On a stadium you leave your issues behind. It's the good old principle of not pooping where you eat pretty much - as it'll ruin everyone's appetite. If you want to support a team your job is to keep it hungry - do the opposite and you might as well join the rival support as you're already doing their job for them anyways. Sowing dissent - creating a negative atmosphere surrounding that which you support - is not helpful (it's the opposite in fact). Criticism is fine - so long as it's not destructive.
Why not start a “Woodward Out” chant during the season opener?
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We say Woodward in,
We say Woodward out,
We sign Harry Maguire for 80mill
And sell Herrera for nout,
We finish 6th again,
That's what the clubs all about.
We say Woodward out,
We sign Harry Maguire for 80mill
And sell Herrera for nout,
We finish 6th again,
That's what the clubs all about.
Rap Genius: We should sign Tielemans for 40m or Pjanic for 80m, but tight fecking Woodward is playing his 40m signing instead.
This is from the guy that made the thread about us being an spoiled entitled fanbase?
We could get relegated this season and the sandwich sheeple still wouldn't bother raising their voices.
Can't help but feel that if we were fans of another club this window, the response would be the same.
Man City - 'why haven't we replaced Kompany? Woodward OUT'
Liverpool - 'why has everyone strengthened but we haven't? Woodward OUT'
Arsenal - 'why have we neglected our defence again, and signed a 33 year old donkey on the cheap to address it? Woodward OUT'
Could go on but you get the idea.
Man City - 'why haven't we replaced Kompany? Woodward OUT'
Liverpool - 'why has everyone strengthened but we haven't? Woodward OUT'
Arsenal - 'why have we neglected our defence again, and signed a 33 year old donkey on the cheap to address it? Woodward OUT'
Could go on but you get the idea.
There’s no way this is ever happening inside the ground and during a match it’s going to hurt the team and Ole more than the sharks who run and own the club.
Like someone mentioned before a protest outside Ed’s office is a more effective idea-but it depends on a number of people being minded to go there and whatever organisation is required
Like someone mentioned before a protest outside Ed’s office is a more effective idea-but it depends on a number of people being minded to go there and whatever organisation is required
Yea, I just don’t understand some of the enabler fans
...and why are people saying this can never happen in the stadium during a game? Fans boo all the time when the team is doing shit or even at certain players so what’s the difference between doing this? I don’t get it but sure
Ye you dont get it because you have never been to Old Trafford - it tends to be people who have never been to match in their lives who come up with this kind of bollocks
honestly you are far far away from the thinking of the average matchgoing fan
Everyone who wants more than me is spoiled, I just want the correct amount.
Except I have gone to 4 games.
I feel it’s the same narrative where I live. There’s a certain grouping of STH’s (season ticket holders) who are too “classy” that pay the premium seats but don’t offer anything to the atmosphere of games. They usually just hold business meetings with clients or whatnot and don’t care much about the product on the field and couldn’t be bothered at all. I’m a STH myself but at least I care with other fans for the betterment of the team and we let it be known when we’ve had enough...even at STH events, we’re able to chat/Q&A with the GM and publicly tell them our concerns.
But yea I know exactly what you’re talking about when it comes to Old Trafford. It’s a lot of folks who just don’t give a feck and are content being there and nothing more. Toxic enablement if you ask me. Fair play to them as it’s their money at the end of the day but it’s certainly not ideal for an atmosphere or the types of fans you want around. Otherwise you get this where Ed is in charge for however many years, failure after failure
Wait... You have gone to 4 games, but you are a season ticket holder?
No.
I don’t live in England.
I’m a STH for the local sports team where I live (of one of the 4 major sports leagues in North America).
That makes more sense.
Wait, you're a season ticket holder and you don't even live in the country?
I live 30 miles away from the ground and I haven't been to a home game in YEARS. This shame is almost unbearable.
How about you give me your season ticket and I'll go in your stead. We good?
With respect, I think you need some life experience. Hope you enjoy the season.
I’ve been following this thread for a few days and I still can’t get my head around the insane difference in opinions and arguments between a set of supposed football supporters who are linked by one club.
This is the problem with the internet and social media. 95% of this board and forum have absolutely feck all in common , including the way they support and follow United.
Twitter is the same of course. If not worse. As it’s casual fans who are jumping on bandwagons behind the safety of their twitter handles or their profiles with Woodward Out in. You see really well written articles by good journalists (yes there are a few left) and the comments below end up arguments between people who share nothing in common yet again.
The divide between match goers and the ‘rest’ (which isn’t in anyway an insult) is only becoming bigger.
This is the problem with the internet and social media. 95% of this board and forum have absolutely feck all in common , including the way they support and follow United.
