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I have it on good authority from the Facebook lot that the reason we had empty seats is because it was a bit cold and we had a couple of stormy nights lately.

I'm not kidding.

This is the level our support is at.

 

Stefan might view it as a sunk cost. Sure he’s not getting his £6m+ back, but at the moment it’s not costing him anything either. Maybe mentally he has written off that investment and as long as the club doesn’t cost him anything he stands a slim chance of getting his money back.


Imagine you suddenly came in to £250k and you bought an apartment in Spain for £250k. Brexit means it’s now worth £100k. You’ve ‘lost’ £150k but it’s not costing you a penny to keep owning it, in fact your mates give you a couple of grand a year for some cheap holidays and there’s a chance the immigrant housing market in Spain might pick up, so you keep on owning it. Why wouldn’t you? It’s not costing you a lot. But now the roof starts leaking and you need to spend £30k a year repairing the roof. You’re selling up aren’t you because it’s not worth the hassle, even if you only get £50k for it because the roof is leaking you decide that’s better than spending £30k a year.

It’s a shit analogy but I imagine that’s not a million miles off Rupp’s position.

 

When it comes to protests you're not going to have everyone onboard and I think we just have to accept that. Social media is a powerful thing and word of a serious organised boycott would spread fast. What's the explanation for such a sparse crowd now that Adams is gone? People weren't staying away simply because they didn't like Adams, it's because they can see there is a much deeper problem within the club.

I know that some people who are anti-Rupp are also anti-boycott, and I'll just have to respectfully agree to disagree with them.

However there are a bizarre few that take fans discontent and outrage as an opportunity to voice their superiority to all us 'hysterics'. It's as if they're conditioned to think that only proper city fans would sit idly by as their clubs destroyed right in front of them, and well if you complain then you're just creating a toxic environment that no manager or player would want to operate in. For 5 years fans have come in their thousands, and completely swamped the rest of the division when it comes to support, to be let down every time. We took 2000 to Oldham in terrible form and weather to watch us get shat on by a team 22nd in the division. 5 years of unwavering support from the fans has done jack all in relation to the performance of the club. All it's done is enable a constant year on year decline to the point where we're at risk of losing our FL status.

And now...all of a sudden, fans will be going too far boycotting attendance and ST sales because then it'll affect our playing budget next season! Well either Rupp is "investing" (hint: he's not) in the club, as one user has said, and could supplement the playing budget with his own cash - or, he doesn't give a shite about the club and we'll operate on a smaller budget.

Well a smaller budget shouldn't be a problem as we're told time and time again that many of the clubs having success in this league have a smaller budget and it's all about the setup. So then we return to the manager merry-go-round and the infallible logic that surely THIS time, our 12th manager, will fix everything!

I would go on about how daft the idea that no one would buy us is but it's absolutely ridiculous. Oh and remember everyone, if someone did buy us, they'd spend 8m only to asset strip us just like they did to Bury, even though we own absolutely nothing!

 

Sod the boycott. Get behind the manager and give Sparks time to deliver on his promise of giving Sparky the support staff he needs - as per the statement

 

Stay there instead of going to the match

 

I’m in. Enough’s enough

 

and have all the happy clappers looking at you in disgust ????? Nahhhhh just stay away a drop in food sales and program sales will start hurting them ......... thousands of empty seats will also become an embarrassment........... if there are only 4/5 still in the ground then that should start alarm bells ringing

 

I don’t want Rupp. His disinterest apart from the bank balance is why we are here. However, telling him to sell, he might well do just that, but to whom? We conceivably could end up worse off! Remember we have no control over the process.

 

Added to which, far too many of these players simply aren't good enough.

 

I'll be there , I don't see the benefit of this .
There's no one else to take over so we need rupp until someone else is interested this could just alienate him even more

 

The reality is, organising enough of a boycott via social media, likely won't reach or get enough people to buy in.

However, more and more people are staying away on account of the football being shite. Its hard to watch your club dying before your eyes. Wouldnt surprise me if there were only 5 or 6k there on Saturday anyway.

Hitting Rupp in the pocket really is the only way to drive change though. Hard as it might be; stay away and don't renew your ST

 

Please!! The crowd were in raptures from 1-0 to 1-1 last night. So let's not forget that most fans are in the 'a couple of wins and I'm fine' brigade.

So Rupp gets hit in the pocket. That's less money for next season then. Great plan!!

We had this back in the Rahic days. Let's remember, no matter what lots of people wrote on boards like this, it wasn't the protest - it was the report from Rhodes that showed Rupp just what a mess Rahic was making.


Protests never work in getting owners out. Ashley at Newcastle, left when he got exactly what he wanted for the club.

And let's remember the Oystons only finally got out of dodge (sorry Blackpool!!) when they were forced via the high court.


I support you passion, but not the action.

 

Everyone should donate their matchday spend towards printing an "open letter" in one of the newspapers. A plea in the media that we're not happy, want an interested owner, and would welcome with open arms whoever wants to buy this club off Rupp. This is the sort of action that would reach far and wide, unsettle Rupp and Sparks, and hopefully arouse the interest of potential buyers. We need to do something that will go viral. At the moment, I'm guessing the only way Rupp finds out about supporter unrest, is via Sparks, who I am sure sugar coats all the information he feeds to Rupp.

 

Utterly nonsensical, clueless post.

Protest is the main source of voice from the fans. There are ENDLESS examples of how fan protests have generated action in football.

Give your head a wobble and don't be a scab.

 

This is utter bull shit

 

Best effort for what? You go watch our Yorkshire/league rivals Harrogate by your own self admission, right?

And what the holy hell has an attendance against Hereford >10 years ago got to do with our current situation

 

We aren't going up with no board, an owner doesn't care, a CEO who has never run a business in his life let one a football club, and an endless succession of managers and players.

What do you think is going to happen, a manager will magically just 'click' and get us promoted?

That didn't happen under PP either, he was given a million pound surplus from a loan from Lawn

Nothing magic about it

 

City are a joke club, you go on the bbc sport website for a match report of any L2 club and there will be the attendence number given,
Except City as they dont give out the actual number of attendees/inmates.