You insinuating the public pressure from the HF got Hodgson released and made Textor do an interview?

Ok, lol, I'm out...

This was once a quality forum....

I think you might be giving them a bit too much credence.

Parish knows the value of the HF, we get tourists coming in to sample the "famous atmosphere at an old-fashioned ground" and the HF is central to creating that atmosphere and the club's marketing policy to encourage that reputation. It's why they have been given so much by the club, from shifting long-standing season ticket holders out of the central section (with a "sucks to be you" attitude to those ticket holders) and moving the HF in and priority on tickets and location when we have got to Wembley, etc.

But do they lead and influence the opinion of the majority of the fans? Nah, they echo what the majority of the fans are thinking, but those thoughts are already there. Roy knew it before the banners, why do you think he lost his rag saying we were "spoilt" in one of his interviews? You could tell by his demeanor that he knew he was losing the fans (and the team!) long before the banners came up and Parish and Co. knew it as well. As it turns out, they'd already lined up Glasner in the background to take over and if Glasner is not lying about being in talks since the autumn about taking over, then they already had a plan that has nothing to do with the protests. Should they have told us? Ideally yes, but would that not have undermined Roy and potentially affected the team more? Probably. Anyway, wrong thread for this.

But do I think that the HF's banners changed anything? No, I don't and tbh, I'm not convinced that they didn't make things worse from a team morale perspective.

The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots