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Post by mftc on Aug 5, 2022 15:08:02 GMT
Re the youngsters are Heal and Egan being let go, or just given the opportunity to get loans for experience?
I thought Egan was highly rated and played well beyond his years at Hereford last season.
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Post by mftc on Aug 3, 2022 6:48:55 GMT
At least Notts C have a decent stadium. We have the 2nd or 3rd best stadium in the country Did you mean county? I'm not sure even that is correct!
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Post by mftc on Jul 31, 2022 18:19:59 GMT
Seems we have a bright spark who is head of no sales. What are you trying to say?!
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Post by mftc on Jul 30, 2022 18:09:36 GMT
A paltry £500 first prize for the 50/50 as well. Pre COVID (with cash) it would have been £1,500.
Many people just did not know it was cashless and many did not want to use a card for just £1.
No fault if the seller as she was her usual jovial self, but it definitely took much longer to get served as well. Extra time waiting in the cold and wet will reduce sales even further.
Ps, I did not see anywhere advertising that the programmes had gone up in price. That said credit where credit is due the programme is much much better value for money than last seasons. Well done the Ed.
Also why did the rent a mob stewards stop people getting in the clubhouse after the game. It was only about a quarter full and no doubt lots of people wanted to stay and have a drink while watching the Liverpool v Man City game.
All in all another situation where the club has not capitalised on a big crowd and the feel good factor. This loss of potential earnings may come back to haunt us if we are below mid table in winter when the utility bill price hikes kick in and we are looking to spend in the January transfer window.
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Post by mftc on Jul 30, 2022 10:38:52 GMT
I’ve got a spare for the County Contractors Terrace If you haven't sold it yet, go to the SC shop. I reckon there will be at least 20 people turn up without tickets and they usually ask in there.
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Post by mftc on Jul 29, 2022 19:46:00 GMT
If a player is injured doesn't a club HAVE to pay him until he gets fit?
Remember Virgo and the keeper from that era, plus highly rated prospect Thomas under DC?
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Post by mftc on Jul 29, 2022 6:53:34 GMT
No club staff should get abuse, players, shop staff, volunteers or stewards. Funny how Ralph Ellis can give away stock and is sacked and Pete does the same and is a star! How times have changed! Please explain? Ralph Ellis was a journalist who did some fundraising for Villa. I think it was based on a reunion with the European Cup winning side and they made a mint. He joined Rovers as commercial director and during the Ollie almost season, he commissioned 2000 away shirts. We sold about 400 and then had special deals so many were going at a fiver. In the end I think the club had give the rest away. I recall one of his business plans (sic) was that if he sent 15 shirts to an African orphanage, we might get the next George Weah to join us, as he remembered that Rovers gave him his first kit. We must have lost/ given away £thousands. The reference to Pete and Ralph was tongue in cheek.
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Post by mftc on Jul 29, 2022 6:09:08 GMT
No club staff should get abuse, players, shop staff, volunteers or stewards.
Funny how Ralph Ellis can give away stock and is sacked and Pete does the same and is a star!
How times have changed!
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Post by mftc on Jul 29, 2022 6:05:08 GMT
Why does Geoff always call him Joe Barton, when everyone else calls him Joey? o In his autobiography he says he doesn’t like being called joey. He prefers joe or Joseph. I remember that to call someone a "Joey" was taking the mick out of them. I am not sure if this is a bird reference, but I sincerely hope it was not used because of Joey Deacon, but I suspect it was.
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Post by mftc on Jul 29, 2022 5:56:58 GMT
So the club have already written off the potential income from the Stoke game? I suppose we are lucky that to Wael £500-600 is like a few coppers to the rest of us.
If the card readers were not ready/set up, why didn't they use cash as a one off? Surely that would have meant less of a loss of earnings (even if it meant a loss of face).
Hope it goes well for the volunteers throughout the season. No doubt they will get stick if things go wrong.
I can easily imagine a typo or a stuck key/button meaning someone gets charged £33.00 for one programme.
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Post by mftc on Jul 29, 2022 5:43:19 GMT
Reminds me of the great Mickey Barrett, who was surely destined for a big move to an old first division club.
