost a big game. There's nothing you can do about it so letting it impact your day to day isn't worth it.
But now I get over any game within an hour, even the CL final loss was only a day or so of being p1ssed off about it.
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Nailed it for me. I was basically United crazy and football crazy as a whole. Even with the WC, I watched matches with an almost clinical detachment. Even the England games.
The wife thinks I have fallen out of love with football.
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The style is a factor too I think, like I look forward to watching us play now much more than I did under Hodgson / Kenny and some of Rodgers reign cause win or lose we are generally a decent watch.
Life's easier when you can stop letting it have such an affect on you, at the end of the day it's a game and that's all it is.
I have a season ticket for ROI ,we are absolute garbage to watch under Martin O'Neill, the only reason I renewed the ticket this season is going to the game with the lads is always good craic, it's defo more a social thing for me now, I'd happily stay in the pub and not go to some of the games, but I go anyway, usually with a naggin of whiskey to help with the boredom
Also I think a lot of it comes from over exposure to football.
Weve never had so many games at the tips of our fingers, and its been that way fr a decade.
Or you could read the thread and see its about changing priorities, family issues, getting older and realising there's other stuff going on in the world
Instead of being a snide spazzer.... Too much to ask of you maybe
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This.
I wonder if the crazy fees play a part too. I'm friends with people who's clubs never win owt, who have also fallen out of love with the game... so can't level the glory hunter card at them.
For me, it is a mix of age, responsibilities, dull footy and a bit of disdain for football as a giant entertainment machine. I'd be interested to see my own reaction if we had a few years of major success while still playing dull football. If i became fanatic again, I'd know i am a glory hunter!
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Also I think a lot of it comes from over exposure to football.
Weve never had so many games at the tips of our fingers, and its been that way fr a decade.
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That's a good point too... It's why the world cup has lost a bit of appeal in my eyes... There's no mystery to foreign sides etc, you know all their players
In saying that... Im guilty of watching pretty much any game on... Even feckin Aussie league stuff
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Didn't we win a couple of trophys last season
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Major ones ?
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Or you could read the thread and see its about changing priorities, family issues, getting older and realising there's other stuff going on in the world
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Well we are all getting older and have changing priorities but I see only 1 person saying their passion for United is gone
I think it's to do with too much football on the TV and the fact, as you get older, your priorities change. I never miss a United match on TV, and also get to a few games per season, but at the moment all I'm expecting is a tough watch even if it does end up in a win. After the game I still have my partner and I can still go out and take the dog for a walk so life doesn't change much.
When I was single in my early 20s it did mean a lot more but perhaps that's because I didn't really have anything else in my life at the time that mattered as much.
Having said that I'll be as excited as anything come 10 August as the eternal optimist side of me thinks that we can improve by a few points and that City will find it difficult to defend their title. We can live in hope!
comment by Ji Sung Park's Cousin - 2017 joy squids (U2958)
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I wonder if the crazy fees play a part too. I'm friends with people who's clubs never win owt, who have also fallen out of love with the game... so can't level the glory hunter card at them.
For me, it is a mix of age, responsibilities, dull footy and a bit of disdain for football as a giant entertainment machine. I'd be interested to see my own reaction if we had a few years of major success while still playing dull football. If i became fanatic again, I'd know i am a glory hunter!
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One thing I've really grown to dislike are these stupid player reveals. anchez thing with the piano being the worst thus far.
Just give them a shirt to hold up and be done with it.
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Or you could read the thread and see its about changing priorities, family issues, getting older and realising there's other stuff going on in the world
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Well we are all getting older and have changing priorities but I see only 1 person saying their passion for United is gone
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Except he didn't.... Proving yet again you want to act the maggot rather than read and contribute anything useful
He said his passion didn't feel as strong as before not that it had gone.... And others agreed that they weren't as affected as they were in their younger days
If being a coqk is all you can contribute then the sooner Admin gives you your normal tap with the ban hammer the better
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Or you could read the thread and see its about changing priorities, family issues, getting older and realising there's other stuff going on in the world
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Well we are all getting older and have changing priorities but I see only 1 person saying their passion for United is gone
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Keep this up and you may well succeed in derailing another grown-up discussion
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 3 minutes ago
I think it's to do with too much football on the TV and the fact, as you get older, your priorities change. I never miss a United match on TV, and also get to a few games per season, but at the moment all I'm expecting is a tough watch even if it does end up in a win. After the game I still have my partner and I can still go out and take the dog for a walk so life doesn't change much.
