Time for protest, meeting Saturday

[foreverUTB]

I would welcome a walk out at half time, then all the moaning whinging people around us would leave and we could get behind the team to show we are actually SUPPORTERS. The atmosphere is not pleasant at the moment and if you dare to say anything positive you get shot down in flames. If you don't want to support the team and management and owners as is, don't go!!

 

[DI36O]

lifetime ban...endangered players on the pitch by chucking tennis balls

I used to like this planet.

 

[him behind you]

Alright so we protest, the board decide to invest £2m over the summer...and we don't go up again. How long are you happy for? Indefinitely? Or do you protest again because that wasn't enough?


My opinion is that protests at this moment are about results on the pitch, which is down to Adkins, not owners who made a) a good appointment (on paper) for Adkins, gave him a good squad which costs more than any other in the division and then gave him additional (significant) resource strengthen. This team - particularly in value - and in fact by the performances the players are capable off (think Flynn, Brayford overlapping under Clough , Sharp, Done, Baxter) is capable of much more. That's not the board, thats management. Brayford is restricted to a defensive position which isn't his strong point, Flynn is no where to be seen, McNulty has been shipped out, Wallace has been shipped out, countless slow, defensive players have been brought it. That's Adkins. Not McCabe.

So we spent a large chunk of last season's transfer budget on a defender who can't defend - and that's Adkins fault? What I think you're failing to mention is that the players you mentioned were part of a group of worst kind of professional footballer around - the type who show that they can do it when they want (big games) and don't give a toss for the other games. Much like those we still have. They've now done this to 2 managers, perhaps they don't like the name Nigel?

 

[Bladesman]

What we expect our protests to be like:




What our protests are actually like:

 

[CarlMcBlade]

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I'm taking a gourd to hold above my head



Maybe it's not the quality of the bullets but the bloke holding the gun that's at fault.

There's no messiah coming to save us.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I would welcome a walk out at half time, then all the moaning whinging people around us would leave and we could get behind the team to show we are actually SUPPORTERS. The atmosphere is not pleasant at the moment and if you dare to say anything positive you get shot down in flames. If you don't want to support the team and management and owners as is, don't go!!

Yeah everybody.

Shut the fuck up and swallow your medicine like good little sheep.

 

[S5Blade]

We are having a meeting on Saturday at 1pm in Fannys (lord nelson) upstairs to discuss a planned protest. This will be a peaceful protest against the club has a whole, we need route and branch change.

Our main idea is to stage a walk out on 84 minutes at the Oldham game in protest at 6 years in League one. But we are open to other idea's, if you can't come along you can post your idea's/views on here and we will discuss them as a group.

The time has come, 8 years of decline and we have not bottomed out yet, please support us, we love United but can't just sit on our hands and blindly turn up week in week out.

Save our Blades 'Stand up United' group.

flash-blade How did the meeting go? What was decided and planned for the Oldham match? Genuinely interested to hear what was discussed and sorted

 

[Silent Blade]

flash-blade How did the meeting go? What was decided and planned for the Oldham match? Genuinely interested to hear what was discussed and sorted

I know someone who went and he thought it was a low key meeting and there werent much to discuss

 

[S5Blade]

I know someone who went and he thought it was a low key meeting and there werent much to discuss

So there were no actual plans drawn up? When's the next meeting, do you know?

 

[Silent Blade]

So there were no actual plans drawn up? When's the next meeting, do you know?

Dont know. They will look silly if we win the next few games

 

[Trigger Blade]

I know someone who went and he thought it was a low key meeting and there werent much to discuss

That can't be right Silent! There's plenty on here pounding the keyboards demanding action, whilst doing nothing, to the point where I was expecting pitchforks and torches behind the South Stand yesterday.

Unless of course the majority of the 18,000 there every other week aren't quite so worked up about things , or alternatively, want to understand the objective of the protest before deciding whether to be involved.

 

[PeteBlade]

I'm sure Adkins will recieve full financial backing over the summer. If not, and we are languishing in mid table midway through the season, then we know who's to blame, don't we.

The people who 'run' the club have already stated that he will not be getting "full financial backing" in the summer so no real point in holding out hope of that happening.

We're cutting costs, both on the pitch and behind the scenes.

 

[Trigger Blade]

Dont know. They will look silly if we win the next few games

Without wishing to speak on behalf of people whose agendas I don't have access to, that isn't true is it? It surely isn't about winning a few games? All that does it take the immediate heat off the board, Adkins and the players.