19.08 minutes into the game everyone goes behind their respective stand for 10 minutes!!!!
After 10 minutes return back to your original place in the ground chanting 'IOR SPEAK....IOR SPEND....IOR SPEAK....IOR SPEND....'!!!! Etc etc!!!!

Let as many people know as possible....Facebook, Twitter, Texts, etc!!!!
Also let people know on Saturday in your area of the ground!!!!

COME ON POOLIES....LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!!

Yes, agreed, best way forward.

DO IT.

will anyone be taging fog horn in to signal the start. One additional rule to possibly add is that once you go behind the stands, no beer or food either

Aye folk need to remember not to buy anything as that would be more money into IOR's pockets that we will never see.

I'll take part but I am skeptical about the numbers that will take part. You're going to need a fairly significant portion of the crowd to leave to be noticed. And even then I'm not fully convinced what impact that it will have. Remains to be seen.

As much as a lot of people don't like it, the many various forms of social media need to be utilised for this to take off. As well as word of mouth and genuine commitment from everyone to actually carry through the protest.

Has anyone considered creating a Facebook page in which people who aren't on this board can refer to for what is going on?

YEP....DON'T BUY A SINGLE THING THIS SATURDAY!!!!

There is that Hartlepool United Supporters page on Facebook but majority of people on there seem to be anti Cooper and not anti IOR.

I think someone will put it on that Pools Fans Facebook page!!!!

Also....I think people will join in on Saturday even if they aren't aware beforehand....once they see people walking they'll join in!!!!

Also, I quite like the idea of a few hundred Poolies blowing a whistle at 19:08 before departing. It would certainly be noticeable and create a small but notable interruption to the game when players and the referee potentially stop play.

It's certainly doable to get hold of a whistle and conceal it when going into the ground. And adds a little something to the protest. I'd be keen if others were.

I've got a whistle!!!!

So yeah....if you have a whistle bring it along!!!!

Right, just negotiating with the wife - I am hoping to head up and get involved.

I've got a whistle too

and its on a green bit of string.....

does that make me a bit classy?

Get the protest behind the respective stands videoed and youtube .
Even if it's only a couple of hundred behind each stand, other fans will see it, the club will see it and further protests will snowball from there!

and uploads to facebook and twitter "tagging" "tweeting" or whatever its called the official pages (Club, football league etc), just to keep it going. The Football league tag will add punch to the commentary should there be a goal when everyone is absent.

Once a few people do it loads more will follow, even if they don't know what its about.

As for the naysayers, this is just the start. Once people get mobilised like this more will follow.

I had an ACME THUNDERER whistle for years which I never got to blow in anger. Now if only I'd kept it when I retired.

You don't need a whistle Bob, just talk at your normal volume and you'll be heard.

They seem to be anti bunker as well

Video it n vine it. Then tweet it to pools.


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Social media is the way to get the protest out in public domain .. .You owe us IOR... You owe us IOR..

I hear what you're saying, but its no time to be against anyone other than IOR. It doesn't matter where it starts. Facebook, The Bunker or ITB everyone needs to join up and be heard.

Is it worth mentioning on the Pompey forum?

Yeah, I saw that..well, the coppers running behing the Millhouse anyway.

Well, me and my lad will walk but we're in the family bit so I reckon we'll be on our own! People will think we're off for a piss and/or pie

Can this be stickied please????

THIS IS THE TOWN'S CLUB,
THIS IS THE TOWN'S CLUUUUB,
IOR ARE YOU LISTENING
THIS IS THE TOWN'S CLUB!!!

Already trying to kibosh on this on Facebook due to safety issues.. you couldn't make this shit up ..in the 80s we would be sat on the centre circle . UNITED my arse.. Its fookin ridiculous

whats unsafe about walking behind the stand?

Nothing. But you watch the stewards try and stop everyone.

If it was that unsafe then they wouldn't allow anyone round the back of the stands at half time for a pint would they?

or to use the bogs.

Had a look on Into The Blue for the first time this morning, they're also having a right go at the idea and they also reckon The Bunker is full of hate filled wankers.

Not far wrong there like!

Some people on ITB will hate it just cos 1. its from the bunker and 2. they didnt think of it themselves.

Pathetic....the safety issue and those on ITB having a dig!!!!

Just read it.

It seems they dont want to take part in a protest, because it was suggested on here?

I am very confused.

I thought everyone that posted on there also posted on here.

And their admin appears to be distancing himself from it too.

