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Maybe the impending (?) sale of Carrington will make people realise how bad it has actually got.
Said it before but I just dont think that people (myself included) wanted to, or just didn't believe the horror stories about how bad it would get. |
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Keith, with respect, you're missing the point.
The protest is not going, i.e. boycotting. FC is what we (some of us) do as a replacement. FC is not what took us away, we walked away before FC was even formed and had FC not taken off or never even been thought of, I and lots of other people I know still wouldn't have stayed at OT. This is a very important distinction. |
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They're onto us. What's that, someone threw paint at one of the ex shareholder's wall. £#%&!ING END OF DAYS! LEG IT BOYS. |
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The problem is, there is still a nagging part of me saying 'could we have done more'. I think we could, on both sides of the divide. A genuine show of strength with a boycott would (IMO) have had a major effect. I also think that to some extent, we allowed it become a 'USA' thing rather than focusing on the financials at the time. The vast majority of the media portrayed it as anti American ownership rather than anti-debt. I can only speak for myself but I couldn't really have given a shit if our new owners were from Mars (that's the nature of a plc) as long they had the cash and didn't expect the supporters to buy it for them. |
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Perhaps there are other, legal, things that could have been done? Would 5,000 people singing outside OT have achieved anything whilst the stadium was full and most mega@#%&! muppets walked past gawping, with no idea what we were upset about? Maybe I'm wrong and being too cynical, maybe we could have done something to stop the takeover and make them run away to Florida, but I don't know what and I still haven't heard a good suggestion. There's also the fact that for many of us, it wasn't just Glazer we were walking away from, it was the whole modern match-going experience being total £#%&!. |
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The problem is that for all we were vocal with our protests and grafted our %@#$&!s off trying to conjure up more support for shareholders united etc, we were in a minority. My rhetorical question was more along the lines of could we have done more to help persuade the majority to fight (ie boycott). And could we (and I include myself here) have done more to support shareholders united long before the yanks were on the horizon, which would have given us more of a chance to fight it off. A lot of people did sign up for a £20 a month or similar direct debit for shares at the time but it was all too late unfortunately. If all those people (and more) had been doing that from the time we became a plc, we wouldn't have been in that position. |
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