We can organise a day of mass PL & FL fan protest action, if we want.

It just needs a group of fans to take the initiative. Everyone is waiting for someone else to start it. Let's be that group to start it. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against our owner, but prices across the whole professional game are just getting stupid now, and our club have to join in to compete. It's even more infuriating that fans are having to fork out so much when Sky and BT are pumping literally billions of pounds more into the game each season.

What kind of action would you support? Fire away ideas in this thread. Boycott of every league game on a certain weekend over a certain price a couple of months down the line perhaps? Or a walkout?

Whatever the majority of people think should be done, I can help get the ball rolling. I'm a web developer and social media marketing guy by trade (keyboard pushing soft lad, I know), so I could give us a web presence in my spare time. If we choose and agree on a course of action and enough of us put a bit of effort in it's really not as hard as you think to go viral online, which would be a good starting point.

So... what du'tha reckon?

 

I'm for a mass bottle top throwing protest

 

Obviously I'm in but I'd appreciate any help in the other thread for the Leeds game. Had a lot of interest on social media and obviously some will go no matter what. I understand that. Fully with you tho

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Debated putting it in that thread, but I felt that thread was very centered on Leeds, whereas this would be more of a general approach. Sorry, don't mean to tread on any toes or anything, would just be great to get something going.

 

Not treading on any toes mate. It's a thread about the Leeds game prices but an attack on football prices in general. Using the Leeds game is a place to start. Hopefully if enough get on board and we can generate interest in the media, we can start the ball rolling for other clubs to follow or for owners to do ther right thing and not fleece the fans who just wanna watch their team play at a reasonable price

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I think a Walkout is a non starter on H & S grounds.

 

Good point, although Liverpool's was very effective last season. I appreciate different grounds function and evacuate in different ways though, so that could throw a spanner in the works.

 

A late walk in....start the match to empty seats.

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Just on a personal point I wouldn't support a walkout but I would a boycott if enough other people were joining in. (Mainly because I don't want to make the effort to travel to go to the match and then leave halfway through, I also don't think I'd have the willpower whereas I could just pretend a match wasn't on in order to boycott).

 

£30 is borderline - just paid that for Villa next week. Only went through with it because my lad still falls into the £10 category, so £20 apiece I can live with, but £37 is frankly ridiculous. Just target that one game. Stay away. Club to advise fans to stay away. Club & Supporters' Trust statement to press & media.

 

Not sure how effective a boycott will be by just not going to the game. In our case I doubt many clubs outside of the local(ish) Ines will have budgeted for more than a few hundred anyway.

What about the away brigade still going to the town/city/area but not getting a match ticket.

This is then directing the "complaint" directly at the ticket price. It's still evidencing the desire to support the team and make the journeys?

Appreciate that the game is the reason to travel but this will likely get more notice if there are xx hundred fans refusing to go into the stadium based on price.

Channel it against those clubs obviously charging the most and it will catch on.

There's no way the clubs or police will want a few hundred away fans outside the ground during the match

 

Agree both ideas are silly because Leeds won't care as they already have the cash and our fans that pay it will not see the full match with either idea.

 

Wouldn't have thought its in clubs remit to ask fans not to advise fans not to pay X amount for tickets.

 

It's difficult. The walk out idea slightly defeats itself as many have said. Cash is already being paid to the club, and then fans aren't going to pay to complain about how expensive watching 90 mins of football is, only to miss loads of it. Also, it would need the support of the home fans, even just vocally. Whereas you can bet there would be mockery from some (naming no names coughLeedscough).

But then you'll never get a wholesale boycott as there'll always be fans who want to watch all 46 games no matter what.

How do you show your indignance over the terms of attending without attending? How can you be absent and your message still present, silent and still vocal? One for the philosophers...

 

The best way to achieve that is what people have suggested above - don't buy tickets but travel to Leeds to show that you would have gone was it not for the ticket price.

 

I'm the same. What is the point of staging a mass walk out to protest at ticket prices but buy a ticket as part of the protest.

By the way my vote is to boycott games that cost over £25.

 

I think the supporters groups should lead on this given the FSA's commitment to 20 is plenty. Individually it is hard to organise. It's why we join collective organisation so they can mobilise around issues.

 

Re: We can organise a day of mass PL & FL fan protest action, if we want.

i never understand mass walkouts or turn up late because your still paying so they still get the money its not doing much in my opinion