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blulouie said:
The club needs to be better and pursuing every revenue means available, home or abroad both markets dictate to each other.
I doubt the match going home based fans would like to be referred to as " captured fish " as you put it.
They are the backbone of the club and the club doesn't function without it.
For all intent and purpose they are The Club.

This is where there is a very firm line drawn between Our Clubs , Our league , Our fanbases and Global franchises wishing to capitalise on this product.

When the Snake 6 held clandestine meetings pissing on the rest of the league to form a Super league.
It was the fans of these clubs most notably Chelsea that started the ball rolling by marching on Stamford Bridge and demand it stopped , followed by Man Utd and the rest of the Snakes .
The last being a grovelling come down from John Henry and Captain Unfantastic Jordan Henderson, did we expect anything less from them lot ?
Never underestimate the power , the pull and the passion of the normal mainly local match going fans.

That well and truly drew the line of what this "Product to the Global brands" means.
No one other than the fans stopped this and we should never forget it.

Both aspects can and do live side by side , abroad the huge TV deals hence merchandising and exoposure is a massive part of our game now.
But without the clubs and most importantly their fans there is no
" Global Product "
They need reminding about this every so often.
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You lose the crowd, you lose the appeal/the captive audience, Covid all over again.. ( except with covid, that was just a hurdle, it wasn't a change that was set in stone, so it was easier to accept it )

As for TV deals, what broadcasting companies are gonna fork out all that money on a soulless game of kickball, you'd be better off popping down a leisure centre to watch a kids 5 aside game..

Its not about the money a stadium crowd pulls in, its that the stadium crowd keeps the game alive..

No crowd, No tv money, No Business..
Footy goes back to the local playing fields..

Anyone that says professional football doesn't need crowds, doesn't understand Football..

Apologies for the rant, not aimed at anyone here..
 
blulouie said:
The club needs to be better and pursuing every revenue means available, home or abroad both markets dictate to each other.
I doubt the match going home based fans would like to be referred to as " captured fish " as you put it.
They are the backbone of the club and the club doesn't function without it.
For all intent and purpose they are The Club.

This is where there is a very firm line drawn between Our Clubs , Our league , Our fanbases and Global franchises wishing to capitalise on this product.

When the Snake 6 held clandestine meetings pissing on the rest of the league to form a Super league.
It was the fans of these clubs most notably Chelsea that started the ball rolling by marching on Stamford Bridge and demand it stopped , followed by Man Utd and the rest of the Snakes .
The last being a grovelling come down from John Henry and Captain Unfantastic Jordan Henderson, did we expect anything less from them lot ?
Never underestimate the power , the pull and the passion of the normal mainly local match going fans.

That well and truly drew the line of what this "Product to the Global brands" means.
No one other than the fans stopped this and we should never forget it.

Both aspects can and do live side by side , abroad the huge TV deals hence merchandising and exoposure is a massive part of our game now.
But without the clubs and most importantly their fans there is no
" Global Product "
They need reminding about this every so often.
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And don’t forget it was the outraged reaction of the fans that stopped the PL’s preposterous “39th game” in Kuala Lumpur or Miami or Tokyo or wherever back in the noughties.
 

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