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This may sound strange, but bear with me. As a fervent Destination Kirkby hater I've been thinking about ways to protest against the project in as visible and poignant way possible and I've got a couple of ideas.
Staying away from Goodison and boycotting the game is the obvious one, but I'm sure Bully Beef would love that, out of sight and out of mind and all that. He'd be able to explain that one away on the credit crunch and people tightening the purse strings.
No, I'm proposing something more radical: Here goes... Wear Red to the match! Yes, I know I may as well ask some of you to change your religion but nothing would say more to the powers that be than turning up in the colours of the arch enemy. They want to turn the city over to the RS, let's show them how it looks.
Ray Lupton, Posted 21/07/2008 at 04:52:28
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Words completely fail me - or perhaps not. Try pathetic, moronic or childish for a start!
Groan! Give it up mate. We’re going to Kirkby. Some of us see it as progress. Red is an inflammatory colour and the red side of the city would just love the gesture.
Great idea Gavin!! Roy n John, go and wash Kenwright's socks.
Wash your mouth out Ray! Are all the Mailbag posters loopy this morning? Coz I know the first two are
No way, Jose!! But you come all the way from Glasgow to do it if you wish. I?d rather be dead than wear red!!
Wear red !!! not in this life thank-you...
How about a half time protest and a mass walkout for the second half at the first home game..
Even EFC will struggle to hide a full stadium at kick off and an empty one for the second half...
How about a half time protest and a mass walkout for the second half at the first home game..
Even EFC will struggle to hide a full stadium at kick off and an empty one for the second half...
How do you gang of Muppets expect everyone to walk out of Goodison at half time when over half of us voted for the move?
Can’t you live with it and move on?
Can’t you live with it and move on?
Sorry Ray, I do not actually own anything red so that would be a no goer for me.
I suppose I could get sunburnt and go topless......then again I would need the sun to shine to able to do that and we all know the great British weather is not too accomodating in that area.
I suppose I could get sunburnt and go topless......then again I would need the sun to shine to able to do that and we all know the great British weather is not too accomodating in that area.
For future reference, the Club should publish the names of the Yes voters. In this way, future generations (and archeologists) will know the names of those responsible for the exodus from our City and the demise of Everton Football Club. If the yes voters are so confident that they have done the right thing by the Club then they should be happy to have their identities disclosed.
Brian you tit!
You can have all my details if you wish. This was a free vote and I voted the way I wanted to - Am I not entitled to do so?
This is unortunately the quite sad and bullying attitude of the KEIOC supporters.
If we move, it is obvious to me that the likes of you will eventually shut up, go the match and pretend that you voted Yes.
You can have all my details if you wish. This was a free vote and I voted the way I wanted to - Am I not entitled to do so?
This is unortunately the quite sad and bullying attitude of the KEIOC supporters.
If we move, it is obvious to me that the likes of you will eventually shut up, go the match and pretend that you voted Yes.
Brian you t_t!
You can have all my details if you wish. This was a free vote and I voted the way I wanted to - Am I not entitled to do so?
This is unortunately the quite sad and bullying attitude of the keioc supporters.
If we move, it is obvious to me that the likes of you will eventually shut up, go the match and pretend that you voted yes.
You can have all my details if you wish. This was a free vote and I voted the way I wanted to - Am I not entitled to do so?
This is unortunately the quite sad and bullying attitude of the keioc supporters.
If we move, it is obvious to me that the likes of you will eventually shut up, go the match and pretend that you voted yes.
And I thought it was only Kieth Wyness and Billy Bullshit who could degrade this club.
Why don’t we all go dressed as Bin Laden, with wigs, beards - the lot.
Or in fact why don’t we have a fancy dress day anyway - that would make things more interesting.
Or in fact why don’t we have a fancy dress day anyway - that would make things more interesting.
I dont think 150 or so "protesters" dressed in red, scattered around the ground would stand out... judging by previous "mass" protests by the supposed No majority I will be surprised if you can muster that number.
If your right, John, and we are going to Kirkby, then "the red side of the city", is a redundant phrase. The city is red.
I’ll be staging my own protest in that I won’t be going to Kirkby. Call me childish, traitor, whatever, but the bickering between Blue’s (I enjoy it and join in when its actually about the team) and the Board’s treatment of the fan base as a whole (nothing new there) is what’s going to have me calling time on football. We all know that football clubs have taken the fans for granted for too long. They’re right in that traditional fan will put up with more that a glory hunting Sky follower and they’ve exploited this (to the max in this case I feel) because they know we’re not going to go and follow someone else. And this still holds but they haven’t considered that some people might just abandon the game all together. This isn’t a "call to arms", or rather "to armchairs". This is a simple personal truth in that rather than go to Kirkby I’ll simply secede.
