Anyone has a right to protest, but, I personally think some key points need clarifying before any protest is truly effective:
- Why are you protesting?
- What is the goal of the protest? What positive and realistic outcome are you hoping to result from the protest?
- Who exactly are we protesting against? SISU? Ranson? SISU and Ranson? AB for 1 win in 16? The players?
- Where and when would the protest be most effective? In the ground? Outside? Before the game? Half Time? After? At SISU?
- What's the best way to protest? Banners? Chants? Sit-down protest? A March?
okay, for me it is the following:
1. i'm protesting by no longer going this season.
2. realistically i would like to see the board communicate with us on these sort of issues more regularily and provide us with the reason why they stopped investing money and started selling our assets if they truely wanted us to succeed. Balancing the books is not a good enough response. If we hadnt of sold our better players the last couple of seasons, we would be back in the premier league. yeah they were / are operating on a loss, but a few seasons of loss would be negated straight away through promotion and keeping our better players would mean more consistancy on the pitch and higher attendences and the ability to buy back our ground.
3. SISU - lack of ambition and love for the club, running a succesful football club is different to a normal business and they don't seem to understand that at all.
4. i doubt we could launch an "effective" protest at all, this is mainly because we're losing our passion for the club on a daily basis.
5. best way would be a mix of everything, but unless we get 1000 + people to start doing it and on a regular basis, EVEN IF WE ARE Winning. it wont mean anything.