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1320Lichtie
Easy Club or Country , for me Country .
ClydeNewcomer
QUOTE (1320Lichtie @ Oct 10 2008, 01:41) *
Easy Club or Country , for me Country .


Country
forres grump
QUOTE (1320Lichtie @ Oct 10 2008, 01:41) *
Easy Club or Country , for me Country .



Too Too easy a question...................Scotland every time!!!! biggrin.gif
1320Lichtie
Only 9 votes but countrys winning. ohmy.gif
Deeboy
Club
the jambo-rocker
club for me, as shit as we are right now...
Shengus Khan
It's touch and go for me but I think i'd choose United at this moment in time.
korphaeron
Country, every time.
Fistle1876
Club. Much rather give my money to them than the sfa. Still love Scotland though!
Jim Pansy
Club by a mile, and it isn't even close.
Michael W
I'm sure I've seen topics on this about 6 times this year already.

Anyway, for the 6th time or so - club.
Diamonds are Forever
Club
AllanJM
I try to think of scenarios to make my mind up. What would give me more pleasure? Scotland winning the world cup or Rovers winning the Scottish cup? THe fact that I'd actually get to be there to see Rovers win almost sways it but the joy the whole country would get from a Scotland win makes the difference.

To answer the question then Country (but only because I don't actually have to choose).
Scotland4euros
although they don't pay the wages. Country!
Jimmy Shaker
My club are playing at three bells tomorrow so it'll have to be them. sad.gif
Booker_d
Club at the mo. Just nice to be a Accies fan at the mo.
MonTheRovers!!
Club. Haitch will be here the now, condemning us all to the firey pits of hell.
Kejan
I enjoy seeing my club do well and get to the odd few games a season but country always, I just love international football in general. I happily watch all the Eurosport games from the Asian qualifiers, remember watching 'UAE v Uzbekistan' and whatever International games I can get access to blink.gif just like the whole build up to the international week as well, the interviews with Players and foreign nationals etc who played in Scotland.

I like how it also seems to bring the majority of our very much divided country together for a whole day as well, smile.gif
No8.
QUOTE (Jimmy Shaker @ Oct 10 2008, 19:36) *
My club are playing at three bells tomorrow so it'll have to be them. sad.gif


I will be cheering on the Nairn from afar wink.gif

Anyway Club. I have little or no interest in international football and hate these weekends!! They should get back to midweeks for these games and leave the weekends free for club football!!
andrewh
QUOTE (No8. @ Oct 10 2008, 22:34) *
Anyway Club. I have little or no interest in international football and hate these weekends!! They should get back to midweeks for these games and leave the weekends free for club football!!


What he said. Utterly sick of these weekends.
Just back from watching Stone of Destiny and even that won't stir any enthusiasm to watch Scotland v Norway. Think Scotland, think Rangers in Europe last season, think dull and boring. Aye we beat France - twice. Big deal. We're not good to watch. It's painfully bad to watch Scotland. You poor youngsters never saw the great Scottish sides of the 60's, 70's and 80's. Downhill rapidly ever since.
That's my opinion and I'll accept any criticism for it, thanks. biggrin.gif
vikingTON
Given I hold no support for Scotland and a surviving trace of grudging support for my local shambles, it would be club every single time.
International breaks are useful only to sack managers: I'd like to see Internationals fielded in pre/close season to stop them breaking up the rhythm of a domestic season.
Jimmy Shaker
QUOTE (No8. @ Oct 10 2008, 22:34) *
I will be cheering on the Nairn from afar wink.gif


Am I supposed to care what Tommy Twenty Teams thinks? laugh.gif
The_Num
Took me all of 3 seconds to decide - country. Club football is a hollow, money driven shell of what it used to be. How many "big" clubs actually draw their support from within their own area. How many club supporters travel the length of their own counrty to watch a "home" game.

International football is about who is the better team, not about who has the biggest bank balance or richest sugar daddy. International football is the game at its purest. Or, at least, it fkn well shoud be. I've shed tears over Scotland defeats before - never happened with a club game. I only hope the people who have no interest in International football are in the minority because, in my opinion, it is a hugely important aspect of the game and should NEVER be reduced to a close-season sideshow.
Booker_d
QUOTE (andrewh @ Oct 10 2008, 23:03) *
What he said. Utterly sick of these weekends.
Just back from watching Stone of Destiny and even that won't stir any enthusiasm to watch Scotland v Norway. Think Scotland, think Rangers in Europe last season, think dull and boring. Aye we beat France - twice. Big deal. We're not good to watch. It's painfully bad to watch Scotland. You poor youngsters never saw the great Scottish sides of the 60's, 70's and 80's. Downhill rapidly ever since.
That's my opinion and I'll accept any criticism for it, thanks. biggrin.gif


If you werent moved by us beating France twice you either arent Scottish or you have no feelings biggrin.gif

Personally I was a nervous wreck for both games.
FC_1919
QUOTE (The_Num @ Oct 10 2008, 23:21) *
Took me all of 3 seconds to decide - country. Club football is a hollow, money driven shell of what it used to be. How many "big" clubs actually draw their support from within their own area. How many club supporters travel the length of their own counrty to watch a "home" game.

