Is everyone on-board with the fact that the cause for such strong opposition against the club is about so much more than just the results and the position that leaves us in terms of relegation? Does everybody fully understand that the model that got us here and our sham of a current identity at a football club will be allowed to continue unless they go, whichever league we're in? And, yes, I'll say it, the potential for their decisions to get worse are increased if we stay up as this owner, CEO and club staff are more than arrogant enough to claim it a victory for their formula.
I noticed a lot of black and white scarves staying behind on '74 today? Did you not get why you were supposed to walk out? It wasn't about today, it wasn't just about 1 win since November at home or about 23rd in the table. It was about the future of the very club you claim to love. Blinded by loyalty or stunningly naive, you missed out on the point today and that's something that you have to understand if you really want to be on board with this.
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It was 16 minutes! That's all.
You people...
Today reinforced the notion that a goal or a win can do very strange things to fans' mentalities.
To those who did walk out, I mean no ill. We all want the same thing - Roland to get out.
I did not walk out because I hadn't seen my team win at home since November. A team I've been coming to see since I was 4 years old.
A team I've seen lose 4-0 away at Man City many years ago; who I saw beat Chesterfield 4-0 away on a cold Tuesday night in Derbyshire; a team for whom I sneaked into the home end at Millwall to watch last year and see them painfully lose.
I clearly do understand what is going on and I 100% support the protests, apart from in this one instance where I did not walk out as I wanted to support the team (but not the regime).
I'm sure many of the others in B+W scarves who stayed felt exactly the same.
Let's not divide ourselves.
Today was a huge result in every possible way, it doesn't matter what it could've been - it is what it is.
It was ALWAYS going to be a risky tactic, personally I wasn't keen on the walkout idea because it had the potential to be spectacularly underwhelming. Given the fact we are in a relegation battle and were 1-0 against the team ranked 2nd... in a season devoid of joy.
The cards were well and truly stacked against it. Somehow though it worked and decent numbers DID leave. Focus on that, rather than what may have been.
I can appreciate it's frustrating. Much the same as being referred to as a tosser on the concourse for your scarf choice or arguing with the person sat behind you.
Unlike that though, these posts are directly calling out other protesters and there's no need. It's bad enough having arguments between opposing sides, but now petty little arguments inside one group? It plays in to Katriens hands and through division she can conquer.
Staying up is more important than being rid of RD and KM. if you don't agree I think you may need to rethink how we'll get back up when we have all our assets stripped to save costs in L1.
Tell me why fans had vitriolic chants shouted at them for supporting the team to the end?
But I can't help but echo what the commentator said on sky yesterday when the image of one gentleman argueing with another about the whistling...
Fans as supporters paying to watch the match have freedom to choose to do whatever they want , wether that be there just to watch the match or to come to protest. It's pivotal that we get these horrible cretins out of our club I agree but you'll never ever get every single fan feeling the same way.
Every single game more and more people are fed up with the regime and club aboard the protest in order to find a new era and in my opinion yesterday was a huge success, and thus we should never go about calling out people who didn't walk out, didn't go on the pitch blah blah blah , as its every individual choice, I certainly wouldn't have walked on the pitch as I don't have the plums to do so, especially with young children.
I see your point about the people with black and white scarfs not walking out, but as with any initiative to raise awareness of the protests , you'll get people strolling past , see free scarfs and take them.
We as a collective on here want those w****rs out but unfortunately this sample doesn't reflect the whole population, but that's okay as more and more people join, the more and more pressure mounts.
Keep going CARD, the efforts are tremendous.
I get that the issues are bigger than any one game, but when it comes to a bunch of people finally seeing something they enjoy, I don't begrudge them staying. Enough people left for it to have an impact and register on Sky, and the protest chanting could be heard inside the stadium. I think it was a success.
100% empty would have been amazing, but that's not to say what was achieved was no good. It absolutely was.
If customers are prepared to miss those final moments of glory, things must be wrong. People are always walking out of games with 5/10 minutes left especially when losing, its not a big deal. But very few do when winning.
Some people want others to take the fight for them why they do eff all.
But the crowd was poor, the atmosphere surprisingly good, and a mass exodus was never going to have any sizeable effect on the players. Not leaving and then saying it was because you didn't want to effect the result is paranoia (probably justified, we've thrown away enough points late in games) and self-justification. The reality is we were winning and you didn't want to miss the last 16 minutes, everything else doesn't match the reality of the situation.