Is Bates-Out any different?
30 Jan 2012 01:10 pm, by YorkshireSquare
We’ve seen movements for change before though, but they have never lasted the pace in the past. Leeds United fans are a fairly apathetic bunch really, loyal and vociferous when it comes to supporting their club and trudging across the country to watch them play, but there has never really been an appetite for direct action. Campaigns have started before off the back of a poor run of results and due to our Chairman’s belligerent attitude but they often fade. The team starts winning again and there is little appetite for the fight. Particularly since the issue of our chairman seems to be so divisive, as much as he has his enemy’s he has his staunch supporters too.
Often the campaigns have split Leeds fans, have become arguments between different factions rather than focusing on the key aspect, the leadership of our club. But now more than ever there seems to be support. The chairman’s attitude towards the supporters, the lack of transfer activity, the sale of our best prospects and the stuttering performance on the field have all combines to swing opinion more strongly than I have seen it before.
If the new campaign must learn anything from the past it is to not alienate other supporters. To respect the views of Leeds fans whatever they are and not be divisive. Only then, if Leeds fans are United in a common passion for their club will it have any chance of succeeding. Will Bates-Out be any different to previous movements? Only time will tell.
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