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I'm not gonna buy a season ticket for the first time in god knows many years. (and NO I don't smoke)
The way I see it is - last December a lot of us had bought season tickets and it looked like we had basically thrown money into Mr Greens bank account.
Just think back for a moment, we'd paid our money up front like good little loyal fans; and the smooth talking businessman pocketed it and walked off into the sunset.
iirc It was the RFL's criteria to honour those season tickets not AC's.
I might be a tick paddy, but I'd be stupid to make the same mistake again (whether AC is honest/not - I don't know - but its bleedin obvious he is a businessman first - and he's not suddenly become a stout Bulls fan overnight)
How many of the 2000+ Bulls fans at the last home game were actually ST holders turning up only because it was already paid for. How many of those 2000+ actually chose to turn up and pay cash to watch an already relegated team get beat up?
Next season we'll start with the usual big-ish crowd and then (as always) its down to the players on the pitch whether we win and attract more fans/supporters.
To me, its a very simple plan - winning games attracts species.
More species = more income
More income = attract higher quality players = win games etc.
Its not rocket science.
On the other hand - a good performing team will retain fans even if they lose more games than they win
But a relegated team will definitely loose their fringe fans.
Twice relegated - well that team will loose even more fans
twice relegated, three times in administration, and rumours of dodgy businessmen/owners, and disproportionate punishment from the RFL - guess how many fans that team will loose.
We're now starting where we should have started last season - I'll always be a bulls fan - but now its upto the club, players (and no doubt the RFL) to convince me things will not get worse
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Sadly the prices are still gonna put people off, but at least it's a step in the right direction. The sheer amount of time it's taken to get this going is ridiculous, but at least it's there now so bright sides and all that.
As far as the halfwit in charge of the website and social media goes, I'm glad some people find it amusing or entertaining. I'll continue to find it a total embarrassment and genuinely worrying that nobody at the club seems to give a monkeys.
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| Quote: Bullseye "That's a monkey's actually ![]()
See, it's bloody infectious!
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| Quote: HamsterChops "The sheer amount of time it's taken to get this going is ridiculous, but at least it's there now so bright sides and all that.'"
Doesn't amaze me unfortunately. I run a number of leisure facilities for a well established Russell Group university and when I sat down with the finance department to discuss online payments and memberships I was told it would take 18 months to put such a project into place.
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| Quote: martinwildbull "Are you Geoffrey Chaucer?
Some of the spelling mistakes are the wrong word spelt correctly rather than the right word spelled incorrectly. So the spelling-checker (thanks FA for the reminder about hyphenation, much under-used) does not pick it up, nor will it pick up the same word that can be spelled in different ways, as I have just illustrated. For the most part it is as you say, a strange indeed sometimes bizarre choice of words and turn of phrase, which I find refreshing and amusing. One thing we can say for certain is that language changes.
As for everybody else being perfect, the funniest and most apposite error I have seen recently was in an advert by a global recruitment agency. One of the person specifications read:
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To be fair, that's not really the point Martin.
To use come back to else's metaphor, I like Les Dawson's piano playing, but wouldn't put it forward as an example of how to do it. It's also, for an accomplished pianist like Les, actually quite difficult to master, but more importantly intended as comedy and quite brilliantly done. All quite unlike the club's press releases. These are intended to inform and, as any employer would surely have suggested, to give an important first impression of the club to the site's visitors.
The impression given is certainly, 'quirky', but also conveys amateurishness, as though the club is run by people who are semi literate at best. The club is a business, not a message board and should be treated as such by any the owners. I appreciate money is tight but they can't allow this to continue, though I guess Duffers wouldn't want any further duties added to his shift, he is one guy who can put a press release out properly and really ought be brought back to either do this work or at least to, 'advise', whoever is doing it.
Not that I'll try holding my breath...
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