Is that the time? Many thanks to everyone who submitted questions for the Club to answer at the Forum this evening. CQN submitted six pages of questions along with many other groups, from which an agenda has been prepared (below):
Stadium Atmosphere and Matchday Policy:
What is the current position in respect of the Green Brigade?
Do the Club believe their response to Motherwell was justified and proportionate?
Stewarding at home matches is heavy handed in certain sections of the Stadium e.g. Block 122 and Blocks 110, 111 & 112, is there a reason for this?
The presence of FoCUS at home matches is intimidating and antagonises supporters, is it necessary to have them and if so can they be located in an area which is less intrusive?
Can the Club introduce a code of conduct which all Stewards need to sign up to?
Attending matches is expensive, what are the Club’s plans on ticket pricing?
Safe Standing has been regularly discussed, what is the current position?
The Coach Park has been relocated to an area which is unsuitable for the majority of fans who use it, what is the longer term plan?
The Kerrydale Bar has been a welcome addition to matchday are there plans for another?
What are the Club’s thoughts on the current location of the Family Section?
Stadium Catering has long since been considered over-priced and sub-standard, what is the current position in terms of offering an improved service?
Many fans feel their support is taken for granted, would the Club consider adding value by recognising long-term support for 5, 10, 15 years’ Season Ticket purchase by offering upgrades to Premium or Corporate for a day?
With so many empty seats on match day at present can the Club not allocate these to good causes, school and youth groups and community projects?
PR & Communication:
There is a perception that the Club are quick to criticise our fans but slow to praise them, what’s the Club’s view?
Why is the Club not more vocal when our Manager, Players and Fans are attacked in the media?
The Club is seen to be slow to react to key issues through the media, why is this?
The Club has stated its opposition to the OBTC Act but there is a sense that it has to do more in support of the fans who are affected by this, will the Club take a more vocal position?
Is this meeting a recognition from the Club that a gap exists between the Club and the fans?
The Club are often considered to be on the back foot in terms of PR, is there recognition of this from within and is there a plan to drive the PR strategy by producing more positive stories?
Would the Club consider the introduction of a weekly phone-in show to combat existing shows which often provide misinformation or unrealistic comparisons from unqualified sources?
Supporter Specific Issues:
Given the level of demand which exists, would the Club consider adding to to the excellent new disabled supporters’ facility or creating something similar in another part of the stadium?
Fixture re-scheduling at short notice is costing supporters money and ultimately driving fans away, can the Club seek an agreement with all other Clubs that a minimum notice period is put in place?
Would the Club consider a floating credits scheme for fans outside Scotland to mitigate losses when matches are rescheduled?
Murrayfield – what is the plan relative to transportation and kick-off times, also Edinburgh cannot be accessed in a 24-hr trip by Irish supporters, can this be reflected in their Season Ticket offering?
At present away, neutral and European match ticket allocations are based on attendance of matches at each of the defined categories. Would the Club consider a scheme where all matches are taken into account including attendance at home matches as this would encourage more fans to attend home games?
For European match ticket allocation there is no stated policy at present, this leads to confusion as fans don’t always know when they will receive an offer or if it’s first come first served, this needs to be made clear by way of a stated policy which allows for clarity and gives supporters a defined process.
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Incidentally hope you (Celbridge) and Jamesgang army Sammi fans :-)
Hail Hail
tonydonnelly67
22:22 on 19 February, 2014
WOOFT, we even got junkie ones, no wonder the kids are fecked up, roll models my arse.
http://youtu.be/9w9g-9W5Vrc
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Seriously?
You use that as a stick to claim that teachers are bullies and liars?!
You failed the 11+ didn’t ye Tony bhoy, that’s where this loathing of those in education emanates from ain’t it??
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Actually, yes I did fail my 11+ , was not very proud of it at the time but! I went on had a very successful life, so far, had no regrets, never thought I was better than any one else, respected my elders, never blamed any one for my failings, so if me failing my 11+ gives you the moral high ground! hey! Fill your boots, you could only dream about the things I’ve done, places I’ve been, and people I have meat, keep assuming, that’s what teachers do, and always get it wrong, in my experience anyway.
We can win the league at home to Ross county if ourselves and motherwell win all our fixtures.
HT-I would take a rain check mate.HH
CowieBhoy, that’s Hillpark mhate.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
22:41 on
19 February, 2014
In those days,I used to know a fair few Rangers supporters.Good people.
The banter was fun.
Big Jock always provided me with the last laugh.
Sammy’s Army of Fhans!
