#UnfollowManUnited

[Lentwood]

Its a great idea. All movements have to start somewhere. Once #unfollowunited has a few thousand members it will become much easier to organise collective action.

I've already had a couple of ideas;

- Get the #unfollowunited members to bombard Official Manchester United sponsors with negative tweets. Even a few thousand negative messages would really put big brands off associating with United.

- Occupy OT. Rather than a walkout, where the impact is often lost, ask supporters to remain in their seats for a 7hrs after the game to symbolise 7yrs of failure. The progress of this could then be tracked on the Social Media account and it would also get media coverage

It is clear to me that the movement really needs "big name" endorsements and a clear set of goals. When we do get airtime, we need to be able to state clearly and articulately what it is we hope to achieve.

In my view, the goals should be clear;

- Prioritse the football over the continued commercialisation of the club
- Move Deadwood Woodward away from the football side of the club
- Glazer Family. Service the debt, make a commitment to a level of available funds every year. If they can't/won't - sell up!

We should also reach out and show solidarity with other fans of other clubs who are having their clubs taken away from them. I never once joined in the derision of the Arsenal Fan TV blokes because I could see we were heading in the same direction and we should be united in fighting NuFootball

 

[norm87cro]

Personally don't follow the club on social media and I've watched around 35 games in all competitions this season. Really don't know how much it really means TBH

 

[Adisa]

I hope it grows.

 

[GaryLifo]

Don't forget to unsubscribe from their website emails.

Just did that and YouTube. Don't use Twitter or Facebook

 

[FootyGirl88]

Looks like their followers on insta are going down too

 

[GaryLifo]

.. and if you are a city fan surrender or you'll die, we unfollowed United... hello hello we are the Busby boys.

 

[sugar_kane]

.. and if you are a city fan surrender or you'll die, we unfollowed United... hello hello we are the Busby boys.

Hah!

 

[Coops73]

I hope it grows.

Same, I don’t follow the club on social media but Woodward has crapped on about how the social media side of things are important to the club (didn’t he say as much when we signed Sanchez?)so if that can take a hit it’s all good.

 

[sugar_kane]

How does it hurt the club to unfollow them? You're not getting anything out of following stuff like a club besides more advertising directed at you. The club doesn't have revenue tied to the number of followers.

The campaign sounds to me like fans are getting a message across without hurting the club.

Actually I think shit like that does affect negotiating power, share prices, direct advertising revenue etc - as silly as it sounds.

I don’t actually care though tbh, the players won’t starve and the Glazers either hoard or piss away most of our money so feck it.

 

[meamth]

I think losing 10k is the most they can get.....

They average daily followers account is too great, the losing followers will be caught back in no time.

The proper protest is for the fans to stop buying season tickets and banners.

 

[crossy1686]

I think losing 10k is the most they can get.....

They average daily followers account is too great, the losing followers will be caught back in no time.

The proper protest is for the fans to stop buying season tickets and banners.

Yep, this is just a conversation starter for the board room at the moment. They'll start panicking when merch sales go down and they can't fill Old Trafford.

 

[AgentP]

I don't think this will have any impact whatsoever but I have unfollowed them. Our Twitter handle is boring as hell so it's something I've been meaning to do anyway.

 

[Shiva87]

Done

 

[minh_loc_xoay]

Its a great idea. All movements have to start somewhere. Once #unfollowunited has a few thousand members it will become much easier to organise collective action.

I've already had a couple of ideas;

- Get the #unfollowunited members to bombard Official Manchester United sponsors with negative tweets. Even a few thousand negative messages would really put big brands off associating with United.

- Occupy OT. Rather than a walkout, where the impact is often lost, ask supporters to remain in their seats for a 7hrs after the game to symbolise 7yrs of failure. The progress of this could then be tracked on the Social Media account and it would also get media coverage

It is clear to me that the movement really needs "big name" endorsements and a clear set of goals. When we do get airtime, we need to be able to state clearly and articulately what it is we hope to achieve.

In my view, the goals should be clear;

- Prioritse the football over the continued commercialisation of the club
- Move Deadwood Woodward away from the football side of the club
- Glazer Family. Service the debt, make a commitment to a level of available funds every year. If they can't/won't - sell up!

We should also reach out and show solidarity with other fans of other clubs who are having their clubs taken away from them. I never once joined in the derision of the Arsenal Fan TV blokes because I could see we were heading in the same direction and we should be united in fighting NuFootball

If we can start a movement on mass scale, the best way to hit the Glazers would be to feed directly to their rivals. Imagine a wave of fans with hashtag #UnfollowManUnited on social media with an image of United fans buying merchandises of other teams (Chelsea, City, Real, Bayern...) with a clear status: "If you don't sell the club to better owners/don't get your acts together, we'd buy merchandises from other teams"... That would hit them way harder than boycott and make bad press all over the place. Then may be the Glazers and Woodward would be forced into actions.