Ron, once the dust has settled in 2-3 years time..............bet you don’t!
The Kirkby deal is the only chance we have of keeping up with the development of the rest of the top 6. As for wearing red it sounds to me a red has started this discussion, what a stupid suggestion.
Why don’t you don a Batman suit and scale the Liver building with a big banner saying ’No to Kirkby?’
Guarenteed to not only get you on all prime time news channels but nicked at the same time.
Depends how far you are willing to go!!!
Guarenteed to not only get you on all prime time news channels but nicked at the same time.
Depends how far you are willing to go!!!
Don’t know about wearing anything as a protest but as do Tom and Chris, above, I believe everything that Keith Wyness says.
So to make sure I survive to sit in our world-class, virtually free, concert-holding, £10 miilion-a-year- (less interest)-for-Moysey stadium I shall, next season attend each home game wearing a bulder’s hard-hat, upper-body armour and toe-tectors.
All fans should take every precaution against being injured by falling Goodison; although there are now several websites offering pre-accident GP insurance protection and will facilitate the subsequent injury claims (on a no-win, no fee basis, of course); prevention is better, as they say
Show you trust in Big Keith...show him your helmets!
So to make sure I survive to sit in our world-class, virtually free, concert-holding, £10 miilion-a-year- (less interest)-for-Moysey stadium I shall, next season attend each home game wearing a bulder’s hard-hat, upper-body armour and toe-tectors.
All fans should take every precaution against being injured by falling Goodison; although there are now several websites offering pre-accident GP insurance protection and will facilitate the subsequent injury claims (on a no-win, no fee basis, of course); prevention is better, as they say
Show you trust in Big Keith...show him your helmets!
Nice one, Paul.. lol.
How about all wearing black! Everton’s original colour kit and it could also be seen as a reference to a funeral...
Here’s a weird one, how about going to the match, supporting your team and make sure you do your best to help them get three points?
Tom...... I am neither a bully, a tit nor a KEIOC supporter and I do not want your details. In 2-3 years times when you are sitting in a half-empty Kirkby equivalent of the Riverside, you will be pretending that you voted No.
I just think that history deserves to be provided with the names of those who voted Yes to the move. For good or bad the move to Kirkby fundamentally changes our identity and the pioneers of change need to be remembered in some tangible form..... perhaps a plaque or an illuminated scroll of some sort.
I just think that history deserves to be provided with the names of those who voted Yes to the move. For good or bad the move to Kirkby fundamentally changes our identity and the pioneers of change need to be remembered in some tangible form..... perhaps a plaque or an illuminated scroll of some sort.
Right, so people would be willing to wear the colours of our most hated rivals, but would not be willing to travel 5 miles down the raod to watch our team? Priceless, I?ve heard it all now!
Does the same thing apply if in 2-3 years, we are sitting in a half empy Goodison Park?
Can we then have the names of the NO VOTERS.
Surely you haven’t got a crystal ball, nor have I, therefore, how can you be 100% sure that Kirkby will go tits up?
Quite possibly it’s what you think MAY happen and being somebody who doesn’t want to go, you quite possibly WANT it to happen.
Bottom line is that nobody knows, I voted with my head and not my heart and hopefully I made the correct choice.
You obviously know that I didn’t.
If you know what is going to happen in three years you may be in the wrong profession, unless you are known as
GYPSY ROSE FINNIGAN
Can we then have the names of the NO VOTERS.
Surely you haven’t got a crystal ball, nor have I, therefore, how can you be 100% sure that Kirkby will go tits up?
Quite possibly it’s what you think MAY happen and being somebody who doesn’t want to go, you quite possibly WANT it to happen.
Bottom line is that nobody knows, I voted with my head and not my heart and hopefully I made the correct choice.
You obviously know that I didn’t.
If you know what is going to happen in three years you may be in the wrong profession, unless you are known as
GYPSY ROSE FINNIGAN
Brian and the others,
I along with thousands of other fans, voted yes.
If the Government decision goes against me, I will dust myself off and get on with it.
Why is it then, that if the Government decision goes against you KEIOC, you want to pubicly humiliate those who voted yes?
