so, are FCVoices going to show some teeth and ask why we're getting stock answers to emails?

Maybe we should do the same .

Too busy sending Christmas cards to Radio Humberside, oh hang on

I don't have a problem with the stock replies as such, because they'll be getting tons of emails asking effectively the same thing. A proper personal touch to each one wouldn't be out of place though.

What does grind my gears is the fact that although they are being told (via "tellus"icon_wink.gif it seems to be going in one ear and out of the other, with nothing of the consistent views managing to stick for them to consider doing something.

We are telling you, it's your turn to do somethng now.

Perhaps they should change the name of the section to:

Don't bother telling us, because we don't really care what you think.

This facility was probably originally called Tell Agar but he thought us address was wrong

I don't agree that the board are taking no notice. For all their faults they are not completely stupid and they must be taking notice due to the large amount of emails they have recieved. However what do you expect them to say? They have to be proffesional and loyal to their man when dealing with the public. Rule isn't going to say, "I fully agree Agar is terrible," and he's certainly not going to think, "they are right, I must sack him immediately."

What it does do is apply a little bit more pressure and if we don't turn around our form around immediately I think Agar will be a gonner very soon.

I agree.


Not sure what people expect them to say in these responses TBH. They're hardly going to support the coach in public and them criticise him via email. Any response, if there is one, will come as a result of the number of such views that they receive and this will take time to accumulate. It will also come as a public statement and not via replies to Tell Us.

The only problem I have with the stock replies is them containing "I wanted to reply to you personally" when they clearly haven't.

I think they genuinely believe they've got the right man to be honest. What bugs me is the way they are taking each game in isolation to shift any blame away from Agar. It's like the last 2 seasons didn't count due to injuries/squad rebuilding etc. As many have mentioned, the only way they'll really start listening is when people start voting with their feet.

They've got individual names on, and were (apparently) written by Rule rather than a flunky. If all the emails say essentially the same thing then one response is probably appropriate.

TBH I'd rather he was spending his time sorting out the coaching problems than writing emails.

When I worked in the Home Office (as Sir Humphrey's flunky) I often replied to emails from his account with a draft prepared by someone else that I pasted into the reply email. I imagine it happens in a lot of cases and yes, I'd much rather that the CEO was doing more important things than replying to emails.

Happens in my work aswell, someone writes to their MP, the MP writes to the Council Leader, they pass it to the relevant director who passes it to me, I draft a reply that gets Pasted into a letter from the Director to the MP who pastes it into a letter to the person that contacted him.

Is great fun when the same person writes the same letter to their MP, ward councillor, parish/town councillor, council director and council head of service. rest assured they dont get 6 personalised responses.