When I was single in my early 20s it did mean a lot more but perhaps that's because I didn't really have anything else in my life at the time that mattered as much.
Having said that I'll be as excited as anything come 10 August as the eternal optimist side of me thinks that we can improve by a few points and that City will find it difficult to defend their title. We can live in hope!
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Here here
On the contrary, when your experience of football is going to the games with family, you start to appreciate it more as you get older as your family won’t be around forever. You make more time to go to the games due to the experience with family/friends. Football is about having to down a pint and a whisky at 1445 because your dad gets a round in 1 minute before you have to leave. It can be the only time you see certain members of the family and it can be the highlight of their week. The success on the pitch is important, but plays less of a role than it would if you are sitting at home watching a match on TV every week. Also if your team has not won anything in your lifetime, and are always shiiiite to watch, then there needs to be other reasons for you to be passionate about them.
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comment by Stretty - mr mourinho (U3123)
posted 6 minutes ago
Never been bothered by pre season games in the slightest.
however Im certainly not as passionate as I was about it as a child. Which makes sense. its only a game. it has no effect on any of us if you think about it logically.
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This is something my brothers and I were talking about recently. The older you get and the additional responsibilities you have, make you take a philosophical approach to it.
I still enjoy beating the scousers and blue plastic seats but when we lose, i just go, meh and crack on.
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This
Still, it's fun to pop in on here just to see how upset people do get, myself in the past included at times
So, just wanted to ask, do others feel this way?
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In short, yes.
Long-form... LVG's tenure was a nightmare to endure - albeit credit him for getting something out of Shaw, Rashford and Lingard.
Mourinho has been a disaster. He's not evolved with the game and his signings have been pretty rubbish. The "football" that we play is straight out of the Big Sam playbook, with better players and a bigger chequebook slightly mitigating the damage.
I still go sparingly but I gave up my own season ticket last year because I wasn't getting as much joy out of it. The football was dull and to be honest I'd rather be at home with my kids on a weekend. I can still watch the game on my sofa with a cold beer then settle into the evening with a take-away & a film or a meal out with friends/family.
To be honest, even if the football on offer was worth paying for - which it isn't, by a long shot - I probably wouldn't be lured back to fully fledged season ticket holder - I want/need more flexibility at the weekend.
Finally, the atmosphere is as bad as the football which makes it an even less attractive proposition - there's more atmosphere in my living room than in sections of Old Trafford. I might get a season ticket again for something to do when my kids are old enough to have their own lives on weekends, but that's a few years off yet.
I guess I just don't get the same joy from football. It doesn't help that I no longer care about the players, because they aren't invested in the club themselves. The connection to the local lads would've been enough in generations gone by for me to overlook a lot of the cac we as fans put up with these days, but today's Mercenary United don't seem to care, so why should I?
Passion isn't just enjoying the wins. It's about hurting when we lose.
52 and VC are older chaps and both claim to have family around them and yet they spend hours and hours on here talking mostly about United. It therefore isnt inevitable that as we get older our passion for United will wane.
Our recent struggles to win major titles could therefore very well be the reason for Mud's lack of passion for United.
comment by Nathan Ralph (U1734)
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On the contrary, when your experience of football is going to the games with family, you start to appreciate it more as you get older as your family won’t be around forever. You make more time to go to the games due to the experience with family/friends. Football is about having to down a pint and a whisky at 1445 because your dad gets a round in 1 minute before you have to leave. It can be the only time you see certain members of the family and it can be the highlight of their week. The success on the pitch is important, but plays less of a role than it would if you are sitting at home watching a match on TV every week. Also if your team has not won anything in your lifetime, and are always shiiiite to watch, then there needs to be other reasons for you to be passionate about them.
