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You sell it out, I'll miss Watford . # it's only one game.

Well find us a Canadian multibillionaire anxious to get a foothold in English soccer then, and we can cut out most of the foreplay! 🙂

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So just to clarify your own personal position, if there was a "Take back the Club" style effort at filling the ground at the Charlton game with all manner of anti Venky's protests, you'd be prepared to participate in the boycott of the Watford game?

That’s because social media isn’t representative. It’s the only connection to the club for fans who live abroad / far away / have found other things to spend their money on, so those groups are over-represented on here. The fans I personally know who go mostly have never posted on here, or know/care it exists. And critiquing the tactics isn’t the same as “opposed to change”.

15 years of increasing apathy, worst first half season at home in history, two games abandoned are all far more compelling causes of crap attendance.

I thought he was sensational second half. He completely dominated arsenal's midfield. I hope he leaves England and moves to Barcelona or real madrid

A lot of the folk pushing for a boycott won’t have been on Ewood all season, so if they don’t go against Watford they aren’t really boycotting. The reality is that many people have been boycotting for years under the excuse that they aren’t going again until Venkys leave. It doesn’t seem to bother the owners at all however many people are a the games.

I'm feeling glad all over.

If the club try to off-set the boycott by giving away tickets, then publish this fact (maybe over-estimate the facts) and see what the clubs reaction is. They don't seem to be good in these situations.

The boycott would look even more effective if the game before against Charlton was a sell out,see what you're missing sort of thing. So if everyone who hasn't attended a game for God knows how long could possibly turn out for Charlton in early January that would be brilliant, come on, let's sell it out and show them what they're missing. After all, it's only one game.

That was the first thing that caught my eye the first time I saw him play. He’s rarely caught in possession.

Glenn too! Ste B still goes, I think (but I spotted that he’d moved to the other side of the Blackburn End a couple of years ago, so would need confirming)…

Gets some media attention for a little bit, fair enough. That Daniel Storey article was very good. But of course the media cycle moves on in a week or two and as the regime will have just stayed in their submarine till it dies down they’ll just shrug it off. The ‘official boycott’ on its own terms will do nothing a savvy media campaign would do anyway - like we saw last season with the three stooges in their hostage video - but what it has done has lost the Coalition a lot of ground with the majority of match goers, which is kind of the opposite of what they were aiming for.

Do people think the club will pull out all the stops to entice people to the Watford game? Slash prices, bring a mate, kids for a quid, family fun day, tons of free tickets to local schools etc? If they suspect only a few hundred will actually boycott, they might be able to plug that gap with a big one-off push/giveaway, so that they can then point and say there was no drop in attendance, no boycott, etc. That is something I would do, if I was in that position. Let's say real home attendance circa 6k, but 500-1k boycott. Imagine they could claw most of those back in other sales if they offered hundreds of free tickets and had a huge one-off ticket deal.

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To flip that on it's head, what's the worst that can happen? The boycott doesnt get a particularly good take up, BUT the cause receives some media attention and we're no worse off than if nothing had happened.

Maybe 1 would be enough. But you keep saying thats enough in terms of numbers in a list. Is there enough quality in those options? I would suggest not but we clearly have different standards on quality needed. Ive listed loads of players that I would happily ship out. I named 6 players currently registered that are of no use to us. We IMO need 2 centre backs, a right wing back and 2 strikers minimum, so in theory, we wouldnt need to deregister Carter if the window went as planned. But if it came to it, then yes, deregister him because hes no use if he cant even get through a week of training. You say potentially sell him, who on earth is buying him with that injury record? Wharton is a bit different, he at least at times can sustain himself for a run of games so I would certainly register him. Why are you happy to write off De Neve 6 months in but not Tavares or Henriksson?

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Watching it. When he plays well. Palace play well. He's been a different player second half

Lee Dixon commentating on tonight’s match saying how Wharton knows where his pass is going before he gets it. I said that from the first time A saw him. It’s why he’s never under pressure. He doesn’t hold onto it long enough for anyone to get close to him. It’s a wonderful talent and not many players are blessed with it. Couple that with pin point accuracy from a first touch and he’s a dream to watch.

It’s going to be ‘officially’ tried, but c6,000 will still be in the ground, not a million miles off what we’ve seen in the past couple of months anyway. So what are we getting from it over and above what has already been happening?

The boycott may not be successful but it has to be tried. In reality thousands have just got out of the habit of attending anyway and probably realised how much money they are saving on a lost cause. It'll be joined by more over the summer when many don't renew. That is a boycott of sorts. Sadly it all seems to be leading to a tragic ending where fans have to pick up the pieces and start all over again. The only question for me is how many years of suffering do we endure till that happens. I don't think I have that many left!

He has according to Andy Bayes on radio Lancs the other night.

Apparently he has never stated that