Ox4Eva
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Said it previously on this thread and do not say it to try and put anyone down.
But Oxfordshire is not a passionate football area, you see the difference when you spend lots of time in various places around the UK. Elsewhere all you see are the colours off their local team being proudly worn, flags on houses, pictures of the club and it's history in various pubs and a real sense of pride in their club and what it represents.
I am not saying Oxfordshire is alone in it's apathy towards it's local professional club as there are other places like that. But you can really see a difference when you are in a real passionate football area and people live and breathe their team.
In general most folk who may take an interest in Oxfordshire 'claim' to support a plastic premiershit team even though most probably could not find it on a map, these are the ones who sometimes turn up for our bigger games but on the whole they don't really care if we win or lose!
But then there is another group who maybe used to come and follow the U's but for various reasons have stopped coming over the years. These people and their families are the ones I would be looking to try and get back into the fold. There are many of them and we should maybe make more of our clubs history and great moments within our marketing to try and stir some of that old passion.
It's obviously not so simple, I know a lot of community work is being done but I do wonder if the right message is being conveyed?
But Oxfordshire is not a passionate football area, you see the difference when you spend lots of time in various places around the UK. Elsewhere all you see are the colours off their local team being proudly worn, flags on houses, pictures of the club and it's history in various pubs and a real sense of pride in their club and what it represents.
I am not saying Oxfordshire is alone in it's apathy towards it's local professional club as there are other places like that. But you can really see a difference when you are in a real passionate football area and people live and breathe their team.
In general most folk who may take an interest in Oxfordshire 'claim' to support a plastic premiershit team even though most probably could not find it on a map, these are the ones who sometimes turn up for our bigger games but on the whole they don't really care if we win or lose!
But then there is another group who maybe used to come and follow the U's but for various reasons have stopped coming over the years. These people and their families are the ones I would be looking to try and get back into the fold. There are many of them and we should maybe make more of our clubs history and great moments within our marketing to try and stir some of that old passion.
It's obviously not so simple, I know a lot of community work is being done but I do wonder if the right message is being conveyed?