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There is absolutely nothing stopping the people who want to protest from protesting and those who don’t want to not protesting.

It isn’t Mag like at all. Some people feel inclined to, some people don’t.

What is apparent to me is that all of those in favour of protesting seem to want somebody else to organise it. There is a clear appetite on here for it but no one will do anything about it. Lots of ‘we need to’ and ‘I’m up for this’ but nothing proactive. It’s been this way for years. Someone needs to take the bull by the horns. Don’t start a thread like this full of empty words. Do something about it. Organise something on here. Create an event on Facebook. Anything. It might just take off.
 

james93safc said:
No. Don’t attend games. Cancel season cards. Hit them in the pocket where we known it’ll hurt these chancers.

Bed sheets with crayons are going to do the square route of fuck all mate.
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Bed sheets and crayons aren’t the only way to protest though. Our fans have taken part in protests previously ffs
 
LRW said:
I don't care how 'Mag-esque' it is, I don't care how many sarcy comments people make, I'll just hit 'ignore' on them, I don't care how many people do a hilarious misspelling of boycott, and I don't care how many people claim that people who protest aren't 'true supporters'.

The club we love, and have spent our lives loving, has been taken over by leeches. Dishonest, incompetent chancers who have taken money out of the club, employed their mates and other assorted idiots, criticised the fans, put nothing back into the club, and delivered the four worst teams in our 143 year history. When the three original chancers were found out, they just went out, found another one, hid behind him, and pretended they sold the club - when all they had done was add another chancer to the mix.

They have taken the piss out of our loyalty, knowing that our fatal flaw is that, EVERY season since we have been in League One (apart from the season behind closed doors), we have had higher attendances than any other club has ever managed at this level. 38395 of us were there last Saturday. That's incredible. It should also be embarrassing for the owners.

The shambles of the managerial situation, and the non appointment of Roy Keane is a watershed moment. It was (rightly or naively) the last light at the end of the tunnel. It has just been switched off.

Already there are lots of individuals coming to the conclusion they have had enough. I completely understand it, and right now I feel that way myself. It will also change nothing.

The club we love will never progress until these people are gone. Supporters of clubs in far, far healthier positions than us have organised protests on various issues, and they have often worked.

It is way past time that we arranged a protest. I don't claim to know what that looks like, or how it would work. But this is now an existential crisis for the club, and it is way past time that as supporters, we fought back against it.
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Thats the post of the year 2022 sorted.
 
Wearson said:
Wise words here.
There is literally nothing us fans can do but continue to seek communication and discussion via representative groups.
Driving a wedge between owners and supporters is not a good thing to create.
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It doesn't work mate just saying I'm not going anymore because you have already spent the money. Yes empty seats doesn't look good but we are not on TV every week for people to see it. A few people outside the sol isn't going to make any difference at all. It's so so sad how low we have fallen.
 
DufraisFTM said:
There is absolutely nothing stopping the people who want to protest from protesting and those who don’t want to not protesting.

It isn’t Mag like at all. Some people feel inclined to, some people don’t.

What is apparent to me is that all of those in favour of protesting seem to want somebody else to organise it. There is a clear appetite on here for it but no one will do anything about it. Lots of ‘we need to’ and ‘I’m up for this’ but nothing proactive. It’s been this way for years. Someone needs to take the bull by the horns. Don’t start a thread like this full of empty words. Do something about it. Organise something on here. Create an event on Facebook. Anything. It might just take off.
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Im seriously considering doing it tonight mate and have for a few weeks.
 
safc_123 said:
I ain’t going back. I don’t care what anyone thinks either, last Saturday I worked the Saturday morning and then went to the game, I got home at 630 and my son was going to bed at 7 and I just sat and thought what an absolute idiot I am for going over there and wasting my afternoon. No enjoyment and a waste of money and time I could have had with my family, I’m done now.

Everyone, like me has a choice to do whatever they please but please just bare it in mind the next game you go to those owners (whoever the owner is) don’t care one little bit about you or the club and are taking your support for granted when they don’t deserve us.
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I said the same and was told to 'fuck off' , 'cya', 'close the door on the way out'.

Passively turning up and then kicking up a fuss on here achieves fuck all.

Staying away is the best form of protest.
 
I don't see why we shouldn't have something organised to show our discontent.