International football is about who is the better team, not about who has the biggest bank balance or richest sugar daddy. International football is the game at its purest. Or, at least, it fkn well shoud be. I've shed tears over Scotland defeats before - never happened with a club game. I only hope the people who have no interest in International football are in the minority because, in my opinion, it is a hugely important aspect of the game and should NEVER be reduced to a close-season sideshow.

Plenty of fans travel the length of the country to support there team. Club all the way for me these days, after Copenhagen and the final made me realise how much others and myself love Queen's. Not that I am not going tommorow though, I don't really feel overly Scottish. Not into all this Bannockburn 1314 rubbish, think bagpipes and the braveheart speach ruin Scotland days out.
Exuberant
Club for me.

I have a real apathy for the National Team.
Jimmy Shaker
QUOTE (The_Num @ Oct 10 2008, 23:21) *
Took me all of 3 seconds to decide - country. Club football is a hollow, money driven shell of what it used to be. How many "big" clubs actually draw their support from within their own area. How many club supporters travel the length of their own counrty to watch a "home" game.


I do a 150 mile round trip to see a home game in a league below the third division. Driven by something, but it's not money laugh.gif
zenith st.petersburg
Always club , Scotland will always be the mistress
The_Num
Didn't say supporters were money driven - club football in general. If you have that much passion for your club side, fair play to you. What I was really driving at though, was the people who drive past the ground of their local club to go to the home game of another team. And I don't just mean the Old Firm either.

Anyway, that's beside the point. My point was that club football (certainly at the level International players are at) is no longer about supporters or local connections. The Old Firm (and the rest of the SPL to a lesser extent) are barely representitive of Scotland anymore so, at the top level, what else is there than the National team?
Jimmy Shaker
QUOTE (The_Num @ Oct 10 2008, 23:55) *
Didn't say supporters were money driven - club football in general. If you have that much passion for your club side, fair play to you. What I was really driving at though, was the people who drive past the ground of their local club to go to the home game of another team. And I don't just mean the Old Firm either.


I drive past Pittodrie to get to Lossie. I can see it out of my window. Am I still included in this?
The_Num
QUOTE (Jimmy Shaker @ Oct 10 2008, 23:59) *
I drive past Pittodrie to get to Lossie. I can see it out of my window. Am I still included in this?

Certainly not. You drive past an SPL ground to go to a (no offence intended) smaller club. Point is I know of people who drove 30 miles to Dumfires to watch Queens. Then suddenly when Kilmarnock became an SPL club Killie became their local club. Same with Queens and Gretna.

I think the point I was trying to make a while (and a couple of beers) ago is that club supporters (some of them) change the alliegances dependant on circumstances. Scotland supporters have no choice - we're born this way.
uni
Country everytime for me!

I love scotland
Scotty Tunbridge
Club.
Sir Kevin Of Kilsyth
Im going to say country. Although I love Clyde going to these big Scotland games is the highlight of my season.
And if anyone noticed the change of team I follow on my profile from Clyde to Scotland is only temporary during international week.
central staggie
I'll support County through thick and thin, but they are not even on the radar compared to Scotland. Country, every single time. Not even close.
utdtillidie
QUOTE (Kejan @ Oct 10 2008, 22:29) *
I enjoy seeing my club do well and get to the odd few games a season but country always, I just love international football in general. I happily watch all the Eurosport games from the Asian qualifiers, remember watching 'UAE v Uzbekistan' and whatever International games I can get access to blink.gif just like the whole build up to the international week as well, the interviews with Players and foreign nationals etc who played in Scotland.

I like how it also seems to bring the majority of our very much divided country together for a whole day as well, smile.gif



What he says, apart from the UAE bit.

Country every time. Im a proud Scotsman.