Thank God medical advances have been so great in the intervening years.
As footballers have to be at their peak fitness levels and the medical tests in football are right up there with the best, I assume they caught it early.
If he never made it and was still a tractor driver and had to suffer in silence with aches and pains at work, it would be a very different story.
Keep fighting Nick.
There are lots of inspiration from Bob Champion to Wilko Johnson who have kicked the Big Cs ass and still continued with their careers.
Best wishes to Nick, family and friends.
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Post by mftc on Jul 27, 2022 6:44:07 GMT
I don't think there are many "free" signings these days.
Agents fees, signing on fee, re-location bonus, accomodation costs etc they all mount up. Wouldn't surprise me if Marquis "free" transfer cost us around £50k. Still better than paying an additional £100,000 up front as well.
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Post by mftc on Jul 23, 2022 21:16:55 GMT
It certainly sounds as the focus was on sales, and not much else - a shame for those who took their kids along, expecting a bit more. Were the players available for authographs afterwards? Yes tilly about 8 of the players stayed behind and went up the along the whole terrace to sign the kids autographs which made their day 🙌. To be honest youv hit the nail on the head their. It felt exactly like the day was done as cheap as possible to make the club the most money. Don’t fall out with the club needing to make money but come on 1 pathetic activity in the whole footprint of the ground for a advertised fun day really? How much would it have cost to have a few stalls bouncy castles and a bit of music? We need to attract as many of the kids that we’re coming last season as possible. I brought a mate and his boy along and had to apologise as I said I thought there would be a lot more for his boy to do. In previous Fun Days there were lots of fairground rides and stalls, tour of the stadium, shirt sales, fashion shows featuring the players in new training gear, supporters groups renewals, YP events, tombola, the police and army turned up, Southmead hospital fundraising stalls, players selling in the shop, face painting, Cadbury's merch, pasty tasting, forum with manager or chairman, kids pirate fancy dress, penalty shoot out v youth team keeper, chance to view from the directors box, etc etc. Not expensive but good community events helped run by the SC. How can the club describe standing in a queue as a good thing other than for sales! Sounds far too money orientated. Might as well call it a Shirt Sell Day, rather than open day or Fun Day.
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Post by mftc on Jul 23, 2022 7:45:04 GMT
Sad to hear, he will be missed.
I went to support the club at many of the social events held around the start of the Sharescheme period.
Despite being not so good on the pitch, there was a great unity between the Board, players, staff, SC and the fans.
I feel it would be great if a new generation of Steve's, Rick's John M's, etc helped build the feel good factor we have now to create an even better rapport. Hopefully this will be the case with the new SC.
It would be great to have the chance to meet the players in an unofficial setting at an unticketed social event at the Mem. (although having a darts match may not be allowed by H&S or SAG. Rovers hooligans armed with darts - better reduce the capacity again!
Well done Steve et al for helping create a few laughs and memories and importantly helping fundraise so we survived to allow us to have memories like the 7-0.
RIP
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Post by mftc on Jul 21, 2022 16:54:17 GMT
Not quite. David Bright was doing the same job at Glamorgan CC where he had turned around their commercial sales. Mr and Mrs G eldest plays for their female team and in a chance conversation one day, Mrs G mentioned to David that we were looking for someone so he should apply. It will be interesting to see how our sales fare when the club hits a bad patch, it's always easier to sell when success is in the air. He certainly hasn't covered himself in glory with some of his rather brusque replies to supporters regarding the season ticket fiasco, thank goodness that Clare and Pete don't take their lead from him. I certainly don't feel we have maximised the promotion feel good factor. I am sure we could have made tens of thousands with an end of season celebration and to announce a limited attendance open day just a few weeks before the event is not great. I know a DVD and promotion book is a bit of a risk as it may not make a great profit but judging by the response on here, people were willing to pay over the odds to guarantee to cover the costs. Plus Mr B could have always reduced the cost with some form of advertising/sponsorship. Let's hope he has some good contacts and brings in some good deals to the club. At least he cannot be worse than Ralph Ellis!
