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Can you please remind us of the answer on the car park last time it was raised, i don't recall anything. This way we can see if anything has been done to improve.

 

I've pasted it a few replies back

 

Barnsley FC would have to pay for extra bandwidth in order to offer a decent WiFi service wouldn't they? I can't see them doing that. It's not as if they would attract more customers or gain much from them dwelling longer as a result of it.

 

Can someone from the club go and investigate a terrible stench in block F14 east stand upper, when i say bad , wed night was awful !!! , there has been a fishy smell for last couple of seasons , but wed night was crazy , people were having to put their coats /tops over their faces , this might sound a bit fishy but really it was BAD on wed night,
Before people start and say its a person , no one can smell that bad, plus there is different people up there this season apart from a few .I don,t know what it is but I can,t be the only one on this board who sits up there and smelt it

 

Offering suggestions - seen it work elsewhere why not Oakwell ?

 

Couldn't agree more mate. After witnessing more than enough bouts of car park rage and a fewer minor coming together of bumpers etc. I stopped using the car park and now pay a pound more to park elsewhere. I can now be home at the same time as I would be escaping the fortnightly mayhem that is the South stand car park.
Rant over.

 

Plenty has already been mentioned so some I will repeat.....

1) Sort the lighting out with the south stand car park floodlights because the cost to do so will be cheaper than the cost of a death which if happened would be a shock to nobody who leaves Oakwell that way.

2) If you won't use the new (barely) improved scoreboard to start putting up the latest scores again then sort out some decen wifi for fans so your customers sorry fans can do so themselves.

3) You complained at people turning up late for the league cup match leading to queues but what reason do people have to get to Oakwell earlier than five minutes before the match? Poor internet signal and zero pre match entertainment unless you are interested in watching the players warm up or the sprinklers on.

4) About three seasons ago we had shiny programme covers. Can we go back to them? It protects the three quid investment better from creases and generally looks better.

5) Can't something be done about bottle tops? Plenty of things get sold that can do more damage to someone/something than a plastic bottle top, such as an hot chocolate.

6) Does the catering company charge so much for refreshments because they get charged too much by us for the contract so feel they have to pass prices onto us?

7) Can't the catering have more choice? So many warm food options that can be plonked into a takeaway container to sell. Don't know how many vegetarian, vegan, lactose ect fans we have or what they can actually purchase at games.

8) When we going to do more to get in fans that don't have a season pass? Huddersfield Examiner tomorrow has in a voucher to take to their club shop and get an adult ticket for their home game this weekend against Wolves for a tenner. They have 15k season ticket holders and are still trying to get more in, as was also evident last weekend with the fiver offer.

9) Why do we have so many ball boys plonked next to our two busy stands where thousands of fans can throw the ball back, yet in other parts it takes ages to get the ball back?

10) Why is our kit supplier so poor? As silly as we are for underestimating sales as an annual event, they are just as bad for taking so long to sort a new order. By the time they arrive you won't sell as many with the warm weather holiday season to show them off in gone and the weather cooling.

11) Can the club shop online do a pre order for shirts? By not doing so you run the risk of them selling out quickly again and having to wait another month for more. This way you can get in touch with the supplier and up the order as more and more pre orders come in if you've underestimated.

12) Any chance like Huddersfield we can split the away end this season like it's supposed to be? We should do to them what they did to us. Stick them in the north side of the west stand and charge our fans a tenner so we can fill our the north stand against them with our own fans behind both goals.

13) Are those who threw smoke flares onto the pitch at the weekend going to get banned?

 

Would it be possible to upgrade the PA system? The sound quality has been awful for years. Can barely make out the pre match music and build up.

 

No need to on my part.

I just don't buy them anymore.

In fact Last home game I bought from a shop. Walked in with it no problems and past the stewards no problems.

Guess what.

Neither me or my kid didn't hurle it anywhere like a hooligan

 

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.

 

Bondy -

1) who is BFC Safety officer

2) can the lift in the East Stand be used for supporters who are wheelchair users?

 

But the answer last time was poor, if you remember I explained solutions and asked for more information. I don't think that further information was ever given though

Plus, cost was stopping them making the carpark safe but we've just pocketed over £10m

 

Excellent point. Even though it's just a quid a ticket I don't feel like buying one because for the three figures at stake you have to be very lucky to be the only winner out of the few thousand approx they probably sell? If they had a few other prizes it might get a few more of us to purchase one.

 

The second one has been answered before and it can't be because if somebody needs a lift to get in then they need a lift to get out (apparently) and if they need a lift to get out then an emergency evacuation is impossible.

 

Not only that jamdrop but won't a safety certificate be reliant on certain conditions? How can those conditions not include 'carpark mustn't be a death trap'/

The most dangerous part of the carpark is as you come up from Pontefract road you get blinded by the floodlight facing you and because there are no other lights working to balance it out you really can't see anything. Just for an added hazard the club have ignored a huge bump in the floor for years that I have seen MANY people trip up over. It only takes one to file a (justified) claim

 

ST if that is right then it begs the question what is the club doing to rectify the discrimination experienced by disabled supporters - they are unable to access the Family Area, unable to attend any meetings held in the Legends suite, unable to have a pre-match meal, meet the Man of the Match etc.

And we still have an inaccessible Box Office with a too high counter.

 

I think you're misunderstanding on one point. The lift can be (and is) used for access to the legends suite so disabled fans can attend meeting, have photos etc. The lift can't be used to access the upper tier which means you are correct they cannot sit in the family stand. From a safety point of view I'm not sure why the difference, I assume it may relate to the number of people in each area though and the distance they would have to be helped down.

As for the box office counter, I really can't answer that one as I've not been in there for a few years because there's nothing worth buying so I don't know the layout or counter situation at all.

I don't know the regulations or anything but sometimes don't we have to accept that it isn't reasonably possible for disabled people to be given access to certain things? I don't know where on the spectrum of reasonableness a football upper tier comes, I'm just saying in general. A small zorbing company wouldn't be expected to have the facilities for a quadruple amputee to go zorbing. Midgets are excluded from roller coaster rides etc.

 

Absolute waste of time saying owt. If it doesn't interest Cryne he doesn't want to know. Absolutely no desire to improve the match day experience or try to bring in extra revenue.

 

I park at the courthouse. Free parking, easy to get away from and it's not lie doing 'it's a knockout' blindfolded.

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There might be a problem on that front.


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