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@Keawyeds I have to congratulate you on this thread. You seem to have made a number of posters much more positive about the future of SAFC.
I can appreciate how you felt about Darlow, being brought up in a poor family within the N Wales borderlands I was never going to get to any SAFC games so I started supporting Wrexham FC as a second team simply because I physically could and also afford to pay for it with my £3.50 paper round wages (what was that pocket money thing I used to hear about?)
I didn't love my first team less because I supported a second team. It was quite common hereabouts because there was a peer generated stigma of being a part time supporter never going to see the team you had family ties to. Our families came from Liverpool and Manchester for jobs in the steelworks. They were no less proud of Liverpool, Everton, Man U & Man City than are the exiles who follow SAFC because their parents come from there. Also a fear of the football violence of the time made many parents ban us from ever trying to sneak to a game.
I followed Wrexham from division 4 obscurity, up to the giddy heights of Div 2 and then down from there via many near brushes bankruptcy to the point where a 'businessman' sold the ground out from under the club and tried to evict them. Eventually they went broke and, though a fan-owned phoenix club was formed, I just couldn't connect with it emotionally. I just can't face going back to the place.
You are right, things could be worse, but people don't see that happening to SAFC because of the size of its fan base. Hopefully we will never see a point where an SAFC owner values its property assets more than the team. Thankfully, for all of his faults, Ellis Short wasn't that type of person. That point was what I see as the lowest point in my supporting of SAFC, because it was then that I saw the club staring at oblivion.
Whatever happens now is hard on the pride, but I know we will get back up there.
I can appreciate how you felt about Darlow, being brought up in a poor family within the N Wales borderlands I was never going to get to any SAFC games so I started supporting Wrexham FC as a second team simply because I physically could and also afford to pay for it with my £3.50 paper round wages (what was that pocket money thing I used to hear about?)
I didn't love my first team less because I supported a second team. It was quite common hereabouts because there was a peer generated stigma of being a part time supporter never going to see the team you had family ties to. Our families came from Liverpool and Manchester for jobs in the steelworks. They were no less proud of Liverpool, Everton, Man U & Man City than are the exiles who follow SAFC because their parents come from there. Also a fear of the football violence of the time made many parents ban us from ever trying to sneak to a game.
I followed Wrexham from division 4 obscurity, up to the giddy heights of Div 2 and then down from there via many near brushes bankruptcy to the point where a 'businessman' sold the ground out from under the club and tried to evict them. Eventually they went broke and, though a fan-owned phoenix club was formed, I just couldn't connect with it emotionally. I just can't face going back to the place.
You are right, things could be worse, but people don't see that happening to SAFC because of the size of its fan base. Hopefully we will never see a point where an SAFC owner values its property assets more than the team. Thankfully, for all of his faults, Ellis Short wasn't that type of person. That point was what I see as the lowest point in my supporting of SAFC, because it was then that I saw the club staring at oblivion.
Whatever happens now is hard on the pride, but I know we will get back up there.