A question for the fans

I'm with Ginny

They may be “winnable” but so we’re Accrington (who were in terrible form), Crewe, Morecambe, Newport and Colchester (who looked worse than us)! At the moment I have no hope of getting another point let alone a goal or 3 points!

It’ll make very little difference if I decide not to attend home games from a financial perspective as they already have my money. I have a season ticket, any pints I buy are from pubs in Clee or the Trust bar (who need the money anyway under current circumstances) and any soft drinks I buy from the kiosks the money goes to the catering contractors. I haven’t bought any merchandise since well before Christmas. I just can’t bring myself to miss home games that I’m not working for as I missed a few when I worked away for 6 years.

Maybe a march or a demonstration of some kind would be a better way to get a point across as there can’t be many floating supporters attending now?

I wouldn’t be able to give you a certain (positive) answer if I was asked if I’ll be spending £500+ on season ticket, programme subscription and merchandise in the summer if I was asked now. There are hundreds like me and the board should hear these warnings.

We are going to have a drastically reduced allocation at Lincoln anyway due to their plastic newly found support and I am pretty certain that I’ll probably give it a miss anyway and go play golf or something. I had also planned to go to Coventry the following week and Cambridge in a few weeks time but I can’t be arsed with wasting £50+ a time on it now. The worst thing about yesterday was seeing that we’re at home again next week.

Quoted from Mariner_09

They may be “winnable” but so we’re Accrington (who were in terrible form), Crewe, Morecambe, Newport and Colchester (who looked worse than us)! At the moment I have no hope of getting another point let alone a goal or 3 points!

True, but if the result of a match was predetermined, there wouldn't be much point in it would there? I always have hope, no matter what has gone before. When i lose that hope, that's when it's time to find something else to do.

I won’t be going whilst Slade is manager. It’s utter dross win lose or draw. If JF makes the decision to get rid then I will be back whoever the next manager is. Personally I’m not sure what would happen if JF did sell/give up the running of the club, it would be a journey into the unknown which could turn out good or it could turn out to be a disaster. For me at this moment in time I just want rid of Slade, we can work out the rest at the end of the season. Please JF do the right thing so I can go back to watching my beloved club, I really do miss it.

Quoted from DaleGTFC

This is the club I love

No matter who is the manager or the chairman I will not stop spending money to hurt the club in any way shape or form.

John reads TheFishy so I will air my views here, that is enough. I hope he is aware many season ticket holders will not return next season with this man in charge.

Why are we waiting John?

He does read the fishy but he doesn't care what anyone puts unless it's against him, I've had private pms with him and tried to explain why the fans forum went pair shaped and he said to me as he said to a fan at the fans forum, that's your opinion.

The guy won't listen that much is clear. The argument has got to be backed up with hard economics. But I don't think a boycott is really the right thing to do right now.

There's no one waiting in the wings to take the club over and there doesn't seem to be the appetite for a fans takeover, so I'm not sure there's much point in forcing the issue. I honestly think this is the only real long-term solution but I'm in a minority on this.

Even if there was some form of mass protest by ST holders and he got the message, I'm not at all confident he'll come to the right conclusion and make the right decisions.

Quoted from LH

It’ll make very little difference if I decide not to attend home games from a financial perspective as they already have my money. I have a season ticket, any pints I buy are from pubs in Clee or the Trust bar (who need the money anyway under current circumstances) and any soft drinks I buy from the kiosks the money goes to the catering contractors. I haven’t bought any merchandise since well before Christmas. I just can’t bring myself to miss home games that I’m not working for as I missed a few when I worked away for 6 years.

Maybe a march or a demonstration of some kind would be a better way to get a point across as there can’t be many floating supporters attending now?

I wouldn’t be able to give you a certain (positive) answer if I was asked if I’ll be spending £500+ on season ticket, programme subscription and merchandise in the summer if I was asked now. There are hundreds like me and the board should hear these warnings.

We are going to have a drastically reduced allocation at Lincoln anyway due to their plastic newly found support and I am pretty certain that I’ll probably give it a miss anyway and go play golf or something. I had also planned to go to Coventry the following week and Cambridge in a few weeks time but I can’t be arsed with wasting £50+ a time on it now. The worst thing about yesterday was seeing that we’re at home again next week.

Thanks mate (the highlighted bit). I got into a torrent of abuse on FB for pointing out that boycotting the Bars actually seriously (possibly terminally?) compromises our attempts to maintain some sort of representation at club level for the fans. Whilst we are on that subject as you say J.F. will not be remotely inconvenienced by a boycott of the food outlets seeing as that is franchised out.

Quoted from barralad

Thanks mate (the highlighted bit). I got into a torrent of abuse on FB for pointing out that boycotting the Bars actually seriously (possibly terminally?) compromises our attempts to maintain some sort of representation at club level for the fans. Whilst we are on that subject as you say J.F. will not be remotely inconvenienced by a boycott of the food outlets seeing as that is franchised out.

Food sales are irrelevant, bar sales are crucial to the Trust and most gate receipts are already in the bank as a result of season ticket sales. This being the case, the forms of protest are limited to social media or a more organised protest/chanting at the ground.

The re-appointment of Slade was always going to be divisive from the badly-handled Press Conference to announce it onwards to the current dire run of results. Just another waste of money & dagger in the heart of our great club.

Quoted from barralad

Thanks mate (the highlighted bit). I got into a torrent of abuse on FB for pointing out that boycotting the Bars actually seriously (possibly terminally?) compromises our attempts to maintain some sort of representation at club level for the fans. Whilst we are on that subject as you say J.F. will not be remotely inconvenienced by a boycott of the food outlets seeing as that is franchised out.

But what sort of representation does the Trust have at the moment Barra?  

From where I sit it is meaningless. As proved by bra-gate and the checkatwat trophy. Surely the trust would have more sway if it didn’t sit on the board. If JF  is stupid/arrogant enough to take the running of the bars off the Trust  he would further alienate the fans even more.  The trust does a fantastic job with one arm tied behind its back. IMHO it would only improve without being shackled by the politics of being on a board which will inevitably vote the way JF wants anyway.  I won’t join the trust under the current organisation. But I would in different circumstances.