As I said earlier. There is a way to have a successful boycott without the ground being full of plastics. The important questions are do we want a boycott and are we strong enough to organise it?
With fa cup attendances down quite abit, would it achieve maximum effect and be noticeable? Boycott in my opinion needs to happen at a premiership home game on a saturday or a televised sunday game, itl be massively noticed on match of the day and if its a sky live game
Depends what you want to achieve. If you want to deprive the Allams of money it wouldn't work. Just as boycotting the match and not buying the tickets wouldn't. If you wanted thousands of empty seats for an historic televised Hull City match then it would. Especially if you had a mass demonstration outside. However, you and I know that we haven't the level of organisation or the desire to really embarrass them on national television for Hull City's first ever League Cup semi-final. That's why picking Swansea City in the cup is the easy option. Attendance will be low so no one can claim the call was ineffective.
Buying all the tickets then not turning up would cost around £200k and even then there's absolutely no way of guaranteeing that thousands of tickets wouldn't be bought by people who just wanted to watch Man United and would go anyway. It's really not realistic to expect people to pay tens of thousands of pounds to not attend a match, Swansea's a far better option as it's likely to actually be supported.
My desire is great, I'd quite happily throw some in the coffers, as I have previously. I've also shown more than desire, I think it's called action, in other ways when trying to seek a favourable outcome. Organise it. Who have you approached to help? When you did appriach them, did you ask outright or leave cryptic "I know a way" clues for them to work it out themselves before declaring "we don't really want it"? How will you raise funds to purchase the tickets? Get on it, organise yourself. Get your brain switched in to action, rather than questioning & belittling what everyone else is doing.
Little too sensible you is. Not only will Swansea make a statement it'll give the nah doers an opportunity to question the validity of the action. It works all round, keeps everybody happy.
I don't think a boycott is a sensible way of proceeding, either for the Manchester United match or the Swansea match for different reasons. Many of our supporters have waited decades for success on the pitch. Hull City v Manchester United is an historic occasion, perhaps the last opportunity for many to see Hull City at this level. Swansea City isn't sensible because it will be a low attendance anyway and implies we are stronger than we are. It also gives the Allams the opportunity to close some stands thereby saving money on stewarding costs. The 15th of December is the closing date for objections to the Allams application to install a gate to stop people walking past the stadium to get to the town centre from West Park. I asked people to lodge an objection on this board, Amber Nectar and CI. Mine will go in closer to the 15th. There have been two public objections, one of which was the result of my request. I have a promise of another one. I see it as a way of stopping them getting what they want. You don't even have to live in Hull to lodge an objection. It doesn't cost a penny, you just send Hull City Council an e-mail and its likely to take less than 10 minutes of anyone's time. Not a huge sacrifice, in my opinion, if you want to stand up to the Allams and stop them doing what they want.
Just hope you can live with yourself when terrorists who would have been deterred by this formidable barrier and departed to find other places less well protected cause mayhem st the KCOM.
Yes I want people to stand up to him. Whether it gets on the front page or not. If the HDM are at the planning committee it may get a few lines, whichever way the Councillors vote.
I regularly use the walkway, and it gets a frequent repaint from the corporation to cover up graffiti, almost none of it football or Allam related. It also gets littered a lot. I could understand why someone would want to restrict access to it. I have noticed that over the last couple of years, access had been slowly but surely been restricted around the stadium, new fences keep getting built. Not sure who is behind this or why, as there is no love lost between landlord and tenant. There used to be any number of ways to get by the stadium - slowly but surely they are being shut off. By the railway line back of Hymers College- now gated, the road and pavement to Walton St by the Airco- ditto, the footpath from carpark through the trees to the stadium- now gated, the main entrance in front of Reception- now gated. This is about the last throroughfare for the public that is still viable. It must be the most gated stadium in the country. It must cost a fortune to erect it all- and for what purpose? Ironically, the security in the stadium has never been more lax, with away fans able to access Home areas with ease if they wish to.
