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JAR7391 said:
Lots of talk of not going etc. Can we really organise something for the game on Saturday?

Personally i'd be in favour of staying on the concourse for the first 15 mins. Leave the seats empty and then all file in on 15 mins. Makes a statement that this is what you're going to get next year if things don't improve, whilst actually still attending as theres no way the majority of people will just not go.

If a protest can be sorted out then i'd be part of it. If not then i might skip the match like I did Coventry. I didnt miss it at all and the thought of standing in a half empty bowl with zero atmosphere already has me wanting to make other plans. People will say im a part timer etc, thats fine, thats your opinion. I just dont want to watch my club die in front of my own eyes anymore. I'm still going to Doncaster, have been to 5 aways already and will be the same for the seconf half of the season aswell. Away days are still enjoyable, football aside. Home games are just an awful chore though so unless theres some kind of protest to at least vent our frustrations i dont see any point in going.
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If we get beat there won't be any need for protests... the players, manager and owners will be left in no uncertain terms how we are feeling.
 
I switched the radio off on Saturday after 20 mins - hope that helps.
 
Your situation is a bit different to us at Charlton and I won't bore you all with all the history of our protest movement. A previous poster said it didn't make any difference , well I'm not so sure. Fans can't force a wealthy owner to sell up but we turned the club into a financial black hole and he put the club up for sale. The last straw for most Charlton fans was when he put a manager in charge from the Belgium 3rd division ! We new the club was only going in one direction , down. We had various protests , pigs on the pitch , sit down protests , funeral march and so on. Things don't change over night though , the owner decided he wanted out but he could afford to wait until some misguided group agreed to pay his asking price. If you ever decide to protest at your situation keep it legal , we had a protest fund which raised £60,000. One summer we produced our own football protest shirt and encouraged protesters to buy it as opposed to the official team shirt , we sold over 1,000 and profits went to the fund.
 
Personally I think it's partly Parkinson and partly the fact that so many players are out of contract in the summer...
 
JAR7391 said:
Lots of talk of not going etc. Can we really organise something for the game on Saturday?

Personally i'd be in favour of staying on the concourse for the first 15 mins. Leave the seats empty and then all file in on 15 mins. Makes a statement that this is what you're going to get next year if things don't improve, whilst actually still attending as theres no way the majority of people will just not go.

If a protest can be sorted out then i'd be part of it. If not then i might skip the match like I did Coventry. I didnt miss it at all and the thought of standing in a half empty bowl with zero atmosphere already has me wanting to make other plans. People will say im a part timer etc, thats fine, thats your opinion. I just dont want to watch my club die in front of my own eyes anymore. I'm still going to Doncaster, have been to 5 aways already and will be the same for the seconf half of the season aswell. Away days are still enjoyable, football aside. Home games are just an awful chore though so unless theres some kind of protest to at least vent our frustrations i dont see any point in going.
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Just stay at home/pub and shout at the telly.

Thanks.
 
Please don't let us stop you from making other plans. And while you're sitting outside on the concourse with the other Jonahs the relaxed atmosphere in the stadium will probably allow us to remove the shackles of negativity.
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
There's half an argument that Liverpool fans' protesting had a part in Hicks and Gillett leaving there. I'm not so sure - I think that it was more them realising that owning a British football team isn't the guaranteed money tree that owning, say, an NFL franchise is. Bob Murray? A definite maybe. Bob was realising he'd reached the limits of what he could do here anyway. If you look at, for example, the Mags, Blackpool and Charlton, it had no effect at all. Ashley's still there, the Oystons only sold because a court made them, and the Charlton owner has just sold, but at a time and price of his own choosing.
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Difference being that SD said if the Sunderland fans ever wanted him out he'd leave and do what is in the clubs best interests. Now is the time to act on his words, sell up (for what he paid) to someone who either has the footballing knowledge to run the club or has the financial ability to employ someone with said knowledge.
 
No. 1 is Gary Rowell said:
Difference being that SD said if the Sunderland fans ever wanted him out he'd leave and do what is in the clubs best interests. Now is the time to act on his words, sell up (for what he paid) to someone who either has the footballing knowledge to run the club or has the financial ability to employ someone with said knowledge.
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That could be the hard part, and might need patience. He'd need to be 100% sure of the buyer's motives. The last thing we need is a panic sale to a SISU or Venky.
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
That could be the hard part, and might need patience. He'd need to be 100% sure of the buyer's motives. The last thing we need is a panic sale to a SISU or Venky.
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Agreed. I think the only cast-iron way of that is to tell to a consortium of ex-players etc. Otherwise there's no way of knowing a buyers motives.
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
That could be the hard part, and might need patience. He'd need to be 100% sure of the buyer's motives. The last thing we need is a panic sale to a SISU or Venky.
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Venky would be a step up for us. We can only dream of having a manger of Steve Kean's calibre...
 
No. 1 is Gary Rowell said:
Difference being that SD said if the Sunderland fans ever wanted him out he'd leave and do what is in the clubs best interests. Now is the time to act on his words, sell up (for what he paid) to someone who either has the footballing knowledge to run the club or has the financial ability to employ someone with said knowledge.
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Those that attend could always sing "Tory Chancer - get out of our club" for 90 minutes. Maybe he'd get the hint?
 
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