Going the game

[caught]

Yes: if you don't spend every other weekend sat in the Park End checking your phone every five minutes, idly shouting 'foul' every six minutes, and booing a few back passes, before getting up to leave in the 82nd, you frankly have no right to talk about Everton or anything else.

 

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

Wow so all them years following the Blues has been a waste of time,and I should have stayed at home and watched it on t v, my arl fella has a lot to answer for, gutted absolutly gutted.

What are you talking about mate?

 

[tim cahill]

Wow so all them years following the Blues has been a waste of time,and I should have stayed at home and watched it on t v, my arl fella has a lot to answer for, gutted absolutly gutted.

Why would it be a waste of time? Do you only go to the game to improve your insight of the club?

 

[Hangleton]

Voted yes. Last time I got to Goodison (Stoke)it was more like waiting for the inevitable than expecting a win Having Howard in goal was demoralising. Throwing points away due to owner and management ineptitude - left with a strong feeling that something had to change.

 

[tirion]

Obviously match-going Evertonians will say yes, and they'll also argue it makes them better fans too. They probably forget that many people live far away or even abroad and cannot go to the match, however, thus making their better-fan argument null and void.

In terms of better insight, I'd strongly say no. How can sitting in one spot at the match give better insight over watching a stream where there are 20 cameras and all sorts of half time and full time analysis? I'd like somebody from the Gwladys Street to tell me how them sat behind the goal surrounded by the smell of skunk and horse poo can give them a better insight than somebody watching on a stream, seeing the game from above and getting a better sense of positioning, etc. Impossible.

The only insight it would give is the feeling and atmosphere amongst matchday Evertonians and in the ground, but that's obvious.

i don't know where i would be without Martin Tyler and Michael Owen to tell me how wonderful Delle Ali and Harry Kane are

 

[Jacko93]

I find that by going to the game it helps me understand the team performance better, but I have been known in the past to go home and watch it when I've recorded it to get a better idea of individual performances. The truth of which is better is probably somewhere in the middle, just so long as you always ignore the beauts on TV who make it up as they go along.

 

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

i don't know where i would be without Martin Tyler and Michael Owen to tell me how wonderful Delle Ali and Harry Kane are

Lol. My point is more about the many cameras and angles you get to watch the game on. Much more insight into what's happening than being stood behind some tall bloke refusing to sit down, right?

 

[sixtynineseventy]

Once upon a time you had to attend games to witness the team and how it played or just wait for the wrestling to finish on ITV at 4.40pm to find out how they got on from Dickie Davies. Once the game finished you then relied on the pink Echo or the News of the World on Sunday to inform you more or confirm what you seen for yourself that weekend.
Nowadays the coverage of football is saturated to the point where you don't need to go to the game to be fully aware of the activities of the club and not just the performance during a game.
I don't think going the game gives you a better insight any more, so no!

 

[heatmeiser]

Obviously match-going Evertonians will say yes, and they'll also argue it makes them better fans too. They probably forget that many people live far away or even abroad and cannot go to the match, however, thus making their better-fan argument null and void.

In terms of better insight, I'd strongly say no. How can sitting in one spot at the match give better insight over watching a stream where there are 20 cameras and all sorts of half time and full time analysis? I'd like somebody from the Gwladys Street to tell me how them sat behind the goal surrounded by the smell of skunk and horse poo can give them a better insight than somebody watching on a stream, seeing the game from above and getting a better sense of positioning, etc. Impossible.

The only insight it would give is the feeling and atmosphere amongst matchday Evertonians and in the ground, but that's obvious.

 

[AndyGray]

It doesn't make a difference.

Theres insightful people who can't go for different reasons, and knobs at GP. And vice versa.

 

[royalblue66]

Why would it be a waste of time? Do you only go to the game to improve your insight of the club?

Well it seems I would be better watching on t v, I never thought of that TBH.

 

[Jacko93]

Lol. My point is more about the many cameras and angles you get to watch the game on. Much more insight into what's happening than being stood behind some tall bloke refusing to sit down, right?

The trouble is that you only have that insight into the part of the pitch that the producer wants you to see. You can get a much more inclusive view of the game when your there.

Not that any of this really matters, cause the only valuable insight I actually get is from @chicoazul previews.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Size of those mouths

 

[orly]

I watch it all unfold on stream.

I know nothing

 

[billytoffee]

No.

Going the game does not necessarily give you a BETTER insight. It is however, undoubtedly a DIFFERENT one than sitting in the Dolby surround sound, High Definition, instant replay, pause while I get a cuppa and have a pee, listen to divvy commentators/pundits chat bubbles type match day experience.


The key point remains that if by virtue of your personal circumstances, either within or outside of your control, you are restricted to one type of matchday experience or another - neither of them make you any more of an Evertonian than the next man (woman or child) !