Well done to all involved here. Please do walk out if you’re attending, we have to start doing something to force positive changes. Even a green and gold scarf is something. Keep it up reds!
Fans planning Old Trafford walkout
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Someone send me £37 to cover my ticket and I'll walk out. It's like listening to people on the dole talking about going on strike. Easy to support a protest when you sit online behind a pseudonym and never attend anyway.
Yes that is true but are you happy with the club atm ? I travel from Ireland with my son for every home game and 100% I will walk out because it's in some kind of hope that finally we can be heard .
You can sit there if you want but id near guarantee when the walk out starts you as a loyal fan will go with them . There's more important things in life than a few quid
Don't walk out then but if people want to what’s the problem?
Maybe people going care more about the clubs future than 37 quid, plus it would only be missing a third of the game so I would happily send you £12.33333
Geographical constraints and inability to actually get a ticket is a reason 90% of United fans can’t attend games, nothing about being a better supporter than the next.
But they've already bought tickets. Wouldn't it be better to boycott the game and hit them where it actually hurts?
If you want to settle for mediocracy and to be used to fund some greedy yanks for years to come then that’s fine.
Maybe give it some thought as this could improve the clubs position for your kids future.
Next on the list of shit protest ideas: get everyone who buys a United Pie to eat only 58% of it then leave the rest under your seat. FFS, lads, Woodward might not be ideal, but even he could organise a better protest than this. I’m glad these organisers aren’t majority shareholders of our club.
For any organised fan group there’s been the perfect opportunity to arrange a genuinely impactful protest that will get the club’s attention where it matters, but instead we’ve got a tokenistic tantrum to a 0-2 home loss: on 27th February we play Club Brugge in the Europa League, a game which will have been in the calendar for two months, and which no ticket holder is obliged to pay for. There’s been ample opportunity for people to arrange a real movement through leafleting outside the ground, fanzines, fan channels, local and national media, in order to encourage people to sting the club with a record low ticket sale and attendance, whilst ensuring that no fans are out of pocket. If you wanted to really send a message on a match day, that’s how you could do it, with planning and a bit of foresight, to get fans to boycott a match where they have the power to not buy a ticket.
Instead at 10 days’ notice, we’re trying to get people to leave 2/3rds of the way through an important league match, which season-ticket holders are indebted for, and which will no doubt be the day that Munich is remembered.
Bollocks. Most don’t go because they can’t be fecking arsed and put these imaginary barriers up. Tickets are incredibly easy to get hold of for the vast majority of games. There’s been virtually no sell outs this year.
Eek. Very precious about wasting £37. You sure it’s not you on the dole?
Think of it this way. You’re wasting more than £37 by attending each week to watch us perform so badly.
And before you say I don’t go. I go. And my tickets are a dam sight more than £37.
I’ll be involved.
But somebody else would just take their place at the game. This way it would be more visible I think.
Isn’t this the same guy who has just signed a contract with United (the new PR Team)?
Yeah you’re absolutely right they won’t hear about it and don’t get briefings.
Spot on that mate. The only thing with Europa League games is the club could sell/be selling a lot of tickets to kids/schools etc but I doubt there would be enough to cover 20k+ people who boycotted it.
Walkout, I'm all for it.....next match after should be a boycott. Don't give them your money.
Well done lad. I go over too, but I’m not any more this season and maybe for the foreseeable until there’s positive change. If I was there I would walk out with you. Good man.
The most uplifting thing about the club since SAF retired. The supporters are waking up.
About time.
Be interesting what kind of response the they will receive from the Top Reds in the stands.
Be interesting what kind of response the they will receive from the Top Reds in the stands.
Fantastic dedication, walk out or not. I can only afford to attend a handful of games every season (I'm from Serbia) but I would follow a walk-out as well, wouldn't dare to start it though.
Good on those fans, Ashton's role will just go into overdrive. I don't think anything will happen from it in terms of structural change. The corporate structure is an ancient relic and it won't be changing any time soon with the current business model.
