With the game being on tv, I think the idea on delaying the match will be more of an embarrassment to the board, than if we didn't take our seats for first ten mins.
It'll be more embarrassing if we delayed the game, as live cameras will have no alternative, but to look for the reasons why. They will discuss it, then the pundits will, then social media will, and KM will have to come out and say something
I won't be there. But, to be honest, I'm taking the Mrs to Bruges that weekend as a birthday treat so I was always going to be missing.
Well done, that's what need @Davo55. Take the fight to foreign land. Your missus will be so proud in Bruges when you ruin a romantic river cruise by standing up in the gondola and singing "we want Roland out"
I'll take the bastards on single handed. And if really gets nasty I'll unleash the Mrs on them. White flags will be raised in RolandVille pretty damn quick I tell you.
-Get a banner done, big enough for people to notice and place it in the north upper-
Collection for this could be done in Charlton life, if everybody chips in a little, this can work
-Spend the first 10 mins of the game down in the hallway (Where the bar's and TV's are) you can still see the game on TV, maybe will shake the players up to run over when the teams have come out, to see a big messege and no fans...-
-After 10 min's everyone returns to north upper, and %100 for the team, Nothing negitive, support the boys, out the owners-
If not enough want to boycott then target Ipswich game. Pack out west lower by home dug out and directors. Loads of banners so tv can see. Maximum disruption pushing law to limit. I am boycotting so happy to take a ground ban if it comes. Give their fans banners too. Watch the video of the Stoke last match for ideas.
If not enough want to boycott then target Ipswich game. Pack out west lower by home dug out and directors. Loads of banners so tv can see. Maximum disruption pushing law to limit. Give their fans banners too. Watch the video of the Stoke last match for ideas.
Below is what I posted on January 31 when I suggested it was time to start considering a boycott of a game " "Those of us of a certain age will well remember when Voice of the Valley was first published, and Charlton were marooned at Sellout with little likelihood of returning home anytime soon, Rick Everitt called for a boycott of a home game against Oxford (I think) and suggested fans should instead gather at the Valley.
The suggestion met with the inevitable response from certain quarters - we need to support the team blah, blah, blah. Real supporters would never suggest such a thing etc. Same as it would now. But honestly things can't go on like they are for much longer.
Last night, my son told me he couldn't go today as he had something else urgent he had to do. As I looked out of the window this morning, I just thought "s*d it, I can't be bothered either" and I didn't go. That is so unlike me - indeed, it's the first time since the end of the Pardew era that I have missed a home league game that I could have gone to. I guess the RD regime has just made me fall out of love (temporarily I hope) with the club. This man has in only just over a year ripped the heart out of this club by replacing players who seemingly cared for the club with a bunch of foreign imports who either don't want to be here or are simply passing through whilst sacking managers with a touch of class like Powell and Riga and now appointing a puppet in Luzon. And when his sidekick Katrien Meire said in the Evening Standard that we simply had to accept what RD wanted, that was the time I thought enough was enough.
So what are we going to do about it? Are we just going to moan on here and other social media sites? Not re-new our season tickets? (Not a hope in hell of me renewing mine unless there is a remarkable change in the next couple of months). Or should we do something more significant? From what we have seen and heard from our Belgian friends, RD is not a man to back down in the face of threats. But most rich men do take notice when they start to get hit in the pocket.
So should we test the water for a boycott of a home match? Not saying we should but it is going to take something like this to get RD and KM to listen to us and realise that we are completely fed up with second rate players from RD's network being foistered on us and that we really do want our Charlton back".
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 months later, nothing has changed. In fact, things are a hundred times worse.
In my opinion, Henry can send his letter and it will have no effect (easy to ignore or send platitudes in reply); Airman can write his acerbic criticisms of RD and KM in his magazine but it won't move the powers that be; the Trust can have another meeting at Woolwich and be totally ignored again; and fans can wear a black and white scarf - that will have RD quaking in his boots.
No, the only thing that will make RD listen to us is a boycott - something that not only shows our total disdain for them but also hits him in the pocket.
I appreciate some people will not do that under any circumstance. Fair enough. In fact, a thousand or so people sitting in an empty stadium might look even worse than no-one being there.
My only concern is whether we should boycott Freye's first game or the one against Ipswich.
Either way, it's time to take a stand and do something before the situation gets even worse.
Could do a selection of ideas all at the Ipswich game. - all get tickets for west lower. Be it purchase or transfer season ticket. - miss first 5-10 mins like Bayern fans did. - plenty of A3 posters with a simple 'Roland Out' - try and get banners and flags in - somepoint in first half mass tennis ball, oranges thorwing onto the pitch to disrupt the live game.
I dont think a full boycot is required just yet. This is the time to build publicity and educate other fans
Delaying the match on live TV would definitely get noticed, did Blackpool use tennis balls for a specific reason maybe we could find something more appropriate. Ipswich fans could take part as well.
Empty ground for first 10 minutes of Ipswich TV game would be great. Then a banner with the right message. Done.
