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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 24, 2014 20:38:39 GMT
Be nice if we could sing " winning in the rain"!
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 10, 2014 12:50:59 GMT
So because it's always been that way that means we can't try to improve it? No, my point was that a) people should read the adverts properly and b) anyone who has taken this up before should have an idea even if they didn't read the advert properly. Of course if there's a better way we should explore it, it's ridiculous to suggest that's somehow what I meant! Yes the correct process may have been in the publicity.My point is why have an extra (time consuming) step in the process when it would seem to be simple to just let people through the turnstiles. Maybe there is a good reason but it's not clear.
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 10, 2014 9:03:13 GMT
Really good initiative and very welcome but could have been organised better. Members of my family arrived for the match with 20 minutes to spare, queued at the turnstiles only to be told to go to the ticket office to get the free kids ticket. They then had to join a huge queue of similarly frustrated people waiting to pay and get free tickets, resulting in missing kick off. Why? Don't understand the necessity for this system. Surely there must be a way of doing this via the turnstiles. We should be trying to do as much to improve the match day experience as possible,thus encouraging repeat visits. On a plus side, thought the idea of having vendors wandering around selling popcorn,sweets etc was good. The process for obtaining tickets was well publicised and all previous kids go free or quid a kid initiatives have all worked the same way So because it's always been that way that means we can't try to improve it?
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 10, 2014 7:00:26 GMT
Really good initiative and very welcome but could have been organised better. Members of my family arrived for the match with 20 minutes to spare, queued at the turnstiles only to be told to go to the ticket office to get the free kids ticket. They then had to join a huge queue of similarly frustrated people waiting to pay and get free tickets, resulting in missing kick off. Why? Don't understand the necessity for this system. Surely there must be a way of doing this via the turnstiles. We should be trying to do as much to improve the match day experience as possible,thus encouraging repeat visits. On a plus side, thought the idea of having vendors wandering around selling popcorn,sweets etc was good.
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 9, 2014 9:17:45 GMT
I wonder what the perspective might be on one of those trailing banner thingys flying over the mem today...............? Actually I think they would struggle with the NOTAM due to the Balloon fiesta. Calm down everyone. And, no lighters or stone thrown in the general direction of the plane at 2000ft please! You'll never reach it and the falling articles are dangerous.(Reference the pompey fans going berserk at the Saints banner plane at Fratton last season) Is it just me or does anyone else have problems understanding this? Had to Google notam. Speaka da English please. Lol Managed to look up Notam. Depending on which search engine you use it could either mean " no tossers at match" or "no trawler-men at match". Either way it could mean attendance could be considerably down.
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 9, 2014 7:57:15 GMT
I wonder what the perspective might be on one of those trailing banner thingys flying over the mem today...............? Actually I think they would struggle with the NOTAM due to the Balloon fiesta. Calm down everyone. And, no lighters or stone thrown in the general direction of the plane at 2000ft please! You'll never reach it and the falling articles are dangerous.(Reference the pompey fans going berserk at the Saints banner plane at Fratton last season) Is it just me or does anyone else have problems understanding this? Had to Google notam. Speaka da English please. Lol
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 9, 2014 6:26:49 GMT
So the great day has arrived. This forum is going to be buzzing. Let's all try to keep a sense of perspective today regardless of the result. A win will not guarantee promotion, a loss will not mean we are going out of business,a draw doesn't mean we're in for another season like last year. Look out for false Dawn, she's an evil cow. UTG!
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 8, 2014 11:51:11 GMT
Can't we restrict this forum to talking about bums and poo and things like that? Think you'll find that's already been done. Otib!
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 8, 2014 11:39:23 GMT
Great idea. Very useful
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 4, 2014 11:54:44 GMT
We are fair game to be taken the p..s of and can't deny if the situation was reversed we'd be making the most of it,but shame on whoever thought that desecrating a war memorial was an appropriate way of scoring a point - no matter how bitter the rivalry.
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 4, 2014 5:49:19 GMT
Can't believe all the animosity on here. Play nicely children!
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Post by blackthorngas on Aug 1, 2014 6:02:08 GMT
How about clappers and cheer sticks for the kids. Both cheap and cheerful, have seen them used at prem games ( probably given out free) but reckon we could sell them. Also, attended a game in the states where they had paper streamers. Don't know if the club's shirt printing facilitates would be able to print slogans etc. If so it would be easier to have a stock of plain t-shirts and produce "in" up to date sayings,slogans that would be specific to the gas. We could let our imaginations run riot.
