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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 21, 2024 16:12:03 GMT
No problem with my Pirates Pot, email and letter detailing my number, rules etc and last week a cheque for my win during Week 3 I did sign up on day 1, so they had my details long before the break even number reached so less chance of it getting messed up I suspect Not so, apparently, I signed up within the first week or so.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 21, 2024 16:11:18 GMT
Because I had an address for the lottery and did not expect to be so rudely treated/ignored. I should not need/have to use other staff, thereby adding to their workload, because they are more helpful, e.g. Clare, when it is not their remit. As is your wont, you go off on an unnecessary tangent. As I have done for many years now, I will ignore your future drivel.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 21, 2024 15:07:43 GMT
Standards appear to have slipped recently I do not think it is so recent.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 21, 2024 15:06:51 GMT
Because I had an address for the lottery and did not expect to be so rudely treated/ignored. I should not need/have to use other staff, thereby adding to their workload, because they are more helpful, e.g. Clare, when it is not their remit.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 21, 2024 15:02:59 GMT
I only signed up as I stopped buying 50/50 tickets since the club stopped accepting money, never won anything with 50/50 either but happy to support the academy. I'm pretty sure the Pirates Pot was outsourced (Gorringe special) though I never read my welcome pack, are there any details for the company listed? There is the e-mail address and a phone number. I do not use the phone unless it is unavoidable, due to a hearing problem. The address details are per the club, at the mem. That is the address I sent three e-mails to regarding this matter, PLUS an earlier one chasing my membership pack. I have had no response/acknowledgement to any of them.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 21, 2024 14:59:01 GMT
I only signed up as I stopped buying 50/50 tickets since the club stopped accepting money, never won anything with 50/50 either but happy to support the academy. I'm pretty sure the Pirates Pot was outsourced (Gorringe special) though I never read my welcome pack, are there any details for the company listed? There is the e-mail address and a phone number. I do not use the phone unless it is unavoidable, due to a hearing problem. The address details are per the club, at the mem.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 21, 2024 13:52:27 GMT
Thanks for the update, Smudge.
I did wonder if he may have been on holiday or, as you say may be off work for another reason, as I have dealt with him in the past and found him very efficient. However, I did not even receive alternative contact details. Hence my patience wearing so thin.
I hope he is OK and do wonder if he has been worn down by trying to deal with the number of such complaints as mine.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 21, 2024 13:36:50 GMT
Has anyone else experienced problems with the Pirates Pot lottery?
I received my welcome pack but there were no draw numbers advised to me. I sent an e-mail mentioning this, on 21st December, by replying to an earlier message I had received from Graham Lancashire, the administrator.
I did not receive a reply or even an acknowledgement. I waited until 9th January, to allow for the Christmas/new year break, before sending another e-mail chasing the courtesy of a response.
I opined that the lottery was being poorly run and that I did not even trust that I actually had any numbers entered into the draws.
On 15th January, I had still not received any response from the lottery, so I e-mailed them again asking for my membership to be cancelled and for any monies taken to that date to be refunded, as I was not satisfied that I had any entries in the draws.
As you may have gathered, my patience has been worn thin by the abysmal lack of response, so on 17th January, I e-mailed Pete Weymouth, the Supporters' Liaison Officer. I copied him in with the previous e-mails I had sent to the lottery and advised him that it was only my (seemingly misplaced) loyalty after supporting Rovers for over 60 years that had stopped me taking the matter up with the Gambling Commission.
I am still awaiting a response/acknowledgement. However, I have cancelled my DDI and have decided that if I do not receive a response by the end of Monday, I will be complaining to the Gambling Commission.
I was wondering, if anyone else has had the same experience as me, or similar?
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Post by Dr Gas on Dec 9, 2023 14:52:38 GMT
Anyone else had an email from the club saying 4XL shirts have a printing issue and don't have the numbers on? 3XL has sold out so having to get a 2XL. Yes, which strikes me as being a cop out. I assume that the club has details of the average sales of each size, for stock purposes. It would be rank bad organisation if they do not. Accordingly, it seems logical that they ordered Y amount of each size. If there were no numbers on the 4XL, then one would assume that the club could return the "blanks" and ask for correctly numbered replacements. If the numbers that were supposed to be allocated to the 4XL shirts were printed on other sizes, then the club should have returned the errant stock and asked for replacements as the fault is obviously that of the manufacturer, according to the reason given by the club.
