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Protest, 31/1/09, AFTER the match


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Myself and others are trying to organise a united fans protest outside the main entrance AFTER the Swansea match. If you are on Facebook, a group has been created called "Demonstration against the running of SFC". If you agree, please join the group.

 

After all the in-fighting on Saturday we need to pull together as a fanbase and concentrate on the only thing that matters in all of this: Saving OUR club. If you feel Lowe et al are responsible for our demise, please come along on the 31/1/09. In an age where the heart and soul of football is being ripped apart by money, what a testament to the majesty of football and all that it means to people it would be if we could unite under one banner:

 

"Lowe OUT!"

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I'm up for that, assuming that enough turn up that is

 

That'll depend on results. 2 losses away from home and losing against Swansea would require riot police at the ground i think.

 

Victories away and at home would see a small gathering if any.

 

Lowe usually gets the odd result here and there to keep the Wolves from the door, we'll have to wait and see what happens.

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That'll depend on results. 2 losses away from home and losing against Swansea would require riot police at the ground i think.

 

Victories away and at home would see a small gathering if any.

 

Lowe usually gets the odd result here and there to keep the Wolves from the door, we'll have to wait and see what happens.

 

On that note would probably be better if it was before the match, as norwich do pretty well at home.

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look..if you are going to boycott do it properly and not half arsed..

 

stop going full stop and forget this about missing parts of games etc

 

Yep. Time for faffing around has ended.

 

The only thing that will work is Saints fans saying en-masse they are not going to ANY games until he has gone. Selecting one game (even the whole game) is bolllocks, because he knows his revenue is back in 2 weeks.

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Standing outside chanting, in the frezzing cold, as Rupert tucks into a nice warm 3 course meal and with a few after dinner drinks, is not going to work!

 

It has to be something that will make the press, something that the whole country hears about and even BARCLAYS!!!

 

I would rather have a united fan base, well run football club and 11 players on that pitch that care in league 1 than the **** we have now!

 

A Mass pitch invastion every home game so the game can't even be finished.... that will effect lowe and his "reputation" in football.....

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FWIW judging by the thread about Cowen, I THINK employees at the club have got the message.

 

You have 3 weeks to think all this through carefully to come up with an EFFECTIVE plan.

 

IMHO maybe it won't be necessary but it won't happen tonight or even tomorrow morning, Wilde ran away & Rupert was at a party, think it is more important that those two have a LONG phone conversation very quickly

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FWIW judging by the thread about Cowen, I THINK employees at the club have got the message.

 

You have 3 weeks to think all this through carefully to come up with an EFFECTIVE plan.

 

IMHO maybe it won't be necessary but it won't happen tonight or even tomorrow morning, Wilde ran away & Rupert was at a party, think it is more important that those two have a LONG phone conversation very quickly

 

They were both at an Emergency meeting at SMS this afternoon if what i'm told is correct.

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Total Boycott is the only way to make that **** listen.

 

I won't happen though. 15000 odd hardcore fans will always support Saints through thick and thin. Boycotting is taking place, we have the largest fan-base on the South coast and we have appalling gates for our potential.

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FWIW judging by the thread about Cowen, I THINK employees at the club have got the message.

 

You have 3 weeks to think all this through carefully to come up with an EFFECTIVE plan.

 

IMHO maybe it won't be necessary but it won't happen tonight or even tomorrow morning, Wilde ran away & Rupert was at a party, think it is more important that those two have a LONG phone conversation very quickly

 

 

After match protests are always better when spontaneous - which usually happens when the home side has lost - like yesterday. Knowing Saints they would probably beat Swansea thus diluting the effect of any organised demonstration. However that being said well done for trying to organise something.

 

The worrying thing for me is that the Chairman of a PLC that is on the brink and faces a 6 pointer relegation battle can't be in attendance. For christ sake we have a free Saturday next week can't he arrange his salmon fishing (or whatever it is that has him in Scotland) so he actually gets to witness what is going on at our club. The same applies to Wilde who ducked out of the AGM because of holiday committments when it is the club (ie him) who choose the AGM date. These people have no respect for their positions and no respect for the future of our club and consequently certainly do not deserve our respect.

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After match protests are always better when spontaneous - which usually happens when the home side has lost - like yesterday. Knowing Saints they would probably beat Swansea thus diluting the effect of any organised demonstration. However that being said well done for trying to organise something.

 

The worrying thing for me is that the Chairman of a PLC that is on the brink and faces a 6 pointer relegation battle can't be in attendance. For christ sake we have a free Saturday next week can't he arrange his salmon fishing (or whatever it is that has him in Scotland) so he actually gets to witness what is going on at our club. The same applies to Wilde who ducked out of the AGM because of holiday committments when it is the club (ie him) who choose the AGM date. These people have no respect for their positions and no respect for the future of our club and consequently certainly do not deserve our respect.

 

Concur wholeheartedly with that statement.

 

Duncan, when will we hear from Crouch?

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They were both at an Emergency meeting at SMS this afternoon if what i'm told is correct.

 

Yesterday really made their life very difficult (as if it wasn't already).

 

because IMHO Rupert & Wilde are on the back foot there really is no way they can do anything with JP UNTIL they have a replcaement "rabbit out the hat" because ANYTHING they do will just make the unrest WORSE, let alone the issues with the finances.

 

What a goddamn mess

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They were both at an Emergency meeting at SMS this afternoon if what i'm told is correct.

 

Could I please ask how you know? Is it a reliable source?

 

 

2ndly ... I think that we should all protest in whatever way we feel right... but to protest en masse. Other clubs seem to be able to get their supporters together. We must not let Lowe be able to dismiss this as the 'Lunatic Fringe'. Those who have contacts in the press/media should use them to show the footballing world what we the loyal fans have and are suffering under Lowe.

I dont think it is a case of one form of protest over another I think we should all protest in all the ways we can ...

Protests during the match

Protests after the match

Lettrrs to news papers

E-Mail the club.

Plane banner

Boycotting the matches or part of matches

Any other way you can think of

 

But please protest as long and as hard as you can.

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A suggestion (because a lot of these protests peter out in a whimper).

 

I would urge all of you with season tickets (especially those who take kids) to e-mail the club and tell them that you will hold the club AND ITS CEO responsible should you suffer any injury due to crowd disturbances. Indicate that the danger of such injury has increased because of how the club is being run, and that it is the club's legal duty (as part of the season ticket contract) to keep SMS safe. This duty includes the need to anticipate problems where there are reasonable grounds to expect that such problems may emerge, as there are now.

 

That kind of legal communication cannot be easily ignored - even by Rupert, and it might become a really valuable pressure tactic.

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What's all this gloom and doom then?? Are we not being taken over by some-one super-rich tomorrow then? I just assumed yesterday was a blip cos they were all ****ed off because they'll all be out of the door by the time we play again,to be replaced illico by 30 or so of the world's finest and most expensive players.

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I've always liked the idea of a protest mid-match

 

200 or 300 fans invading the pitch with anti-Lowe banners would certainly get nationwide media attention

 

The only problem is that could get you a life time ban, and with the way Dave Armstrong was 'ASKED TO LEAVE' yesterday I am sure Lowe would make every effort to prosecute those individuals.

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the best form of protest is to turn up en mass for the next home, and not enter the ground at all. both those that are st holders and any other saints fan spare one afternoon to show the club and its creditors both that we have had enough of the current happenings by having an empty ground, but also showing that the clubs fan base are prepared to support the club trough thick and thin, but not any part of the current management.

 

although its unlikely to happen, if even just the 15k supporters that would be at the game stood outside the stadium and sang throughout the game for the team, and against the management, before, half time and after, the reaction by the press and Barclay's would be monumental!

 

we need to do this for the good of our club!!!!!11

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What's all this gloom and doom then?? Are we not being taken over by some-one super-rich tomorrow then? I just assumed yesterday was a blip cos they were all ****ed off because they'll all be out of the door by the time we play again,to be replaced illico by 30 or so of the world's finest and most expensive players.

 

Yep well spotted, it's true we are.

 

Fulthrottle takes us over on Wednesday is what he bellowedin AC's face yesterday.........

 

So we'll have no problem siging Kaka or is it spelt cacka in Spanish (long time since I did languages)

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Yep well spotted, it's true we are.

 

Fulthrottle takes us over on Wednesday is what he bellowedin AC's face yesterday.........

 

So we'll have no problem siging Kaka or is it spelt cacka in Spanish (long time since I did languages)

 

You think I jest. When I was a sort of assistant coach at a French amateur side

we blew promotion to the semi-pros because the lads knew they wouldn't get a game (and the 85£ match fee) if we went up.

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If theres going to be a protest outside the stadium after the game,then count me in.