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Post by mftc on Jul 19, 2022 12:55:08 GMT
At least it is good that the club and media are making people aware.
The proof is in the pudding as they say.
Hopefully we get a decent crowd as the first game back after the 7 up game and the programme and 50/50 volunteers have had ample training to provide their usual excellent service.
If we get a 2 thousand gate, I would expect it to be mostly regular fans so the 50/50 should be around £400. I've made sure there is enough on my card to pay for two.
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Post by mftc on Jul 18, 2022 22:29:04 GMT
How dare the club to announce on twitter that all purchases at tomorrow nights game are to be paid for by cashless means only. Maybe it's a good job I sent the club a reminder to remind fans. However as not everyone goes on Twitter or here, I honestly believe the club will not sale as many programmes or 50/50s at least for the Stoke and FGR games as they could have done if, people had choice, or if the club advertised the fact more beforehand. Still I have told the non forum and twitter mates I have seen, including completely strangers, who I met just chatting to in Weatherspoons (who had no idea it was cashless) so with word of mouth, hopefully a few more now know.
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Post by mftc on Jul 18, 2022 7:12:27 GMT
I think the main problem tomorrow and v FGR is that a lot of people don't know it is cashless.
Programmes and 50/50 were cash only last season and now it is a total turnaround.
Surely they have to put a reminder (although lots of people did not know about the plans anyway) on the official website today and before the FGR match?
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Post by mftc on Jul 17, 2022 18:38:39 GMT
Not many leagues are currently in action but Rory Gaffney is the 9th top scorer overall in the Irish Premier league for top of the table Shamrock Rovers.
In Scotland, they have started the league cup and Ayunga got a brace for St Mirren yesterday.
Victor Adeboyejo moved from Barnsley to Burton. I think he was a regular in the squad the season before last when they surprised a lot of people and almost got in the Championship play offs.
Surprisingly former youth keeper Matt Macey's move for a fee from Hibs to Luton seemingly went under the radar on here. I know he left Arsenal on a free, but I believe they had a sell on clause, so depending on the deal we made, and if he makes a big money move to someone else, could there be a chance of a some sell on monies for us?
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Post by mftc on Jul 16, 2022 13:49:40 GMT
I know the plan was to make the Mem cashless but have the club recently confirmed this is the case? I know it was mentioned in the programme towards the end of last season, but other than this thread, I haven't seen anymore about it and can't remember hearing anything from the FC. I bet a lot of people (not forum/Twitter users etc) will be caught out on Tuesday and if the club don't officially confirm anything by FGR, it will be absolutely chaos. Imagine someone not in the know suffering from dehydration, queuing up for a cold drink on Tuesday and then being told they can't be served! It could lead to health implications. I assume fans can have access to free water somewhere? I wouldn't fancy playing cricket in the 7pm temperature on Tuesday, let alone football. For players safety, I would assume that there will be regular drinks breaks during the match? If I was standing behind that person in the queue, I would offer to pay with my card and let them give me the money, I'm sure lots of other Gasheads would do the same. I have seen various reminders about going cashless, in the days before the internet, the local paper or Radio Bristol was the only source of information in the close season, and we seemed to manage ok. I think we have digressed. I personally have not seen any mention of the Mem going cashless other than here. Out of interest, where have you seen the club mention this Tilly? and is this medium available to fairweather, newbie, or away fans who would not necessarily go out of their way to look for this information? I don't go on line everyday so may have missed it being advertised. On Tuesday, I am sure there are lots of supporters who would swap cash for paying by card to help a fellow fan, but would a jobsworth agency staff person behind the counter be so helpful? The issue is that lots of fans don't know anything about it. Last seasons programmes and 50/50 tickets were cash only and the pasty huts and bars had cash sales. If they are totally going to change the policy,surely it would have been very simple for the club website to officially advertise this a few weeks ago, together with a reminder a few days before the Stoke and FGR games? Tuesdays weather is exceptional, that's why I mentioned free drinking water. I would not expect it to be the norm. I would hope the club would have the fans safety in mind.
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