I can see our rivals gladly feed on this by having cheap discounts on merchandise if the buyer is a United fan. So our fans taking part in this wouldn't get their financial hit too hard also.

 

[Shiva87]

So if we scare the sponsors away and destabilise the club on the financial side, what are we going to use for money when we need new players?

Furthermore, Ed will be running around trying to replace those sponsors and will abandon his currently (or what we know of it) tame search for football people.

Or he might panic and hire any shit candidate who comes for the job, for e.g.: Mike Phelan.

I'm just asking here..

None of that will happen. The club losing a couple of million followers on social media platforms will not impact any advertising revenue in the short or medium term - but give a message to the club from the fans to get their priorities right.

 

[MadMike]

How will this work? Opposition fans will start following us, now.

We’ll be the new AFTV. Banter FC.

 

[laughtersassassin]

We’ll be the new AFTV. Banter FC.

We already are. So who cares. Just start doing stuff to show how we hate Ed AND THE GLAZER'S. Might do nothing but he'll if we protest and protest maybe it will help us somehow.


Doing nothing for 7 years is proven not to work. We got nothing to lose.

 

[ship50]

Tweeted this after their Mason Greenwood tweet: Greenwood IN Deadwoods and EdWood OUT !

Now I can unfollow in peace.

 

[FootyGirl88]

We’ll be the new AFTV. Banter FC.

It got Wenger out tbh which is what they wanted.

 

[Whiteside1985]

What a spectacular display of slapped arse behaviour this thread is.....

The only thing worse than the team is the state of our online 'support'.

 

[crossy1686]

What a spectacular display of slapped arse behaviour this thread is.....

The only thing worse than the team is the state of our online 'support'.

So you're content with the current state of the club and the way it's been run for the last 7 years? How long are people supposed to wait before it's okay to be unhappy with things? 10, 25, 50 years? What is acceptable to you? Some people don't and won't accept mediocracy at elite clubs.

 

[laughtersassassin]

All the elitists who are against any form of protest baffle me. We have been shite for seven years under Ed. You expect things to magically change or you going to try do something about it.


Yes it probably will accomplish feck all but I'd rather have our opinion known game after game year after year than sit and suffer in silence.

The Glazer's pray on your brand loyalty and people who don't realise this are complicit in our downfall.

 

[Dosse]

Followed on facebook. Not anymore.

 

[crossy1686]

All the elitists who are against any form of protest baffle me. We have been shite for seven years under Ed. You expect things to magically change or you going to try do something about it.


Yes it probably will accomplish feck all but I'd rather have our opinion known game after game year after year than sit and suffer in silence.

The Glazer's pray on your brand loyalty and people who don't realise this are complicit in our downfall.

Is there another elite club in world football that would tolerate 7 years of failure?

People against a protest at this stage care more about what other people and fans think about them than actually doing something for the betterment of the club.

 

[GE]

Done. On Instagram too.

 

[Rado_N]

I hope it grows.

You mean shrinks?

 

[Crustanoid]

I think starting off alternative accounts anti-glazer and possibly also Woodward would be more effective

And then maximising the number of followers, obvs.

 

[LawCharltonBest]

Unfollowed.

Not cause of any movement. Just because United are boring as feck.

 

[Sunny Jim]

done.

 

[iKnowNothing]

Is there a way to see it Gary Nev unfollowed the club on social media? Just curious to see if he walked all the talk on MNF about Woodward's failures over the past 7 years.

 

[Adnan]

Done.

 

[Waynne]

Yeah, that'll show 'em.

Its posts like this that make me shake my head.
Instead of eating this rubbish we call United football, week in, week out, debating ourselves here half to death at the state of the club, I'd like to contribute to showing the owners who have been mismanaging this club I have been supporting since the early 1980s, that I dont like their handling of what was once considered the best team in world football.
Every single fan who voices their displeasure makes a difference and has potential to grow.
I hate the state of the club and I'm doing my part to let the owners know that.
If you dont give a toss, rather stay out of the discussion but let us United fans who want to voice our displeasure, do so. It may work, it may not, but at least we gave it a try.

 

[OohAahMartial]

If we can start a movement on mass scale, the best way to hit the Glazers would be to feed directly to their rivals. Imagine a wave of fans with hashtag #UnfollowManUnited on social media with an image of United fans buying merchandises of other teams (Chelsea, City, Real, Bayern...) with a clear status: "If you don't sell the club to better owners/don't get your acts together, we'd buy merchandises from other teams"... That would hit them way harder than boycott and make bad press all over the place. Then may be the Glazers and Woodward would be forced into actions.

I can see our rivals gladly feed on this by having cheap discounts on merchandise if the buyer is a United fan. So our fans taking part in this wouldn't get their financial hit too hard also.

@Niall Are you happy with the direction Redcafe is going in? That it now resembles an opposition forum rather than a United one? Half the comments in this forum if said in a United pub would get the guy glassed. 20 years on this forum and it's almost unrecognisable, probably half the members, including the one's with high post counts, look to be undercover opposition fans by the constant attacks on the club and insulting of players. If it carries on like this I will have to #UnfollowRedcafe

 

[Vedder]

I’ve just reported United's tweets as direct harassment!