All very childish. I didnt realise so many people took themselves so seriously........on message boards.

Its just as well I am not really fat.

All the comments could have destroyed me.

I wouldn't describe myself as hate filled but I do masturbate occasionally.

(More occasionally since the bairn was born)

So, what are they going to do? Just sit back and watch the club die?

Looks like it!!!!

Can someone put a link up so I can have a read please????

http://into-theblue.proboards.com/thread/7284/clarify

http://into-theblue.proboards.com/thread/7295/protest

Looks like its going to be Plan B then.

I suggest a bit of toe to toe between into the blue and the bunker.

Heres the idea.

I have a huge bag of yellow tennis balls.

They have a huge bag of blue tennis balls.

Both sides get together on the mill house terrace.

And spend the ten minutes hoying tennis balls at each other.

Obviously, and whisper this bit, a lot (all) of the balls would find their way onto the pitch.

And we have the delay we intended to force in the first place.

And heres the best bit.

All of their balls have into the ball written on them.

All of mine have property of fetish bob written on them.

All of the blame will be given to ITB and Bob.

The bunker would be in the clear.

Thoughts?

Really really suprised at a few on there....they're acting like 10 year olds when I thought they were quite intelligent!!!!

Not sure why I've been dragged into it?

I won't be at the game as the missus is at work so it's nothing to do with me, I put that on there so Pools didn't think I had part in organising people throwing things onto the pitch.

Protecting myself isn't distancing myself, the Admins on these boards can be held responsible for the actions of their members.

So to clarify: Not taking part because I will be 20 miles away having a day out with my daughters, don't care who had the idea, good luck to those who are participating, I hope you achieve at the very least a bit of acknowledgement/communication from the club.

You are admin on Into the Blue?

That 2nd paragraph....what a pathetic excuse Darren....fucking laughable!!!!

And it's just what Pools have hoped for....fans at each others throats....well done ITB!!!!

It's not worth the hassle for me if pools decide to start getting arsey about it. Might seem pathetic to you but it's not you that would have to deal with it. Especially when it was the throwing things on the pitch idea.

Not sure how it's ITB's fault people are arguing about it, surely it's just people? The main people against it have voiced on there mainly because they don't post on here. I can't control that or make them post it on here. I support the idea of a protest, we've been kept in the dark for too long now. I've kept reasonably quiet on it because I simply won't be there. Not my choice but life takes over football sometimes.

Mutters, you know the people on there very well for the most part, you have a login on there, take it up with them then, no use getting pissed off with me when I'm on the same side.

What disappoints me most is that there has to be sides in this.

Still a ludicrous and pathetic excuse!!!!
And I have no intentions of posting on there....I'll take it up with them when I see them!!!!

Its crackers to have two sides of the same coin throwing insults. If you like ITB then use it. If you prefer the Bunker thats also fine. Use both if you want to, many people do. The thing is that people fail to see is that without the users then the boards cease to exist s by definition its the people who make the boards.

All of these people with a few exceptions are lifelong Pools customers so should be alongside each other in the trenches not sniping from the sidelines.

Your opinion mate. We're all pools fans.

I think this is all getting a bit far fetched. People were in favour of the tennis balls idea at first until someone pointed the laws etc and that idea soon got squashed and rightly so. As Darren has said, we as fans of OUR club have been kept in the dark for far too long, and something needs to be done to resolve. The club are aware that there is unrest amongst the fans and the ball in entirely in their court to smooth things over. That will have to come via a statement.

As it has been stated by many we are born as supporters of HARTLEPOOL UNITED and we are not happy with the way things are going. All we want is answers from the club. It has been discussed a peaceful protest, no violence has been discussed, no halt to play, no pitch invasion (once the laws were pointed out) or anything that would impact on action from the FA. This is a message board at the end of the day and we are discussing ways to put our point over to the owners in the best and proactive manner. If the club are to make statements about bringing these to a halt and want to throw legal actions or statements they are continuing to fuel our feelings of being treat like second class customers and NOT FANS OF HARTLEPOOL UNITED. They are maintaining the "We don't care about you's" attitude we feel they have.

It is down to KH / IOR to come out and talk to their customers.

That's my personal feelings anyhow, rant over.

Bits of software with people posting to it. Les (backhome) posted something similar today.

I post on both, probably more on here. Doesn't mean anything, just there's more people to talk to on here.

I know it is and I stick by it and always will!!!!
500 balls could have been hoyed on the pitch and you were afraid you'd get the blame....PATHETIC!!!!