Honestly I believe it's pretty sad that we've come to the point already, before kicking a ball, that our supporters are fighting amongst one another.
It's putting us, the staff, in a very uncomfortable position. We simply can't suspend everyone and honestly I don't want to.
It's one thing if we're arguing about a contract. It's another when we bring affiliations into this.
A fans affiliation to MCFC or other teams shouldn't be something they have to hide here. @einwindir is a Swansea fan. @Falastur and myself are both MCFC supporters. I know a number of you support other English sides. Lots of other people that were still attending Cosmos and RBNY games before seasons end. At the end of the day we were all brought here to support one team. To try and grow and foster a new culture.
It's the definition of NYC culture. A melting pot of people with different affiliations, from different places coming together.
What we're seeing is a lot of people disagreeing, which is fine. But when people disagree about a topic and there is also a bridge in regards to team affiliation things just get a bit out of hand.
Granted there is a big divide right now between NYCFC supporters and CFG. That's understandable. Don't blame it on me. On @Falastur or other MCFC supporters. Nor should we allow it to divide the fan base. I think at the same time us MCFC fans need to perform a reality check and understand that our organization and CFG screwed up. That's pretty obvious.
Something I've considered now has been closing the site down for a bit, pruning it and reopening. Our neighbors just lost one of their best coaches in team history and after all that they've accomplished with him... Now that's something to be up in arms about. I'm sure they're not at each other's throats. That's an issue you take to the team. You make sure your organization knows your displeasure. Not something you alienate fellow fans over.
There's going to be a lot of people at Yankee stadium next year that joined in on this journey via MCFC. And I hope them or their kids don't have to listen to 'wank city' chants. I hope it's something we don't have to see here anymore either.
As a new club there isn't a single supporter on here that's SOLELY a NYCFC supporter. You all came here from another team. RESPECT that.
For fuck sake the chief executive officer is the same as MCFC's. You're basically yelling at yourself.
I know that come game day things will all settle down. Much of this will be behind us. But in the meantime THIS IS NOT going to be a forum where people have to reserve their opinions for fear of being alienated by other supporters.
The trolling and the nonsense has to stop or we're just going to shut down. Clean it all up and put rules in place that will ultimately make this a place where people WANT to come to discuss football and NYCFC. Right now I don't think we're there. I think we're at a point where people aren't too sure why they're even here or if they even want to support this team and they're taking that out on fellow members instead of our FO.
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Everyone is caught up on the Lampard issue when there's so many good things going on. Half the people don't even realize we just picked up almost 10 new players in the last month. No discussions regarding those players. Villa is swept completely under the rug and the guys is living in the city and posting pictures from around it and representing us. No comments.
There's the super draft coming up in a few days and hardly much discussion over the last week. Really makes me wonder where people's heads are at. Are we ALWAYS just going to focus on the negatives. The club is going through one of its most important months and no one cares or is just so hung up on Lampard that they don't realize it.
Get off the negatives and focus on the positives. Otherwise we could win a championship and people will be complaining about something.
It's putting us, the staff, in a very uncomfortable position. We simply can't suspend everyone and honestly I don't want to.
It's one thing if we're arguing about a contract. It's another when we bring affiliations into this.
A fans affiliation to MCFC or other teams shouldn't be something they have to hide here. @einwindir is a Swansea fan. @Falastur and myself are both MCFC supporters. I know a number of you support other English sides. Lots of other people that were still attending Cosmos and RBNY games before seasons end. At the end of the day we were all brought here to support one team. To try and grow and foster a new culture.
It's the definition of NYC culture. A melting pot of people with different affiliations, from different places coming together.
What we're seeing is a lot of people disagreeing, which is fine. But when people disagree about a topic and there is also a bridge in regards to team affiliation things just get a bit out of hand.
Granted there is a big divide right now between NYCFC supporters and CFG. That's understandable. Don't blame it on me. On @Falastur or other MCFC supporters. Nor should we allow it to divide the fan base. I think at the same time us MCFC fans need to perform a reality check and understand that our organization and CFG screwed up. That's pretty obvious.
Something I've considered now has been closing the site down for a bit, pruning it and reopening. Our neighbors just lost one of their best coaches in team history and after all that they've accomplished with him... Now that's something to be up in arms about. I'm sure they're not at each other's throats. That's an issue you take to the team. You make sure your organization knows your displeasure. Not something you alienate fellow fans over.
There's going to be a lot of people at Yankee stadium next year that joined in on this journey via MCFC. And I hope them or their kids don't have to listen to 'wank city' chants. I hope it's something we don't have to see here anymore either.
As a new club there isn't a single supporter on here that's SOLELY a NYCFC supporter. You all came here from another team. RESPECT that.
For fuck sake the chief executive officer is the same as MCFC's. You're basically yelling at yourself.
I know that come game day things will all settle down. Much of this will be behind us. But in the meantime THIS IS NOT going to be a forum where people have to reserve their opinions for fear of being alienated by other supporters.
The trolling and the nonsense has to stop or we're just going to shut down. Clean it all up and put rules in place that will ultimately make this a place where people WANT to come to discuss football and NYCFC. Right now I don't think we're there. I think we're at a point where people aren't too sure why they're even here or if they even want to support this team and they're taking that out on fellow members instead of our FO.
Addition:
Everyone is caught up on the Lampard issue when there's so many good things going on. Half the people don't even realize we just picked up almost 10 new players in the last month. No discussions regarding those players. Villa is swept completely under the rug and the guys is living in the city and posting pictures from around it and representing us. No comments.
There's the super draft coming up in a few days and hardly much discussion over the last week. Really makes me wonder where people's heads are at. Are we ALWAYS just going to focus on the negatives. The club is going through one of its most important months and no one cares or is just so hung up on Lampard that they don't realize it.
Get off the negatives and focus on the positives. Otherwise we could win a championship and people will be complaining about something.
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