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Post by Dr Gas on Dec 26, 2022 14:50:27 GMT
It is important to eat a good breakfast. Porridge is really good as it’s very slow burning energy. If hanlan didn’t finish his porridge then that’s probably why he’s at Wycombe and not still playing for the Gas. I just had smoked salmon on scrambled eggs with 2 slices of buttered crusty toast. Dash of lemon on the salmon and lots of salt and black pepper. Should fortify me for the drive to Wycombe. I’m guessing nobody can one-up this breakfast but I’d be interested to see if anyone else has had something as epic. If you involved hollandaise sauce then you’re on the road to victory I'll see your breakfast and raise you with fresh tomatoes and avocado.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jul 25, 2022 15:39:17 GMT
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Post by Dr Gas on Jul 20, 2022 15:03:04 GMT
R.I.P. Steve.
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Post by Dr Gas on May 28, 2022 22:56:19 GMT
Waa it the weather in 90? Maybe it is false memory syndrome but I always thought it was due to city fans trying to burn down the stadium. Poor weather meant we could call off the original game, we weren't playing that well at the time iirc and took any excuse. Plenty of City fans in school accused us of doing just that. The burning down came later in the year and the following season. Blimey! You know how to make a bloke feel his age, Stu. You were still at school then? I am guessing it was your last year?
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Post by Dr Gas on Apr 19, 2022 0:27:07 GMT
Seeing JB run towards the fans at the end punching the air was sublime and deeply moving. Yes saw that video on twitter, perhaps someone who knows how will kindly post it. Your wish etc....
Joey saluting the fans
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Post by Dr Gas on Apr 18, 2022 17:13:18 GMT
City fans on OTIB crying that Billy is carrying us to promotion. Didnt mind when Tammy was saving them from relegation eh! Or Matt Smith's goals helping them win League One.
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Post by Dr Gas on Apr 18, 2022 13:40:19 GMT
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Post by Dr Gas on Oct 18, 2021 0:14:05 GMT
Good to see you back! FWIW we've all had difficult spells over the past couple of months (well, many of us anyway) - I include myself in that. Still not convinced Joey is the man to take us forward, but win our next game and I may have to accept there's a small possibility I may be wrong 😱 Great to be back. I’ve basically lurked without an account like a peeping Tom, and it took the 3 Henry westons I’ve had to fish through gmail and reinstate the account. Like a jilted lover fishing through his phone for his exes number and then sending “I stlll love u” and then immediately regretting it. Bear in mind if it gets to 5 Henry westons my language will get so bad I’ll probably have the quickest ban in history. Vintage? I luurve that stuff.
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Post by Dr Gas on Aug 18, 2021 2:51:25 GMT
Also one of my favourite moments, that probably in the grand scheme of things would get forgotten, came in stoppage time at the end of the game. Harries passes a ball aimlessly towards the corner to waste time and Collins sprints from the other side of the pitch chasing a seemingly hopeless cause and forces their goalkeeper to give us a throw in. Just loved seeing that so late on when it would have been easy to just let them try start another attack and hope the defence deals with it. Particularly from a player just coming back from injury at the end of a full game as well. I agree. It is things/moments like that, that go unnoticed. They can prove to be even more important than a goal. Having said that: The standard of the first half of the game was the worst I think I have seen in 60 years of watching professional football! Oldham's defence should have been pulled up before the trading standards office. They were definitely not providing what they purported. Rovers' attack was laughable (if it was not so important after the failures after the last few years). The number of chances that were created, whether by design or accident, yet not even turned goalward was embarrassing. Hopefully, said misses will not prove costly come the end of the season. We definitely need to sign a goalscorer. I reckon Pitman will score 10 or more but we still need someone around the 20 goal mark.
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Post by Dr Gas on Feb 16, 2021 18:37:51 GMT
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 28, 2021 16:24:34 GMT
Sam Frost has just said the WDP deadline is 2030, hence why no match report in the following mornings paper. BP deadline is 2230. So much for today's technology, eh? When I had my morning paper round, back in the 1960's, they would be brought to me around 6am. If Rovers had played the night before, I used to read the reports in the various papers, national and local, before delivering them. In those days, the usual evening kick off time was 7.30pm, with only a 10 minute half-time. The only time the reports might be lacking something is if it was a cup game that had gone to extra time, as that would mean missing the deadline for printing. Even so. they did sometimes get the extra time report in on the odd occasion. In those day, the papers came by train from London, so for a "local" paper not to be able to even report on an evening game, especially as the kick off time is earlier than back then, is pitiful. I believe that the local rags are now printed in Watford! This is due to the Reach Group having 4 printings sites (Watford, Oldham, Teeside, Cardonald), so not actually very local. Even so, transport is FAR quicker nowadays, and with reporters able to submit their reports and for them to be printed digitally there does not appear to be any reason that their deadlines need to be so early.
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