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I am trying to think of decent forms of protest that can have a massive impact, but not hinder the reputation of OUR (not BK's) great club. How about a silent protest lasting 18minutes 78seconds (or 19minutes 18 seconds)?
I remember reading about Schalke doing something similar when their club increased ticket prices. They got noticed and the prices were reduced. They even scored during the 17 minutes or so and the ground remained silent, once the 17 minutes or so ended there was a massive roar by the fans, It really showed who mattered, and it also seemed to have a positive impact on the players.
I seriously doubt this is possible; however, I think it would have a great impact and would reflect well on the fans ? unlike a pitch invasion. If not this, a sit in, remaining in the ground for 1 hour or so after the match and I also quite like the idea of taking boots to the game. A protest is necessary; however, we want BK's name to be tarnished not EFC's.
Fran Mitchell, Posted 13/08/2008 at 20:10:10
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Can you tell me what exactly you are thinking of protesting against???
Exactly Anthony, what is the protest against? Is it the fact that our chairman has less pounds than Rik Waller?
Any protest can affect the players which means it is just plain daft and, dare I say it, koppitish!
Any protest can affect the players which means it is just plain daft and, dare I say it, koppitish!
i think this could be the article that fran mentions. i read it at the time. absolutely inspiring stuff. i’d never ever ever have imagined that fans could pull off something like this.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2007/may/13/newsstory.europeanfootball
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2007/may/13/newsstory.europeanfootball
It sounds like the fans of this club are all mouth and no action, no wonder BK can pull the wool over their eyes and bullshit them. They think any form of protest is anti EFC and are called Kopites, at least the RS don’t get treated like mushrooms, kept in the dark and have shit thrown on them once in a while. It’s blatantly obvious what they are protesting against..9 years of mismanagement, the death knell sounding for the ground, DK, the lack of transfers, becoming the laughing stock of the whole football league...need I go on? Get your head out of your arses, wake up and smell the coffee, climb down from your Ivory Towers, take off your rose tinted glasses and welcome to the real world.
Mike........Liverpool are the worst example in football in terms of mismanagement, lying and deceit and basically being a laughing stock to the world.
At least were not run by a bunch of Yanks who dont give a toot about football.
Get your head out of your ass and look why your amazing club which shines out of your ass has struggled in the time since the Premier League began.
How about just not turning up for the game, and let the true supporters wreck their throats shouting supporting the players and the manager who are with the club already and not just figments of a journalists imagination. That would be a great protest and a real noble gesture on your part.
MIKE HAYES - 9 years of mismanagement?
Does this mean that you were campaigning for a protest in 2004-05 when we qualified for the Champions League and alo last year when we finished 5th?
Funny, I never heard anyone trying to arrange protests then, very strange?????
Does this mean that you were campaigning for a protest in 2004-05 when we qualified for the Champions League and alo last year when we finished 5th?
Funny, I never heard anyone trying to arrange protests then, very strange?????
"They even scored during the 17 minutes or so and the ground remained silent"
Only a German could remain silent when his team scored!
No way 20,000 will be able to sit on their hands if the Yak puts one in!
Only a German could remain silent when his team scored!
No way 20,000 will be able to sit on their hands if the Yak puts one in!
Im not necessarily for a protest, as i often think they can damage the players stability at the club & match days should be for supporting the lads no matter what (i ve never left a match before the final whistle and cant understand people that do??).
However, i ve seen on a few EFC sites that people have come up with an inventive & humerous poke at the club that hopefully carries an important message. Not sure of the organiser but there is apparently a ’Bring yer Boots’ campaign for the Blackburn match. They want us all to take a pair of footy boots hanging round our necks with an offer to play if required. The point being to protest at the lack of new signings but in a clever & witty way.
Something like this would hopefully generate the right kind of publicity, with its humerous approach, but carry the serious message to Moyes & the board that we are waiting. It shows that we care but not that we are willing to berate our own as we owe them for our recent upturn in league fortunes, rather than regular relegation battles.
I could honestly see something like this getting a mention with a few good headlines in the rags, and something like Soccer AM or MOTD2 would surely pick this up.
Please dont protest with chants and jeers that do not support the boys!
NSNO
However, i ve seen on a few EFC sites that people have come up with an inventive & humerous poke at the club that hopefully carries an important message. Not sure of the organiser but there is apparently a ’Bring yer Boots’ campaign for the Blackburn match. They want us all to take a pair of footy boots hanging round our necks with an offer to play if required. The point being to protest at the lack of new signings but in a clever & witty way.
Something like this would hopefully generate the right kind of publicity, with its humerous approach, but carry the serious message to Moyes & the board that we are waiting. It shows that we care but not that we are willing to berate our own as we owe them for our recent upturn in league fortunes, rather than regular relegation battles.
I could honestly see something like this getting a mention with a few good headlines in the rags, and something like Soccer AM or MOTD2 would surely pick this up.
Please dont protest with chants and jeers that do not support the boys!
NSNO
I’m off to support Schalke, they sound like my kind of people.
Those in power at Everton would do well to read that article.
Those in power at Everton would do well to read that article.
I could honestly see something like this getting a mention with a few good headlines in the rags, and something like Soccer AM....
!!!!!
Heaven help us.
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Heaven help us.
No Signings No Optimism
I’m in favour of an anti-protest protest. LEAVE YOUR BOOTS AT HOME
PUT STICKY TAPE ON YOUR SEASON TICKET
HAVE A MINUTES ’MUMBLING AND SHUFFLING’
’KENRIGHT IN’
PUT STICKY TAPE ON YOUR SEASON TICKET
HAVE A MINUTES ’MUMBLING AND SHUFFLING’
’KENRIGHT IN’
Anthony ? this would be a protest against BK, who by the way, didn?t qualify us for the CL qualifier or made us finish 5th last season as it was DM and the players who done that.
