The ONLY way to communicate with the Glazers. Boycott a televised game

[Highlyevolved]

Forget protests outside the club.

Forget trending hashtags on twitter.

The only language the Glazers speak is money.

Commercially the club still do well, that won’t last forever if results don’t change on the pitch. The squad needed serious investment this season. It didn’t happen. They are taking the fans for a ride.

Yes. They’ve already sold the tickets.

But, hear me out.

Choose a game this year. Make sure it’s televised. Boycott it.

Empty ground will make world news.
Investors and sponsors will take notice, it will force the Glazers hand. The visual act itself will be a watershed moment, showing this club is still about the fans, and not the Glazers.

Boycott the merchandise too.

It is the ONLY way.

 

[Kag]

Genius, this.

 

[Crustanoid]

It won’t happen

 

[P-Ro]

Think you might be onto something there buddo.

 

[Adam-Utd]

It just wouldn’t happen.

The seats will be bought my foreign fans or day trippers.

Yes you could probably get perhaps 20% of the seats empty, but a once off would just be seen as an odd scenario.

You’d have to do this regularly for a few home games in a row for it to really hit home to the board.

 

[sunama]

This could work.
I remember another poster on here said that everybody who goes to the stadium, during the match, should hold banners of Nike (or other company name which is not sponsored by MUFC AND is a competitor of a MUFC sponsor).
That'll piss off the sponsors and ask why the fans are doing this.

 

[sunama]

It just wouldn’t happen.

The seats will be bought my foreign fans or day trippers.

They won't be, because the people who have paid for the seats, did not turn up.
You can't sell double sell a seat, just because the original ticket holder did not turn up.

 

[Enigma_87]

They probably won’t watch it anyway.

 

[Adam-Utd]

They won't be, because the people who have paid for the seats, did not turn up.
You can't sell double sell a seat, just because the original ticket holder did not turn up.

Ok so in that scenario it might, but I think you’d struggle to convince 75,000 people to buy a ticket for 60+ quid and not go to the match.

Maybe if things get really bad, perhaps.

 

[predator]

It is just not gonna happen I'm afraid. OT is full of all sorts of folk, at every game.

20%ish of the stadium maybe but that doesn't really have the same effect does it.

 

[Fan owned United]

The only way to communicate with the glazers is with money. There are 19 million United fans on twitter alone, if 400,000 put in 10,000 we would be packing the glazers off and appointing a president to run the club in the name of the fans.

 

[Igor Drefljak]

This could work.
I remember another poster on here said that everybody who goes to the stadium, during the match, should hold banners of Nike (or other company name which is not sponsored by MUFC AND is a competitor of a MUFC sponsor).
That'll piss off the sponsors and ask why the fans are doing this.

That'd actually be interesting.
I agree, people who buy tickets will go, if people don't buy tickets, others will pick them up, that action is a non starter, but to do an actual protest in the stadium would peak interest.

 

[Class of 63]

When I saw the thread I thought it was asking fans not to watch a televised game on tv, sod that I thought, though I would be prepared to watch with the sound down as a token gesture, but miss a match, never.

But on topic, it would have to be arranged at least a month ahead, probably longer, what happens if the team are in great form at the time brushing opponents aside scoring goals for fun, would you still expect fans to stay away as planned, or do you hope the team are struggling so the boycott is more successful??

 

[Pace Abuser]

We need a list of all the sponsors and a boycott of them .

 

[Snow]

Boycotting Old Trafford is a much massive statement. Boycotting a game on TV doesn't do a single thing. You either purchase a subscription or you don't.

 

[Cloud7]

do you hope the team are struggling so the boycott is more successful??

“Can a loss be a win?”

 

[sammsky1]

We need a list of all the sponsors and a boycott of them .

Abusing current sponsors and promoting non sponsors is a brilliant idea.

It’s unique, visual, topical and will create huge viral impact which will piss off a very critical Glazer income source.

I like it!

 

[sammsky1]

Boycotting Old Trafford is a much massive statement. Boycotting a game on TV doesn't do a single thing. You either purchase a subscription or you don't.

Or you watch via a stream

 

[Jules_T]

Never going to happen.

To put it into perspective, we are a tiny vocal minority. A very small percentage of the people attend the games are even aware of the discontent we discuss here.

They are happy with what's happening and get their dose ofv football for 90 minutes a week and forget about United for the rest of the time.

It's only us caftards that put ourselves through this masochistic echo chamber of discontent.

 

[Class of 63]

“Can a loss be a win?”

Only at the bookies, apparently

 

[antohan]

Abusing current sponsors and promoting non sponsors is a brilliant idea.

It’s unique, visual, topical and will create huge viral impact which will piss off a very critical Glazer income source.

I like it!

And then everyone can moan when there's no transfer budget

 

[clarkydaz]

Never going to happen.

To put it into perspective, we are a tiny vocal minority. A very small percentage of the people attend the games are even aware of the discontent we discuss here.

They are happy with what's happening and get their dose ofv football for 90 minutes a week and forget about United for the rest of the time.

It's only us caftards that put ourselves through this masochistic echo chamber of discontent.

Of course it could happen. People were leaving the ground early for lvg out of apathy. A walk out in the 2nd half is similary plausible, but has to be organised.

 

[Sky1981]

Forget protests outside the club.

Forget trending hashtags on twitter.

The only language the Glazers speak is money.

Commercially the club still do well, that won’t last forever if results don’t change on the pitch. The squad needed serious investment this season. It didn’t happen. They are taking the fans for a ride.

