lebron_fan Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 (edited) Why are the home team fans cheering for the opposite team? Whenever there is a six or wickets in favour of the visiting team you still get equally loud cheers. It seems so absurd and make people in the crowd look so stupid as if they are not even sure about whats going on. I mean after 11 years the crowd should have some sort of loyalty towards their home team. You wont see this sot of behaviour in American leagues or European football. Which team seem to have the most loyal supporters? I reckon gotta be KKR. Edited April 18, 2018 by lebron_fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sensible-indian Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 You cannot hav much loyalty when teams change every 3 years. Sachinism and SandeepMotta 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Temujin Khaghan Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 It's because some of our Indian players have some stature in the eyes of the fans...So even if they are playing for the opposite side, they get support. Some places like Hyderabad can't get enough cricket and are almost starving for some action. I tell you if csk is at one extreme with very hardcore fans, srh are at the other extreme where the team you support is entirely your whim and fancy. Also both Deccan chargers and srh failed to make the Telugu population connect with srh unlike, Tamils with csk and Bengalis with KKR. As a result everyone supports whomever they take fancy to. One friend supported Mumbai Indians as long as srt played because "sachin's team is his team". Another friend supports csk because they wear yellow like tdp - his political party. It's like that here... beetle and Stradlater 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 They should evolve some songs or simple one liners...rather just shouting the three letter team acronyms or repeating the player’s name after DJ has egged them on Need to get smarter DJs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelig Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 There will be a genuine connect when the franchises do something to the community like the NBA teams & others. I wish to see that instead of them partying every other night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowl_out Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 (edited) Many reasons. 1. Players have shifted teams so many times. If you are a player loyalist, you might end up supporting a different team for your player 2. Most of these are big Cities that are multi-cultural. I remember cheering for CSK in a match at DY Patil stadium and for RR in an RCB vs RR match at Chinnaswamy. It only adds to the fun Edited April 18, 2018 by bowl_out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singh bling Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 When regional players from the state's mostly play for others then how can you expect loyality. The Dark Horse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Ee Sala cup namde! The Dark Horse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordPrabhzy Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 IPL is timepass for indians still. An 'outing' as you guys like to call it. Team India is still what Indian fans care about. The 'loyal fans' you see at CSK or RCB are no more loyal to the franchise compared to my neighbours cat to me. They get given flags to wave like a maniac... you can see the crazyness when their own team's wicket has fallen and if they come on the camera they go wild with happiness. Unless there are two tiers with relegation and promotion no one will give a toss about winning or losing. RCB and KXIP have finished last so many times... did anything change? Nada Unless international cricket goes the same way as football ( limited to World Cups) IPL will always be a timepass entertainment source for Indians. philcric, SandeepMotta, Unstable Joe and 3 others 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariyam Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 12 hours ago, lebron_fan said: Why are the home team fans cheering for the opposite team? Whenever there is a six or wickets in favour of the visiting team you still get equally loud cheers. It seems so absurd and make people in the crowd look so stupid as if they are not even sure about whats going on. I mean after 11 years the crowd should have some sort of loyalty towards their home team. You wont see this sot of behaviour in American leagues or European football. Which team seem to have the most loyal supporters? I reckon gotta be KKR. When the IPL started out, i.e the first few seasons, people would meet at the games to catch up with their friends. Back in those days, one could smuggle alcohol and/or outside food into the stadia. People would meet post work and unwind. An alternate of sorts to pubs/discs, after all IPL games have DJ's too. Cricket was just background noise. The idea was to have a good time. No one really cared if the 'home' team won or lost. Things seem to be changing though. Now there are team songs/slogans etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBN Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 (edited) https://streamable.com/mq8ne Edited April 18, 2018 by PBN Stradlater, Laaloo, beetle and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cricketpitch Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 (edited) Why should they? IPL is a franchise league people are free to support whom they want. I know people who are born and bred in Illinois and don't support Cubs (their local base ball team). If you look not many teams in IPL have too many locals playing for them anyways. CSK built their fan base as lots of local players played for CSK in the first few seasons and MS Dhoni who was the biggest brand in 2008 captained CSK. In the first few seasons, CSK had Vijay, Ashwin, Badri, L Balaji, Aniruddh Srikkanth in their team, the rest of the IPL teams had very few unknown names playing for them. Mumbai probably was another team which had Sachin captain them and few locals playing for them. Edited April 19, 2018 by cricketpitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lebron_fan Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 1 hour ago, PBN said: https://streamable.com/mq8ne Lol pretty much thats how it seems to be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 @Vilander....stop using words like 'ghati' that offend people . speedheat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 This is all because of fans. They have given up . They are no longer fun to troll. You no longer want to rub it in their faces and laugh , instead you want to give them a and say awww poor babies. philcric and Mosher 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachinism Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 On 4/18/2018 at 8:39 AM, sensible-indian said: You cannot hav much loyalty when teams change every 3 years. This! A fan may have built up some loyalty, but when you don't know whether your team will exist next year, you're not going to have that bond. Just enjoy the tamasha and forget about it 20 mins later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philcric Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 (edited) On 4/18/2018 at 1:09 PM, sensible-indian said: You cannot hav much loyalty when teams change every 3 years. 22 hours ago, Singh bling said: When regional players from the state's mostly play for others then how can you expect loyality. THIS !! I've said this when that fresh auction happened in 2011. Teams changed so much in personnel that it was hard to maintain loyalty among fans. In a free auction, the franchises can buy whatever players they want and build the team whichever way they want, but it would be nice for fan loyalty and support if the team personnel remained fairly consistent across many years with a fair representation of local players. Karnataka has so many good batsmen .. Agarwal, Rahul, Nair, Uthappa, Pandey ... pity not even a single one plays for RCB. Edited April 19, 2018 by philcric Soorma_Bhopali, Mosher and Singh bling 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordPrabhzy Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 i still they should do away with auctions... are the players cattle or something? Just do pre season and mid season transfer windows. Let players have agents who negotiate a fee and salary with the franchise and whoever the player wants to join he will. Why all this auction tamasha every 3 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singh bling Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 46 minutes ago, philcric said: THIS !! I've said this when that fresh auction happened in 2011. Teams changed so much in personnel that it was hard to maintain loyalty among fans. In a free auction, the franchises can buy whatever players they want and build the team whichever way they want, but it would be nice for fan loyalty and support if the team personnel remained fairly consistent across many years with a fair representation of local players. Karnataka has so many good batsmen .. Agarwal, Rahul, Nair, Uthappa, Pandey ... pity not even a single one plays for RCB. There should be quota of 3 regional players O/W its better to rename teams like preiti's 11 , Ambani 11 etc.Why to use regional name when you don't have any regional color Soorma_Bhopali 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBN Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Singh bling said: There should be quota of 3 regional players O/W its better to rename teams like preiti's 11 , Ambani 11 etc.Why to use regional name when you don't have any regional color the name is enough i.e punjab Edited April 19, 2018 by PBN Under_Score 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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