for the fishy 3 line whip

Apologies, because I'm not too much of a regular on the forum so I may have missed something but has the 3 line whip been removed from boycotting last nights tournament?
Only I was there last night as I have been on every other occasion and there seemed to be a lot more people.

Lots of people used to boycott these games and for a very good reason. Premier League B Teams.

Looking at last night attendance it seems many of those who used to boycott the competition are no longer doing so.

I'm not sure what has changed for these people to change their minds.

The B teams are more of a threat than ever. You can almost hear the Big Prem teams rubbing their hands with the like of Bury going out of business and Bolton very nearly.

When B teams are in the Football League at the expense of local Town clubs, the people who went will know they were part of the problem.

Be careful, one of those teams who have their place taken by a Prem B team could well be your beloved Mariners.

Not sure that anyone who has boycotted this competition has changed their mind at all. I most certainly haven't and won't be changing my mind whilst it's still in it's current format. The extra numbers at BP last night (on both sides) were ones who hadn't boycotted it before or probably wouldn't have anyway. Any GTFC v SUFC match will grab the attention and the return of Paul Hurst to BP will have got a few more through the turnstiles too.  I think the best way of looking at this is to see what the attendance would/should have been if this wasn't a boycott game.  I can't imagine that there wouldn't have been at least 2 or 3 times as many people there. Let's not measure last nights crowd by those there but perhaps by those who would have been there in other circumstances.  

Probably because it a derby match. I expect normal service to be resumed shortly.

Project Fatigue must not succeed!

If you attend a match in which Town play a B team then you're effectively telling the Premier League and EFL that you'll pay to watch it happen in a league game.

Obviously last night was a match against a 'proper' team, if you can call Scunny that. While we should be boycotting this too, to send a very clear message to those in charge that we won't watch our team compete in a tournament that includes B teams, I think our attendances in those matches when we play B teams will be the ones to scrutinise.

Literally the only reason more people showed up is for Scunthorpe and Hurst. A lot of people who you never see at matches turn up for local derby games or games against Yorkshire teams where it's notorious for trouble kicking off. Nobody would care about one of these cup games against other teams.

Maybe some folk have decided they will no longer give in to the bullies who had previously kept them away from this competition  

Scab

Quoted from Cod Cheeks

Apologies, because I'm not too much of a regular on the forum so I may have missed something but has the 3 line whip been removed from boycotting last nights tournament?
Only I was there last night as I have been on every other occasion and there seemed to be a lot more people.

There never was a 3-line whip, nor any attempt by Fishy posters to force anyone to boycott the competition.

Many posters expressed their unease with the format, indicated that they intended to boycott these matches,
and gave their reasons - hoping to persuade others to do likewise. Persuasion is not bullying.

The accusation from the club that fans were being bullied by the Fishy was probably an attempt to darken
the reputation of the Fishy. JF was being castigated here. It's a standard right-wing tactic when you can't
win an argument (which is usual) to cast aspersions/throw dirt at the people making the argument.

To put it simply: if this cup format is a success, it'll be C teams next...

Quoted from 137

There never was a 3-line whip, nor any attempt by Fishy posters to force anyone to boycott the competition.

Many posters expressed their unease with the format, indicated that they intended to boycott these matches,
and gave their reasons - hoping to persuade others to do likewise. Persuasion is not bullying.

The accusation from the club that fans were being bullied by the Fishy was probably an attempt to darken
the reputation of the Fishy. JF was being castigated here. It's a standard right-wing tactic when you can't
win an argument (which is usual) to cast aspersions/throw dirt at the people making the argument.

To put it simply: if this cup format is a success, it'll be C teams next...

I don't know why you have to drag politics into this  but Momentum are doing a pretty good job, on behalf of the Labour Party, of casting aspersions, digging up dirt and bullying, with the threat of de-selecting Labour MP's.