Out the door on 74

[SoccerHQ]

Plenty left, certainly the Holte rapidly emptied.

My advice to anyone who wants to do this in the future games is....don't sit in the lower north and attempt to get out as it's nearly up to injury time before you can actually get out due to the narrow exit!

Still it's only the start I'm lead to believe, plenty more planned for the remaining games. More interesting was the very vocal anti-lerner and fox chants in the second half.

This is only the start.

[Steve67]

No doubts this will get some ridicule by the likes of that fat twunt Alan Brazil as the gate was lower than usual and he wouldn't have noticed the difference. Anything for the media to bash us with at the moment. Cheers Lerner.  Fair play to those that the walking out. However, something more is needed, like wall to wall anger or not attending at all.

[Ad@m]

Don't let anyone tell you invading the pitch is illegal as it's not.

The Football (Offences) Act 1991 would suggest otherwise...

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/d_to_g/football_related_offences/#a04

[Ad@m]

Plenty left, certainly the Holte rapidly emptied.

It really didn't.  Around me less than 5% of people left and there was quite a bit of anger shown towards those that did.

I thought the more impressive protests were the new Randy Lerner song which was very loud indeed and the seat banging for the last five minutes which would be unbelievably intimidating for the Board if it were done when there were more people in the ground.

[marshall]

Imagine Tom Fox and Randy Lerner chants 30 minutes after the game, the club will have to do something about and not just ignore it

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I take back that the media would look at this as a protest about being shit. Maybe they actually do realise that it was a stand (or a leave) against Lerner and his folly.

[FanNOTCustomer]

Don't let anyone tell you invading the pitch is illegal as it's not.

The Football (Offences) Act 1991 would suggest otherwise...

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/d_to_g/football_related_offences/#a04

Interesting reading.

Being drunk at a designated sporting event - s.2(2)

LOL really?

[London Villan]

I'm amazed how lightly the club's management are getting off at the moment. Polite walkout. Fox and co should be getting non stop abuse during the game.

[Jimbo]

Whatever form the protests take, let them be sustained, let them be visible and let them be angry. I hope this is just the start, because I fear we're nowhere near finished with Lerner's idiocy.

[PeterWithesShin]

I was in L2 and a fair few left but they were definitely in the minority. Some had already gone after an hour though. There were a few half hearted boos for a few seconds that was aimed at those leaving but that was it. Those that left went on their way, those that stayed carried on. Which is how it should be, there was no sign of arguing etc near me between anyone leaving/staying.

The countdown to 74 mins was quite amusing, followed by silence and no one moving as though nobody wanted to be the first to leave.

I'll also hazard a guess that a fair few stayed until 74 mins just to do the walkout. It will also look more effective in a ground that isn't about a third empty to begin with. Still, it will hopefully get some attention.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm amazed how lightly the club's management are getting off at the moment. Polite walkout. Fox and co should be getting non stop abuse during the game.

Fox and Lerner had plenty sung about them tonight.

[Des Little]

Lerner is never here, so won't hear chants. Fox and the other wankers are, so I'd suggest we dig those bastards out first.

[Billy Walker]

Five years of being treated with contempt by Randy Lerner is hopefully about to explode in his face.  This isn't the NFL Randy.  You don't treat a one hundred and forty odd year old institution like Aston Villa as if it is a throwaway toy and you don't disrespect the generations of supporters by blocking off all forms of meaningful communication.  A more textbook way of running a football club badly you could not find.  Get out of our Club and let us move on.

[Chris Smith]

I'm amazed how lightly the club's management are getting off at the moment. Polite walkout. Fox and co should be getting non stop abuse during the game.

Fox got a fair bit of abuse. I went after about 65 minutes. Partly through the awfully performance and partly through having had enough of the young girl behind wittering on about how gorgeous Ross Barklay is all match. It really was a totally dispiriting night.

[curiousorange]

I'm amazed how lightly the club's management are getting off at the moment. Polite walkout. Fox and co should be getting non stop abuse during the game.

Fox got a fair bit of abuse. I went after about 65 minutes. Partly through the awfully performance and partly through having had enough of the young girl behind wittering on about how gorgeous Ross Barklay is all match. It really was a totally dispiriting night.

Bloody hell, she must, as my Mum would say, "have shit in her eyes".