It takes me up to 3 hours to get to every united match. Lately I haven’t been going as I’ve got a new born baby girl to take care of. But I’m sincerely taking the trip up to the wolves game to protest anyway I’m required to. It’s been too long the ownership has run this club into mediocracy.
Less than 100 people will walk out and nobody will notice.
Don't think that's a fair comparison. Actually going out an protesting does take effort and commitment and if you're doing that unemployed then you are doing something. Not like the majority of people do go out when it's their day off or if a protest happens after work.
A work strike is a bigger matter, a lot bigger than a protest at Old Trafford. Laws are involved and people's livelihood directly at stake.
Flights , accommodation and match tickets for 3 of us cost me £400. I’ll be there until the end.
If someone wants to cover this I’ll do whatever the feck you want me to do.
If someone wants to cover this I’ll do whatever the feck you want me to do.
You lot are too precious to waste a 37 on a ticket prize.
And you expect glazers to waste hundreds of millions on the team they dont even love?
And you expect glazers to waste hundreds of millions on the team they dont even love?
Is there a reason why we can't just hold Woodward out boards instead?
Nice idea but the club is sitting in 5th(With a chance of CL football)and still brining in a ton of money, as much as I would love to get rid of the Glazers, there's isn't the crisis at United to do so.
The saddest part is going to be when United sign bruno fernandes next week and a ton of fans will think their walk out played a part.
The saddest part is going to be when United sign bruno fernandes next week and a ton of fans will think their walk out played a part.
Good man.
The ground should be FULL of banners like this anyway, I'm always utterly baffled why it's not.
Do it when the second half kicks off, not the 58th minute. Jesus.
Literally. Ref blows for kick off, start to empty the stadium. Much more effective.
Literally. Ref blows for kick off, start to empty the stadium. Much more effective.
Good. The fans need to voice their
concerns. At the end of the day a football is inherently different from your average multinational company (and even there investors have a stake).
concerns. At the end of the day a football is inherently different from your average multinational company (and even there investors have a stake).
Yeah I'm kind at confused to at to why not?
Hell why not even make cheap Woodward out Tshirt's for a pound or two and the guy who sells it can make hella profit from a game for sure.
No one expects everyone to walk out, enjoy the game and at least make you voice is heard when it comes to chanting.
This will only work if fans doing it at every home game until at least Ed walks.
Agree. The fans are allowed to communicate their displeasure and make a point to the owners/ management. I used to consider Real Madrid fans to be idiotic for their laughable antics (white hanky etc), and I still do. However we're at the opposite naive/simpleton end of spectrum. 7 years of being awfully managed and run, and the fans have barely made their views heard. And it's all becuase there's an atmosphere at United that dissent makes you a lesser, spoilt and disloyal fan whereas the right thing to do is simply 'get behind your manager'.
Agree completely.
It's because Fergie earned and commanded such incredible loyalty - it was a true 'Cult of Personality'.
Then, when he left it created a huge void, and somehow, Ed Woodward stepped into that void and seems to've subconsciously milked the previously mentioned loyalty that fans had been conditioned into giving toward the club / Ferguson.
We need to change the culture throughout our fanbase and keep reminding ourselves that THE CLUB needs us to do what's best for it, and that's what we must do. If any part of the regime isn't worthy of Manchester United (board / CEO / manager etc) we must remove it.
This philosophy could actually unite us again as a fanbase as well. And give us some much needed direction as a club.
We have to get our club back, it's become an utter joke, a hollowed out brand.
I'm sorry buddies, but I don't think fans walking out will result in anything good.
I've said it many times and I'll say it again. The only way to get the owners to sit up and take note is to plan a MASS spamming campaign. Spam the social media pages of sponsors. Do some research and get the email of the Noodle guy and spam his/her inbox. Target the sponsors yo!
I've said it many times and I'll say it again. The only way to get the owners to sit up and take note is to plan a MASS spamming campaign. Spam the social media pages of sponsors. Do some research and get the email of the Noodle guy and spam his/her inbox. Target the sponsors yo!
Walkout is good. 58th minute isn't. Apart from being distasteful, it'll just invite loads of criticism which will cloud the message.
Ah the joys of the English language, make a stand by sitting