Twitter is the same of course. If not worse. As it’s casual fans who are jumping on bandwagons behind the safety of their twitter handles or their profiles with Woodward Out in. You see really well written articles by good journalists (yes there are a few left) and the comments below end up arguments between people who share nothing in common yet again.
The divide between match goers and the ‘rest’ (which isn’t in anyway an insult) is only becoming bigger.
Christ, does anyone ever just enjoy the football?
Crazy isn’t it. Everything we do, see, hear is now critiqued beyond the realms of reality.
On this forum? Not anymore,fecking whingers.
Dybala wrecked op
Ed/United wrecked themselves.
The fact we didn’t even get a single CM is mind boggling. Going to be another season of riding on Pogba's coattails all while he gets the blame when he’s the sole reason we are even half decent. It’s not event Dybala, there were a handful of other CMs out there we were linked to as well yet didn’t get anyone. Shambles.
Because it’s utterly pointless
Ed Woodward has made hundreds of millions (potentially a billion) for the owners of the club.
We could fly an entire fleet of planes with "Woodward out" banners over a bunch of empty seats in protest and it would literally do nothing.
We could fly an entire fleet of planes with "Woodward out" banners over a bunch of empty seats in protest and it would literally do nothing.
Why did medieval kings start foreign wars whenever internal affairs were ropey?
The urge of uniting against a common enemy - basically an innate survival instinct - is far stronger than the urges that would cause your protest.
The urge of uniting against a common enemy - basically an innate survival instinct - is far stronger than the urges that would cause your protest.
No, it will distract the players, and its the glazers not woodward.
This thread would make more sense if OP would start it himself.
I don't really want him out, I just want him to step aside from football matters. He appears to be excellent at his actual job on the non-football side of things.
I don't think a technical structure is the solution to all our problems, but it's definitely a start, and it's massively overdue.
I don't think a technical structure is the solution to all our problems, but it's definitely a start, and it's massively overdue.
Ask yourself 2 questions.
1. How will it help the team?
2. Would Woodward and the Glazer's be gone?
I'm probably more pissed than most on here about our summer. The fact we neglected RW once again and didn't aquire targets for the midfield but even so the proper thing to do in this situation is to get behind the team and manager. Feck the Glazer's yes by all means but I'm sure the match going fans will get behind the team as always. We support the team and not the owners.
The only thing that would actually have an impact on getting the owners out would be merch and game boycotts which will never happen. However I will say this, if we fail to win tommorrow and the game after that then things could quickly turn sour. It's not an impossible scenario as well, Chelsea are unpredictable and Wolves away is a tough fixture for any side in the league.
Let's hope for the best.
1. How will it help the team?
2. Would Woodward and the Glazer's be gone?
I'm probably more pissed than most on here about our summer. The fact we neglected RW once again and didn't aquire targets for the midfield but even so the proper thing to do in this situation is to get behind the team and manager. Feck the Glazer's yes by all means but I'm sure the match going fans will get behind the team as always. We support the team and not the owners.
The only thing that would actually have an impact on getting the owners out would be merch and game boycotts which will never happen. However I will say this, if we fail to win tommorrow and the game after that then things could quickly turn sour. It's not an impossible scenario as well, Chelsea are unpredictable and Wolves away is a tough fixture for any side in the league.
Let's hope for the best.
That’s what I meant.
I honestly didn’t think anyone here would really take it so literal as to get rid of him entirely but I was wrong.
...obviously I meant in terms of the football side/transfers/signings side of things
This is what happens when a man's desire to holler 'SIIIUUUU' in everyone's faces is stifled. That pain has to come out somehow.
There's plenty who do want him out of the club completely, for many reasons. Lots of United fans appear to despise the man, and as a result a "Woodward Out" chant is somewhat ambiguous to those who want him to sidestep to a financial role and those who want him to no longer be employed by the club due to the era of failure that he has spearheaded. No clue what the ratio of that split of fans, but those wanting him out of the club is quite significant if social media is to be used as the barometer.
Usually a call for someone to be outed is not a call for them to be given a different/amended job title. I certainly can't think of an example anyway. Not that I think such a chant would have any impact anyway, but hypothetically if it did, "Woodward Out" would imply that the desire is for him to exit completely.
IMO, I'd rather stick to Glazers Out, as it would force a completely change of culture at the club. As it stands, Woodward is probably doing everything the Glazers want him to.
Well honestly we have sang some pretty shit songs in recent years, so I actually am surprised there hasn't been one yet that took some kind of potshot at Woodward or the Glazers in the lyrics. Their probably will be some kind of song referencing them in the near future but so what? The only viable option I see that might, might cause problems for the Glazers is attacking the sponsors in significant numbers.
I honestly don't think Ed would lose even a second of sleep over a chant about him.
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