A breakdown of trust

[Mary Hinge]

I didn't say we shouldn't support the team. But if the club is to stand a chance of progressing as a club we need a change of ownership.

Yea so slaughtering the current regime in public should help us find a billionaire who doesn't need the aggro eh?

 

[North Yorks Mackem]

Yea so slaughtering the current regime in public should help us find a billionaire who doesn't need the aggro eh?

It may put pressure on the current owner to.sell up at a reasonable price, or we can just sit back and continue to watch our club slowly die.

 

[Mary Hinge]

It may put pressure on the current owner to.sell up at a reasonable price, or we can just sit back and continue to watch our club slowly die.

Given your plan of attack started last December wots Plan B Cochise? Another poll? Placards? Twitter abuse? It's going well like....

 

[North Yorks Mackem]

Given your plan of attack started last December wots Plan B Cochise? Another poll? Placards? Twitter abuse? It's going well like....

My plan of attack? I'm just not happy with the owners and would like some kind of pressure put on them to sell at a reasonable price. Let's see what comes of this rawa poll and see what next steps are taken. Theyre obviously restricted in what can be done in the current climate.

 

[The Fish]

Not really.

Plenty of other clubs have been through the shit with their owners, ground name change etc and none of them have carried coffins round the ground or shouted at the owners place of business.

And that’s not a dig. The majority of your protests have been from middle aged blokes who jumped on the Keegan bandwagon and still think it’s the 90’s. The decent mags I know laugh at those types.

Man Utd fans were literally threatening Ed Woodward's safety and throwing flares into his property. A quick google search tells me that Leeds, Pittodrie, Hereford, Charlton and Alaves fans have carried coffins in protest. So our coffin protest wasn't unique.

Protesting the stores got attention, and if the aim of the game is to raise awareness of the issue, it succeeded. Even if it was a bit odd.

 

[Wansbeck Viking]

Man Utd fans were literally threatening Ed Woodward's safety and throwing flares into his property. A quick google search tells me that Leeds, Pittodrie, Hereford, Charlton and Alaves fans have carried coffins in protest. So our coffin protest wasn't unique.

Protesting the stores got attention, and if the aim of the game is to raise awareness of the issue, it succeeded. Even if it was a bit odd.

So your protests were all about raising Awareness, not getting rid of Ashley?

 

[The Fish]

So your protests were all about raising Awareness, not getting rid of Ashley?

Our protests were about getting awareness of our desire to get rid of Ashley. There'll be some numpties who thought shouting at his shops would have him up sticks and go, just like there'd be numpties who demand the local journalists doorstep Ashley or Charnley in the naive hope that would get a straight answer from the pair.

But this is about your club, your fans. I wanted to know why there haven't been organised protests against your owners despite years of mismanagement and a shocking decline from Premier League to League One. Next season will be your 3rd in the third tier of English football and the only thing that I, as an outsider, have seen is a drop in recorded attendances. Which on it's own, frankly, doesn't scream fan anger, just fan apathy. If there'd be in-stadium protests against the owners, or marches, or daft f***ing coffins, then it would appear that there was anger at the situation.

 

[Wansbeck Viking]

Our protests were about getting awareness of our desire to get rid of Ashley. There'll be some numpties who thought shouting at his shops would have him up sticks and go, just like there'd be numpties who demand the local journalists doorstep Ashley or Charnley in the naive hope that would get a straight answer from the pair.

But this is about your club, your fans. I wanted to know why there haven't been organised protests against your owners despite years of mismanagement and a shocking decline from Premier League to League One. Next season will be your 3rd in the third tier of English football and the only thing that I, as an outsider, have seen is a drop in recorded attendances. Which on it's own, frankly, doesn't scream fan anger, just fan apathy. If there'd be in-stadium protests against the owners, or marches, or daft f***ing coffins, then it would appear that there was anger at the situation.

I can’t speak on behalf of our whole fan base. Maybe it is apathy, myself, I’ve cancelled my season ticket and have no plans to go back while Donald is in charge. That’s my protest.

I can’t say I’ve missed the footy a great deal since the lockdown, the social side, pre match pints I have. I’m being made redundant next month anyway, so there’s more important things to me at the moment. If other fans want to protest, they can crack on, its down to the individual. As long as it’s done without any misspelling on bedsheets

 

[The Fish]

I can’t speak on behalf of our whole fan base. Maybe it is apathy, myself, I’ve cancelled my season ticket and have no plans to go back while Donald is in charge. That’s my protest.

I can’t say I’ve missed the footy a great deal since the lockdown, the social side, pre match pints I have. I’m being made redundant next month anyway, so there’s more important things to me at the moment. If other fans want to protest, they can crack on, its down to the individual. As long as it’s done without any misspelling on bedsheets

That's shit, sorry to hear that and you're right, there's way more important things than football right now.

I think that's the key point; it's down to the individual and certainly at NUFC there were too many individuals who wanted to protest their way, which meant the fanbase was fractured and at times at loggerheads.

 

[MickeyV]

Yea so slaughtering the current regime in public should help us find a billionaire who doesn't need the aggro eh?

A serious owner is not going to expect a club's support to be made up of sheep and happy-clappers. Some scrutiny and criticism is surely expected. This lot deserve the pitchforks by any sane measure.
It would be great if we could get some traction behind the idea of not renewing SCs and staying away, combined with a weekly crowdfund of a charity of the money we would have spent. If 20,000 people gave a tenner to Bradley's charity on the first matchday, it might get national coverage (as well as supporting something that's eternally one of our own). If we continued every week, maybe selecting a different charity every week, the Charlatans would see how much money they are never going to get and a potential owner could see that the club was a going concern. The ongoing publicity would do us the world of good.
I'm an exile and not in the best position to organise this, so ha'way RAWA, or whoever.

 

[Mary Hinge]

A serious owner is not going to expect a club's support to be made up of sheep and happy-clappers. Some scrutiny and criticism is surely expected. This lot deserve the pitchforks by any sane measure.
It would be great if we could get some traction behind the idea of not renewing SCs and staying away, combined with a weekly crowdfund of a charity of the money we would have spent. If 20,000 people gave a tenner to Bradley's charity on the first matchday, it might get national coverage (as well as supporting something that's eternally one of our own). If we continued every week, maybe selecting a different charity every week, the Charlatans would see how much money they are never going to get and a potential owner could see that the club was a going concern. The ongoing publicity would do us the world of good.
I'm an exile and not in the best position to organise this, so ha'way RAWA, or whoever.

Very good idea......much better than Twitter bile....