Are you ****ing kidding me? If Oilers fans gave up Rogers would be empty every game instead of sold out. We're angry, vocal and rightfully expect the worst but don't talk **** about Oilers fans giving up. They SHOULD have given up years ago but we're still here, going to games and posting on boards beyond all logic.
Absolutely
Many of these posters have no idea how many season ticket holders, 10 game attendance participants, numerous jerseys and Oiler memorabilia that have been invested in this team SINCE ITS INCEPTION.
I feel they (we) deserve a hell of a lot better than former players, the org and other fans telling us how we complain too much or give up so easily.
We all try to stay positive and hope beyond hope that this group will succeed, KNOWING full well that it's almost impossible.
The team is absolute garbage with so many average / on the fringe of NHL / bottom wrung players. Yet there is never any change. Just shuffling.
None of the people I know have given up. Pissed off, frustrated beyond belief? Definitely. The posters here haven't given up - they've just had enough.
Who's to blame? Coach? GM? Useless Nic? Lowe? MacT? Howeson? Gretz? Katz? Not so sure I care anymore.
But this whole organization needs a severe personnel transplant. This isn't the dacde of darkness - it's an absurd amount of time to be spent without any gradual improvement. AT ALL.
No cyclical upswing, no advantage to picking first in coveted drafts, no idea how to properly nurture and ingrained a young player to acclimatize to being a professional, absolutely nothing.
I used to be so proud of this organization. This team, this city, these people did everything first class and in a respectable giving manner. They bent over backward to make anything - charity, the NHL, hardships of players (not even in thier own org sometimes), kids especially the kids, - happen. And happen to a degree that us fans were always proud of.
I haven't seen or experienced any of that since the 90s.
But I'm still here. Diehard fool like many others. And I do take exceptions to any and all shots about us fans. Probably always will.