Would obviously be hard persuading/co-ordinating right around the ground so maybe we could concentrate on just the North Upper. Yes it's less visible on TV, but as it's the noisiest area, the impact of no-one being there then fans arriving on 10 mins with a good burst of songs would probably have the greatest impact.
More importantly, there are just 4-5 entrances to block. So if fans could congregate around them 60 mins before kick off and try and prevent others entering in a non-confrontational manner, it could work effectively. I would happily help occupy the blocks if other were keen to try.
Empty ground for first 10 minutes of Ipswich TV game would be great. Then a banner with the right message. Done.
Would obviously be hard persuading/co-ordinating right around the ground so maybe we could concentrate on just the North Upper. Yes it's less visible on TV, but as it's the noisiest area, the impact of no-one being there then fans arriving on 10 mins with a good burst of songs would probably have the greatest impact.
More importantly, there are just 4-5 entrances to block. So if fans could congregate around them 60 mins before kick off and try and prevent others entering in a non-confrontational manner, it could work effectively. I would happily help occupy the blocks if other were keen to try.
I payed for my season ticket which was not cheap for me, if I turn up for my seat to see my team and you try to block me from going to my seat.. I will more than happily put you on your arse.
I imagine tennis balls were used because they might not be considered offensive weapons when someone launches them at the pitch.
Hot Dogs are out of the question so how about VOTV does a cheap, lightweight, black and white edition and they get slung pitchward at an appropriate moment - 3rd minute perhaps.
Empty ground for first 10 minutes of Ipswich TV game would be great. Then a banner with the right message. Done.
Would obviously be hard persuading/co-ordinating right around the ground so maybe we could concentrate on just the North Upper. Yes it's less visible on TV, but as it's the noisiest area, the impact of no-one being there then fans arriving on 10 mins with a good burst of songs would probably have the greatest impact.
More importantly, there are just 4-5 entrances to block. So if fans could congregate around them 60 mins before kick off and try and prevent others entering in a non-confrontational manner, it could work effectively. I would happily help occupy the blocks if other were keen to try.
I payed for my season ticket which was not cheap for me, if I turn up for my seat to see my team and you try to block me from going to my seat.. I will more than happily put you on your arse.
Of course I respect people wanting to see what they pay for with their season ticket, but to not even consider sacrificing 10 minutes of your own viewing for something that could help the wider cause of the club is extremely short-sighted. Think of the Bayern fans who paid £65 or whatever for their tickets and traveled all the way from Germany and still made the sacrifice for a cause that was much bigger than the individual and their own entitlement.
Symptomatic of our fanbase which looks completely incapable of replicating the efforts of the Back to the Valley lot in the 80s and 90s.
A huge 'Love Charlton Hate Roland' banner in the correct place (for most coverage) during the Ipswich TV game, constant singing of 'We want Roland out'
Empty ground for first 10 minutes of Ipswich TV game would be great. Then a banner with the right message. Done.
Would obviously be hard persuading/co-ordinating right around the ground so maybe we could concentrate on just the North Upper. Yes it's less visible on TV, but as it's the noisiest area, the impact of no-one being there then fans arriving on 10 mins with a good burst of songs would probably have the greatest impact.
More importantly, there are just 4-5 entrances to block. So if fans could congregate around them 60 mins before kick off and try and prevent others entering in a non-confrontational manner, it could work effectively. I would happily help occupy the blocks if other were keen to try.
This. Need a leaflet produced to be handed out against Chef Wendy and handed to all supporters. Then, same again against Ipswich, so as to try peacefully to dissuade those going in. An empty stadium on TV would get attention and then thousands entering after ten minutes would have a great visual impact. Once in a few rounds of 'We want our Charlton Back' and 'We want Roland Out' would also be appropriate. Let's not forget the Police might decide to employ extra manpower to ensure no crowd problems during the ten minutes thousands are outside and that will impact on RD financially. Ultimately I doubt any of this will affect him one iota but we can't sit and do nothing.
Yes, I've finally had enough. I still think RD has done lot of good things, Academy, pitch, new ticketing system etc and if he had appointed Mackay I'd have probably still been onside because although I wouldn't have been particularly enamoured with Malky it would have been a significant step in the right direction of realising we need an experienced Championship manager. The appointment of Fraeye, and no disrespect to him, is not what is needed or wanted and is the straw that has broken this camels back.
What I would love to see happen for the protest is the following:-
No boycott but 10 minutes into the game everyone gets up and goes onto the concourses for 10 minutes.
Black and White campaign goes ahead
Apart from ticket money no further funds are given to the club. No buying of programmes, refreshments, jackpot tickets, Valley Gold, club shop, kit sponsorship, lounge hire, the whole lot has to be stopped
Fans currently working for the club on a match day withdraw their services and join the rest of us in the stands, let's cause the club further disruption.
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It'll be more embarrassing if we delayed the game, as live cameras will have no alternative, but to look for the reasons why. They will discuss it, then the pundits will, then social media will, and KM will have to come out and say something
I'll be chucking them all on the pitch.
