FINAL GAME BOYCOTT

[andyh]

I'd just like to point out that I didn't actually mean to post my last post.
I had my phone in my pocket and when I took it out to check it I noticed that a random post has been submitted completely by accident.

[CT]

The Leeds protest is quite clever tonight - projecting massive images onto the side of the stand against the owner

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/35525494

Maybe we could project a huge penis on to one of the stands.

Then we could have a phone in vote as to which player deserved to be "Cock of the season".

All proceeds could go to Joleon Lescotts new car, or any other deserving charity.

[SashasGrandad]

The Leeds protest is quite clever tonight - projecting massive images onto the side of the stand against the owner

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/35525494

Where do we get the equipment?

[PeterWithesShin]

[chrisw1]

Those Liverpool protests etc are different to our situation though. I'd hope we'd do the same if faced with the Hillsborough lies, £77 tickets etc. The problem is our protest would be that we're shit. That we want a new owner. But everyone on the planet with the slightest interest in football knows we're shit. Us protesting isn't going to stop us being shit. I'd imagine the vast majority want Randy gone, problem is he wants to be gone. When we protested against Doug it was because we knew he had no interest in leaving, so there was a 'thing' to protest about. I genuinely don't know what, apart from something like the white hankie or scarf type thing we can do. And certainly not one that is reasonably easy to organise, will be effective, and that a large number of people will get behind and support.

And this really isn't meant to be 'better fan' or anything, but to me, it needs to be something that is mainly (or can be) done by the those that can go to games. Only because it would need to be a visible protest. Which is why things like not buying a pie, or boycotting wouldn't work. Who is going to know if the ground is half empty out of protest or just a crap attendance? All of that is just in my opinion of course.

this is pretty much the point I was trying to make.  What tangible result do we hope to achieve?

[cdward]

We will be down by then, so a huge show of support 90 minutes of "stand up if you love Villa", "we'll keep the lions flag flying high" , "Villa 'til I die" "Remi Gardes claret and blue army" etc, will show the world this is our club, and however badly it is being run, or by who, you will never stop us from being Villa.
We will be at Villa Park longer than anybody on the team, board or management.
I will be there.
Let's show how good WE are.

[ChicagoLion]

If you could mobilise people not to buy season tickets, this is the thing that would get thier attention as it does form part of the out of season cash flow.
It is also the thing that they will monitor very closely against budgeted sales.
If they start to get the message that people are not renewing because of a lack of investment in the team it might have some effect.
On the basis that Lerner can not be forced out all that can be achieved is to know that the squad is going to be the focus of the regime, if it isn't we all know where we will be a year from now.

[Richard E]

Newcastle fans think they're going to really hurt us so I think we take the wind out of their sails by getting our retaliation in first e.g. Have a 'Who's Our Next Messiah?' bedsheet up in the Holte with a punchline taking the piss out of ourselves.

[SashasGrandad]

We will be down by then, so a huge show of support 90 minutes of "stand up if you love Villa", "we'll keep the lions flag flying high" , "Villa 'til I die" "Remi Gardes claret and blue army" etc, will show the world this is our club, and however badly it is being run, or by who, you will never stop us from being Villa.
We will be at Villa Park longer than anybody on the team, board or management.
I will be there.
Let's show how good WE are.

Add a few verses of

"Randy Lerner what a wanker"  and   "We want Lerner out!"  and see how many of us the stewards can throw out!!

[sickbeggar]

As i said, its got to be aimed exclusively at Lerner and not give just a general dissatisfaction at the shit team/results. I don't think Garde is the man for the job, but there's no doubt, if its construed the wrong way, it will be Garde who will be dumped. It's what they always do when things get a bit too close to home

[exiled on the wirral!]

On a purely selfish basis, I would never boycott Villa Park, as I wouldn't have a social life otherwise!.. I like to think football comes round in full circle, at the moment we are back in 1936 or 1967, hopefully our 1982 will return again.

[Skerra]

Us paying and turning up may not be such a lot of revenue for now but, wait until the board physically see what relegation means to the clubs finances.

Maybe, I'm just being thick but, just cannot comprehend all this, let's pack the place out and sing all the way through the match. We will be playing right into the hands of the board. I really, truly wish it was still like yesteryear when fans really did matter to the club. Alas, we are now just seen as paying customers and, the more the merrier as far as the board are concerned. In particular, Americans, who will put their own spin on it and, will be sending videos of a nearly packed Villa Park with the message to Lerner to keep starving the team of any real funds to get better players in as, obviously, whatever shit we sell to these people, they just keep on a coming!!

[Jimbo]

Chrisw1, a protest won't make Randy "he really wants to sell but nobody is buying football clubs these days, except Everton" Lerner leave the club any quicker.

All it needs to do is allow fans to come together, to feel they're doing something, to send a message - we're fucking pissd off and we still have some power to disrupt your shitty product - and maybe, if it gets in the news, just maybe we won't look like a bunch of passive, malleable 'customers' that will swallow any old shit.

[Richard E]

I'd just like to point out that I didn't actually mean to post my last post.
I had my phone in my pocket and when I took it out to check it I noticed that a random post has been submitted completely by accident.

I might need to borrow that excuse, seeing as earlier in this thread I apparently made the most ridiculous comment in the entire history of H and V!

[sickbeggar]

I'd imagine the board are well aware of the impending financial shitstorm if the January transfer window is anything to go by. That's the problem with Lerner, he's spent so much money on doing such a bad job that its going to take something special to persuade him to cut his losses and walk away - maybe the forecast for next season's losses will do the trick