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

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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.
The seats, including mine are already paid for. Season tickets. They have the money already.

Nothing we can do about that, it is just a visible act to show the world we are unhappy and we still hold the power at our club.

It will make the football world, sponsors, and most importantly the Glazers take notice.

It’s the ONLY way.
 

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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’s another good idea. I still feel empty seats will be an image used in media, and easily shared on social media.

It’s an image that they could never hide with any sort of PR or massaging of financial figures.
 

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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??
Timing would need to be right to get support on this. It would work better no doubt if the team were in a bad run of form.

In my opinion are short, good run of form shouldn’t matter, as this is a statement about how the club should be run. But agree, convincing many in the middle of a good run would be difficult to say the least!
 

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Yep, boycott a league game vs Liverpool at oldtrafford. That will make some headlines.

The club can't expel everyone who is absent.
 

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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.
There could be something in this.

If it were too difficult to go with the first idea of a complete boycott. A staged walkout. It could also then get people involved in the stadium who might want to at least attend.
 

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Dear Mr and Mrs Glazers

Please sell the club to someone who wants to win things and give us money instead of funding them.

All the best
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This should do it
 

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Unless you get 25+ thousand people to boycott the same game, this won’t work. They only care about the money and they’ll have it.

Doing something more drastic and effective would be more obvious. I’d say something like storming the training ground and beating up some players but I think that’s been done before, and it didn’t work
 

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This would send one of the clearest messages. You wouldn’t need 70k to boycott - 20-30k would send a message.

Not only that but if each one sends a PM to the broadcasters, the pundits etc with a standard message “I’m boycotting the game today because...” they would almost certainly talk about it. Imagine Gary Neville getting 20k messages 2 hours before the game.

Better yet if the fans did show up but didn’t enter the stadium and protested instead
 

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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.
I´m a bit puzzled what the boycott is about, to be honest. Not the Glazers fault that Ole and Woodward didn´t find anyone to spend their money on. But, well. Boycott them anyway. I´m sure we´ll find reasons afterwards.
 

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Timing would need to be right to get support on this. It would work better no doubt if the team were in a bad run of form.

In my opinion are short, good run of form shouldn’t matter, as this is a statement about how the club should be run. But agree, convincing many in the middle of a good run would be difficult to say the least!
Once the fixtures dropped Chelsea at Home as the first match(which was always going to be on SkyS or BT)was the ideal time, possibly the only time to try and arrange something and that would have sent out a statement, but once we're into the season it just wouldn't be workable for a whole raft of reasons, and far too many to go into.
 

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I think we vastly overestimate how many people are presently outraged. I doubt you'd get up to 24 matchgoers who are willing to do this. Also a single day protest won't have a dent in finances. This would have to be a weekly ongoing thing like a lockout for it to even begin to work
 

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There are approximately 50000 season ticket holders.

About 30/35000 are in the automatic cup scheme.

They currently have to pay extra for Carabou and Europa League games.

If everyone of them opted out, then these games would be virtually empty, especially with them being midweek games. They will more than likely all be televised.

This would also have a knock on effect with the acs benefits of domestic aways and possible cup finals, as no one in theory would be eligible.

This wouldn't cost the season ticket holder anything, to do it.

Won't happen but would be a nightmare for the club.
 

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There are approximately 50000 season ticket holders.

About 30/35000 are in the automatic cup scheme.

They currently have to pay extra for Carabou and Europa League games.

If everyone of them opted out, then these games would be virtually empty, especially with them being midweek games. They will more than likely all be televised.

This would also have a knock on effect with the acs benefits of domestic aways and possible cup finals, as no one in theory would be eligible.

This wouldn't cost the season ticket holder anything, to do it.

Won't happen but would be a nightmare for the club.
If they opted out, the tickets to those games would be released to the public and snapped up by non season ticket holders.
 

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Launch a cyber attack during a high profile game so that all the hoardings read #glazersout then follow it up with attacks on all their digital media channels
 

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If they opted out, the tickets to those games would be released to the public and snapped up by non season ticket holders.
A Carabou/Europa League match on a Tues/Wed/Thurs would not be snapped up due to lack of demand for them.

The only reason we get half decent crowds for these games is because of season ticket holders in the acs having to automatically purchase them.
 

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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.
It wouldn’t damage United financially. I’m talking of season ticket holders, or even ticket holders. The money is already there.
I´m a bit puzzled what the boycott is about, to be honest. Not the Glazers fault that Ole and Woodward didn´t find anyone to spend their money on. But, well. Boycott them anyway. I´m sure we´ll find reasons afterwards.
The fact that Glazers are happy with Woodward’s performance because the financial side of the business is great...for now.

What they don’t see is that it’s not sustainable if they’re not investing in the players on the pitch.

They’re milking a cash cow, but they’re not feeding it.
 

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There are approximately 50000 season ticket holders.

About 30/35000 are in the automatic cup scheme.

They currently have to pay extra for Carabou and Europa League games.

If everyone of them opted out, then these games would be virtually empty, especially with them being midweek games. They will more than likely all be televised.

This would also have a knock on effect with the acs benefits of domestic aways and possible cup finals, as no one in theory would be eligible.

This wouldn't cost the season ticket holder anything, to do it.

Won't happen but would be a nightmare for the club.
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.
These ideas are much better than the simple idea to boycott (been tried many times before to little effect, wont be any different this time) - I dont expect either to happen but at least its some new constructive ideas
 

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Dear Mr and Mrs Glazers

Please sell the club to someone who wants to win things and give us money instead of funding them.

