90% of the support don't have the backbone to stay away, or actually care about the effect it would have on Lansdown to hear the vast majority of seats were empty.
And the Lansdownes know it.
At the end of it all you reap what you sow.
I'm sure they are as bewildered & sickened as many of us are,myself included - and the players are a very tight group.
Hard to read how they will respond.
If I were in Nigel's considerable boots & the hierarchy were still hedging their bets,despite the obvious excellent work, I'd at the least call the bluff.
He has nothing to lose.