No Boycott of matches, we go, we protest, positive action - at least until season ticket renewal time..
Protest at the games, don't buy food or merchandise, flyer others and spread the word, we embarrass the regime until they sell up.
But the fans must be involved in any future ownership, this is the only way we can stop this madness, in our club, in our game.
No more spivs, property deals, threats to our historic home, or experiments run by idiots who know nothing about our game, our league, our history.
To any new owner, work with the fans and we will bring you the magical 20k, this is the way success works at Charlton, it has been done before and it can be done again.
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The chant 'Support the Team, Not the Regime' would look great on a well-made banner...
Boycotting now will not help the cause.
I would be up for ways of disrupting matches if we could, and I am praying for a cup replay when the West Stand becomes our playground.
I also think that we still need a definitive idea of the number of people who actually are dissatisfied (I wrote this on another thread)...yes, 1,000 people protested, but that means that 9,000 (or so) didn't....why didn't they? Didn't know about it? Didn't care? Don't agree? We are in a much stronger position when we have an absolute idea of who is dissatisfied and - more importantly - who is willing to put their feelings into action... There are several f/book groups and then there is everything that is happening on here but we are still only speaking to a small percentage of the fan base....we need to go further and engage with 'all' fans if we are to truly succeed in getting them out.
Successful ideas will be successful, unsuccessful ones will fail. Essentially casting the net far and wide.
The reason I think there is a requirement for a centralised list and individual discussions is simply because I fear there may end up a point where there's a duplication of efforts/concerns, and there may be some worthy ideas that are going un-noticed in the noise which could do with a helping hand.
The idea of "a quiet meeting", although sensible and undoubtedly well intentioned, does lead to the possibility of this ending up being inclusive - which I would've thought was the last thing we want, we need input from the entirety of those who are interested and either have the creativity to form an idea, the skill-set to enable others to pursue those ideas or simply the energy to act on their enthusiasm.
I agree that we need to stay one step ahead and perhaps secrecy may help. BUT on the other hand, the disruption caused by them trying to pre-empt and prevent any of our plans could also be quite satisfying and lead to a few more embarassments...
"Charlton CEO demands own stand in cup tie: Meire concerned about plotting customers"
That would be just about her only possible defence from the plans regarding the West Stand.
Plotting in public also makes coordination a doddle.
Like I said if people don't agree nor want to collaborate fair enough.
As you know Razil, as she has no understanding that CAFC are for Life ,not just for Christmas, Gimmicks are the only thing she's got a handle on.
I would say that nobody wants relegation.
I am not sure how points get deducted (fines I would be ambivalent about), but I suppose it would be for preventing a match from happening.
I would look for something that avoids that, but is somehow disruptive, like looking like there will be a pitch invasion, delaying the opposition coach, phoning the club saying the referee has been delayed for half a day, certainly access to the screen and the PA is tempting. Delaying the entrance of the support by taking ages at each turnstile, six 'delayers in a team at each turnstyle each ahem misunderstanding the system and taking five minutes per person.
Crowds are invited to make some noise so there must be potential there, not all whistles are referee Acme Thunderers, and anyway a surreptitiously concealed refs whistle would be hard to detect.
Sheesh.
I hate myself for writing this stuff actually.
However the deafening silence of the regime pretending nothing is happening is very irritating, if what we've done so far doesn't work, then we have to do more in my view.