All the best
Utd Fans

This should do it
Nice touch that! I remember one idea down in Cardiff, they where supposed to pull their trousers down and moon Mr Tan, until I politely reminded them they would end up with their face in another mans arse..
 

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Nice touch that! I remember one idea down in Cardiff, they where supposed to pull their trousers down and moon Mr Tan, until I politely reminded them they would end up with their face in another mans arse..
:lol::lol:
 

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The Glazers and Woodward are still treating us like mugs. Cancelling my ticket next season after 24 years.

The ONLY way to communicate with these idiots is via money.

If we keep attending, buying the merch, they’ll keep doing what they’re doing. Rinsing the club dry.
 

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The Glazers and Woodward are still treating us like mugs. Cancelling my ticket next season after 24 years.

The ONLY way to communicate with these idiots is via money.

If we keep attending, buying the merch, they’ll keep doing what they’re doing. Rinsing the club dry.
True it is really terrible how they are going to take us down. Soon the money flow will go down and they might sell us then. Do not want some oil lords from countries that treat it's citiziens (mainly women) as trash.
 

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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.
Season ticket holders are about 40k no? If thry boycotted thats over half thr ground and generally the better (lower) seats.
 

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Making the sponsors uncomfortable is the most direct way. Email, post, SM, whatever saying while you sponsor utd under the current owners we're not buying your stuff. Woodward will have sold the sponsorship on their being hundreds of millions of utd fans, therefore it's a lot of people potentially not buying your stuff on purpose.

Be worth checking, somehow, if there's a sponsor nearly up for renewal soon as a test case.
 

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It would be interesting to know how many of those who want to boycott spent close to a grand on a season ticket.

Also over 3/5 of the seats have been Paid for already
 

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I know a lot of guys who have been going from Iceland to Old Trafford 5-10 times per season for over 20 years but have stopped going because of this fecking mess. Also not buying any merch, unsubscribing from social media, me included. This probably won't do any good but it's a bit like the environment battle it starts small and every little helps. You know what they say about how to eat an elephant? One small bite at a time.
 

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Making the sponsors uncomfortable is the most direct way. Email, post, SM, whatever saying while you sponsor utd under the current owners we're not buying your stuff. Woodward will have sold the sponsorship on their being hundreds of millions of utd fans, therefore it's a lot of people potentially not buying your stuff on purpose.

Be worth checking, somehow, if there's a sponsor nearly up for renewal soon as a test case.
Quite a good idea actually!
 

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I remember one guy on this forum suggested taking placards and signs, of direct competitors of our main sponsors.
So perhaps Nike and Ford boards?
That'll get Adidas and Chevrolet wondering what is up.
 

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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.
This would actually be quite clever.

Remember the green and gold craze in 2010? Imagine if there were Nike/Puma scarves selling outside the stadium instead, in United colours too so that people would generally like them? It sounds farcical but given how cheap a scarf is vs boycotting a game and how many green and gold scarves sold, it'd be interesting to see how it went. The media exposure something like that got would be huge too - there'd be a serious snowball effect.
 

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Just suck it up that we’re not that great for now. Protesting and boycotting is embarrassing and extremely entitled I think.
 

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A lot boycott tv already with use of streams....

The only thing that will affect the Glazers is when sponsors drop off, shirt deals not as profitable as they once where. Kit manufacturers not renewing for previous valuation etc.

Fans have a big voice, but not as much input financially as people think.

You need the sponsors dropping off and the valuation of new deals vastly reduced for the Glazers to give a feck and jump ship.
 

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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.
If done for one game only this would have the opposite effect. Making world news is a positive thing for the owners, whether the footballing reasons be bad or good. Hated, adored, never ignored.

Our financial strength comes from our visibility as a brand. As long as the club is making headlines that aren't of a criminal / discriminatory / antisocial nature, the United brand is visible and valuable to the sponsors.
 

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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.
£10000 is not easy money. It seems we have 659 m adult supporters:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21478857

Even if the number maybe a bit exaggerated, we definitely have more than 400 m fans. £10 a fan would be more than enough.

Anyway, I'm still of the opinion that any sort of online protest is useless. The only effective way is through the match going fans.

Really hope our Stretford End would continue their chants :devil: :devil: :devil:
 

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We need to decide for once what our stance on Manchester United is. Do we consider it mainly to be football club that we all support and are a part of, or do we consider it to be a business owned and run by the Glazers? If it is the former, we need to put more pressure on the Glazers and try to hit them financially so that they start actually caring about taking us back to the very top. If it is the latter, then I do not see any need in spending money on their business. Stop buying official merchandise, do not spend money on season tickets. At the end of the day, they have ruined everything that Sir Matt and the great SAF built and are still living off of their great legacy and the fans' spendings.
 

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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.
I dont trust any fans to make decisions for my hard earnt 10000.

Some of you lot are guilty among the most stupidest decisions in a hindsight. Let alone thinking a collective 100.000 people could agree on a name for president, we can hardly agree on whether we need to sack or keep ole.

And for my 10.000 i want returns, i want divident, i certainly dont want to be asked to inject more so that old trafford could be free for everyone and united can have 500m kitty every year.

I certainly want to demand a free season ticket since i own the club. I certainly want to be able to make decision on whether we need to sack or keep ole. Any big purchase ole or the next manager made should be approved by me as a shareholder.

Need money for new stadium? Nope. I dont agree to invest more since I'm kinda strapped for cash this year. And probably some of my fellow shareholder. Maybe 10 years from now.

Oh.. look.. the house of saud offering me 13000 for my 10000. Would want to sell to them today. Pitty joe my friend who needs cash for his dog funeral he already sold his to the Chinese for 5000.