[madsteve]

My only advice is that no-one will judge someone as a lesser fan because the cannot afford to support at every home match. Attend when you can and enjoy the ride because it is going to be exciting.

Pardon     without falling out MS, you have been one of the biggest critics of 'fans' who don't attend every week, so can't possibly understand how the game went, and shouldn't really comment or their views not taken as seriously  

It's a shame the old site is dead or I would search for the 'exchanges of views' in the past  

Think you are mixing two different things.

1) No fan should be judged a lesser fan because they cannot attend.

2) Someone who attends a match has a more valid view on how the team is playing.

I fall about laughing when they ask fans their view of a match on RS & they say that they thought their team played well when they weren't actually at the match. Basically, they are giving the commentator's view not their own.

I often return from a match & the thread on here & other forums bears little relation to the match I have seen. On the bigger forums you then have a dozen fans expressing one opinion (what they have seen) and being shouted down by fifty fans who haven't been, expressing the John Pearson view - basically one person's view.

I will never decry a fellow fan for being unable to attend due to financial or geographical reasons.