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Great post dude
comment by Tyler Durden (U21874)
posted 14 seconds ago
Passion isn't just enjoying the wins. It's about hurting when we lose.
52 and VC are older chaps and both claim to have family around them and yet they spend hours and hours on here talking mostly about United. It therefore isnt inevitable that as we get older our passion for United will wane.
Our recent struggles to win major titles could therefore very well be the reason for Mud's lack of passion for United.
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Chatting football on here isn't a sign that you're fanatical though, it's merely a digital form of conversation, same as talking to people in work / pub / home etcd. about a sport and club you love.
But the way you let it impact you is, for me, the real sign, if you're down for days cause united darw at home to West Brom then you're too into it.
52 and VC are older chaps and both claim to have family around them and yet they spend hours and hours on here talking mostly about United.
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They don't need me to defend them, but I'd suspect their online activity at the outside of working hours and at the weekend is noticeably less. As is my own.
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posted on 25/7/18
I really wonder about that. Even the pre game buzz I used to get with the mousers and abu dhabi city are gone.
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your dead inside
posted on 25/7/18
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 1 minute ago
Nothing to do with glory, MUDD said he was excited during the Moyes season.
It's to do with crap football
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It really is not about that at all.
posted on 25/7/18
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Didn't we win a couple of trophys last season
posted on 25/7/18
comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by United_kaz (U9943)
posted 42 seconds ago
Even when we won the Europa, I was like, yay! We have the set, what's for dinner?
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similar to when we won the league cup, the initial euphoria is there but then realisation sets in that they are 2nd tier trophies, im pretty sure if we won the league that year your reaction would have been different
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I really wonder about that. Even the pre game buzz I used to get with the mousers and abu dhabi city are gone.
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I'm a bit like that with those games atm, but its more to do with our expected approach to them under Jose
Don't really want to take this thread in that direction... But they're the games you should look forward too most and the caution in the away games almost kills my enthusiasm.
In fairness... That second half last season was the biggest buzz in years... I sort of hope it can convince him to have a go more often
posted on 25/7/18
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Considering we have had our most successful seasons in the past three years, how do you work that out?
posted on 25/7/18
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Or you could read the thread and see its about changing priorities, family issues, getting older and realising there's other stuff going on in the world
Instead of being a snide spazzer.... Too much to ask of you maybe
posted on 25/7/18
comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 4 minutes ago
Think it naturally wanes a bit with age, I was much more into football in my 20's, used to be down for days when we lost a big game. There's nothing you can do about it so letting it impact your day to day isn't worth it.
But now I get over any game within an hour, even the CL final loss was only a day or so of being p1ssed off about it.
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Nailed it for me. I was basically United crazy and football crazy as a whole. Even with the WC, I watched matches with an almost clinical detachment. Even the England games.
The wife thinks I have fallen out of love with football.
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The style is a factor too I think, like I look forward to watching us play now much more than I did under Hodgson / Kenny and some of Rodgers reign cause win or lose we are generally a decent watch.
Life's easier when you can stop letting it have such an affect on you, at the end of the day it's a game and that's all it is.
I have a season ticket for ROI ,we are absolute garbage to watch under Martin O'Neill, the only reason I renewed the ticket this season is going to the game with the lads is always good craic, it's defo more a social thing for me now, I'd happily stay in the pub and not go to some of the games, but I go anyway, usually with a naggin of whiskey to help with the boredom
posted on 25/7/18
Also I think a lot of it comes from over exposure to football.
Weve never had so many games at the tips of our fingers, and its been that way fr a decade.
posted on 25/7/18
Or you could read the thread and see its about changing priorities, family issues, getting older and realising there's other stuff going on in the world
Instead of being a snide spazzer.... Too much to ask of you maybe
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This.
posted on 25/7/18
I wonder if the crazy fees play a part too. I'm friends with people who's clubs never win owt, who have also fallen out of love with the game... so can't level the glory hunter card at them.
For me, it is a mix of age, responsibilities, dull footy and a bit of disdain for football as a giant entertainment machine. I'd be interested to see my own reaction if we had a few years of major success while still playing dull football. If i became fanatic again, I'd know i am a glory hunter!
posted on 25/7/18
comment by Stretty - mr mourinho (U3123)
posted 45 seconds ago
Also I think a lot of it comes from over exposure to football.
