wander I'm not talking about the result of the match. Obviously we will lose from time to time because even the best teams in the world do that.wanderlust wrote:Some good points made although I think that LPP's comment "fans are paying CUSTOMERS who have a RIGHT to expect value for their money" is spurious inasmuch that the definition of VFM is questionable.
Can't equate VFM to our performances because if we lose, the other team wins and fans choose to pay to watch both teams.
If I go and watch a film and it doesn't pan out the way I hoped it would, does that mean I'm not getting VFM?
If I bet on a horse that doesn't win, does that mean I'm getting ripped off?
The only right I really have is the right not to do it again.
I mean have I (a) been shown a performance in which I believe the players have given their best even on their bad days (ie max effort) and (b) have I been entertained, in other words did I enjoy myself. VFM isn't a way of saying we must win or I'm not coming again. It means we must be doing our best to provide an enjoyable experience for those people who pay large amounts of money to come and watch.
I would say that at the moment the footballs is dull and lethargic (although today was better in parts and we probably should have won) and has been going downhill ever since the last year of big sam's reign, it's not at all solely DF who has brought us to this low ebb.
As I said in my previous post I am not personally at the point of voting with my feet as yet but I understand those that are and I feel sorry for the 'go to all games no matter what' group because they are being taken for a ride. Football is the only business I know where the paying customers are effectively treated as traitors by their fellow customers for deciding they aren't getting value and want to hold onto their money rather than just give it to the club for effectively nothing in return. It's NOT a fan's duty to do that at all, it's a club's duty to do its best to make the fans feel their cash is worth handing to the club. The club does not do us any favours by existing and taking our money, we aren't privileged to hand our cash to them and ungrateful louts when we don't. In the final analysis BWFC's employees ALL work for us not the other way around just as any retail business, be it a shop, a cinema or a ten pin bowling alley employees all effectively work for the CUSTOMERS because its they who provide the money to pay the wages. In football the fans are the reason why Sky and others throw millions at the game, they don't do it to be generous or kind but because they expect to get a profit from it either via subscriptions or increasing sales of their goods and services. Without us there's be no point in sky paying a billion quid for TV rights and no point in advertisers buying a space on the hoardings etc etc.
So yes, we have a RIGHT to value for OUR money but I don't mean we have to win every game, just that I feel I had an afternoon that was worth forking out my cash for and not wasted it on a bunch over paid twerps who didn't even try under a manager who has no clue how to play anything remotely entertaining and even less idea about how to get the best out of the aforementioned twerps.
I give BWFC a LOT more leeway than I would any other form of entertainment because I love the club but I don't have unlimited patience nor do I love it blindly. I want the club to be doing its best every time they play to earn my money. They could be in the conference and I'd still go if I felt they were doing that. Right now I'm a long way from sure that they are or that there's any sign they're going to again in the near future.