is collymore right?

[trevor fisher]

Stan Collymore is reported to be calling for a boycott for the rest of the season - but is this the way forward? Its an awful
season, Garde is the third manager in a year to fail to improve the team. I hope he will stay, but can't see a big improvement coming. So should fans simply stay away?

I can't see it working. Firstly, it is hard to tell who is boycotting and who is simply staying away. More importantly, what is the point? Nothing will change in the next few months. The summer is when changes might happen, so what do fans want to happen and how do they get the board to listen?

Unless the aims are clear and well communicated to the board we are simply moaning. If the fans do have an agenda and the club does not listen, then perhaps we should take action - or not action if it is a boycott. But Stan has to explain what a boycott would achieve by itself. I think fans have to get a programme together over the rest of the season then see what they can get the club to do in the close season

Trevor Fisher

[olaftab]

No boycott. Don't agree with that sort of bollox.

[Legion]

No.

Legion

[bertlambshank]

Not in my name.

[Ron Manager]

Its a no from me Simon...sorry Trevor.

[ez]

Boycott of games? Can't see it happening. Boycott the merch, programs, refreshments, take your own food in.

[dave shelley]

No, in fact the complete opposite, if you can afford it.  Or bear it.

[CJ]

Better to be there and make some noise rather than at home being an angry martyr. Anyway I though Collymore had thrown his toys out of the pram and wasn't going to talk about us any more?

[Tayls_7]

No.

Sorry, what was the question?

[Nelly]

I'm not sure what it would achieve really. Better to have a packed Villa Park all singing the same rebellious song, or organised in some way to get our point across. A boycott would just be another tool to hit us with.

[Toronto Villa]

It will happen naturally if it happens at all. You can't force people not to go because some people love the club too much irrespective of how we are doing, who the manager is and certainly whoever is sat on the board.

[Chris Smith]

I am going to boycott the boycott.

[CT]

No.

But take lots of anti-board banners and don't buy food/drink inside the ground. (Unless you've got kids, then that can be almost impossible.)

CT

[clash city rocker]

Having thought about it a lot the only way I feel I can make my point on how pathetically the club has been run is to no longer go to games. My self and my daughter won't make that much difference though. However I have been going to villa park for nearly 50 years and I still bloody love it ! Shit football,shit team,shit leadership,shit most things but a few drinks in town with my daughter and then the afternoon or evening at villa park I still totally bloody love..And if underhand tossers such as Fox and Hollis think they can stop me enjoying my bloody outings to the villa they can think again the fkin low life's.  My stand with them pair now is if they are going to take my money then they can take my abuse.

[PeterWithesShin]

The shitter we are the more I think the team need me. I spend nothing in the ground anyway as i'm a cheap git. That said, after the Stoke game i'll probably miss the next 2 or 3 home games any way.

Love
PWS xx