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What sort of fan are you?

JamesSeed
JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
edited October 2022 in General Charlton
Watching the Wrexham documentary series somebody broke fans down into four separate groups. 
It seemed a bit of an over simplification at first, but perhaps there’s something in it?

1. Happy Clappers
2. Moaners
3. Lads. Perhaps not age specific, but passionate and demonstrative.
4. Hooligans. 

The breakdown varies from club to club. Fulham, for example, would have a lot of group 1 but very few group 4.  Charlton may have a mix or 1, 2 and 3, but few 4.  

Personally I have reluctantly concluded that, if I had to choose, I’d say I’m in Group 1, with a dash of 2. 
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Comments

  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,000
    5. Ex-Millwall
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    …and 5. Ex Millwall. A select group. 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    lapsed
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,296
    5. Ex-Milwall
  • Porky
    Porky Posts: 258
    Definitely a miserable 2 😞
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    6. I'm a Charlton Life fan. I used to follow Charlton Athletic, but that was too painful.
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,907
    Nothing listed for Masochistic?
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    Charlton? Cannot stand the feckers!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    I'm a 3 (well I would be if there wasn't a typo).
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,857
    Definitively a hooligan. But I’m beginning to feel a bit of a fraud. For the past few years, every scrap I turn up to, the other lot refuse to even throw a punch on humanitarian grounds. Usually ends in tears, all the same.
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  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    Formerly high spirited, noisy, optimistic, CARD supporter.
    Latterly eyes opened, despondent, tagging along cos family members need the support. 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    I’m probably 1, fast approaching 2 though! 
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    I’m 3 with a leaning towards 2. Never been a 1, but dabbled with 4 in my youth.
  • 3, not big enough to be 4.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited October 2022
    I’m rethinking this (ex Millwall, bound to change my mind).
    I’m probably a 3 (not a lad, but passionate) with 1 & 2 tendencies. 
    Why is nothing ever simple?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    Somewhere between 2 and 3 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Can we add the category Nerds, please? 
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,291
    I've lost count what number we're up to now. Armchair.
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824
    2 for me.
    I do like a moan
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  • Cat 7.

    " Too old to remember which team I'm supposed to be supporting " 

    ( In itself, quite useful these days.....) 
  • The divide between 1 and 2 is too extreme. A number of fans would be mildly disgruntled or at least questioning of the club, so not really happy clappers, without actually making them into moaners, as it doesn't colour their whole matchday experience. 
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,372
    3. 

    Would expect most fall into this category. If you’re supporting a lower league club then you need to be pretty well informed and passionate by default. 
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,127
    You’ll never meet another fan like me, I’m basically a chilled out entertainer…
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    1224 that a new formation???
  • one that absolutely despises and hates everything about us , fans , club , manager , players, club shop etc but loves us more than anyone .
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,522
    Can you be a 3 if you’re not a lad? 
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Can you be a 3 if you’re not a lad? 
    Yes. Not age or gender specific. Laddette if you like?
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited October 2022
    RECAP:
    1. Happy Clappers
    2. Moaners
    3. Lads and ladettes. Perhaps not age specific, but passionate and demonstrative.
    4. Hooligans. 
    5. Ex Millwall
    6. Charlton Life mainly
    7. Nerds
    8. Armchair
    9. 
    Too old to remember which team you're supposed to be supporting
  • I’m not a number ….

    Just getting worn out now - why can’t I simply support a football club where my pub / online moans are about what happens on the pitch, and nothing else

    How did we go from ‘look at Charlton Athletic, that’s how to get in the Premier League and run a club well, engage people, stay in that league’

    To, light years behind a bunch of c**** in Surrey, and a club with the most appalling group of ‘core’, well I dunno, ‘supporters’, who, given the chance, will start a fight if a few bin bags came rolling down the street ahead of them, and give them a kicking 

    I just do not know what we did to deserve this