It's obviously not the new owners/directors' fault we're in the position that we're in, but to be in this league and to perform as poorly as we have done for so long isn't acceptable. This must be communicated to them on mass. They need to be shown that we won't sit back and continue to 'happy clap', and that they can't take one of the best supported football clubs in the UK for granted.
 
We could be in Derby County’s shoes I suppose.
I’m as frustrated as the next bloke at the amateur way in which my club is being run, by people who think they know everything about football but probably couldn't explain the offside rule. But I think the problems run much deeper than just the current regime. Ellis Short ran the club aground, but then sold it debt free to a couple of no marks. In my view that was as near as dammit to a liquidation scenario as you could get. The new chancer owners had no money and completely underestimated the scale of size of the club they’d inherited and the vitriol and scrutiny they’d receive if they stepped a foot wrong and have now looked to step out of the limelight, by offering just over 50% of shares to a kid who is using it as a personal character building exercise.
No amount of protesting will change the fact that we are a still a phoenix club, needing to claw our way back up the leagues however long that takes, and it won’t happen soon.
 
It’s hard to just stop going though. It’s hard to break a habit of a lifetime and it’s not as easy as just giving it up. I appreciate some can, will and have given up but for the majority it’s not that easy. I live 4 and a half hours away and even I can’t give it up. I’ll be at Charlton in a few weeks, for example.

I think there needs to be protests. We’ve sat back and essentially accepted Ellis Short, we sat back and let Stewart Donald, Juan Sartori and Charlie Methven take the club to what we thought was its lowest ebb and KLD has come in, is working with Madrox and has managed to oversee the club dropping even further, whilst being vague and unclear on ownership issues, telling us we have a particular approach to recruitment (which I’m now questioning) and this mess with the appointment of a new manager, who will be an out of work manager, none of which are particularly appetising to the fans.

I’ve had enough of being taken for a mug and pressure needs to be applied. The club is too big and too important to many to be run this atrociously and protests are going to get eyes on the club and people are going to ask questions of the football club and that’s what we need.
 
safc9450 said:
My first away match in 1968 in my Corsair ,car was cool. Results were just like now, time DOES stand still !
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Yep!! Talk about history repeating itself!!!All we had to look forward to was who was going to replace Alan Brown and later to have Clough on the books (and sack him) then to later turn him down. And they say history repeats itself!!!!!!!!!!
 
LRW said:
I don't care how 'Mag-esque' it is, I don't care how many sarcy comments people make, I'll just hit 'ignore' on them, I don't care how many people do a hilarious misspelling of boycott, and I don't care how many people claim that people who protest aren't 'true supporters'.

The club we love, and have spent our lives loving, has been taken over by leeches. Dishonest, incompetent chancers who have taken money out of the club, employed their mates and other assorted idiots, criticised the fans, put nothing back into the club, and delivered the four worst teams in our 143 year history. When the three original chancers were found out, they just went out, found another one, hid behind him, and pretended they sold the club - when all they had done was add another chancer to the mix.

They have taken the piss out of our loyalty, knowing that our fatal flaw is that, EVERY season since we have been in League One (apart from the season behind closed doors), we have had higher attendances than any other club has ever managed at this level. 38395 of us were there last Saturday. That's incredible. It should also be embarrassing for the owners.

The shambles of the managerial situation, and the non appointment of Roy Keane is a watershed moment. It was (rightly or naively) the last light at the end of the tunnel. It has just been switched off.

Already there are lots of individuals coming to the conclusion they have had enough. I completely understand it, and right now I feel that way myself. It will also change nothing.

The club we love will never progress until these people are gone. Supporters of clubs in far, far healthier positions than us have organised protests on various issues, and they have often worked.

It is way past time that we arranged a protest. I don't claim to know what that looks like, or how it would work. But this is now an existential crisis for the club, and it is way past time that as supporters, we fought back against it.
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This should of been done years ago, we wanted Bob Murray out for less and protested against him!
We need Madrox out or we will be stumbling along in league one forever!
 
Mackemjmc said:
Yep!! Talk about history repeating itself!!!All we had to look forward to was who was going to replace Alan Brown and later to have Clough on the books (and sack him) then to later turn him down. And they say history repeats itself!!!!!!!!!!
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The Almanac never lies !
 
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