Is this bullying, is it childish.
You tell me
I along with thousands of other fans, voted yes.
If the Government decision goes against me, I will dust myself off and get on with it.
Why is it then, that if the Government decision goes against you KEIOC, you want to pubicly humiliate those who voted yes?
Is this bullying, is it childish.
You tell me
Wearing red is a bad idea. I proposed everyone at a certain game last season turns their back on the pitch at half time as this would be picked up by MOTD camera?s and show the media that although over 50% voted yes for DK that a huge amount of suporters were against the move. It didn?t really receive much backing though. I think that we're just not really the protesting type for some strange reason. Either that or we're just not convinced there?s a viable alternative so were not willing to really make a stand. Hopefully it?ll get called in anyway as that will force the board to find an alternative
Message to Tom and other Tescoites: I have been watching EFC. home and away for 55 years and if we move to Kirkby I willl look forward to sitting in the ale house watching live Premier League football while you and 10,000 other Yes-men are watching Tesco Rovers playing Grimsby Town.
Tom,
The debate’s been going on in these letters for months and the chasm appears to have narrowed as, apparently, more Yes voters reconsider their position in the light of ’it’s not want we voted for’ in terms of the standard, use of and projected benefit from the new stadium
Football isn’t (for me, anyway) about business and commercial sense - it’s about passion, unjustified blind faith, stupidity if you like - in fact things for which you’d normally get put away for believing in.
So don’t be surprised how many No voters don’t see things as you do, even those who initially looked beyond emotion - yes, believe it or not, some of us also feel the only (sic) option is not the best one. And no, it’s not my job to give you better options, that privilege and duty rests with the current Board of Everton Football Club
The debate’s been going on in these letters for months and the chasm appears to have narrowed as, apparently, more Yes voters reconsider their position in the light of ’it’s not want we voted for’ in terms of the standard, use of and projected benefit from the new stadium
Football isn’t (for me, anyway) about business and commercial sense - it’s about passion, unjustified blind faith, stupidity if you like - in fact things for which you’d normally get put away for believing in.
So don’t be surprised how many No voters don’t see things as you do, even those who initially looked beyond emotion - yes, believe it or not, some of us also feel the only (sic) option is not the best one. And no, it’s not my job to give you better options, that privilege and duty rests with the current Board of Everton Football Club
Phil I agree with your comments.
That is why when the decision is made, individuals and groups should vent their anger elsewhere and not at those who placed a vote in good faith.
I want the move, others don’t, I won’t blame others if it doesn’t go my way.
That is why when the decision is made, individuals and groups should vent their anger elsewhere and not at those who placed a vote in good faith.
I want the move, others don’t, I won’t blame others if it doesn’t go my way.
Tom.....why do you keep using words in upper case? Your shouting indicates both a lack of knowledge and respect. As for my new nome de plume...I think I will pass on that. Thanks anyway.
Why would any supporter want the Club to founder? Do you seriously think that the no voters wish the Club harm if it moves to Kirkby? On the contrary, we are concerned that this venture is likely to fail for all of the financial, logistical, transportation reasons that have been expounded over the past 12 months and fear that the Club will be diminished or destroyed by such a move.
The confidence of your fellow yes-voters that the project will succeed needs to be recorded for posterity. What better way for this to happen than to have your names recorded on a roll of honour as visionaries who advanced the stature of our Club. If you are convinced that Kirkby is the right option then you should be willing to be known as well as be counted.
Why would any supporter want the Club to founder? Do you seriously think that the no voters wish the Club harm if it moves to Kirkby? On the contrary, we are concerned that this venture is likely to fail for all of the financial, logistical, transportation reasons that have been expounded over the past 12 months and fear that the Club will be diminished or destroyed by such a move.
The confidence of your fellow yes-voters that the project will succeed needs to be recorded for posterity. What better way for this to happen than to have your names recorded on a roll of honour as visionaries who advanced the stature of our Club. If you are convinced that Kirkby is the right option then you should be willing to be known as well as be counted.
Tom Reilly ..."I voted with my heart not my head" - this ridiculous statement churned out continuously makes me physically ill. if your head tells you to agree with that lying tit wyness, despite many of initial no voters fears already being realised, then your labotomy is near complete!! Good luck with your 2 hour walk to your car or 2 hour wait for a train on a freezing january night - you will have plenty of chance to use your brain as you wait!
id rather suck shit through a straw
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