Yes. They’ve already sold the tickets.

But, hear me out.

Choose a game this year. Make sure it’s televised. Boycott it.

Empty ground will make world news.
Investors and sponsors will take notice, it will force the Glazers hand. The visual act itself will be a watershed moment, showing this club is still about the fans, and not the Glazers.

Boycott the merchandise too.

It is the ONLY way.

What merchandise you bought this year?

 

[Sky1981]

It just wouldn’t happen.

The seats will be bought my foreign fans or day trippers.

Yes you could probably get perhaps 20% of the seats empty, but a once off would just be seen as an odd scenario.

You’d have to do this regularly for a few home games in a row for it to really hit home to the board.

This is wrong.

If you bought the ticket and not attend the seat cant be sold to someone else surely?

Unless you boycott by not buying the ticket...

 

[Sky1981]

And then everyone can moan when there's no transfer budget

What a great advertisement for the next buyer. Unless you fork out 400m out of your own pocket every year, we'll boycott you.

 

[sammsky1]

And then everyone can moan when there's no transfer budget

Think the idea is that Glazers sell to a benevolent billionaire who uses the club as an ego trip rather than a profit making entity.

Though am not sure how many of those are out there.

 

[sammsky1]

What a great advertisement for the next buyer. Unless you fork out 400m out of your own pocket every year, we'll boycott you.

Stop with the exaggeration and hyperbole. No one is saying that.

We’d just like to spend what we earn as a club - that would be fine for now.

Plus what’s wrong with spending that? City, PSG and Madrid have liteally just done exactly that.

 

[Sky1981]

Stop with the exaggeration and hyperbole. No one is saying that.

We’d just like to spend what we earn as a club - that would be fine for now.

Plus what’s wrong with spending that? City, PSG and Madrid have liteally just done exactly that.

How much do you think the club earn every year that you think we can spend 300m every year?

Do you think we earn that much?

And it's no exaggeration. This thread is about a boycott because spending 150 this year isnt enough and they want glazer out. So 400m or we boycott you

 

[Mr Smith]

They probably won’t watch it anyway.

They will once they see the dent in their stock prices.

 

[sammsky1]

How much do you think the club earn every year that you think we can spend 300m every year?

Do you think we earn that much?

And it's no exaggeration. This thread is about a boycott because spending 150 this year isnt enough and they want glazer out. So 400m or we boycott you

Please always minus the £130m of talent that the squad lost in last months (Fellaini Herrera lukaku) while making your £150m spend remark.

See two can play the same game.

And no one is asking for £300m each year. and what we spent before is also a deflection as most of that is not within the squad right now so needs alot more investment to be competitive.

 

[Sky1981]

Please always minus the £130m of talent that the squad lost in last months while making your £150m spend remark.

See two can play the same game.

And no one is asking for £300m each year. and what we spent before is also a deflection as most of that is not within the squad right now so needs alot more investment to be competitive.

So how much ? 200 net spend ?

Or you discounted the previous 5 years spending.

 

[sammsky1]

So how much ? 200 net spend ?

Or you discounted the previous 5 years spending.

Yes I’ve discounted a lot of last 5 years as it does not reside in the team anymore.

Yes. Manchester United should be buying 3 or 4 quality new players every season. Going rate makes that around £200m

 

[Denis79]

Organize 75 000 people from 15-20 countries, easy peasy. It would be effective but no way it's happening.

If we don't get going in 4-5 years they'll bail ship like the rats they are. We have already dropped 400M in value and are now the third most valuable club in the world. If we don't make the CL this year we'll drop another 100M. If our form of the last 5 years continues just before it's time for new kit and shirt sponsors they'll sell. They aren't here for the love of football or the club.

 

[Bubz27]

This thread is about a boycott because spending 150 this year isnt enough

False.

It's about the structure of the club, the ambition the owners show moving forward, it's about them being accountable for their countless mistakes, it's about stopping this slide into relative mediocrity rather than standing by.

The problems in this club can't be and won't be solved by spending £250m every summer. The recruitment policy we've shown over the last 7 years, spending £250m would just fill us with more shite that we wouldn't be able to offload.

 

[TheRedHearted]

No one wanted to come here unless for crazy wages or the selling club set insane transfer fees. We did the right thing.


I’d things ever get so bad you could crowd fund to buy out an entire section and hold an empty section banner or a massive thing but still, yeah.

 

[Abizzz]

People have to understand that hurting the club to send a message to the Glazers will not help improve the team. I'm all for chants/banners against Woodward and if must be, the Glazers too (although I don't see much point in those), but anything that damages United should be off limits.

 

[Lentwood]

This has been talked about a million times but won't happen. Most of the people at OT these days don't actually care about the game, believe it or not. It's mainly;

- Corporates
- Tourists/Day Trippers
- Lads on the piss

These folk probably couldn't tell you who the manager is, let alone explain the problems we have in the Boardroom

 

[RollieOle]

Write them a letter or something.

 

[Alabaster Codify7]

That'd actually be interesting.
I agree, people who buy tickets will go, if people don't buy tickets, others will pick them up, that action is a non starter, but to do an actual protest in the stadium would peak interest.

Its a good idea but it wouldn't do a thing. All that would happen is Adidas would moan to the board and from that moment on, every home game would be subjected to additional checks and searches on all fans to sniff out any non-Adidas merchandise and confiscate it.

 

[SirAF]

Ffs