Weve never had so many games at the tips of our fingers, and its been that way fr a decade.
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That's a good point too... It's why the world cup has lost a bit of appeal in my eyes... There's no mystery to foreign sides etc, you know all their players
In saying that... Im guilty of watching pretty much any game on... Even feckin Aussie league stuff
posted on 25/7/18
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Didn't we win a couple of trophys last season
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Major ones ?
posted on 25/7/18
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Or you could read the thread and see its about changing priorities, family issues, getting older and realising there's other stuff going on in the world
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Well we are all getting older and have changing priorities but I see only 1 person saying their passion for United is gone
posted on 25/7/18
I think it's to do with too much football on the TV and the fact, as you get older, your priorities change. I never miss a United match on TV, and also get to a few games per season, but at the moment all I'm expecting is a tough watch even if it does end up in a win. After the game I still have my partner and I can still go out and take the dog for a walk so life doesn't change much.
When I was single in my early 20s it did mean a lot more but perhaps that's because I didn't really have anything else in my life at the time that mattered as much.
Having said that I'll be as excited as anything come 10 August as the eternal optimist side of me thinks that we can improve by a few points and that City will find it difficult to defend their title. We can live in hope!
posted on 25/7/18
comment by Ji Sung Park's Cousin - 2017 joy squids (U2958)
posted 10 minutes ago
I wonder if the crazy fees play a part too. I'm friends with people who's clubs never win owt, who have also fallen out of love with the game... so can't level the glory hunter card at them.
For me, it is a mix of age, responsibilities, dull footy and a bit of disdain for football as a giant entertainment machine. I'd be interested to see my own reaction if we had a few years of major success while still playing dull football. If i became fanatic again, I'd know i am a glory hunter!
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One thing I've really grown to dislike are these stupid player reveals. anchez thing with the piano being the worst thus far.
Just give them a shirt to hold up and be done with it.
posted on 25/7/18
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Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Or you could read the thread and see its about changing priorities, family issues, getting older and realising there's other stuff going on in the world
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Well we are all getting older and have changing priorities but I see only 1 person saying their passion for United is gone
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Except he didn't.... Proving yet again you want to act the maggot rather than read and contribute anything useful
He said his passion didn't feel as strong as before not that it had gone.... And others agreed that they weren't as affected as they were in their younger days
If being a coqk is all you can contribute then the sooner Admin gives you your normal tap with the ban hammer the better
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posted 5 minutes ago
Sound like a glory hunter to me kid
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How so RDD? Please explain
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Work it out dude
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You made the post, explain what you mean RDD
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Your drop off in passion for United correlates with our lack of recent major titles, as is the case with glory supporters.
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Or you could read the thread and see its about changing priorities, family issues, getting older and realising there's other stuff going on in the world
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Well we are all getting older and have changing priorities but I see only 1 person saying their passion for United is gone
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Keep this up and you may well succeed in derailing another grown-up discussion
posted on 25/7/18
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 3 minutes ago
I think it's to do with too much football on the TV and the fact, as you get older, your priorities change. I never miss a United match on TV, and also get to a few games per season, but at the moment all I'm expecting is a tough watch even if it does end up in a win. After the game I still have my partner and I can still go out and take the dog for a walk so life doesn't change much.
When I was single in my early 20s it did mean a lot more but perhaps that's because I didn't really have anything else in my life at the time that mattered as much.
Having said that I'll be as excited as anything come 10 August as the eternal optimist side of me thinks that we can improve by a few points and that City will find it difficult to defend their title. We can live in hope!
