A fair response but you lose marks for making me have to scroll up with my arthritic scroll finger.
The way I see it (and I could be very very wrong) is SISU are here to play hard ball, drive down the price of the Ricoh and get it on the cheap whilst posturing with all this new stadium fallacy. Zero fans would honestly mean nothing to them and believe the actions they have taken so far has shown that.
The difference between 0 fans and 1500 fans turning up compared to the 10000 to 150000 we were getting last season (which would probably be more this season at the Ricoh with the brand of football and entertainment the current team are showing) has obviously had zero effect on SISU currently and going from 1500 to 0 would in my opinion have no effect on what I surmise to be SISU's 'end game'.
The Football League have already shown themselves to be spineless or more importantly, powerless to intervene. If there were zero fans turning up, what could the FA or FL actually do? What permissions do they have? What sanctions can they legally carry out? I'm yet to see anything that suggests they would be able to intervene in a way that would see us move back to Coventry without the owners say so. SISU are seemingly happy to take the mammoth losses and bad publicity in order to get the Ricoh on the cheap as they see that as a more lucrative end for them in this saga.
So with SISU playing hard ball regardless and the FL spineless and ultimately powerless,I just can't see anything that suggests zero fans would speed up this process one iota, which is a real shame but unfortunately (and probably) indicative of the modern world of football that we live in.
Two points. Firstly, you are right. SISU underestimated the 'following' who'd attend Sixfields by some three-fold. They must be smarting. The low crowds have bought some media attention; especially the juxtaposition between the lowly Sixfields home crowds compared with the MK Dons attendance. And how did SISU respond when the spotlight of national attention fell upon them in that instance?
They don't like this gaze upon their actions; and zero fans would bring a remarkable attention upon our plight.
Now, I come onto your point:
'The way I see it (and I could be very very wrong) is SISU are here to play hard ball, drive down the price of the Ricoh and get it on the cheap whilst posturing with all this new stadium fallacy'. I pretty much align myself with this opinion.
Now, think on. As more broken promises, fabled locations and posturing continue in the coming weeks and months - as many of us have long conlcluded this is to stall, awaiting the JR outcome (as why the hell else would they pursue this at their own cost?); how long before those who did go to Sixfields realise they're been - what shall we say? Misled? Let down?
What when they realise that maybe, this club they claim to love so very, very much, has been moved out of it's town, threatened with liquidation and dragged through the mud for what? The leasehold on a stadium?!? How can they then align themselves with such owners? The club's very existence used as a chip on a roulette table for financial gain?!?
And I don't subscribe to this 'I just go there to spend time with my kids' argument. How about showing your kids how you stand up to something you don't believe in? That's a life lesson for them. Or going along to 'support the lads'; believing that it's possible to do so without in some weay vindicating the actions of owners who've acted as above?!?
