To all those saying that they're going to boycott and stop going to The Valley because they don't want to give roly any more of their money, I get it. We need to let the board know that this isn't good enough and we need to find a way to make RDs life that little bit more difficult some how.
But it can't be just me that sees that when the team are struggling on the pitch, that's the time when Charlton need me more than ever.
In what could be his last season playing for us, does Johnnie Jackson deserve an empty, passionless Valley?
There are several players that care about this great club, and they're not happy with what's happening behind the scenes either.
As has been said several times in recent weeks, what is a football club without its fans? I'm all for suggesting we don't spend any cash once we're in the ground, or ROLAND OUT chants from the Covered End during the Ipswich game so that the media get wind of this... But PLEASE don't stop supporting the team.
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No I don't have a better idea.
But he did sell SLiege and this was for 'complicated reasons'. What exactly were those reasons? IMO, it might be useful to pursue this line of enquiry?
You can always find a reason to support one argument or another
In that time I've sat with the same group of fans for 17 years, made great friends, watched the stadium sell out against Premier League high flyers, seen a few thousand turn up for the JPT trophy on a cold Tuesday night and seen us lose at Northwich Victoria.
I'm not a 'fair weather' fan, but have always believed I have something in common with the club - a desire to see us compete, even when the odds (and quality) were against us.
I now find that I have no affinity with any of the values of our owner. I've felt like this since the handling of the Luzon appointment and only blind loyalty has carried me through the past 9 months.
Today, I'm not angry, I'm upset. Upset that I've been forced in to a decision that means after 22 years, I won't be attending games until the current regime has finished with their experiment.
I'll still check-in and look out for our results and still consider myself a distant fan, but I refuse to line the pockets of a megalomaniac who has no interest in the well being of our club.
In answer to a reply to my post, I'm not particularly happy with the situation but I'll carry on going. No I won't talk people out of boycotting if they want to. Any high demand away games could be if we are are somehow drawn against a big Premier League side.
In 22 years I'd never left a game early before last Tuesday and I've now done it twice because for the first time I felt thoroughly conned by what I'd seen on the pitch.
Roly Douchebag will dispense with his SE7 experiment when it either 1) begins to cost too much or 2) some other egotist/fantacist/chancer offers him enough gelt to let it go.
RD was as popular with Standard fans as Nick Griffin would be at the Notting Hill Carnival but he only bailed out there when sufficient €uros were profferred.
Stay away if you feel it will make a difference to RD but I fear it will only bring forward outcome no.1
I'll keep attending home matches until my affection for Charlton and my enjoyment of live football are outweighed by the (ever increasing) notion that too many of the so called players are a despicable bunch of mercenaries who think we are just a bunch of stupid pr!cks who line their pockets.
Keep smilin
To be honest, I am very doubtful ... it was not the boycott that got us back.
Modern football.
I will wear black and white and get involved in making our opinions as clearly as I can to him: most offensives have many fronts. However, the team need our support more than ever and I CANNOT take League 1 again!
Edit; forgot to add I think Henry's suggestion is the best way forward albeit with some amendments to the aims.
What happened with Back to the Valley was a sustained campaign and ultimately sharing the objectives of the board. We don't have that right now, we don't even know what their objectives are - putting Karel Fraeye in charge of us is a bit like Aston Villa asking Halifax's boss to leave them second bottom of the conference and take over their first team, which hardly suggests survival is a priority let alone Premier League. Jason Euell is considerably better qualified and he's already at the club, after all.
Soon the time for talking will be over and some of us will need to begin planning.
In other words, what is the stated purpose?
It's highly unlikely that RD is going to see that the gate is, say, 15% down against the average for the season and decide to sell the club.
Not turning up; or turning up late; or not buying a pint; or standing up and shouting at a specified time isn't going to change the ownership of the club. RD will be the owner the day before, the day of and the day after any "boycott".
If anything, a boycott would make it slightly harder for him to find a buyer.
So what is the measure of success? What will people be able to look back and say, "it was worth all the planning and effort and execution, because... " what?
Don't get me wrong, the b&w campaign is a great idea. Not least because it would be likely to take a long time, gathering momentum as it progresses until it reaches its aim.
But a boycott, in and if itself will fail. It will be ridden out.
I think the two things (b&w campaign and a boycott) are being conflated.