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Here here
posted on 25/7/18
On the contrary, when your experience of football is going to the games with family, you start to appreciate it more as you get older as your family won’t be around forever. You make more time to go to the games due to the experience with family/friends. Football is about having to down a pint and a whisky at 1445 because your dad gets a round in 1 minute before you have to leave. It can be the only time you see certain members of the family and it can be the highlight of their week. The success on the pitch is important, but plays less of a role than it would if you are sitting at home watching a match on TV every week. Also if your team has not won anything in your lifetime, and are always shiiiite to watch, then there needs to be other reasons for you to be passionate about them.
posted on 25/7/18
comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 39 minutes ago
comment by Stretty - mr mourinho (U3123)
posted 6 minutes ago
Never been bothered by pre season games in the slightest.
however Im certainly not as passionate as I was about it as a child. Which makes sense. its only a game. it has no effect on any of us if you think about it logically.
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This is something my brothers and I were talking about recently. The older you get and the additional responsibilities you have, make you take a philosophical approach to it.
I still enjoy beating the scousers and blue plastic seats but when we lose, i just go, meh and crack on.
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This
Still, it's fun to pop in on here just to see how upset people do get, myself in the past included at times
posted on 25/7/18
So, just wanted to ask, do others feel this way?
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In short, yes.
Long-form... LVG's tenure was a nightmare to endure - albeit credit him for getting something out of Shaw, Rashford and Lingard.
Mourinho has been a disaster. He's not evolved with the game and his signings have been pretty rubbish. The "football" that we play is straight out of the Big Sam playbook, with better players and a bigger chequebook slightly mitigating the damage.
I still go sparingly but I gave up my own season ticket last year because I wasn't getting as much joy out of it. The football was dull and to be honest I'd rather be at home with my kids on a weekend. I can still watch the game on my sofa with a cold beer then settle into the evening with a take-away & a film or a meal out with friends/family.
To be honest, even if the football on offer was worth paying for - which it isn't, by a long shot - I probably wouldn't be lured back to fully fledged season ticket holder - I want/need more flexibility at the weekend.
Finally, the atmosphere is as bad as the football which makes it an even less attractive proposition - there's more atmosphere in my living room than in sections of Old Trafford. I might get a season ticket again for something to do when my kids are old enough to have their own lives on weekends, but that's a few years off yet.
I guess I just don't get the same joy from football. It doesn't help that I no longer care about the players, because they aren't invested in the club themselves. The connection to the local lads would've been enough in generations gone by for me to overlook a lot of the cac we as fans put up with these days, but today's Mercenary United don't seem to care, so why should I?
posted on 25/7/18
Passion isn't just enjoying the wins. It's about hurting when we lose.
52 and VC are older chaps and both claim to have family around them and yet they spend hours and hours on here talking mostly about United. It therefore isnt inevitable that as we get older our passion for United will wane.
Our recent struggles to win major titles could therefore very well be the reason for Mud's lack of passion for United.
posted on 25/7/18
comment by Nathan Ralph (U1734)
posted 3 minutes ago
On the contrary, when your experience of football is going to the games with family, you start to appreciate it more as you get older as your family won’t be around forever. You make more time to go to the games due to the experience with family/friends. Football is about having to down a pint and a whisky at 1445 because your dad gets a round in 1 minute before you have to leave. It can be the only time you see certain members of the family and it can be the highlight of their week. The success on the pitch is important, but plays less of a role than it would if you are sitting at home watching a match on TV every week. Also if your team has not won anything in your lifetime, and are always shiiiite to watch, then there needs to be other reasons for you to be passionate about them.
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Great post dude
posted on 25/7/18
comment by Tyler Durden (U21874)
posted 14 seconds ago
Passion isn't just enjoying the wins. It's about hurting when we lose.
52 and VC are older chaps and both claim to have family around them and yet they spend hours and hours on here talking mostly about United. It therefore isnt inevitable that as we get older our passion for United will wane.
Our recent struggles to win major titles could therefore very well be the reason for Mud's lack of passion for United.
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Chatting football on here isn't a sign that you're fanatical though, it's merely a digital form of conversation, same as talking to people in work / pub / home etcd. about a sport and club you love.
But the way you let it impact you is, for me, the real sign, if you're down for days cause united darw at home to West Brom then you're too into it.
posted on 25/7/18
52 and VC are older chaps and both claim to have family around them and yet they spend hours and hours on here talking mostly about United.
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They don't need me to defend them, but I'd suspect their online activity at the outside of working hours and at the weekend is noticeably less. As is my own.
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