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Post by blackthorngas on Jul 30, 2014 6:15:11 GMT
You only have to look at some of the results from Scottish competitors at the commonwealth games to see that pride and passion can have a huge impact on performance. Agree that the article should be up on the changing room wall. I'm passionate about the club and would expect every player to be too.
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Post by blackthorngas on Jul 30, 2014 6:07:23 GMT
It is certainly a well written and emotional "call to arms" but, sadly and in my opinion only, is also romantic tosh from start to finish. Playing football for a living is a JOB. What is unique about it is that it is the only business I can think of where your "customers" are envious of the employees - for most fans of any club the players are actually being paid to do something that supporters would dearly love to do but cannot, either through lack of opportunity or lack of ability. They invest part of themselves in these players I would say. Supporters bleed (insert colours of club concerned) "till I die" but footballers don't do that and neither should they in my view. They are hired hacks with no stability of employment at all. A short playing career - 15 years at most - which can be cut short in the third league game of the season with a double tibia fracture. Even if that doesn't happen they can lose their job because of either promotion or relegation or simply a change of Manager. This romantic stuff doesn't make any sense at all if you transfer it away from the world of football supporters into real life and the jobs all of you actually do for a living. When supporters moan about a player leaving I often wonder what their response would be in their day job if they were head hunted by another employer, offering perhaps double or triple the money to do the same job. Would most pledge loyalty to your current employer and refuse the offer? A few exceptions might but the vast majority not I would say. Of course you and all other supporters envy being paid to "kick a ball about for 90 minutes" for a living but if you look at the reality of it - my opinion only - these emotional calls are simply romantic tosh. It is reasonable for us all to expect "our" players to do their best but to expect some sort of emotional link aside from the monthly BAC is really walking through the wardrobe into Narnia I would say. In five years time most if not all of your current players will not be with Bristol Rovers. Some will be elsewhere, up or down, or out of the playing side completely. As has been stated Directors come and go, players come and go. Only the supporters remain but try as we might I think we all delude ourselves if we think we have any right to demand the same "till I die" committment to those who are, frankly, just passing through in a very hard nosed, tough and totally financial driven business. The other problem we all have is that if any of them, Managers and players alike, were really "that good" they wouldn't be down here would they? Usual rules of life. Clubs ditch players as soon as look at them (despite the press conference when they were signed) and so I really think it is a fantasy world to expect or appeal to them to bleed something for a club of which, at best, they will be a very temporary part. It is reasonable to expect them to be as competent as they can but to expect some sort of special relationship with them taking in part of a club history is about as realistic as the make believe world of Football Manager and FIFA computer games I would suggest. Yours, Lincoln's, Alfreton's et al are also down here because they can't get anything better. Well said, couldn't have put it better. It does make me cringe when people tell players they 'should have pride wearing the famous blue and white quarters'. why on earth would they if they didnt grow up on the tote. However; I like the following quote from the article "This is going to be my season. I will be the best I can be. I will play without fear and however tough it gets I will enjoy myself, just like I did when I was a young boy with dreams of getting to the very top." All about players having pride in THEMSELVES. This is a realistic request.. Leave the quarters out of it for now, its not the 60s.
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Post by blackthorngas on Jul 22, 2014 11:46:54 GMT
Dins. Thanks for the updates last night. I too was glad to read them and felt the first stirrings of positivity for ages. I know from this forum that you are definitely not a tinter so it was good to hear your honest appraisal. Don't let the bar stewards get you down.
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Post by blackthorngas on Jul 5, 2014 15:33:14 GMT
I pledge a pound per point won. Points mean prizes!
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Post by blackthorngas on Jun 17, 2014 6:05:27 GMT
Me too!
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Post by blackthorngas on Jun 11, 2014 19:58:11 GMT
In the words of chumbawumba..."I get knocked down but I get up again,you're never gonna keep me down"
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Post by blackthorngas on Jun 10, 2014 6:09:41 GMT
Please can we stop this thread now. It's getting boring. It's obvious that certain posters are determined to keep going over the same points again and again.It's like a competition to see who can get the last word. At the end of the day,if you have a problem with this forum go to one that can accommodate your needs.
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Post by blackthorngas on Jun 9, 2014 11:57:19 GMT
WHO CARES! Read what forum you want, post where you want.Stop making a drama out of nothing.
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