First home game boycott

All correspondence with Nixon is via carrier pigeon i believe.

It's a Nokia 3210, with more or less the same £10 credit he put on 3 years ago.

Pretty sure Andy said that Nixon would be in the club a couple of days this week, nothing about next week though.

EDIT - found the post thecumbrians.boards.net/thread/5243/john-nixons-on-summer-holiday?page=2&scrollTo=94725 

Don't worry worm tongue is away so king theoden will come to his senses and see that his evilness has put them up the creek without a paddle!

Something needs done but what is the right thing to do? Maybe a mass protest at the first match is more appropriate rather than a boycott. Make our voices heard rather than it just looking like a shite attendance.

Boycotting the first home game?  Not my style really, I'll be tagging along, as I will for most home games.  I realise I have been very vocal about the failings of the buffoons in charge of the club pretty much since Fred left, but I still feel I want to show that they can't stop me following the team.

I am, however, as fed up with this disgrace as anybody (more so than most), and want something sorted out quickly.  It is my considered opinion that there will be no mystery millionaire backer coming forward, this is a plot aimed at fooling the most gullible fans - they have to realise we're not all going to fall for it, don't they?  What they are doing is taking certain parts of Lapping's plan and putting them into action, just the bits they can shout about, the appointment of the Sales and Marketing Director for a start.  What they want is to be able to take the sting out of the Lapping bid, they want to be able to say "we're doing most of that, so there's no point in changing the leadership".  Meanwhile the non existent multi millionaire will gradually fade away leading up to the start of the season, then as soon as we manage to string 2 or 3 wins together there'll be an announcement that he has pulled out.

By the same token I want absolutely nothing to do with the Trust, they are a proven failed organisation, they don't communicate with their members, they are a completely closed shop with little or no intention of allowing new blood to have any say in how they are run, and they do not challenge the idiots running the club at all.  They also seem happy to be completely sidelined.

This board, by the way, appears to be a promotional vehicle for the Trust at the moment.  Is that what it was set up to be?

So Mullen, which is it?  You won't be there, or you'll be there with your Jenkins and Nixon out banners?

There's all sorts could be done instead of not going.  There could be something like everyone going in 10 minutes into the game.  There could be protests outside, or at half time.  We could get everyone to turn their backs on Nixon and Jenkins at a particular point in the game, or it could be organised that there's a stay behind protest.  Something like that will be more visible, and might even have an effect.

If a couple of thousand stay away they won't even notice, the first home game traditionally has a reasonable attendance, so it will hardly make a dent.

Like I said about that Kurtz' fella's online petition, Only about 2,000 bothered to sign it if memory serves me right. That was all over the local media outlets at the time. That's about all you can expect really. Hopefully by the start of the season AL's investment will have gone through and there'll be a bit of common sense in the club.

They get an easy ride from us fans and the local media, no wonder they feel they can take the p!ss like they have. This Phil King appointment will turn out to be yet another complete waste of time.

That didn't seem like an insult to me at all, I thought he was saying it doesn't matter what we do, or how much media is involved the two clowns won't listen.  There might well have been some veiled insult I've missed but it honestly looked like a post in good faith to me.

Oh right, I never even noticed that, sorry.

Surely a few molotov cocktails in the car park wouldn't hurt. it would certainly get the message across.

Where are all these wannabe ultras, time to stand up and be counted instead of banging a drum and singing chav songs.

*In no way am I condoning any type of violence.

I realise you jest wukkie but therein lies the problem. Nevermind the Ultras, where's the normal everyday fans who are just sick to the back teeth like in the Knighton days. We all marched from the Civic and around the ground as the match was being played. It seems like people these days just can't be bothered to do anything themselves and look for someone else to do the dirty work. It's no use moaning on a message board. This is why the BoD do what they do because they know that in Carlisle today, apathy rules. Complain collaboratively, get together and organise some direct action in and around the ground. And I don't mean 2 flags quietly unfurled during a match. ( If as it seems , the current impasse was orchestrated by the current lot in charge of course)