 

[Cee90]

I’ve just reported United's tweets as direct harassment!

 

[JoaquinJoaquin]

We’ll be the new AFTV. Banter FC.

Ok well just sit back and watch this rotten club get worse

 

[Judge Red]

Well, this is one way to get rival fans following the club on Twitter.

 

[UnitedSofa]

Its a great idea. All movements have to start somewhere. Once #unfollowunited has a few thousand members it will become much easier to organise collective action.

I've already had a couple of ideas;

- Get the #unfollowunited members to bombard Official Manchester United sponsors with negative tweets. Even a few thousand negative messages would really put big brands off associating with United.

- Occupy OT. Rather than a walkout, where the impact is often lost, ask supporters to remain in their seats for a 7hrs after the game to symbolise 7yrs of failure. The progress of this could then be tracked on the Social Media account and it would also get media coverage

It is clear to me that the movement really needs "big name" endorsements and a clear set of goals. When we do get airtime, we need to be able to state clearly and articulately what it is we hope to achieve.

In my view, the goals should be clear;

- Prioritse the football over the continued commercialisation of the club
- Move Deadwood Woodward away from the football side of the club
- Glazer Family. Service the debt, make a commitment to a level of available funds every year. If they can't/won't - sell up!

We should also reach out and show solidarity with other fans of other clubs who are having their clubs taken away from them. I never once joined in the derision of the Arsenal Fan TV blokes because I could see we were heading in the same direction and we should be united in fighting NuFootball

*When I say "you" here I'm talking generally, as in those who follow the #UnfollowUnited Movement.

This is getting beyond a joke and downright pathetic. Do everyone who does this really support the club. It smacks of desperation now.

You do realise that commercialisation is part of the fundamental financial running of the club right?

Without the commerical powerhouse that is Manchester United and it's many many many sponsors we wouldn't be able to spend half as much money as we currently do. Glazers have money yes but they don't have endless pot of it. Sponsors help pay the tea lady, the scouts, the office workers, the PR team, the transfers. By hunting down the sponsors you are in effect affecting everyone at Manchester United.

Do you think for one second that the board actually to not want to fix this mess we're in? They're happy to be in the dire position we find ourselves in? It's almost certain that they're working day in day out tirelessly to fix it and just because it's not how you want it or the immediate success (lets be honest City/Liverpool haven't been immediate successes) you're effectively throwing your toys out the pram.

Why do you think we're looking for a DoF? So Ed can move into the commercial side full time. We need Ed, he's the best in the business.

Also I love the way that almost everyone is blaming Ed for the transfers. Carragher said something similar on MNF, not for one second is Ed looking for players, signing them and giving them to the manager. No way is Ed doing that, absolutely absurd for that. Managers are going to him with a list of players and he goes out and gets them. With his blessing and the TEAM'S blessing. I.e: The recruitment team. Recruitment is a massive massive department it doesn't just consist of the manager and Ed.

@Niall Are you happy with the direction Redcafe is going in? That it now resembles an opposition forum rather than a United one? Half the comments in this forum if said in a United pub would get the guy glassed. 20 years on this forum and it's almost unrecognisable, probably half the members, including the one's with high post counts, look to be undercover opposition fans by the constant attacks on the club and insulting of players. If it carries on like this I will have to #UnfollowRedcafe

I know!

Look at what we've become.

• Trying to hurt the club we all know and love through this movement
• Calling for a club legends head and writing him off after a short 6months
• Moaning we aren't signing x,y,z but then when we are linked with x,y,z said player is only using us for levereage

I fear that there will be a divide within the club's fan base (at least online and the wider supporters) match go-ers will always support the club through thick and thin.

This place has become a toxic lately and this whole #UnfollowUnited is an absolute joke.

I love this club and to see us fans like this is upsetting. We should all be rallying behind the manager and the club.

The board and the team want to fix this. It's a multimillion pound business (football is a business regardless what level you're at) and they won't be just using it as a play toy. They'll want to fix it. Exercise some patience!

 

[Adisa]

I don't get the people criticising without bringing up any suggestions.
You listen to some of the players and they talk about how amazing the fans are and how they clap them off after serving up dogshit displays. We take too much shit.
The owners, the club need to beade aware this shit is unacceptable.

 

[laughtersassassin]

@Niall Are you happy with the direction Redcafe is going in? That it now resembles an opposition forum rather than a United one? Half the comments in this forum if said in a United pub would get the guy glassed. 20 years on this forum and it's almost unrecognisable, probably half the members, including the one's with high post counts, look to be undercover opposition fans by the constant attacks on the club and insulting of players. If it carries on like this I will have to #UnfollowRedcafe

Red cafe direction is a direct result of Ed Woodward and the Glazer's ruining United. The concern and negativity is the reasonable response.