Sometimes it does feel that the team "decide" to play or not to play. As you say it would be useful if they could let us know their decision beforehand so we can decide not to travel. Here's a suggestion, if the players let us know in advance that they will not be putting in much effort, all the fans that were going to travel can put their travel costs and entrance money into a kitty and we can use this to start buying breezeblock to build a new stadium - what odds we would get it built before the club!