-Get a banner done, big enough for people to notice and place it in the north upper-
Collection for this could be done in Charlton life, if everybody chips in a little, this can work
-Spend the first 10 mins of the game down in the hallway (Where the bar's and TV's are) you can still see the game on TV, maybe will shake the players up to run over when the teams have come out, to see a big messege and no fans...-
-After 10 min's everyone returns to north upper, and %100 for the team, Nothing negitive, support the boys, out the owners-
THIS WILL GET NOTICED.... one way or another
#Togetherwearestronger
*I'll be climbing a mountain in Scotland so bollocks to them.
"
"Those of us of a certain age will well remember when Voice of the Valley was first published, and Charlton were marooned at Sellout with little likelihood of returning home anytime soon, Rick Everitt called for a boycott of a home game against Oxford (I think) and suggested fans should instead gather at the Valley.
The suggestion met with the inevitable response from certain quarters - we need to support the team blah, blah, blah. Real supporters would never suggest such a thing etc. Same as it would now. But honestly things can't go on like they are for much longer.
Last night, my son told me he couldn't go today as he had something else urgent he had to do. As I looked out of the window this morning, I just thought "s*d it, I can't be bothered either" and I didn't go. That is so unlike me - indeed, it's the first time since the end of the Pardew era that I have missed a home league game that I could have gone to. I guess the RD regime has just made me fall out of love (temporarily I hope) with the club. This man has in only just over a year ripped the heart out of this club by replacing players who seemingly cared for the club with a bunch of foreign imports who either don't want to be here or are simply passing through whilst sacking managers with a touch of class like Powell and Riga and now appointing a puppet in Luzon. And when his sidekick Katrien Meire said in the Evening Standard that we simply had to accept what RD wanted, that was the time I thought enough was enough.
So what are we going to do about it? Are we just going to moan on here and other social media sites? Not re-new our season tickets? (Not a hope in hell of me renewing mine unless there is a remarkable change in the next couple of months). Or should we do something more significant? From what we have seen and heard from our Belgian friends, RD is not a man to back down in the face of threats. But most rich men do take notice when they start to get hit in the pocket.
So should we test the water for a boycott of a home match? Not saying we should but it is going to take something like this to get RD and KM to listen to us and realise that we are completely fed up with second rate players from RD's network being foistered on us and that we really do want our Charlton back".
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9 months later, nothing has changed. In fact, things are a hundred times worse.
In my opinion, Henry can send his letter and it will have no effect (easy to ignore or send platitudes in reply); Airman can write his acerbic criticisms of RD and KM in his magazine but it won't move the powers that be; the Trust can have another meeting at Woolwich and be totally ignored again; and fans can wear a black and white scarf - that will have RD quaking in his boots.
No, the only thing that will make RD listen to us is a boycott - something that not only shows our total disdain for them but also hits him in the pocket.
I appreciate some people will not do that under any circumstance. Fair enough. In fact, a thousand or so people sitting in an empty stadium might look even worse than no-one being there.
My only concern is whether we should boycott Freye's first game or the one against Ipswich.
Either way, it's time to take a stand and do something before the situation gets even worse.
Could do a selection of ideas all at the Ipswich game.
- all get tickets for west lower. Be it purchase or transfer season ticket.
- miss first 5-10 mins like Bayern fans did.
- plenty of A3 posters with a simple 'Roland Out'
- try and get banners and flags in
- somepoint in first half mass tennis ball, oranges thorwing onto the pitch to disrupt the live game.
I dont think a full boycot is required just yet. This is the time to build publicity and educate other fans
Would obviously be hard persuading/co-ordinating right around the ground so maybe we could concentrate on just the North Upper. Yes it's less visible on TV, but as it's the noisiest area, the impact of no-one being there then fans arriving on 10 mins with a good burst of songs would probably have the greatest impact.
More importantly, there are just 4-5 entrances to block. So if fans could congregate around them 60 mins before kick off and try and prevent others entering in a non-confrontational manner, it could work effectively. I would happily help occupy the blocks if other were keen to try.
Hot Dogs are out of the question so how about VOTV does a cheap, lightweight, black and white edition and they get slung pitchward at an appropriate moment - 3rd minute perhaps.
Symptomatic of our fanbase which looks completely incapable of replicating the efforts of the Back to the Valley lot in the 80s and 90s.
Yes, I've finally had enough. I still think RD has done lot of good things, Academy, pitch, new ticketing system etc and if he had appointed Mackay I'd have probably still been onside because although I wouldn't have been particularly enamoured with Malky it would have been a significant step in the right direction of realising we need an experienced Championship manager. The appointment of Fraeye, and no disrespect to him, is not what is needed or wanted and is the straw that has broken this camels back.
No boycott but 10 minutes into the game everyone gets up and goes onto the concourses for 10 minutes.
Black and White campaign goes ahead
Apart from ticket money no further funds are given to the club. No buying of programmes, refreshments, jackpot tickets, Valley Gold, club shop, kit sponsorship, lounge hire, the whole lot has to be stopped
Fans currently working for the club on a match day withdraw their services and join the rest of us in the stands, let's cause the club further disruption.
73 Charlton