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Just to highlight the discontent of the fans is it time for people to vote with their feet?  You can do this in a variety of ways.

 - Don't go to home games
 
If you decide to go to matches

 - Do not buy any food or drink inside the ground
 - Don't buy anything from the club shop
 - Don't buy a programme
 - Don't use the bookies inside the ground

If fans take part in any of the above it'll hit them where it hurts.

I know this has already been suggested but things are really begining to annoy me.

Agreed on all counts!  We need to do something for Mex all he has done is typed stuff ona  forum in a mainly jokey way

those boycotting would be precisely the ones the board would want to stay away.

This is a tough call.

     I already don't do any of the subsidiary activities.....I'm not sure how many we could get.....I thinl the call would have to be for one game only.

Foods fucking shit anyway.

I'm 50/50 at the moment, ive always said that nobody will stop me from going to support my team but the time has come when the other side of me is fed up with the crap most of us are being put through with the off field activities that not only ruined last seasons promotion but will also ruin any sort of success we have this season if current form is to go by.

But can they afford to lose more fans, they're already operating at a loss.  I know the landlord of our local pub may wish that some of the locals found a new pub to drink in, but he knows that they're the ones who spend the money and business is business.

Nail.Head.Hit

You won't get enough publicly willing to put their name to it.  It's already happening in an unofficial manner, even if people won't say they are.  Like me for example, not specifically staying away as such, as just can't be arsed to go anymore.  I;ve got cash problems of my own and frankly the shit around the club makes it much less appealing.  Breakfast for thw week or football on Saturday? grub is winning right now and I haven't felt the tinniest bit guilty for every game I;ve missed.  The last 2 I've not even listened to on the radio either.

Sad I know, maybe I don't now hold claim to being a fan, but frankly that's 100% correct I think.

It could well be. I'm thinking about it, I'll be talking to the folks I go with later, but it's looking unlikely i'll be coming back anytime soon.

As has been said before, I think a lot of people already are staying away. After successive big wins we should have had at least 8000 last saturday.

The way I see it there doesnt seem to be enough people willing to fight for the club as it is without myself giving up. So Id rather keep going as I am.

As for merchandise, I havnt bought a program for 3 years because it was Dunwoody.

Whilst I appreciate people are upset etc, Nothing will stop me going to support the players on the pitch, They do deserve our support.

Ask them again on the 28th when they need to pay their mortgages then.

Have you been going to the post match protests?

I have a season ticket I've already paid for and I want to see the team play. Thats why I got into football in the first place. It is a shame what has happened to mex and yeovil and I would hope that even if they dont go to home games which is understandable that they would still go to away games to watch the team.

But why should Mex bother after the disgusting way he's been treated by the Club?

I guess loyalty to the paying fans no longer matters in Football.

I couldn't not go. Simple as.

I can understand the reasons of those who are staying away, but for me personally it's like two different things.

I can boycott stuff like merchandise and food, but not the football.

I wish I was as naive as you Gary

Thats the point naive little old me is trying to make. I would still watch the team away as I dont believe the club get any money from that anyway?? or maybe they do?

You should be backing mex and yeovil gazza, this board are scum and they deserve nothing!

Please don't tell me what I should be doing.

I don't go to support the Board, I go to watch my football team play football.

He was actually talking to Gazza.

Fair play to you, nothing against anyone who still wants to go.

Without going OTT I am truly angry at the way STFC is being controlled by these people and if it means I don't go for a while, then I won't.  I'll feel better not giving them my hard earned money. Sounds a bit selfish in a way.

I am backing yeovil and mex. I am devestated for them. If someone told me I was not allowed to watch the team I love I'd be well pissed off. I would give my money to other clubs so I could watch the team away. I'm not giving anything to the club. All the extras I normally buy I havent.

- Vital Swindon Town hasnt sponsored the club
- I haven't got names on back of shirts etc which cost more money.
- Havent done VIP Days
- Havent bought loads of stuff from club shop
- Havent bought shirts for family etc for birthdays etc like last year.
- Only bought food once or twice this season at the CG
- Havent bothered with flags etc for L and P

I buy my season ticket and thats it to watch football. I dont even get to games until 2 now.

I am already boycotting things if you were, things I normally would do however I still watch the football as I have a season ticket already. If I was told I could not go, I wouldnt step foot in the County Ground again and would only watch the team away giving money to clubs who would appreciate it in the circumstances.

You don't get there til 2?  What the hell do you do for an hour before kick off?

2 minutes to three maybe!

Im with hertha on this.

wrong as it may be, is it surprising they got banned?
mex was all over the tv calling the board crooks etc, and yeovil was front page of the adver.
they've been recognised and banned.
expect more to get the same treatment.

and gazza you dont have to justify yourself for whatever you do.if you have an opinion stick to it

Yeovil was banned for being on the front page of the Adver?

I used to, many moons ago, think there was no way in the world I could ever stop going, even if only for a bit.  Now though, I quite frankly can't muster up the desire to.  I hope to god it all changes and soon, because I get the impression the longer it stays as it is, the harder it will be to get back into it.  Even in the 2-3 year period I staretd attending less (mainly because of money and having had a child etc), I still generally felt like going.  Now I'm struggling to worry about it.

So it's not so much letting someone stop me from going, or protesting, it's that STFC has quite literally been drained away, well almost.  Surely after seeing a 5-0 result on Sky i should have been feeling under pressure to go to the next game, but no.  Never thought I'd feel like this, and can understand how people post such things as "went for 20 years and then just stopped in xx".  My dad must have gone through the same thing, had STFC in his blood until the Hunt era, stopped going because he couldn't be bothered with spending money on it and now goes once every so often.

