Sounds very much like a party in the park

Not having one this year AFAIK

kinda tricky on a friday night, and take a lot of organisation.

Does it really have to be before a game?

Obviously it would help but if it was done on say CC semi weekend (I know thats not viable now) maybe more people would be able to afford raffle tickets and alike because they're not forking out money for their admission fee.

the idea was originally, to try and engage with the visting fans aswell. Suppose there is no reason it has to be on a game day, but you'd get a lot more people there I suspect if it was.

A clear agenda is needed .
What are the goals of this group ? What do they hope to acheive ?
Who will Chair the meeting on the 9th?

I doubt that very much. Your incessant p*ssing and moaning, coupled with your narcissistic tendancies would have everyone heading for the exits before it even got started.

I'm lead to believe that Michael Martin is at a loose end these days.

After posting this once, I'll do it again for you as you obviously haven't bothered to read through this thread.


I have made sure that this season, every single disabled person who needed a car parking space in and around the stadium has one, that includes James Rule and his staff giving up their spaces to accomodate more spaces for disabled, but you probably won't have heard about it because there is no hidden agenda behind my position in Voices. The Junior Airlie Birds is also a Voices project, we approached the club about them getting involved. Fans Forums, if it wasn't for Voices you wouldn't have had one at the begining of the year, the group have also got the trains on a match day/evening to stop at stops that it didn't used to as a direct result of the needs of fans, need I go on ..................................................?

Definitely in. There are a lot of things we could do (fundraising etc...). Would it be possible to get a player or 2 involved with fun days and such like, donating match shirts to auction for charity??? Or is that against anything in there contracts?

James Rule did answer a question about autographed shirts/balls for charity at our last disabled meeting and he said they don't do it anymore for the sole reason that they have loads of requests everyweek and the players would spend all their time autographing rather than training. They have a nominated charity every year that they raise money for, iirc this years is Children In Need.

Don't shoot the messanger, this is just as was told to the disabled group.

I tend to agree with Standee regarding the amount of influence any fans group would have with the club, to have any sort of influence the membership must be active and voluble. If i were in charge of running the club i wouldn't listen to an organisation that had only 100/200 members when this represents around 1% of active fans. In this case numbers do tell and organising this type of group when fans are disgrunteld will only create a kind of siege mentality within the higher reaches of the club.
They can sit tight and wait for things to turn around,voting with your feet is the only real difference.
I too will miss matches this season due to Friday/Saturday night changes but feel the club need to realise they are dis- enfranchising sections of the crowd with their attempts at running the club on strict proffesional lines.
I do not think sitting in a pub with 40/50 people trying to set an agenda ,each with their own gripe is going to work .
However good luck and if you are playing the numbers game i will gladly contribute.
My only wish is to watch a winning team and i am fairly sure that also is the club policy.

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Wish you all the best chums but don't think I'll personally make it to meetings regularly. Will lend my support to things as an when agendas etc and action plans are released.