Can't wait for another round of Toxic Saturday at the Valley. Meeting behind the North Stand at 1.30 don't forget, & also hoping Roger Johnson gets 90 min of stick today.
It's another "surprise" apparently. Meet at 1.30 and be told by CARD what to do. No thanks - that's not for me, nor I suspect many on here, I will look on with interest as to what they propose but I will be protesting come what may. Colin has posted that the club has installed extra CCTV in the Lower North for this season - where I suspect the vast majority of our fans will congregate because of the cheap STs. Will the protective nets be up today
But he's also never told anything true. A fountain of BS. Doubt I'll make the journey up then. 1) if it's planned for inside the ground then it's redundant for me. 2) I fear a sit in protest whilst dressed as sheikhs, though would be somewhat appeased those outfits were being used again, and proving they weren't a waste of money
all the indications on social media are that its going to be some sort of fancy dress job - they have pledged not to disrupt inside the stadium in Augest - something that has been made to look a tad silly after the start to the season and the ABC incident ...
I'll give it a go. I don't see why it always has to involve lashing out large sums of money, an hour of abuse behind the West Stand would be fine. Then home.
The CEO will be quite happy with that as it bumps up the attendance figure, which will impress Roland.
I assume they will have will be spending extra on stewards and policing so that is sort of a silver lining. Tuesday's attendance will bring him back down to earth.
I can see around 8,000 being the announced attendance on Tuesday, as for how many actually in the ground about 7,000
At 13:30 we walked down to the club shop, Ben Tegg handed out placards "Don't fund Roland", and there was a picket outside the shop. At 14:35 hours I decided to get the 14:47 and left No-one was paying much attention to the picket, and the custom seemed about normal. There were 70-80 protesters at a rough guess. All very quiet and low-key.
2nd half... Charlton well on top, Holmes having a great game. Slade... takes him off and ALL MOMENTUM COMPLETELY LOST. Weird decision...!!
Didn't look anything less than 100% to me...!! The fella broke his neck running to retrieve the ball just so we could take a throw in about 3 minutes before he was dragged off. Botaka was dog s**t when he came on. He looks to have no footballing brain whatsoever...!!
The football in the build up to JJ's goal was beautiful to be fair. I very much enjoyed our performance during the 25 mins after HT before Holmes got subbed. I thought that in the first half we very much looked like a side with a group of players who had been hastily put together. Very little coherence in anything we tried to do.
That wasn't very good, although slightly better than Bury last week. Northampton came for a point and sat with ten men behind the ball. They were time wasting after 15 min. We were as bad as is possible in the first half, with that horrible ageing midfield 3 constantly passing it sideways. Booed off at half time, the second half was better for 15 min with Holmes again looking lovely with minimal support. Lookman eventually came on after we sang his name. This is a woefully poor and paceless team, FHB will know what I am talking about when I say it's our worst since the early 80s one IMO Long long old season ...