Since BK has been here he has lied about NTL, lied about Chris Samuelson and FSF, lied about Kings Dock and fucked it up good and proper, lied about not selling Rooney for ?less than £50m?, has openly admitted that he doesn?t know what goes on with the running of the club because ?he is just a fan? and I for one am completely and utterly fed up with him and his bullshit.
Since BK has been here he has lied about NTL, lied about Chris Samuelson and FSF, lied about Kings Dock and fucked it up good and proper, lied about not selling Rooney for ?less than £50m?, has openly admitted that he doesn?t know what goes on with the running of the club because ?he is just a fan? and I for one am completely and utterly fed up with him and his bullshit.
If people want to protest then they should boycott the games, but they won’t do that will they cos they want to see Everton.
This is the only way the board will take notice.....the ony way to make them realise that you don’t accept it anymore.
If it means that much to you to protest then do it, but I feel that a lot of the shite on here is all talk and no action.
You all seem to want to protest but still see the games and have the match day enjoyment which to me is hypocritical.
It’s an either or situation.
I am not in favour of protests of any sort in the ground as it will affect the players mindset too much and the opposition will use it against us.
Nothing is gonna happen, nobody will protest and attendances will not be much different to last year, mark my words!!!!
This is the only way the board will take notice.....the ony way to make them realise that you don’t accept it anymore.
If it means that much to you to protest then do it, but I feel that a lot of the shite on here is all talk and no action.
You all seem to want to protest but still see the games and have the match day enjoyment which to me is hypocritical.
It’s an either or situation.
I am not in favour of protests of any sort in the ground as it will affect the players mindset too much and the opposition will use it against us.
Nothing is gonna happen, nobody will protest and attendances will not be much different to last year, mark my words!!!!
Bring yer boots sounds like the right idea to me. It won’t cause a problem for the players and is the sort of thing that will probably get picked up on by the TV cameras. What are the odds on them not letting you in the ground with your boots as they might be ’dangerous’ though? Even that could be counter-productive as where would they put them all as they confiscated them? A huge pile of boots outside the entrances would make a good shot/photo that would also highlight the problem.
I’ve just read that Schalke article. That’s how to run a football club. The phrase that stood out was ’backbone of the local community’. That’s what Everton should be, but we’re run by a bunch of amateurs.
How about 1878 protesters leaving at half-time and making a journey to our original spiritual home with news cameras in tow :0)
BK has his faults there is no doubt about yes he knows Fuck all about running a football club a point he admits by the way. He is "just a fan" like the rest of us, but a fan that put his money where is mouth was and saved the club from Agent Johnson. He has moved the club forward 04/05 4th place, last season 5th. Yes I hear you say that was down to DM and the players, but who was it that appointed DM in the first place.
He hasn’t got 100’s of millions of pounds to put into the club. I’m positive if he had, he would. He looking for a buyer or investment. So what exactly would a protest achieve ? Let him know you don’t like him, what difference would this make. If he was to resign as chairman tomorrow, what would that achieve we would still be skint.
FUCK protesting before, during or after the game, lets just do what we do best and support the Club we all love. We need to be getting behind the players & management, because no matter when you protest the players will see it. Whether they are sitting watching tv or reading the papers they will see it and they will be affected by it.
Come on EVERTON
He hasn’t got 100’s of millions of pounds to put into the club. I’m positive if he had, he would. He looking for a buyer or investment. So what exactly would a protest achieve ? Let him know you don’t like him, what difference would this make. If he was to resign as chairman tomorrow, what would that achieve we would still be skint.
FUCK protesting before, during or after the game, lets just do what we do best and support the Club we all love. We need to be getting behind the players & management, because no matter when you protest the players will see it. Whether they are sitting watching tv or reading the papers they will see it and they will be affected by it.
Come on EVERTON
Neil Coleran wrote "BK has his faults there is no doubt about yes he knows Fuck all about running a football club a point he admits by the way. He hasn?t got 100?s of millions of pounds to put into the club. I?m positive if he had, he would. He looking for a buyer or investment".
As a fellow fan I like Bill but surely by now he would have learnt how to run a football club !! Or at least employed someone who knows ? We wouldn’t accept a manager with no experience of managing a football club so why should Bill be different ? Bill does not have and will never have a large amount of his own money to invest so how long will it take him to find an investor ? If there really is no genuine investor for a big club in the most successful league in the world then clearly we are in a worse condition than even the ’doom and gloomers’ are predicting.....
As a fellow fan I like Bill but surely by now he would have learnt how to run a football club !! Or at least employed someone who knows ? We wouldn’t accept a manager with no experience of managing a football club so why should Bill be different ? Bill does not have and will never have a large amount of his own money to invest so how long will it take him to find an investor ? If there really is no genuine investor for a big club in the most successful league in the world then clearly we are in a worse condition than even the ’doom and gloomers’ are predicting.....
If I were to take part in a protest which I am not prepared to do if it has any negative bearing on the team, it would be a protest against the lack of open, honest information emanating from Goodison.
If BK were to admit that we’re stony broke and that the debts we already have are crippling us, I might actually accept that. But I can’t stand false promises, raised hopes and exagerrated statements. For God sake, tell us the truth and I might actually cope with it!
If BK were to admit that we’re stony broke and that the debts we already have are crippling us, I might actually accept that. But I can’t stand false promises, raised hopes and exagerrated statements. For God sake, tell us the truth and I might actually cope with it!
Anthony Jaras. I’m talking board level here.
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How about all getting there a few minutes early and letting rip in those few minutes between the team completing their warm-up and their reappearance on the pitch before the match starts?
As far as I’m concerned, anything that affects the players is counter-productive.