Now is the perfect time for a Netflix documentary

[Gums]

I'm into the second episode of the new Netflix documentary "The Clubhouse" that follows the Boston Redsox for a year. I can't help but notice how many similarities there are between our teams, including but not limited to the extremely tight seating:

• historic legacies
• passionate fanbases
• iconic stadiums
• periods of dominance and droughts
• high market valuations
• cultural impact

Aside from the obvious financial gain we also desperately need, I think there are many other good reasons for us to seriously consider pulling back the curtain and offering insight. Even if it may seem like an odd time, considering we're in a worse state than we have been in decades, both on and off the pitch. But it could also be the start of something better, at least a time of change:

• horrible season 24/25 (would be a great way to start the show)
• financial issues
• Glazer issues
• new coach with first preseason and first full season hopefully with a team that can finally play closer to what he wants
• new stadium plans
• new management team

Key benefits aside from direct payment:

• enhanced fan engagement
• attracting new, younger audiences, supporters
• humanizing players and staff (something the whole world is in dire need of)
• improved public image
• documenting another part of our history for better or for worse
• boosting merchandise sales
• highlighting organisational changes
• better understanding of the game (or not)

All things considered, I think now is as good a time as ever, if not the best possible time for our Netflix documentary.

 

[Scarlett Dracarys]

Who is our Babe Ruth?

 

[Gums]

Who is our Babe Ruth?

Off the top of my head I'd go with George Best. Both were revolutionary talents, bigger than the game, and flawed but loved.

But a key difference: Best didn''t leave us to play for Liverpool, in the same traitorous way Babe Ruth left for New York.

Agree, or who fits the bill better or also?

 

[Eddy_JukeZ]

I think the comparison with the Dallas Cowboys makes more sense. Jerry Jones is basically their Woodward with ownership power for 30+ years. They went from being the most dominant franchise to a laughingstock with a huge lack of playoff success and playoff embarrassments galore.

The Sox had a gigantic title drought after Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees and were never really the dominant franchise in baseball even once they break finally through in 2004.

 

[Red in STL]

Off the top of my head I'd go with George Best. Both were revolutionary talents, bigger than the game, and flawed but loved.

But a key difference: Best didn''t leave us to play for Liverpool, in the same traitorous way Babe Ruth left for New York.

Agree, or who fits the bill better or also?

That's a rewriting of history - Harry Frazee is the culprit responsible, but George Best is a good shout though

 

[Red in STL]

I'm into the second episode of the new Netflix documentary "The Clubhouse" that follows the Boston Redsox for a year. I can't help but notice how many similarities there are between our teams, including but not limited to the extremely tight seating:

• historic legacies
• passionate fanbases
• iconic stadiums
• periods of dominance and droughts
• high market valuations
• cultural impact

Aside from the obvious financial gain we also desperately need, I think there are many other good reasons for us to seriously consider pulling back the curtain and offering insight. Even if it may seem like an odd time, considering we're in a worse state than we have been in decades, both on and off the pitch. But it could also be the start of something better, at least a time of change:

• horrible season 24/25 (would be a great way to start the show)
• financial issues
• Glazer issues
• new coach with first preseason and first full season hopefully with a team that can finally play closer to what he wants
• new stadium plans
• new management team

Key benefits aside from direct payment:

• enhanced fan engagement
• attracting new, younger audiences, supporters
• humanizing players and staff (something the whole world is in dire need of)
• improved public image
• documenting another part of our history for better or for worse
• boosting merchandise sales
• highlighting organisational changes
• better understanding of the game (or not)

All things considered, I think now is as good a time as ever, if not the best possible time for our Netflix documentary.

For the older United fans, a seat at Fenway Park is just like sitting in the old Stretford End seats pre-1990, for twice as long!

 

[KStandBarmyArmy1993]

There's an interesting documentary to be made showcasing the club from 2005 - 2009.

The fanbase in the autumn/winter of 2005 was more toxic than it was now with matchgoing fans regularly coming to blows over the Glazers, the formation of FC United, planned boycotts etc.

Throughout 05/06, there was then George Best dying, Roy Keeane leaving and a Group Stage exit from the Champions League.

We played Fulham at the start of 06/07 and were 4-0 up after 20 minutes. Everything felt ok from then onwards, at least until the end of 08/09. That defeat against Barca became the "end of an era" but didn't necessarily feel like that in the immediate aftermath.