Mole Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 Lowe and Wilde may well simply ignore the protests so boycotting is the next measure that needs to be taken. Rupert may be thick skinned but the likes of Askham will quake at the thought of losing money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr X Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 not enough numbers are prepared to boycott to make enough difference unfortunately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrollman no2 Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 I though half the stadium was empty because they were boycotting Lowe? Although the way he runs things,it wont be long before the rest of us follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
$$$ Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 Lowe and Wilde may well simply ignore the protests so boycotting is the next measure that needs to be taken. Rupert may be thick skinned but the likes of Askham will quake at the thought of losing money. Would that be the protect you failed to attend, much like the one you avoided after the last match as well? :smt046 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole Posted 31 January, 2009 Author Share Posted 31 January, 2009 Would that be the protect you failed to attend, much like the one you avoided after the last match as well? :smt046 LOL, i had a 180 mile drive after the donny game and wasn't sure there was a protest til i read about it. I should have attended it and will in future if i'm there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 if we win mid week the attendances will probably be up for the next game, after people hearing about todays good game. Genuinely best of luck in getting rid of the board and getting a united club but I still think buying serious shares, or Crouch and Wilde sorting something out are the only way Lowe will go. You could have marches weekly, I don't think he gives a **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrollman no2 Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 if we win mid week the attendances will probably be up for the next game, after people hearing about todays good game. Genuinely best of luck in getting rid of the board and getting a united club but I still think buying serious shares, or Crouch and Wilde sorting something out are the only way Lowe will go. You could have marches weekly, I don't think he gives a **** Very valid points NickG,and i agree with your points. But hopefully someone ,somewhere in a bank will decide that Lowe is a liability because of the protests and will decide Rupert needs to go before SFC can go forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 but if the book balance (who knows) and maybe even crowds go up, again what do the bank care? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
$$$ Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 LOL, i had a 180 mile drive after the donny game and wasn't sure there was a protest til i read about it. I should have attended it and will in future if i'm there. LOL If you say so... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=168241&postcount=2 Rather interesting that that most vocal lowe haters rarely, if ever, come close to attending matches yet feel free to spout b0ll0cks endlessly telling everyone else what to do. Even more interesting that a march comprising of less then (if I'm very generous) 10% of Saints supporters attending today suddenly becomes a majority in some peoples eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole Posted 31 January, 2009 Author Share Posted 31 January, 2009 LOL If you say so... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=168241&postcount=2 Rather interesting that that most vocal lowe haters rarely, if ever, come close to attending matches yet feel free to spout b0ll0cks endlessly telling everyone else what to do. Even more interesting that a march comprising of less then (if I'm very generous) 10% of Saints supporters attending today suddenly becomes a majority in some peoples eyes. Yeah, and i regretted not going, i should also add that my car park ticket at charlotte place was about to expire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrollman no2 Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 LOL If you say so... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=168241&postcount=2 Rather interesting that that most vocal lowe haters rarely, if ever, come close to attending matches yet feel free to spout b0ll0cks endlessly telling everyone else what to do. Even more interesting that a march comprising of less then (if I'm very generous) 10% of Saints supporters attending today suddenly becomes a majority in some peoples eyes. Well no one dislikes Lowe more than me(i wont say hate because ive never met the man),and i attend every home game(have a ST) and at least four away games every season. I may spout ******** endlessly,but hey,who cares? I feel ive earnt the right. Also the fact at least 1000 Saints fans marched against Rupert is fantastic. Just wait until the next protest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
$$$ Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 Yeah, and i regretted not going, i should also add that my car park ticket at charlotte place was about to expire. There you go folks, one of lowes most outspoken opponents could not be arsed taking part in a protest because his parking ticket was about to expire (allegedly) :smt043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiltshiresaint Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 I'm tempted to boycott after talking to a mutual friend of myself and Mr Crouch earlier today. I was told that Leon offered to put £2m into the club to clear debts, provided that Lowe and Wilde did the same, pro rata, with new shares being issued to all. Wilde refused on the spot, and Lowe refused to talk to him. As with anything from that part of the world, I take this with a pinch of salt, but if it comes close to being true... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyFartPants Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 There you go folks, one of lowes most outspoken opponents could not be arsed taking part in a protest because his parking ticket was about to expire (allegedly) :smt043 It wasnt just me that found the car parking ticket running out thing funny then? He really is the 21st Century Citizen Smith. Full of political stance and then commits it in a most lacking manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole Posted 31 January, 2009 Author Share Posted 31 January, 2009 There you go folks, one of lowes most outspoken opponents could not be arsed taking part in a protest because his parking ticket was about to expire (allegedly) :smt043 I've explained the situation. The protest after the Donny game was spontaneous and i'm sure many more wuold've gone if it had been pre planned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 31 January, 2009 Share Posted 31 January, 2009 Bring the protests to Gloucestershire. The village of Withington awaits.(Good pub! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 not enough numbers are prepared to boycott to make enough difference unfortunately Don't worry, one or two thousand extra off the gate, backed up with a statement will get Lowe and Wilde's attention. Pretty soon, after a few games it would catch on too. Then you'd really start getting people staying away. But what do you want to do..? Send Saints into administration or get the Board shifted out of the club..? As clarity is all, make the message clear, and you never know what might happen. EDIT: The protest was widely reported amongst the sporting news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Bones Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 I may spout ******** endlessly,but hey,who cares? I feel ive earnt the right. But we enjoy your endless spouting of ****** rnr-man The key to any forum as well mate - Everyones opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFC Forever Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 Originally Posted by $$$ LOL If you say so... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/sho...41&postcount=2 Rather interesting that that most vocal lowe haters rarely, if ever, come close to attending matches yet feel free to spout b0ll0cks endlessly telling everyone else what to do. Even more interesting that a march comprising of less then (if I'm very generous) 10% of Saints supporters attending today suddenly becomes a majority in some peoples eyes. SOME PEOPLE DO OCCASSIONALLY SURPRISE ME WITH THEIR NEGATIVE STUPIDITY. NOBODY SAID THAT THE PROTESTERS WERE THE MAJORITY. 1500(POLICE AND TV ESTIMATE) PROTESTERS FROM NEARLY 15000 SAINTS FANS IN MY BOOK IS 10%. WE ARE TIRED OF WATCHING OUR CLUB BEING DISMANTLED BIT BY BIT. WE GOT OF OFF OUR COMFY CHAIRS WENT WITHOUT A DRINK AND STARTED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. YOU HIDE BEHIND YOUR COMPUTOR AFRAID TO BE SEEN SO THAT WHEN WE WIN THE FIGHT YOU CAN PRETEND UNDER ANOTHER NAME TO BE ONE OF US WHO ACHIEVED THE IMPOSSIBLE. YOU ARE A 100% COWARD. I WENT TO THE MARCH AND EVERYONE THERE ENJOYED THE EXPERIENCE AND WILL STEP UP TO THE PLATE AGAIN WHEN NEEDED. NEXT TIME THERE WILL BE A BIGGER GROUNDSWELL OF SUPPORT. YOU WERE OBVIOUSLY ALREADY TUCKED UP NICE AND WARM AS WE APPROACHED THE STADIUM TO A WARM WELCOME FROM SAINTS, AND I MIGHT ADD, SWANSEA SUPPORTERS. AS A FIRST THROW OF THE DICE WE DID WELL. CONNOR, SMALL AS HE IS, HAS THE HEART OF A BIG BIG MAN.(he is only 16) SO PEOPLE LIKE YOU CAN SCOFF AT US BUT WE WERE NOT AFRAID TO BE SEEN AND COUNTED. WE DO NOT HIDE BEHIND THE SCREEN SPOUTING OUR RUBBISH. BUT THEN SADLY YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THE JOY OF HAVING SO MANY FOLLOW YOUR LEAD. OR THE SATISFACTION THAT WILL COME WITH OUR VICTORY. 7 YEARS AGO IT WAS SWANSEA THAT DID WHAT WE HAVE BEGUN AND LOOK AT THEM NOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewell Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 Lowe and Wilde may well simply ignore the protests so boycotting is the next measure that needs to be taken. Rupert may be thick skinned but the likes of Askham will quake at the thought of losing money. The protests are fine as a start point (well done to all those who organised and took part) but essentially your point is and always has been the case. Hitting the club in the pocket is the only way the board and more importantly the banks will take any notice. This may also not happen overnight it may take a run of consecutive home matches. If we go down this road then there is no doubt that there will be severe negative effects that we may never truly recover from. It would have a negative effect on the team playing with little or no support. Are we all really prepared to sacrifice points at this crucial important stage of the season? The fight we have jjust shown suggests that we may have just turned the corner after all. Are season ticket holders really prepared to not go to matches? Personally if I was in their position I could totally understand if they were not. They have paid their money after all. It is a very hard one with no simplistic solution as many people seem to keep implying. Personally I also think it would end with certain relegation whereas after the last two comebacks I now think we have a fighting chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StAndy1970 Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 The only way is to boycott. Those of you may spout off about all this true supporter rubbish but you, along with this idiotic board are the ones killing this club. If you sat outside and protested during the game it would have much more of an effect. Lets face it, the way we are going we will be relegated. Div 1 most certainly means administration and all the rest of trouble it will cause. All these muppets who keep saying, I go to support the players are deluding themselves. The majority of these players are free agents should we enter administration. They will simply find new clubs. Will they look back and say, well those fans watched us play. No they wont. They wont think twice. To rescue this club we need to hit Rupert and his mates where it hurts. Wont look to good on his financial Cv, the adverse publicity he will receive will it. DO SOMETHING NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE AND STOP DESTROYING OUR CLUB!!!!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wopper Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 Given our financial position will Rupert & Mike try and tap Leon again. If Crouchie decides to invest in Saints it will be on his terms and to the detriment of the above two losers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Jason Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 Lowe and Wilde may well simply ignore the protests so boycotting is the next measure that needs to be taken. Rupert may be thick skinned but the likes of Askham will quake at the thought of losing money. How about this Stanley? Saturday 21st February, home against Preston, all fans meet again at The Bargate @ 1.15 and march to the stadium (as this week excellent support people) 15.30 everyone leaves their seat and goes down to the concourse, bang on 16.15 everyone comes back up?? Then boycott!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 How about this Stanley? Saturday 21st February, home against Preston, all fans meet again at The Bargate @ 1.15 and march to the stadium (as this week excellent support people) 15.30 everyone leaves their seat and goes down to the concourse, bang on 16.15 everyone comes back up?? Then boycott!!! Seems a good idea. Why not everyone turn up as usual but not enter the stadium just protest outside... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 Bring the protests to Gloucestershire. The village of Withington awaits.(Good pub! ) I'd go - not far from me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Jonny Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 Lowe and Wilde may well simply ignore the protests so boycotting is the next measure that needs to be taken. Rupert may be thick skinned but the likes of Askham will quake at the thought of losing money. You dont come to games in the first place, stanley (from what ive read on hear). Bored of your imature one tracked mission to hang rupert lowe now. Find a new hobby or sumthin... I enjoy going to the footy too much to miss the games I can actually get too when i'm not working, so I wont be boycotting. League 1 or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgiesaint Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 but if the book balance (who knows) and maybe even crowds go up, again what do the bank care? Maybe, just maybe the wrong people are being targetted. We've talked about targetting Wilde, Askham, etc as Lowe's support but the one group that no-one has spoken about is Barclays. How many Barclays customers do we have on here, or out of the 15k regulars. How would Barclays feel if instead of 1500 people marching, it was 1500 people closing their accounts? But any protest against Barclays would have to be extremely careful, it is much easier for that sort of protest to be jumped on by other, less desirable protesters with other issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Jason Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 Maybe, just maybe the wrong people are being targetted. We've talked about targetting Wilde, Askham, etc as Lowe's support but the one group that no-one has spoken about is Barclays. How many Barclays customers do we have on here, or out of the 15k regulars. How would Barclays feel if instead of 1500 people marching, it was 1500 people closing their accounts? But any protest against Barclays would have to be extremely careful, it is much easier for that sort of protest to be jumped on by other, less desirable protesters with other issues. I agree with your sentiments mate but i feel it is dangerous, do we really want to upset the bank, they could decide it's all to much hassle and pull the plug completely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgiesaint Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 I agree with your sentiments mate but i feel it is dangerous, do we really want to upset the bank, they could decide it's all to much hassle and pull the plug completely! Hmm you may well be right. I would think that Barclays would be unlikely to pull the plug with a load of customers being fans, so boycotting the bank just removes that leverage we have with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFC Forever Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 How about this for the Preston game.ST holders have already got their tickets but if the rest of us waited until the day to get our tickets as our next move it would alert the club as to the possibility of future losses. We start as yesterday at the bargate at 1.15 the same. We march with ,hopefully a slightly larger group to SMS. We hold our demonstration until 3pm and then go and buy our tickets. ST holders would obviously be able to go straight in. The delay in receiving our money would alert the bank to the possibility of a boycott and Saints inability to keep up with payments to them. We would be late entering the ground but whatever the score upon our entry we could really go for it and show the team that we are fully behind them.As there would already be loads of fans in the ground it would not mean the team playing in front of a tolly empty stand and would have some support. Our noisy imput would be like a shot in the arm and could give them one hell of a boost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole Posted 1 February, 2009 Author Share Posted 1 February, 2009 You dont come to games in the first place, stanley (from what ive read on hear). Bored of your imature one tracked mission to hang rupert lowe now. Find a new hobby or sumthin... I enjoy going to the footy too much to miss the games I can actually get too when i'm not working, so I wont be boycotting. League 1 or not. I made a conscious decision to boycott at the start of this season. Prior to this i attended a lot of home games (about 10-12 person seaon - i live 180 miles away) and more away games. Whether you agree with me or not really doesn't bother me, it's water off a ducks back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmary Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 The season ticket holders can bring down this regime. It will soon be renewal time. I urge all season ticket holders not to renew until Lowe steps down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70's Mike Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 The season ticket holders can bring down this regime. It will soon be renewal time. I urge all season ticket holders not to renew until Lowe steps down. Totally agree crunch time will be around season ticket renewals , firstly price and secondly flowing from the price the numbers, we have 8 in my family (mum.dad, uncles etc) and at the moment not one is committing to renew especially until we know what division we are in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 I'll be renewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Jason Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 The season ticket holders can bring down this regime. It will soon be renewal time. I urge all season ticket holders not to renew until Lowe steps down. Maybe we could re-float http://www.sthu.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelpie Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 Getting rid of Lowe is our main intention, but equally important is avoiding administration, which gives the leach Lowe further opportunities to acquire the club cheaply. The best way to avoid administration, and the small matter of avoiding relegation is by backing the team and attending matches. We were the eleventh man yesterday, we had a larger crowd, and we salvaged a vital point. High attendances like we had this time last year could make all the difference. Let's not do Lowe's job for him. He wants relegation and administration so he can buy the club outright, cheaply, make no mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmary Posted 1 February, 2009 Share Posted 1 February, 2009 Maybe we could re-float www.sthu.co.uk Great idea! A relaunch! We've got to keep the pressure and momentum going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole Posted 1 February, 2009 Author Share Posted 1 February, 2009 Let's not do Lowe's job for him. He wants relegation and administration so he can buy the club outright, cheaply, make no mistake. I disagree with this. For Lowe to buy the club out he'll need his chums to back him. They may do it, but it would be a massive gamble for Lowe to risk his standing in his circle of friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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