Not been since the Brentford game where Luzon was sacked. Just cant be arsed tbh, but I do live a fair old trek from the valley. Never stopped me before though, including midweek games in the mid 90s.
Probably worse boycotting because the team ain't doing well. One thing if it's the owners. If you can't support us when we lose don't support us when we win.
If you have a season ticket and you spend no money in the ground, boycott has zero to negative effect.
zero effect because you don't reduce any more money to the coffers than has already been spent; negative because you can't support the team if you aren't there.
Mass not going for Season ticket renewal is the big target.
Probably worse boycotting because the team ain't doing well. One thing if it's the owners. If you can't support us when we lose don't support us when we win.
This is different, though. All of us were there in person when we got relegated last time, and for 13th in League One. Boycotting is not about results. It's about the mismanagement, the transfers, lies, and us against you attitude (eg banners).
Some of us don't want to subsidise Katrien's wages but we can still join protests & attend away fixtures. We are all fighting on many fronts.
Probably worse boycotting because the team ain't doing well. One thing if it's the owners. If you can't support us when we lose don't support us when we win.
This is different, though. All of us were there in person when we got relegated last time, and for 13th in League One. Boycotting is not about results. It's about the mismanagement, the transfers, lies, and us against you attitude (eg banners).
Some of us don't want to subsidise Katrien's wages but we can still join protests & attend away fixtures. We are all fighting on many fronts.
You have slightly missed my point. I have no problem if anyone wants to boycott RD or KM regime. If it's just the team not doing well alone that is when I think it'sma poor reason.
I'm on a 10 match home boycott so far and haven't missed going. The last home game I attended was the mauling we got by Preston. Been to a couple of protests but I'm done for now. Sell up Roly and I'll be back.
The long term trouble for Charlton is that some, like me, are boycotting and finding that there's plenty of other stuff to do instead. The longer Duchatelet is in ownership the less likely I am to go back. And this is from someone who used to go home and away, who can't walk across a park without stopping to watch a football game. I worry about this but long gone are the days when football defined me. I now want just to see a well run club that is trying to maximise itself not one trying to just squeeze the last penny out of everything it does and that sees enemies in those who hold on to a vision of a community club.
I'm on a 10 match home boycott so far and haven't missed going. The last home game I attended was the mauling we got by Preston. Been to a couple of protests but I'm done for now. Sell up Roly and I'll be back.
Exactly the same as this. My season ticket has been sat gathering dust since that same game. I miss the social side of it but not the football itself as the way the club is being run just depresses me. I go to the protests but that's it. I won't be back until they've gone. I fear it may be a long wait!
Presumably with the swipe card, the club will know exactly which season ticket holders haven't been attending so should be trying to win them over.
The trouble is I don't think that the club has a clue about who or where its season ticket holders live. I was, until I recently unsubscribed from all club emails, bombarded with requests to get a half season ticket even though I have been a season ticket holder since 1999.
A smart company would look at the information and try to target "lapsed" fans. I doubt that the club has enough competent managers to undertake this. I also know that in my own case, and I am sure many other season ticket holders, that the contact/address details are incorrect. If they write to me it will be an address at which I have never lived - I know this because when I collected my season ticket on the opening home game the details were totally wrong. The only things that were correct were my seat number and name. The CONS number and address were wrong.
What I can see more next season whether it's Championship or League 1, is many fans not buying STs or even home matchday tickets but will still support the team only away from home as to hit RD hard. They will support the team but not the regime.
Saturday was the first home match I've missed this season. I had something else to do and it turned out to be the best Saturday of the season so far for me. I hardly thought about football at all and all - and it was all the better for that.
As a season ticket holder I'll see out the rest of the season because I've already paid for it, but I'm seriously starting to think that a Charltonless existence might be more fun - as least until these goons foxtrot oscar.
An informal boycott is already happening. Sitting in my usual seat in the East Stand on Saturday it was so noticeable that many people who sit around me and have previously been there week in, week out were missing.
ST renewals are going to fall off the edge of a cliff next season.
Haven't been since we lost to Huddersfield at the valley and won't be returning until the owner sells or runs the club properly, I work to hard to throw my money away. Customers need to wake up and see a boycott is the only option.
In league one I would love to see our fans obtain tickets for the sparsely occupied Jimmy Seed stand. NOT to cause trouble with opposition fans, but to have a poetic visual significance. It would be quite an original approach, associating with fans of actual football clubs because Charlton Athletic as an actual football club has been closed down by this regime.
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zero effect because you don't reduce any more money to the coffers than has already been spent; negative because you can't support the team if you aren't there.
Mass not going for Season ticket renewal is the big target.
We should aim at that.
Some of us don't want to subsidise Katrien's wages but we can still join protests & attend away fixtures. We are all fighting on many fronts.
You lucky person.
The longer Duchatelet is in ownership the less likely I am to go back. And this is from someone who used to go home and away, who can't walk across a park without stopping to watch a football game.
I worry about this but long gone are the days when football defined me. I now want just to see a well run club that is trying to maximise itself not one trying to just squeeze the last penny out of everything it does and that sees enemies in those who hold on to a vision of a community club.
The trouble is I don't think that the club has a clue about who or where its season ticket holders live. I was, until I recently unsubscribed from all club emails, bombarded with requests to get a half season ticket even though I have been a season ticket holder since 1999.
A smart company would look at the information and try to target "lapsed" fans. I doubt that the club has enough competent managers to undertake this. I also know that in my own case, and I am sure many other season ticket holders, that the contact/address details are incorrect. If they write to me it will be an address at which I have never lived - I know this because when I collected my season ticket on the opening home game the details were totally wrong. The only things that were correct were my seat number and name. The CONS number and address were wrong.
As a season ticket holder I'll see out the rest of the season because I've already paid for it, but I'm seriously starting to think that a Charltonless existence might be more fun - as least until these goons foxtrot oscar.
ST renewals are going to fall off the edge of a cliff next season.
RIP Geoff. Shouldn't hit women though IMO.
It would be quite an original approach, associating with fans of actual football clubs because Charlton Athletic as an actual football club has been closed down by this regime.