Was thinking today.
What would happen if Burnely and Boro were neck and neck on the final day of the season and we invaded the pitch and the game was abandoned?
The Blackpool game where it happened Huddersfield got a 2-0 win.
Surely we would have to play the game again after the season! If the 2-0 gave Burnley the title over Boro, wound send shock-waves!
Its a good what if question
(apologies if this has been asked already)
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If it was early in the game or the score could change and affect the outcome of the season then the game would be replayed (Brighton v York '96).
If late in the game and outcome unlikely to change then the score may stand (for example Burnley winning 6-0 and 1-0 would give them the title)
You yourselves disrupted a match against Boro to your advantage and got the points. What is going on at your Club is not good and it is disgraceful that a Club such as yours and you the fans are in the situation you are. You cannot though go disrupting the match itself. Your problem is with the owners, not the Players or their opposition and the opposition fans who will support you off the pitch until you impact what they have paid good money to see.
For the record, we were in full support of the fans of Blackpool (I still am) and their plight including supporting them in their protests on the day. Wrong, just wrong what has and is going at Blackpool and in my opinion way, way worse than how your Club is being run.
http://www.football-league.co.uk/news/article/2015/football-league-statement-blackpool-v-huddersfield-2456549.aspx
End of - No If's or But's
Whistle from the crowd - yes, that one incident stopped a Boro attack. It also stopped the defence too but that was possibly the only time this season our defence has reacted to anything the quickest.
Boro had their own problems at the time with the manager walking out during the week which probably didn't help their performance and hence the result.
We also caught them out with our unique/{weird} tactic (in this season, anyway) of appearing to be a decent side. Shame we didn't try that tactic more often.
As it happened, your game at Blackpool was meaningless for both teams so not finishing it was the easy way out - imagine how poor the attendance would have been if everyone had to return?
Our last 2 home games, Brighton and Burnley are both likely to be crucial, with 3 teams going for 2 automatic places, and we do have to be fair to both clubs.
They would really hate us. It would go down in history.
We could have a Rival...the A1 Derby!
Said the players had been told to stay around until 13th May at the latest in case one of the 2 remaining home games has to be replayed.
Fast-forward one year and the Club are in the relegation places of the division below with another relegation looking likely and the same owners are still in place.
Look, I don't know the answer and way to approach situations like this. I do know that disrupting a football match (where the owner isn't even there!!??) is not the answer and will only get a Club's fans / protestors negative press from various quarters.
I agree that, through no fault of their own, they're still in the same position - owned by a nutter and dropping down the leagues though.
As for the Town fans who "stupidly went to the match," I'd guess they'd probably booked tickets and travel well in advance.
The other thing I worry about is that if we start to take more drastic action, we potentially risk making new investors/owners think twice. When you're dealing with large scale demonstrations, it's such a fine line between constructive and disruptive, and that can be tipped one way of the other by the media, or even in the eyes of the beholders. Again, it's a huge credit to CARD that we don't have to worry about this now, but it's something that lingers in the back of my mind (
and it may be that I'm paranoidI am paranoid, not sure if I'm wrong or not though).And what do I hear first thing on the Radio this morning?, Arsenal fans boycotting their match last night because of their 'plight'. It must be really tough following a multi-million pounds assembled Team who play in that stadium and are sitting 3rd (THIRD) in the Premier League with the likeliood of their usual annual Champions League football. Wake-up, unbelievable.
These fans do not know what it's like to follow a real football Club, Hartlepool away on a cold December Tuesday night when that 90th minute winner goes in for them, relegations to endure, however then there are the promotions, the play-off wins (and pain of defeats of which we have had many) and those wins against the so called 'bigger Clubs'.
I personally would not swap supporting a smaller Club punching above its weight for anything in the world. The thought of following a Club who had never given me all the lows that following Town has (to then appreciate the highs even more) would for me mean that I had missed out on what following a football Club is really like and I wouldn't change any of it.
Then in your next comments you say you fully supported Blackpool fans at the time. Doesn't make sense.
We supported them in pre-match demonstrations / activity outside the ground etc. In the ground, we wanted to watch the football match we had paid to see. That answers your question.
I am sure Brighton fans will be the same and I believe are joining you pre-match for your march, but they will not thank you if the match itself is disrupted / abandoned (and one of their Players pulls-up in a potential goal-scoring position because of a home fans whistle). As another Poster stated, in terms of demonstrations, there is a fine line between growing support for the cause or losing support depending on what action is taken.
Pre or post match demonstrations do not impact on the match itself which in my opinion should be left alone unless it will absolutely be the reason for the demonstrators to achieve their objective. In which case you could argue it is extreme action worth taking. I suspect though the owner or CEO need to be in the stadium for this course of action to be worthwhile. Otherwise they wont give a toss from some sun-lounger somehwere.
Doing nothing is not an option.
It would never happen but if you could get everybody to not go to home matches, that would be more powerful than attending (paying money to the regime) and disrupting. An empty stadium and continued loss of gate revenue and overall Club value will speak volumes.