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At least the midlands are more vocal than Manchester !
Publicly, you're dead right, they are and they are garnering support. Not sure if MAN are just being indifferent, complacent or aloof - 'we'll be alright chaps' - but good luck to BHX for fighting your corner.
If MAN are taking a more prominent part behind the scenes, it would be nice just to have a little hint that was happening, Two very different approaches from MAN & BHX. If such were the case, it would be interesting to see which, if either, bears fruit.