I will also start anti Lowe songs during the match.

Perhaps if we can print A4 size pieces of paper with "Lowe out" on them?Could be effective if enough fans did it and it would be easy to smuggle them in.

 

cheap, easy and if enough people participate could get some coverage.

 

i know if was a protest for something different but didnt juventus fans turn their backs to a minute silence at anfield?

 

just another idea to add to the pot.

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Why protest AFTER the game?

By that time most people are too cold / P****d off / don't think they'll bother because we got a decent result (not likely) / need to get home etc.

This often results in a half hearted protest by what L*we would call the 'lunatic fringe'.

 

A protest before kick off would make it intimidating for all L*we's favourite fans (the corporates) when they enter St Marys making it embarrassing for L*we and Wilde (if they're actually there!). It would also mean we're not reacting to another defeat and that it shows our actual feelings in the cold light of day.

 

I don't see why it would affect the players. As soon as we enter the ground we can get behind the lads 100% but it may make it slightly more uncomfortable for those who are to blame.

 

It needs to be organised.

Banners.

Times.

Etc.

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I agree I think the protest should be before kick off not after the game

 

Could we not be greedy and have both? A pre match protest is a good idea, but a post match protest should we lose would be on another level and would happen anyway IMO with feelings running very high.

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The only way anyone will notice is if its a pitch invasion during the game or at half time, match abandoned. that would make the press. a few hundred or thousand people shouting or chanting in the middle of the night in some windy, derelict down-town part of Soton would be about as noticable as staying at home and not putting sugar in your cocoa. Waste of time. Just draw the curtains plus the press are already in the boozer.

 

The administrator wouldn't be there either - he would be tucked up in bed. Get hiom to see the anti-Lowe feeling and he wouldn't let RL within a hundred miles of SFC after the inevitable admin.

 

After the game? Waste of time.

 

Life-time ban would only last as long as Lowe is the big man as well.

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It has to be something that will make the press, something that the whole country hears about and even BARCLAYS!!!

 

I would rather have a united fan base, well run football club and 11 players on that pitch that care in league 1 than the **** we have now!

 

A Mass pitch invastion every home game so the game can't even be finished.... that will effect lowe and his "reputation" in football.....

 

And a points deduction!

 

Points deduction and a massive fine. How to make a bad situation even worse. Some true geniuses on here recently.

 

I wish when people said they had a plan 'to unite the fanbase and free the club', they meant a tour of the area/carefully worded (not hate and bile filled rants against Lowe) documents, explaining the realistic strength of the board for consortiums or wealthy potential benefactors, as there are doubtless fans who could make contact with such people.

 

But No, lets invade the pitch so the match is abandoned, and shout outside an office and act lary, and, as seen above, actively HOPE for relegation/administration. yeah, that should move some mountains...:rolleyes:

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Points deduction and a massive fine. How to make a bad situation even worse. Some true geniuses on here recently.

 

I wish when people said they had a plan 'to unite the fanbase and free the club', they meant a tour of the area/carefully worded (not hate and bile filled rants against Lowe) documents, explaining the realistic strength of the board for consortiums or wealthy potential benefactors, as there are doubtless fans who could make contact with such people.

 

But No, lets invade the pitch so the match is abandoned, and shout outside an office and act lary, and, as seen above, actively HOPE for relegation/administration. yeah, that should move some mountains...:rolleyes:

 

Feck me a blast from the past! Your presence on her is sorely missed...

If I remember correctly were you banned on SF for uttering the words "lets dig him up and see?"

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the best form of protest is to turn up en mass for the next home, and not enter the ground at all. both those that are st holders and any other saints fan spare one afternoon to show the club and its creditors both that we have had enough of the current happenings by having an empty ground, but also showing that the clubs fan base are prepared to support the club trough thick and thin, but not any part of the current management.

 

although its unlikely to happen, if even just the 15k supporters that would be at the game stood outside the stadium and sang throughout the game for the team, and against the management, before, half time and after, the reaction by the press and Barclay's would be monumental!

 

we need to do this for the good of our club!!!!!11

 

This is the best suggestion and would really make the point if it was organised and Press &TV present.

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Why can't we combine the two?!? Stay in the concourse for the 1st half, sings our hearts out for the 2nd and then protest afterwards?

 

It is so self-defeating not to be in the stands supporting the team. Demo after, NOT during the match. The Spirit of Southampton must not die.

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