The boycott of home fans at ER is gathering pace.A poor gate against hull followed by poor forest sales,although forest are selling their allocation as already pointed out.
Also Everton sales are poor,although Everton are selling their allocation I am led to believe.
Hit Bates where it hurts
Bates Out
Boycott Gathering Pace
posted on 21/9/12
Even worse Tuscany, I was also, at that time, married to a Red. Soon put paid to that though......!!!
Yes, you're absolutely right. I don't mind going through the mill I just object to someone making a fortune off the back of it, telling the very people lining his pockets that they are morons (although I do accept that there are a few in there!!) and being more than economical with the truth.
I was a season ticket holder in those distant days too so had no choice but to endure the depths of despair!
posted on 21/9/12
"Boycott gathering pace..."
I always thought he was a batsman?!
Haaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
posted on 21/9/12
Well, it's great to see that we stand as one in the face of adversity. This is SO like the BBC606
For what it's worth Leeds United is a commercial business, just like Tesco.
Some people will shop in Tesco because it is value for money, some people will shop at Tesco no matter what prices they charge. BUT tesco know if they don't provide value for money numbers will drop, they endeavour to keep the numbers up so try their best to provide VFM.
LUFC is (reportedly)owned by Ken Bates. There is little we can do about that unless one of us gets the Euromillions jackpot tonight. Bates will have to provide a proper service, not to keep the gate up for himself, our money is virtually irrelevant to the club. Bates needs bums on seats to convince sponsors (the real money people) that having their brand linked with Leeds will improve their product demand.
And, by the way, if any of you won £40 M tonight on the Euro draw, how many and how much would you invest in your beloved Leeds United?
Bates is not perfect, but still better than any Yanks I've seen in the PL
posted on 21/9/12
Tusc...
Making assumptions without knowing the reality is hardly very bright
And to think you said he was intelligent..?
posted on 21/9/12
"He borrowed against future ticket sales to fund the so-called improvements in the East Stand."
So that means he borrowed against a Leeds United asset, will that be taken out of Leeds United if not met or will it come from Bates own pocket?..
"He needs third party investment to realise his own ambitions."
On the last lot of years showing, I'd think he doesn't know his ambitions!..
"A football club without it's fan base is nothing. Bates would have a white elephant on his hands and administration would follow pretty quickly."
And that is a sticking point by me, I don't think he's put anything out of his pocket into Leeds United, I do think he's done more then enough to keep his pockets happy, and if he doesn't get what he's looking for out of this never ending takeover, will he pull the pin?..
One or two think they're getting at him, I'd think if that was the case and he's intelligent enough to know if he was going to lose anything or not and how things stand as far as his fortunes go, if he was going to lose, then he'd be gone by now,
The Chelsea Bates said something that he once upon a time held to heart, the Leeds United Bates has made a fortune out of what he wanted to distroy, so I'm hoping administration is something he's not thinking about!..
posted on 22/9/12
Surely the main reason crowds are down is because of the abysmal hoofball that we have been playing under Warno for well over half a year now and the abysmal results that he has delivered.
I've been reading the stats on here and they are frankly incredible. 2nd worst ever manager after Cloughy and he still hasn't won 2 league games in a row.
That's surely why fans are dwindling? We were all wrong about Neil it seems
posted on 22/9/12
Well LFTF,
I'm presuming you're a fan that loved Grayson. Did you say similar things about Grayson when we squandered an 11 point lead, only to fight for second place promotion on last game of season.
Did you say similar things when we lost more than 2 games in a row under Grayson.
Did you say similar things when Grayson said we'd over achieved by finishing 11th.
Did you say similar things while Grayson was being Bates bum chum.
My point is, I think you're being a bit hypercritical of NW so early in season, especially as there's a lengthy take over bid going on, and, the fact that Bates wouldn't be giving NW much money at the moment.
You want to buy cheap, go to Tesco's, you wanna buy expensive, go to Harrods. That's the position NW is in at moment.
posted on 22/9/12
leedsluvr, if that is true about grayson saying we overachieved finishing 11th then the man is an idiot because under grayson we finished 4th, 2nd and 7th.
posted on 22/9/12
I love nothing more then the anti Grayson tripe always sounding of on here!..
Fact is, Grayson had a boss, oh, the same boss Warnock has now!..
Er, yeh ok, lets dig Grayson and at the same time see Warnock having the same problems!.
Are the anti brigade sure Grayson was at fault, or was it more the people letting him have a few of what he wanted, and the rest he was looking at they thought, hang on, that'll make our team to good for what we have in mind!..
Grayson had most of what he wanted forced on him, funny that, because how many players Warnock was looking at has he actually got?..
And I mean the ones he wanted before his hols as well!..
posted on 23/9/12
Boycott????
Over 24000 against Forest.
Yeah, right!!!!!