The protests have to start somewhere and at some point.
Nobody is expecting 10,000's of City fans to stay on the concourse. Our support is to passive for that at the moment.
But it's better to do something and to protest, rather than do nothing.
If the Directors don't start listening to the fans, and start treating the fabs properly the protests will grow.
They need to grow too, but an invisible protest that absolutely none of those that matter will even be able to detect is happening is going to achieve nothing.
If we were going to get tens of thousands doing it, it would be visible, but English football fans are way too passive for this number to reach more than about 500, and there'll be about 5,000 trotting in late anyway, so even if it was visible, the club could simply bury it as a typical midweek traffic issue, mixed with it being a 7.45pm kick off against crap opposition in a crap season.
Protests don't necessarily have to start at the bottom and build to a crescendo at the point when somebody starts to realise that none of them actually care.
Interestingly, if things did escalate to people not buying tickets, City and Viagogo would be delighted, as it would ship tickets into Viagogo's hands so they can sell for a fat profit to somebody from the Far East.
The best protest for me would be for people with tickets not to turn up at all, but that won't happen because sacrifices are only going to go so far. In this case, people will only protest as long as that protest doesn't put themselves at risk or spoil anything for themselves unduly.
I've never been a fan of ultras movements, but it's in situations like this where they actually work. They can make a protest visible with just a few hundred taking part. Our support is such that you can't do it in the same manner.
Banners, flags, chants and a protest outside the Main Entrance and that might make them sit up a bit more, but walking in nine minutes late....