Automatic turnstiles

We need an official list of things that the club shouldn't be expected to pay for, so that the money saved can go in to the budget for the playing squad.

Stamps and envelopes, obviously.

Laundry - the players could hand their kit to fans in the crowd after the game, who could take it home and wash it, handing it back to the players when they enter the field the following week in their underpants. Or naked, if we also wash their pants.

Footballs - who hasn't got a football? We could bring our own and the players could use that.

Travel - why waste money on a coach when we always take at least a couple of hundred fans to even the furthest away grounds. Each player could get a lift.

Maurice Watkins

Cleaning the stadium. Who cares if there has been bird **** on a number of seats for three years? Apologies, we've already made that saving.

Barry Taylor

Not turning the flood lights on when there's bright sunshine. Actually, that's a sensible one.

Not spraying the pitch at half time when it's been pissing it down. So is that.

Any more?

 

Bagsy washing the kits!

 

Take a few more bulbs out of the scoreboard. No-one would notice.

 

You just want to smell their pants.

 

I didn't mention the pants! I just want them to come and strip off near me after the match, and then have to come and collect it again next time.

 

I can use last year's ST cover, new ones must cost a fortune.

 

Not really, old mate. But when introducing a new system that could mean a potential delay for supporters receiving their season tickets, it's not rocket science to provide them with this information. Not to do so simply creates an issue where one need not exist.

 

Now there's a fund raising idea...

 

We don't need to play music at half time so no PRS - just ask everyone to bring their headphones or walkman.

We don't need stewards or to pay Doyle's, just get some heavy lads in who fancy a scrap.

Barry Taylor can bring his own biscuits so that's saving £100k a year.

I'm done.

 

According to the guy behind me his nanna could bring her boots along and play better than Dawson - so that'd save a few quid as well.

 

It's not the 1.50 that's the problem, it's the poor customer service. You want over 300 quid 4 months in advance yet we can't pick up our season tickets? It's not our fault the club are moving to plastic. Maybe if they had sorted it earlier they wouldn't get the backs up of some of their customers. It's not even going to be ready until July. It's alright for those who go to the open day but plenty have no interest in watching our players train and getting some scribbles on pieces of paper. No company should be charging a customer extra when it's their own fault what they are paying a good sum of cash for isn't ready for them.

When Don Rowing retired it was supposed to be a new era but nothing has really changed. From bird **** on seats, to TVs not on in concourse, to dealing with Lindleys, to scoreboard not being replaced etc and now this. Roll on our annual useless attempt at keeping fans off the pitch after the QPR game.

 

I`ll help out with the barnsley ladies kit then. Tommy tyke will sort out the academy kits obviously

 

I wonder if Ben is outvoted on everything by PC and Barry Taylor in the boardroom like i hear Don allegedly was.

People keep saying if Barry taylor is no good then why was he kept on by PC. Any suggestions?

 

Ive just remembered more details from the tommy tyke case and it looks like he will volunteer to wash tobys kit too the dirty barsteward

 

I'm retired now but I used to have 3 rules of customer service: -

1) Promise little, deliver a lot.
2) If customers are prepared to give you lots of money, don't ask for piddling amounts on top. Instead, include piddling amounts in the overall price.
3) Don't make it difficult for customers to give you money.

It baffles me why companies use admin charges, payment fees, booking fees etc. Everyone knows that they annoy people even though most of us pay them willingly. Why don't they just quote a price and that's it?

And another thing. This "interest free" season ticket instalment scheme has an admin fee. I've looked all over on the official site and can't find it anywhere. Anyone know what it is? If it were £20, for example, on a £315 ticket for 10 months, that's an effective interest rate of 7.62% Hardly interest free.

An yet another high horse type thingy. A Legends ticket is £800 + VAT for next season. That's £960. Why don't they put £960, which is the amount you pay? Does my head in.

 

I hope not because if Ben is just getting outvoted it's going to make his job harder. I do think he should do less programme columns though. Early season I enjoyed them with him talking about what was going to happen, but these days he just repeats how great the fans are and that the board has faith that we will stay up, basically not sharing anything new. If Don Rowing had given himself a matchday column he'd have been bashed for being vein. Better the occasional column saying something significant

 

Because they're typically aimed at the businesses who entertain clients and can reclaim the VAT, therefore the price to them is £800. That's always been my theory anyway.

 

No business can reclaim VAT for entertaining. Well, not legally anyway. I think they do it to try and disguise the price. I'd be amazed if any company does actually claim back the VAT, as I think this would be fraud in most cases.

If BFC Dave is around perhaps he can help, but that's my understanding.