Why is it, that you are not suppose to change your team?

Because it goes against the fundamental rules of the universe to which I would add you should have to support one of the three nearest League sides to you geographically with the possible exception of supporting your dad's team if rule 1 applied to his support of them.
No exceptions are allowed and anyone disobeying them should be tattooed on the forehead with the words "glory hunter and publicly humiliated and have rotting vegetables thrown at them.

I'm ok then, phew.

Three nearest league sides... Bristol City, Bristol Rovers, and Forest Green Rovers.

Had to check if Newport was closer than FGR... It's 5 miles further. Narrow escape there 😉

And I should get bonus kudos for having supported FGR since they were floundering around in non-league 👍

Yeah, I remember her. Her real name was Michelle. She always drew a good slagging from other posters for changing up from Liverpool to CFC. Her tag line till then was Remember The 96. Then her avatar changed from Torres in red to Torres in blue. When he left for Spain I don't think she ever posted again.
She also reckoned she was a steward at Goodison Park wtf. She was alright, though, just had a Torres fixation.

Yes, you would have been excempt under my Non League support rule where anyone should be lauded for doing their bit for grass roots footie.

I guess it depends on the reason you change teams. If the team owner is an idiot or the team just keeps bringing in assholes (as in criminals, guys who don't give 100%, etc.) year after year, I can see giving up on them. If you genuinely don't enjoy the people in an organization, why would you root for them to succeed? Otherwise, why would you switch? Kids like whoever is popular, usually the team that just won. When adults do this, it's just embarrassing. Certainly you can respect a team that plays well, but to literally change your colors every time a team gets hot? Makes it look like you're getting your sense of self-worth from your sports team (which can also happen if you support the same winning team, but that's a separate topic).

But sticking with a team through the tough times makes the winning that much sweeter. As a New England sports fan, I know this firsthand. I remember when the Red Sox almost broke me. It wasn't even 2003. It was going down 0-3 in the 2004 ALCS. I watched game three in its entirety. 19-8. I remember turning off the tv in a daze. Just weeks earlier, I had a brief conversation about baseball with my sister (not a sports fan). She asked me why I was a Red Sox fan because, "They always lose." I told her you don't give up on a team because they lose. Fast forward to my post-game 3 stupor. I wasn't angry, just disillusioned. I felt hollow as a fan. Why did I keep doing this to myself? What was the point? Then I remembered that conversation with my sister and said fuck it, this is why I root for that team. You go through the bullshit like this to make it to the other side. The Patriots had done it, and so can the Red Sox. And the rest is history.

I can't imagine what my sporting life would be like if I just gave up and starting rooting for the Yankees or whoever. These are my teams (New England teams) to the end, whatever may come. I'm a sports fan, so I have levels of appreciation for other teams (nothing wrong with having tiers of fandom in my opinion-- your team gets eliminated so you start rooting for team X), but nothing like those for my home teams. You don't want your fandom to become too much of your identity as a person, but the way you go about your fandom defines you, at least in part.

Well, if they are not supporting Millwall then logic alone suggests they are suffering from a form of mental illness and should be institutionalised immediately for the good of society. Skipping Gillingham though, is the right decision.

Sports is life, especially if you grow up in a Big 4 city in the US. Philadelphia teams, with a few random exceptions, have sucked more than they’ve been good during my lifetime, but the thought of dropping them FOR ANOTHER TEAM is absurd to me. True, I barely follow the Flyers now, but I’ll never start rooting for, say, the Penguins or Capitals. I mean, I’m pulling for the Blues, but that’s also partly for my dislike of Boston teams. I’m not about to go out and get a Brett Hull jersey. If you were raised in and live in Dubuque, Iowa, you’re a free agent. Root for whatever team you like. But if you’re from Philly or New York or Boston or Chicago etc. then you’d better root for one of those teams. If you don’t then you are a pussy Cowboys fan.

Ok, well, there are like 8 billion different soccer teams, dunno how you keep them all straight anyway. That being said, I’m sure you live in or near the town of at least one of them, so that is who you should be rooting for.

I say this all the time to my cousin who is a Mets fan.

Like how long are you gonna be miserable supporting the same shitty team with ownership that won't do anything to improve the club? OMG they acquired Todd Frazier and a 35-year-old Robinson Cano in the offseason! Look out!

Fuck that.

I don't sit at home watching the shitty D-League Knicks, I watch good teams play team basketball. Why put yourself through that?