It was inevitable I suppose, and I wasn’t surprised when I read rumours of planned protests at the City Ground via nffcblog’s Facebook page.

I take a similar view to my blogging colleague – if there is to be a protest, then so be it. It will make it clear to the rest of us whether the unrest is down to a very vocal minority, or whether there is really a wave of discontent at Doughty/Marthur/Pleat/The AP/Robin Hood etc.

Arguably, if you don’t use the web forums or listen to Matchtalk, you could probably be forgiven if you weren’t aware of any unrest – but then, you wouldn’t be reading this either!

As someone pointed out on the same page, many of us will have vague memories of a protest in the Main Stand car park during the JFK era (I think). If I remember rightly, this amounted to about 150 people grumbling a lot. Based on an average home attendance of around 22,000, I hardly think it will have given Doughty and the board nightmares.

If the protest takes place (I am not going to advertise it any further – if it happens, you will all be able to find out easily enough), then I would contend that it won’t mean much unless several thousand contribute – any less than that and it would suggest the strength of feeling against Doughty isn’t as strong as some would have us believe.