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Bring back the Branfoot 'Hanky' protest ?


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I remember in the Branfoot era - towards the end of his tenure, when nearly the entire Dell waved white hankies when he walked up the touchline in protest. It sounded naff but actually looked very good.

 

Easy to bring in to the ground, no chance of it being confiscated and make a point at the Man U game, on Live, International telly with probably all the board present and a full house...???

 

We have to start making a point...

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How about the 'hope you die soon' fanzine cover? Does anyone still have a copy? Could we get Rupes head put on it and post a few up around SMS before the game?

 

Good idea.Shame that it can't be downloaded.

 

Actually like the suggestion of the 'red card' for people to raise when Rupert takes to his seat.

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How about the 'hope you die soon' fanzine cover? Does anyone still have a copy? Could we get Rupes head put on it and post a few up around SMS before the game?

 

I'm a relative newcomer to the forum and since I'm a fan from Australia I haven't got the greatest knowledge of Saints fanzines...what was this 'hope you die soon' stuff and who was it reference to?

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I'm a relative newcomer to the forum and since I'm a fan from Australia I haven't got the greatest knowledge of Saints fanzines...what was this 'hope you die soon' stuff and who was it reference to?

 

 

when there was campaign to remove ian branfoot as manager..on of the fanzines at the time called On The March....produced an edition with a picture on the front of branfoot with a head line of.. "hope you die soon"...

 

they were refering to something else but it made all the national papers etc....and became quite iconic

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i remember the red card protest after a game v newcastle on sky

 

(le tiss scored the two prem goals of the season that game)

 

That was on 50 greatest Premiership goals last night and after one of the sublime goals, the camera switches to Branfoot who is directing the sub who was about to replace Le tissier to get back in the dug out.

 

Unbelievable really.

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Did this hankie thing actually happen?

 

I vividly remember the Newcastle game and waving the red card and can remember bundling and protesting in the car park after that game (or was that a different game?). I remember Hope you die soon and all the rest of it pretty well.

 

Anyone else remember the hanky thing because I can't. And to be fair it sounds a bit, well, camp.

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Did this hankie thing actually happen?

 

I vividly remember the Newcastle game and waving the red card and can remember bundling and protesting in the car park after that game (or was that a different game?). I remember Hope you die soon and all the rest of it pretty well.

 

Anyone else remember the hanky thing because I can't. And to be fair it sounds a bit, well, camp.

 

me neither...I can remember the other stuff we did...all a bit militant really..but fun

 

 

oh...pay your fiver you cheap ****...this place needs you..:D

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I'm going on hunger strike. If I have to die so that this club changes some of its administrative staff for other administrative staff, I will.

Just out of interest, any idea how long before you think you might get hungry? Just that we really need a change in management before the end of the season, looking at your location you may be OK for longer than that :D

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Did this hankie thing actually happen?

 

I vividly remember the Newcastle game and waving the red card and can remember bundling and protesting in the car park after that game (or was that a different game?). I remember Hope you die soon and all the rest of it pretty well.

 

Anyone else remember the hanky thing because I can't. And to be fair it sounds a bit, well, camp.

 

Classic activism.

 

Very enjoyable and ultimately fruitful!

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Did this hankie thing actually happen?

 

I vividly remember the Newcastle game and waving the red card and can remember bundling and protesting in the car park after that game (or was that a different game?). I remember Hope you die soon and all the rest of it pretty well.

 

Anyone else remember the hanky thing because I can't. And to be fair it sounds a bit, well, camp.

 

For some reason i thought the hankie campaign was for Chris Nichol??

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For some reason i thought the hankie campaign was for Chris Nichol??

 

The Hankie campaign was for Nichol....some people thought that we wouldn't go any further with him in charge and he'd become stale.

 

Bearing in mind we only had Shearer, Le Tissier, Ruddock & the Wallaces playing for us at the time :smt102

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For some reason i thought the hankie campaign was for Chris Nichol??

 

The Hankie campaign was for Nichol....some people thought that we wouldn't go any further with him in charge and he'd become stale.

 

Bearing in mind we only had Shearer, Le Tissier, Ruddock & the Wallaces playing for us at the time :smt102

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The Kadeem Hardison Hunger Strike

Day 1, 26th December 2008

 

Just had to finish off the After Eights and Chocolate Orange I got for Christmas. Annoyed that some people had put the empty After Eight wrappers back in the box.

 

Dad also offered me a Liquorice Allsort and I felt it was rude to refuse. Took two.

 

Will start hunger strike in earnest after supper (turkey and stuffing sandwich and perhaps some pickled onions).

 

Lowe Out.

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The Hankie campaign was for Nichol....some people thought that we wouldn't go any further with him in charge and he'd become stale.

 

Bearing in mind we only had Shearer, Le Tissier, Ruddock & the Wallaces playing for us at the time :smt102

 

I think it was just bad timing and luck on Chris's part, I think if it had gone Lawrie, Branfoot then Nichol as opposed to Nichol then Branfoot Chris would have been here for a long time!

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The Kadeem Hardison Hunger Strike

Day 1, 26th December 2008

 

Just had to finish off the After Eights and Chocolate Orange I got for Christmas. Annoyed that some people had put the empty After Eight wrappers back in the box.

 

Dad also offered me a Liquorice Allsort and I felt it was rude to refuse. Took two.

 

Will start hunger strike in earnest after supper (turkey and stuffing sandwich and perhaps some pickled onions).

 

Lowe Out.

I think you may have missed one minor point about hunger strikes ;)

 

Still concerned that it may not be as effective as with someone who may already be of the "stick insect" persuasion.

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I remember in the Branfoot era - towards the end of his tenure, when nearly the entire Dell waved white hankies when he walked up the touchline in protest. It sounded naff but actually looked very good.

 

Easy to bring in to the ground, no chance of it being confiscated and make a point at the Man U game, on Live, International telly with probably all the board present and a full house...???

 

We have to start making a point...

 

I think the Manure game is going to be ugly in so many ways.

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If you read ITN pages 230 -231, IMO the protests inside and outside the ground got nowhere:-

31 August - "unrest on the terraces...."

4 Oct - Redstripe - "three more years of B*******...."

24 Oct - banner at Sky game "Askham and B******* must go..."

(After the game Askham still pledges support to B).

 

The turning point was the Ipswich game on the 8th Dec when only 9028 turned up followed by another low gate a few days later against qpr.

The result was that Lawrie was back within days and B was soon history.

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If you read ITN pages 230 -231, IMO the protests inside and outside the ground got nowhere:-

31 August - "unrest on the terraces...."

4 Oct - Redstripe - "three more years of B*******...."

24 Oct - banner at Sky game "Askham and B******* must go..."

(After the game Askham still pledges support to B).

 

The turning point was the Ipswich game on the 8th Dec when only 9028 turned up followed by another low gate a few days later against qpr.

The result was that Lawrie was back within days and B was soon history.

 

Exactly, we need to support a boycott! I hate to say it but, i'd love to see -10k at the Sheffield Utd game!

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I think it was just bad timing and luck on Chris's part, I think if it had gone Lawrie, Branfoot then Nichol as opposed to Nichol then Branfoot Chris would have been here for a long time!

 

Spot on I always felt Chris did a good job, but following Lawrie was always going to be impossible. Not many could have made a good a job of it though........

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Spot on I always felt Chris did a good job, but following Lawrie was always going to be impossible. Not many could have made a good a job of it though........

 

Exactly, I rememberus being in various cup runs, semi's, quarters etc. Also remember us having a proper youth system, Wallace's, Le.tiss, Shearer, kenna, dodd, flowers?, bit different than our youth now!!!

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You should tell Rupert, he thinks the youth policy started in 1997.

 

 

well..this academy did...i want rupert out as much at the next man...but the academy effectively had been shut down before he had arrived...he could have quite easily left it to rot or not back it as much as he did/has...

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well..this academy did...i want rupert out as much at the next man...but the academy effectively had been shut down before he had arrived...he could have quite easily left it to rot or not back it as much as he did/has...

When Lowe's youth policy can match the talent Lawrie, Chris and Dave Merrington nurtered, brought on and produced then perhaps he can start blowing his own trumpet.

 

Lawrie ect produced the talent to play in the first team and benefit the club, Lowe does it to sell at a profit.

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When Lowe's youth policy can match the talent Lawrie, Chris and Dave Merrington nurtered, brought on and produced then perhaps he can start blowing his own trumpet.

 

Lawrie ect produced the talent to play in the first team and benefit the club, Lowe does it to sell at a profit.

 

 

it is not about that..and lowe does not say he unearthed theo etc..

 

it IS a fact that the youth set-up that lawrie started etc (or should we really be crediting someone else there) was effictively shut down not long before lowe came in...it was re-opened by lowes set up and we all know he put alot of money into it....

 

name me ONE youth set up that does not sell players at a profit....?

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If you read ITN pages 230 -231, IMO the protests inside and outside the ground got nowhere:-

31 August - "unrest on the terraces...."

4 Oct - Redstripe - "three more years of B*******...."

24 Oct - banner at Sky game "Askham and B******* must go..."

(After the game Askham still pledges support to B).

 

The turning point was the Ipswich game on the 8th Dec when only 9028 turned up followed by another low gate a few days later against qpr.

The result was that Lawrie was back within days and B was soon history.

 

The Port Vale cup game was also a good demo after if I remember correctly.

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The Kadeem Hardison Hunger Strike

Day 3, 27th December 2008

 

"Our last and strongest weapon is the body; collectively, we have brought ours into the fight..."

Manfred Grashof, Red Army Faction, February 1973.

 

Had a my 'last supper' yesterday morning. Can't really face any major challenge without a decent fry-up first, least of all a hunger strike.

 

Swallowed some toothpaste this morning but don't think that counts. I'm pretty sure that all medication is ok, so ate a tube of Bonjela around lunchtime.

 

Had a bit of a tummyache later on. Need someone to clarify whether the following are off limits (I think that they may be ok):

 

Tic-Tacs

Celery

Sherbert

Gravy

 

Not sure whether word of my protest has reached the powers that be yet.

 

Lowe Out.

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The Kadeem Hardison Hunger Strike

Day 8, 1st January 2009

 

"A man who keeps telling himself that he is being slowly killed by the deprivation of sensory stimulus and human communication actually will die of it - perhaps by his own hand."

Horst Mahler, Red Army Faction, August 1974.

 

Quite hungry now.

 

Had a Slimfast vanilla shake yesterday (these definitely do not contravene the hunger strike. Only thick milkshakes (ones from McDonald's/BK/etc) are off limits).

 

If something has no nutritional value, does that mean I can have it? I'm thinking of Pot Noodles and Yakult. I am pretty weak so if someone can do some research for me that would be ace. Thanks for your support.

 

I will not deviate from this path of self-criticism until the people in charge of Southampton Football Club are replaced by some other people.

 

Have lost 10lbs. Haven't had a poo in 4 days though.

 

Keep up the fight.

 

Lowe Out.

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When Lowe's youth policy can match the talent Lawrie, Chris and Dave Merrington nurtered, brought on and produced then perhaps he can start blowing his own trumpet.

 

Lawrie ect produced the talent to play in the first team and benefit the club, Lowe does it to sell at a profit.

 

 

What utter, utter shi te.

 

Must have been a different club that sold Channon, Williams, Shearer, Wallace, Wallace, Wallace, Kenna, Flowers, Hall. Must have been a different club that agreed to sell Le Tissier at least twice before Lowe turned up.

 

And I can remember the first thing Ian Branfoot said when he came back to the club as manager (and I'm not here to defend that t wa t) was that our youth development programme was a shambles.

 

Oh, and Wayne "sold for a profit" Bridge played more game for Saints than Alan "bred for the club's benefit" Shearer and Rod "leaving this club over my dead body" Wallace ever did.

 

Enough ill informed toss please.

 

:rolleyes:

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