The Albion.

[WBA1955]

I have been a lifelong fan of this club and even went before I was born. But I no longer get excited on a matchday like I used to. I don't even get upset when we lose, well not as much as I did when I was younger. I used to be fanatical about the club but not now. Is anyone else the same? Is it an age thing?
If you go on some of the Albion FB sites and criticise the club you are likely to be met with a torrent of abuse from mainly young fans. I don't mind that, it shows they care and I remember arguing with old Albion fan's when I was in my twenties when they criticised the team we had then.
They, like me now had stopped going and talked about the 1950's side.
It's not just the Albion, I worked with old Wolves fans who had stopped going.
Football is usually a generation thing, fathers take sons. I am third generation, my son is fourth generation.
So if the club is passed down from grandfather, to son and grandson then the crowds at games should be enormous. But that doesn't happen, at some stage or age fan's become comfortable at home and no longer go.
Why does this happen so regularly?
Is it like pop music when most people have an era they believe was the best?

Anyway I will watch around the pub tonight. I still love the club but not as much to go out in this weather.

[Dubbag]

If you stop and think (or at least try to remember) of all the things you spent time in life worrying about stuff......you are mostly likely going to be hard pushed to think of one of them on your death bed........and football results would certainly not be in my top ten......

Life can prepare you for life.......and the older you get the less you should worry. Has to be the benefit of getting older....plus most things go around in circle...the longer you live with a curious mind the more you see the repeated signals over and over again and you quietly say fcuk it......

I don't get carried away with football results as the game has lost a lot of its appeal to me today.........but I am more passionate about life in general now then when I was younger.......so.....what was your question again???........

[albion68]

I have been a lifelong fan of this club and even went before I was born. But I no longer get excited on a matchday like I used to. I don't even get upset when we lose, well not as much as I did when I was younger. I used to be fanatical about the club but not now. Is anyone else the same? Is it an age thing?
If you go on some of the Albion FB sites and criticise the club you are likely to be met with a torrent of abuse from mainly young fans. I don't mind that, it shows they care and I remember arguing with old Albion fan's when I was in my twenties when they criticised the team we had then.
They, like me now had stopped going and talked about the 1950's side.
It's not just the Albion, I worked with old Wolves fans who had stopped going.
Football is usually a generation thing, fathers take sons. I am third generation, my son is fourth generation.
So if the club is passed down from grandfather, to son and grandson then the crowds at games should be enormous. But that doesn't happen, at some stage or age fan's become comfortable at home and no longer go.
Why does this happen so regularly?
Is it like pop music when most people have an era they believe was the best?

Anyway I will watch around the pub tonight. I still love the club but not as much to go out in this weather.

when I was a kid in the 50s/60s,the only thing me and my mates thought about and played was footy.cricket maybe some times . But only thing on our minds was football.todays kids are a different animal. x box’s gaming host of other things they play with .and new games to play they tell me they play basketball even American football ugh so the baggies and other clubs suffer at the gates.

[mickd1961]

when I was a kid in the 50s/60s,the only thing me and my mates thought about and played was footy.cricket maybe some times . But only thing on our minds was football.todays kids are a different animal. x box’s gaming host of other things they play with .and new games to play they tell me they play basketball even American football ugh so the baggies and other clubs suffer at the gates.

Not strictly true about “suffering at the gates”.

Our average crowd over the last 20 years is nukes higher than it was in the 70’s and 90’s despite the X Box generation.

Our gates were pathetic in the mid to late 80’s.

Take this early season match on a Saturday in September 88, I was decorating my first house that day and listening to the match on Radio WM.

The crowd was under 8000 FFS!

Look at the empty spaces everywhere.

https://youtu.be/fugo6SY318w

[Dubbag]

Would you believe it.....