Flyover Confirmation & Suggested Open Letter to Press Outlets

THE FLYOVER IS OFFICIAL.

The details of the flyover have been confirmed as:

Banner: Rupp & Rahic Out
Venue: Bradford City FC
Date: 03/11/2018
Time: 14:45 – 15:00 (approx)
Total Cost: £700 + VAT (£840 total spend)

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED.

Here is a sample open letter for anyone who wants to send one out to press outlets. There is no need to use this letter, feel free to write your own. If you can, however, let me know in this thread the outlets you choose to contact, I will collate a list below. Hopefully this list will allow people to decide whether they want to send another email to a particular outlet (to make sure they see it), or focus on seeking out further potential outlets for maximum coverage, whichever they see fit.

Dear Media Friends,

I am writing to inform you of a planned protest at Bradford City FC ahead of the Portsmouth FC game to take place at Valley Parade at 3:00 pm on Saturday 3rd November 2018.

Our community of protestors, centred around (but not limited to) the Bradford City fan forum BantamTalk.com, have crowdfunded an aerial banner to fly over Bradford City FC at approximately 2:45 pm, for a duration of approximately 15 minutes. The banner will read: 'Rupp & Rahic Out'.

This stunt, which took just a few days to organise and fully fund, is a result of the hard work of disgruntled Bradford City fans who are extremely dissatisfied with the running of the club since the takeover headed by Stefan Rupp and Edin Rahic in May 2016. Bradford City have gone from a club capable of mounting successive play-off challenges, to bearing the ignominy of making the worst start to a single league season in the club's 115 year history in terms of defeats. What's more, Bradford City are also the single worst performing side in the entire English Football League throughout the 2018 calendar year.

With ever-dwindling crowds, and talks of protest marches, merchandise boycotts, and even match day boycotts, the strength of feeling against our current owners has been rapidly rising. We believe this aerial banner flyover will send a very clear message to Mr Rupp and Mr Rahic that the Bradford City faithful will not stand idly by whilst our club is subject to abject humiliation. With your help, Edin Rahic's refusal to attend recent games as part of an ever-extending 'vacation' will not be sufficient for him to ignore the opinion of the passionate Bradford City fans who have arranged this protest.

We hope you can join us at the Bradford City vs Portsmouth game, or are able to arrange coverage of this, likely to be the first of many protests against the club's owners.

Thank you,
Yours sincerely,

_____________

 

Regarding the time, the minute's silence should be just that: a mark of respect.

So, we have two options: push the flyover back, or bring it forward slightly.

I have a slight reservation about doing it DURING the game, but I guess that would indeed have maximum impact.

The alternative is people looking up and seeing it as they head to the stadium.

Let's have a straw poll.

What time is best, avoiding 2:58?

 

We'd be better aiming for 3:10 or 3:15 I think, given that they can only approximate the exact timing.