POTY Doo cancelled!

I tried that argument a while back. Wasn't well received either.

Fully agree though

 

its reyt tho mate,

 

They should ban the gentlemen and just let me and the women in.

 

Me too.

 

Booked tickets for both events organised this season, surely they can have them in legends suite in east stand. Pi55 poor marketing at Oakwell

 

I paid £120 to sponsor Dagnall's shirt. Since then I've heard nothing. At all.

Sums it up unfortunately.

 

You will be sponsoring him again next season then dys?

 

Doubt it - don't think he's scored since.

 

Before PC was such a recluse

And used to give interview's....I remember him saying that the club needed to stop asking the same people..ie same fans that buy season tickets, shirts etc and same local firms that sponsor match's and go out a attract money from elsewhere...looks like that failed, infact did it ever start..you can only rattle the tin under people's noses so many times...the lack of any kind of leadership is coming home to roost

 

I'd be interested to know what the marketing budget is per annum for the club, it's probably comparable to a market trader. There is a percentage of turnover you can drop below where marketing is ineffectual, I'd guess the club are nowhere near this.

 

I Agree.. it looks like the highlight of the Patrick Cryne era was super Simon Davey's time here..seemed to get more money and help from upstairs than anyone else in the last 10 years...
Something else PC said was he didn't want to be remembered as the man the saved the club..but failed to take it forward..I think since the time of the self imposed austerity measures till now the club, as a club as unarguably gone backwards...Id say with hindsight..the end of the PC era, should have been when Robins went....This is not an attack on PC..and me and everyone else should be grateful for what he's done...but I cant see how the club can carry on financially as it is...it needs new life putting into it....in flicker we have that where the team is concerned, but we lack leadership upstairs..

 

If they'd given the big sell to us plebs rather than just the corporate bods then maybe they would have filled it. I've got to be honest, it's not for me, but I would wager that the majority of our support who sit in the stands don't even know about it. I would imagine, if they did, then a fair few would want to go.

 

I'm not sure whether they gave the big sell to anyone. Considerig I'm a sponsor and I've not been contacted seems criminal to me.

 

If you make it affordable to plebs like us, that would upset the prawn sandwich crew who think they are that much better than common terrace folk and would be worried they'd catch summat.

 

I'm a season ticket holder in the Legends and to that extent I suppose I could be described as a "corporate bod".

I didn't get any form of communication whatsoever about it, other than I think it was on the official site, which I hardly use anyway as it doesn't work.

I was never going to go anyway as the last one I went to (many years ago) I nearly got beaten up by Malcolm Shotton.

 

I'm sure you're writing tongue in cheek, but with views like that why do you go in the Legends Suite these days?

Why do many fans clamour for investment from rich business people, then insult the same business people when they invest money in the club?

 

I didn't mean to be offensive with the term 'corporate bod'. Apologies if it came across that way. I was referring more to businesses who take executive boxes and sponsor games rather than individuals who sit in the legends suite. But I have nothing against anyone who supports Barnsley, be they people who go to the odd game, season tickets holders, those who go in the legends suite or those who have executive boxes. They're all Barnsley fans and they all put money in to the club.

I don't know who the POTY dinner is aimed at, I suspect it's the 'corporate bods' I was referring to, as there is very little in the way of advertising aimed at fans who sit in the cheaper seats and from what you've said they don't appear to be trying to attract people who sit in the legends suite either.

 

Thing is, the last thing they want is 8,000 supporters wanting to go because there is no way those sort of numbers could be accommodated. So jack the price up to eliminate the masses. But even then you have beer on top, cab home etc and you are likely to drunkenly get swept up in an auction to win Jim O'Brien's signed jockstrap and before you know it you've done £150 on the evening. Alright for those who can slide it into the old 'client entertaining' column of their tax return or chalk it on their company 'expenses', but for the rest of us that is a serious dent in our income. I think it's unfortunate timing this year too with the relegation battle going all the way. And aren't the awards being presented/announced at Saturday's match? Which again, will make the special ones feel a little bit less so and it sounds like the toys have gone flying as a result.

It's actually going to cost me a few hundred quid with it not taking place, which is a bugger.

 

No offence taken at all, I was just pointing out the apparent lack of attempts to sell the event. Like you, I would have thought the Legends Suite clients would be as good a place as any to start.

I've notice a disturbing trend in the past few years to keep increasing the prices. Whether this is to keep out the "plebs" as Mr C puts it, or just to try and make up the ever increasing gap in our income, I don't know, but at £54 per head plus beer money on top they are having a laugh. Especially at that venue.