Fan Engagement Forum This Wednesday

Got wrong Brewers. Point still stands.

 

At Wembley, pints were lined up at half time and they just topped them if needed.

 

Constructive as ever

It doesn't have to be paid for. Offer a decorating firm advertising in return for doing it. Not difficult.

Oh and EDIT. One poster on here offered to paint murals for nowt. He was ignored.

 

Ok thanks

 

I bet they weren't pulling them within five minutes of kick off ala oak well last season. . .

 

HALF TIME DRAW.

15,000 people and only a £700 prize.... Less than 10% bought a ticket. Know it's not a lot but clubs losing revenue. I go to the ice hockey regularly and they can have 4,000 and have a prize of £1800 sold properly. Also how about a 2nd and 3rd prize maybe a signed shirt or a £50 voucher in the shop.

 

The only problem with that is they've got no shirts and i doubt there's £50 worth of stock in the club shop

 

Hi Gally,

Given that kids now have to stay in full-time education or be on a training scheme until their 18th birthday, are there are plans to change the age limit for the juvenile rate - currently U17 to U18?

 

It became compulsory for 17 year olds in 2013 and 18 year olds last year I believe.

 

Gally - following on from a couple of pm's - where is the meeting taking place - will it be somewhere which is accessible to someone in a wheelchair?

Cheers.

 

When will the redevelopment of the West Stand become a reality? We've probably got record turnover by the time this season is over.

 

Do you know what you would be the first to complain if someone threw a bottle at someone. Treat fans as human beings if people could then we would not have something lik this in place.

You say you don't get answers to your questions that you fire off on this occasion you have been given an answer. Why bring the car park scenario into it? Where have i talked about the car park? I haven't got a clue what goes on the car park so haven't mentioned it. Please don't belittle me with such a response again when I haven't commented on it. As Andy suggested stop being a keyboard warrior get off your backside and attend the meeting.

 

I normally disagree with 99.8% of what Supertyke says. However to be fair he is echoing points raised many times and is in response to a thread asking for feedback and questions to pose. The thread didn't invite him to the meeting as it seems this is an invitation event for specific stakeholder. As such he is channeling his and echoing other comments through the designated proper club channels. I doubt he would turn up anyway.

I would attend but I haven't been invited and I'm in Santorini drinking Ouzo Cocktails and eating Souvlaki. If I did attend I would certainly support the position of poor traffic management on exiting games, especially as people pay significant amounts for the benefit. I trust (pardon the pun) there will be some quality feedback on this subject.

 

Issue of flexi tickets and our inability to have them would be nice for you to raise. Other teams manage to have them. Shouldn't we be looking at all ways to maximise support and in consequence revenue. I have a friends who buying a ST is just not practical for work reasons previously they came 6-10 times a season now because of costs they don't come at all. It's fine to try and maximise revenue and know what your future income will be but when this is exhausted and you can flog no more seasn tickets then you need to concentrate efforts in the casuals and look how you can maximise income from them. Instead we seem to not care in the slightest.

 

The meeting isn't an open one ST would need to be invited. He is putting questions via the channel that has been provided so that end bit seems a little uneccessary. I rarely agree with ST but he is right where is the 'engagement' if you hold meetings seek questions and Input but then implement little or no change.

 

Plenty of meetings are open that he can attend rather than sitting oh here. I mentioned the bottle tops issue because this has been addressed on several occasions with a reasonable answer given. Other grounds I have attended do the same. At no point did I mention car parks - his reply made me look an idiot and don't care about safety. Never seen the car park at that end as i go the other way.

 

Are the academy scouts watching young local teams regularly? I know they tried a couple of open days without much success due to it being a bit first come first served rather than ability based. Not all junior managers are open to the interest so as not to lose their better players but there are a lot of quality players in Barnsley at junior level that could have the potential with the right training.
I understand it's a time consuming exercise but to start with maybe draw a list of the top 8 sides at each age level and see how it goes. Just my thoughts, there will be better ideas out there and I don't know if this already happening.

 

Plus in person he'd only be repeating his thoughts that the club already know from reading this thread. Every new meeting has the same old problems brought up time and time again that still haven't been sorted or replied to.