Maidstone Owl Posted October 3 Posted October 3 4 hours ago, fatzooma said: While ever stuff like this is being based about on Facebook, I doubt there will be much of a pitch invasion. COPIED OFF ANOTHER POST. CAN SEE WHERE HES COMING FROM TBH. I come in peace, as Coventry City fan. But not just as a fan, but I actually organised some of the protests, not against the last set of owners, but the set of crooks before them over twenty years ago. The thing is, and I’m not just saying this because I am coming up on Saturday, but going straight for the nuclear option of causing a match to be abandoned, that won’t cut it and it will lose you support in the wider football community. And going there, before the lower options of disruption means you’ve nowhere left to go, you can’t escalate. And thinking it’s a TV match, yeah, it’s not the main TV match. With the expansion of 12.30 kick-offs this season, literally the only people who will watching this are the fans of our two clubs, and maybe there will be people glancing at it in foreign bars that have twelve screens. You know your owner doesn’t give a poo, but you haven’t gone through the learning experience we did for two decades: the Football League doesn’t give a poo. I mean we were sort-of declared bankrupt twice, we ended up moving out of Coventry twice. The Football League did not give a poo about Coventry City not playing in the City of Coventry TWICE. That’s a level of perspective you may be missing here. You want to have a protest and disrupt the match, fair enough, but don’t feel that an abandonment will make any more impact to the Football League than a disruption would. In all the years we had protests, we NEVER ONCE caused a match to be abandoned If your goal is for the Football League to notice, then go to their London offices, I would say when you play Charlton, but more likely Millwall, as that’s a midweek, so for those of you who can take the time off, that’s what I’d be doing. You should also really have been asking us to go with the black and gold thing. That was out away kit last season. I’m sure we’d have gone for that if you’d asked. But you seem not to have thought of us as other football fans who have had problems and might sympathise. That is disappointing, For example, many years ago we worked together with the plastic pigs at The Valley. You should have done that, at least treat the fans of a club which has gone through the grinder with the respect that should deserve. We did that with Charlton Athletic. You should have done that with us. Hope you get your terrible owner to sell, but his ownership is not our fault! Please don't punish us for that. Years ago we held pitch invasions during a live TV game (which was THE TV game at the time), and the moment that second invasion ended, the Blades scored and we lost..... Tell him not to worry! As soon as we're 1-0 up, any thoughts of a protest will be banished amongst 95% of the support base and the queues at the kiosks will be back, at least ten minutes before half time. Of course, we'll lose 1-4 (conceding 2-3 in the final half an hour) but it will be lauded as a "great effort" - we're now ramping up for 32,000 in the place for next month's game against Ham Face and his £60,000/week journeymen. A very nice half a million pound windfall for Despot which will see him pay the November payroll and stumble through to the early bird season ticket sales. A true cycle (if not spiral) of despair/decline. DEFUND CHANSIRI
Owl 44 Posted Friday at 17:11 Posted Friday at 17:11 4 hours ago, royalowlisback said: Remember the Coventry away cup game on the way to our Rumbelows/League cup victory. Think it was the quarter final stage. Was at school at the time but managed to get to every game, home and away, think the original game was postponed late on in the day because of a frozen pitch. Was gutted when I found out - I still had algebra to come. We do like our games with Coventry to get postponed/abandoned... I remember this. I was at uni and my friend was picking me up to take me to the match. Instead, she picked me up and took me back to my lodgings. To say I was p***ed off is an understatement. I went to the rearranged fixture and we won of course, on our way to Wembley. 1
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