This club is more or less dead, this board are a disgrace and i'm not bothered if they come on here and see it, they treat the fans with contempt and do not give a toss what we think.
Alienating the fans and banning them is not going to do them any favours at all, they are just digging and even bigger hole for themselves.
I wouldn't give a penny to these idiots, i go to away games, i won't bother with home games.
As for the players they are probably cheering us on, they are probably pissed off with not getting paid etc.
This football club is a big fucking joke and i have had enough of this club and i bet alot of others have had enough as well, this club is a disgrace to the football league, we must be the biggest laughing stock ever thanks to the board!

I'm with Hertha and Gazzza on this.

For me the board and the football team are 2 seperate entities. I will always love the club, and for me the club is defined as the team, not the board.

Unfortunately they are connected, and in ways i would wish not, and christ i've been getting angrier and angrier about the plight of Yeovil and Mex, and i will do something, but i won't deprive myself of something i love, because things go on off the pitch that i'm not altogether embracing of.

Adversely i also feel that certain people within the club are licking their lips at the more annoyed fans deciding not to attend and not voice their concerns within the stadium.

Opinions are infectious. If one is given en masse, more people become effected by these opinions. If there's no one there to fight the clubs corner, fence sitters will forget about the problems in the end and eventually people will become content in their ignorance, as i often am.

But on my word, if there's a massive one game walk-out, or even a sit outside the ground game, i'm there. I'm in quite a 'smashing things up' mood about the state of things, but of course, i mean that in a metaphoric sense. I'm extremely unsettled and feeling quite uncomfortable and annoyed by the bans handed out. On one hand i want to be with Mex and Yeovil, but on the other i love the team. I feel pretty shit about not being more committed to their cause, i hope you understand lads! :oops:

I hope the above post was diplomatic enough forum mods. I was careful to try and keep my wording ambiguous. I will be more than willing to hand you my name and address if the club want it. That would be a truly delightful can of worms for them to open although an extremely unlikely one on the grounds of the above post. ;)

Sorry but after 6 years of forced absence i will never boycott

Stand and fight. Its still OUR club! Im still a long way from giving up that they will leave.

But if people stop going I dont blame them one bit. £££ is the only thing Diamandis understands so not giving it to him is the best way to hurt him.

Best thing to do would be not to go to a certain game, like Donny or the next one.

Sitting outside the game makes a point I suppose

Yes, there's not thousands of us willing to sit it out, but the truth is that the guys on here are, for the most part, the back end of the town end and the corner of the Nationwide; the ones that sing their hearts out every game and drag the rest of the crowds with them. Numbers might not plummet, but the atmosphere will.

What about a late entry protest? let the papers know and they'll take photos of empty seats compared to a fuller house later (lazy journalism apperently the way forward) people arriving on mass 15 mins after kick off etc. I imagine convincing people to stay in the pub for an extra shandy is a little easier than geting people to skip the pub and march.

Just an idea from someone else who has lost "the bug" (I made more home games in the Quin season when I lived in Manchester than I managed last year living in Toothill)

It won't work. Even if everybody who turned up at the Cheltenham did it then any boycott / late protest wouldn't be noticed. Unless there's some heavy media coverage then it won't happen.

And I think we've burnt most our media protest outlets with the backing down on Saturday.

Even picking an evening game?
The town end is generally less than full at 5 mins past kick off (on games where it sells out) and watching from the Intel its a fairly dramatic sight watching the extra hundred racing over from the pub. What if this was a couple of hundred? It could be a powerful sight, and an awesome photo: Photogrophers always want one of these, if it looks good editors WILL print.

When is the FA Cup first round? As a season ticket holder I'll be attending all the games I've paid for but FA Cup will be an ideal opportunity for an organised boycott.

Its a non starter .

I wouldnt bother.

i think i've lost all will to live, let alone watch some shit football on a saturday afternoon.

yeovil's right, a boycott will never work.

I've had some inspiration. I'm pretty sure that the only way a boycott might work, and it's a bit of a long shot, is if we all stop going to games!!!!

I won't be boycotting thats for sure.  Finally things start going well on the pitch and I don't want the board to think they've won by driving out the fans who are willing to make their voices heard.

I also couldn't do it to the players.  They still turned up for work despite no pay cheque and uncertainty if a pay cheque was even on the way.  They deserve our utmost support because of that IMO.

Problems with late entry is that it is almost certain they will just shut the gates and just not let you in anyway

I've stopped boycotting because it's cheaper to go to the game than stay in the pub

I wouldn't agree with a boycott,cause frankly it won't work.I am feeling hugely depressed at the current situation though and the idea of giving the board another £18 sticks in my throat.

Also if im honest the football is the only thing that actually cheers me up with all this shit

I don't think you're being honest. I've seen a very down and depressed red macca cheer right up after a couple of triple Southern Comfort and lemonades and when the ladies walk into the county.

Imagine that aceness but for another 1 hour and 45 mins. Plus, they have Gillette Soccer Saturday on in the county anyway, so you'd hardly miss much.

Tis true  :D

I don't think I'll bother going for a while. Not because I think it'll make any difference whatsoever to the board, but because it's just no fun anymore.

I have been thinking the same thing recently. I'm in two minds for Donny at the moment.

Same here.....although its only Donny isn't it?Very much doubt i'll be prepared to miss Rovers or Orient!

You can stay in the pub if you like. Word of warning, we'll probably do rounds though.

Spot on!

For me, saturday afternoon at football is something that keeps me going through the week when i feel fed up with work.

Nobody is stopping me watching the team i love.

Whilst i think it's disgusting that Mex and Yeovil have been banned, i'm not gonna stop going because of it.