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SydneySkyBlue · Aug 20, 2011

Coventry v Derby, 10th September.

sw88 · Aug 20, 2011

I think we should all make mini banners on kitchen roll like the relegation "we'll be back". Id like to see the stewards confiscate them from indivdually

les_miserables · Aug 20, 2011

Yes on the Telly too, so there needs to be organisation and attract the TV cameras. Lets have a large number of us buy tickets for the stand opposit the cameras and have as many banners as possible, discreetly brought in to the ground and raised at appropriate times. It is obvious SISU Capital don't like or want adverse publicity. We have 2 weeks to get ready.

keBaB · Aug 20, 2011

here's hoping there's progress before then anyway...

SydneySkyBlue · Aug 21, 2011

Monday should be interesting.

Disenchanted · Aug 21, 2011

'Lets have a large number of us buy tickets for the stand' thus paying them to protest about them!!!!

Mary_Mungo_Midge · Aug 21, 2011

In order to stop anything being confiscated, it would be interesting to see if the club would publicise a clear 'banner policy'. At Middlesbrough, for example, it's totally clear. Any banner up to 150 x 150cm doesn't need to have proof it meets fire regulations. With sight of such a policy, the only way it could be seized would be in they could prove the message it carried was offensive, discriminatory, defamatory or inflammatory. I can't see how 'SISU out' or 'Love City, Hate SISU' could be seen as any of these.

Anyone with a banner can then print off the club's publicised 'banner policy' and place it in their back pocket, and hand it to any orange-jacketed monkey who told them to take it down, and ask them to explain any transgressions. You can record their reaction on your phone's video capability; as the police often tell us at games - it's lawful to film in any public place.

Do it right and tie them up in their own string....

Nick · Aug 21, 2011

Mary_Mungo_Midge said:
In order to stop anything being confiscated, it would be interesting to see if the club would publicise a clear 'banner policy'. At Middlesbrough, for example, it's totally clear. Any banner up to 150 x 150cm doesn't need to have proof it meets fire regulations. With sight of such a policy, the only way it could be seized would be in they could prove the message it carried was offensive, discriminatory, defamatory or inflammatory. I can't see how 'SISU out' or 'Love City, Hate SISU' could be seen as any of these.

Anyone with a banner can then print off the club's publicised 'banner policy' and place it in their back pocket, and hand it to any orange-jacketed monkey who told them to take it down, and ask them to explain any transgressions. You can record their reaction on your phone's video capability; as the police often tell us at games - it's lawful to film in any public place.

Do it right and tie them up in their own string....

The best advice

howzer · Aug 21, 2011

has anyone thought of SIMPLY PRINTING OFF FROM THEIR OWN COMPUTER:
SISU
OUT

HOFMAN

IN

howzer · Aug 21, 2011

If you print these off you can place them all over the stadium ... Hold them up before the match .. During the match, after the match... The stewards cant take these off you.

Disenchanted · Aug 21, 2011

why not have each person hold a single letter? If Steve turns up with a giant S alone its unoffensive and breaches no rules I'm aware of...your not responible for the guys stood next to you with other giant letters What do you think Ian,Sam and Ursala ??

Mary_Mungo_Midge · Aug 21, 2011

Nick said:
The best advice

Whilst I'd hate to bundle a job in your direction, Sir, I suggest if that if you or another member of the admin were to mail the club; under the auspices of providing clear, concise and legal instruction to all City fans via a popular messageboard; it's difficult to see how they could refuse such a request.

Then they're scuppered. They either dispense the policy, and then providing most people adhere, they can't do a thing. Or, if they ignore your request, they again look poor; since they'd be confiscating banners they disliked, yet without offering policy at to what's acceptable. I'm sure The Telegraph would pick up on such preciousness of behaviour

CovKingChris · Aug 21, 2011

I don't think they have the right to take banners away from people as it is removing their 'right to protest', which is illegal.

Mary_Mungo_Midge · Aug 21, 2011

Hey, Nick; if someone does address the club, you could do a lot worse than to include this phrase I picked up whilst researching a little, namely from David Ben-Gurion, the first Israeli prime minister, when he warned: 'The test of democracy is freedom of criticism'

SydneySkyBlue · Aug 21, 2011

I was thinking something like this:

Nobody really wants to watch the football anyway

Nick · Aug 21, 2011

As admin I have emailed the club for a few things, never hear anything!!!

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