There's nothing like an international. The atmosphere in Ayr when we qualified for 98 and when we beat France both times (hahahaha GIRUY Trezisgay), was, as Irn Bru put it, phenomenal.
utdtillidie
QUOTE (The_Num @ Oct 11 2008, 00:10) *
Certainly not. You drive past an SPL ground to go to a (no offence intended) smaller club. Point is I know of people who drove 30 miles to Dumfires to watch Queens. Then suddenly when Kilmarnock became an SPL club Killie became their local club. Same with Queens and Gretna.

I think the point I was trying to make a while (and a couple of beers) ago is that club supporters (some of them) change the alliegances dependant on circumstances. Scotland supporters have no choice - we're born this way.



Ahem, Aiden McGeady. dry.gif

Wonder if he still supports Scotland?
Iain
Country. It's just more exciting going to a Scotland game than an Ayr game.
MarvMarvSuperMarv
QUOTE (utdtillidie @ Oct 11 2008, 08:35) *
Ahem, Aiden McGeady. dry.gif

Wonder if he still supports Scotland?


Probaly not, the hoor.
H_B
Club.

International weekends piss me off. No decent footie on TV for a fortnight and no Falkirk game either.
BerwickMad
QUOTE (The_Num @ Oct 11 2008, 00:10) *
I think the point I was trying to make a while (and a couple of beers) ago is that club supporters (some of them) change the alliegances dependant on circumstances. Scotland supporters have no choice - we're born this way.

I don't know any serious football fan whos done this beyond the age of 10. I suppose a few have changed from bigger clubs at the other end of the country, to a local team, but thats about it. I have far more pride and passion for my local club than for my country. International football is bollocks other than the major tournaments.
lzreid
QUOTE (Jim Pansy @ Oct 10 2008, 15:27) *
Club by a mile, and it isn't even close.


As above.

I like watching Scotland and I like watching Scotland do well but when I'm ever asked this question I can always point out specific examples to underline the point.

McFadden scoring in Paris - happiness and delight.

Carcary scoring in injury time in Ayr last season - I actually just lost it for a minute or two.
armchair footsoldier
Easy one . Scotland.
Every time . I don't have a club.
paul-r-cfc
scotland just edges it for me
Toby Fair
Impossible to choose.
Scotland games are bigger in that they're rarer and (the competitive ones ) are more meaningful in themselves.
The amount you invest in your club emotionally week by week is such however, that when achievements do spring themselves upon you, the sense of pride is huge and oddly personal.

It's a dead heat, at least until either wins a major trophy.
DJP
I spend thousands watching my club home & away every season. I tend to only watch Scotland on tv. Yet for some reason I always have and always will put country 1st. Nothing makes me feel more proud then seeing Scotland win. But I do hate international weekends as no football to watch on tv on a sunday when nurseing a hangover laugh.gif

Scotland always 1st.
Rory89
I go to the Scotland games and enjoy them but 100% club. Supporting your club is a big part of a lot of peoples lifes, something you choose at a young age and then dedicate your Saturday afternoons to for life. International football is just something to fill the weekends whilst the club isn't playing, and an excuse for some people to wear a skirt and belt out words from Braveheart.

Why do most Scotland fans support lower league diddy teams? Because for them Scotland games are the most glamourous games of the season, whilst some of us wouldn't say the same about watching a team with Broadfoot, Iwelumo, Commons etc.

Despite this I do consider myself a Scotland fan, but I find it cringeworthy when people say they are in the "tartan army", even the name is embarrasing.
central staggie
QUOTE (Rory89 @ Oct 31 2008, 08:43) *
I go to the Scotland games and enjoy them but 100% club. Supporting your club is a big part of a lot of peoples lifes, something you choose at a young age and then dedicate your Saturday afternoons to for life. International football is just something to fill the weekends whilst the club isn't playing, and an excuse for some people to wear a skirt and belt out words from Braveheart.

Why do most Scotland fans support lower league diddy teams? Because for them Scotland games are the most glamourous games of the season, whilst some of us wouldn't say the same about watching a team with Broadfoot, Iwelumo, Commons etc.

Despite this I do consider myself a Scotland fan, but I find it cringeworthy when people say they are in the "tartan army", even the name is embarrasing.


Aha, the Braveheart argument! Can't remember the last time I seen/heard anyone at a Scotland game dressed up as big Mel. Not the point however.

Can't understand these people who don't seem to have any support for their national team. Not a pop, but I don't know how anyone would not want the team to do well. wacko.gif They do, after all, represent our country.

Hibs would kill to have those 3 players in their team (Broadfoot maybe to a lesser extent).
glasnost
I want Scotland to win but I would never consider myself a supporter in the true sense of the word.

In Scotland for me:

It’s Celtic First and Celtic Last and Celtic Overall.
SaltyTON
Clubs ahead of country every time.

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