HT
Squerr go wi TD, behind the bike shed at home bell……
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh …..was the chant as eager spectators get ready for the scrap :-)
Daftie Donnelly
Read again. I wasn’t claiming any moral high ground, it was merely a suggestion as to why you may have a hatred of education.
Anyway, I’m getting dragged into this when I’ve better things to be doing; like rubbing lard on the cat’s boils!!
Night all and God a Bless.
Pedro
No spitting on the combatants and nae hauners
Invercelt
Unfounded claims? lack of statistics? versus…..em….. some Swedish bloke on the telly telling us we are wealthy.
Gee, Thanks Swedish guy! I wasn’t aware, neither were these free marketeers from Nigeria…..(lovin’ your stats btw)
Nigeria…democratic Nigeria…..highest GDP growth in the world….all the oil reserves needed to be a world leader in free market economics. Biggest oil producer in Africa, 11th in the world.
Free market economics should set Nigeria up for life, surely?
here it is in action, where life expectancy is 50 (or 40 if you live in their ‘Aberdeen’ or as they call it, the Niger Delta)
Yip free market economics, getting us all out of poverty…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-tLtqM8YU
my point is so simple it might be beneath you……free market economics destroys the lives of millions while hugely benefiting a tiny minority. No amount of mud slinging or point scoring against socialist/marxist ideology changes that fact.
Your ‘facts’ about wealthy countries is a sham, a farce, a smokescreen for misery.
But since you mention South Korea, they have a target to ‘achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers’
100 million? That can’t be right surely? Because your example of ‘dirt poor 60 years ago’ means they are better off now in a ‘rich country’ Jeez what was it like then?
A tiny minority of people living it up in ‘rich countries’ while millions suffer, that my friend is free market economics. But at least it ain’t brutal dictatorship!
An Englishman living in Scotland
Hail Hail.
Martim1980
21:50 on
Could you tell us about the credibility that the right wing Neo Liberal Labour Party have?
I’ve never voted SNP and probably never will but one thing I understand only to well is that the current set up only benifits those who live in London or those South of London. The Labour party actually made things in this country worse, increases in child poverty and a real drop in living standards for the majority of people in Scotland.
The ways some on here go on it’s like listening to the Tories telling us we’re to stupid etc. We actually know what game both sides are playing and we also have a grasp of the arguments on both sides but the the one fact that I defy any of you to contradict is that if we remain in this unequal Union then things like poverty will only get worse.
Will they get any better in an Independant Scotland? I don’t know but I’m willing to take a chance as I actually believe we will then have an oppertunity to address the inequalities that exsist. The London based parties have no interest in tackling these issues that is something that has been evident over the last 20-30 yrs.
doc is neil lennon
22:44 on 19 February, 2014
TOSB, I think TD has a problem with the educated!
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No the ones that think they are have a problem with me.
Watching the game tonight with mates and we all cheered when Bayern scored “EPL git it roon yeez ” was the thought.
Then the conversation turned to when we changed from the days of cheering Ipswich ,villa and other English teams to win in europe.
EPL Sky money and the T*T :))) commentators was about the best we came up with.
Goodnight all
Thank you for being here :))
Theoriginalsadiesbhoy,
I too trained under Peter Rice in the mid 70’s.
He used to take us through the total football Dutch team of 74, explaining how it worked.
A brilliant man, from Bothwell, I think.
I used to volunteer at his sports clubs for the disabled. This is what he did when not consorting with some of Europe’ elite football coaches. A great, great gem of a human being.
He was a main player in the Roxburgh/Brown set up for Scotland that put together what became the Largs mafia.
EC67
tonydonnelly67
22:33 on 19 February, 2014
theoriginalsadiesbhoy
22:21 on 19 February, 2014
tonydonnelly67
22:13 on 19 February, 2014
Typical school teacher, bully’s and liars,.
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Aw. Was some teacher bad to you when you were a wee boy?
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Na, they just didn’t teach, I learned more when I left school, couple of teachers where good, but I’d about 80% of them where useless! They never helped the slower kids, they had no time for them, ignored them, I was never one of them, and I was never one of the best either, the best got the attention, they where easier to teach, and they worked the system that way, smart arses and baw bags, and it looks like it hasent changed .
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Tony. You are quite correct in what you are saying and I’m genuinely sorry that you had that type of experience when you were at school. To be perfectly honest when I was at Primary school and, to an extent, at secondary school the less academic kids were ignored at the expense of the more able kids. It was a terrible fault of the system at the time. I was fortunate some of my mates found it tougher and were ignored. Sad but true.
It has obviously soured your view of teachers and I can’t condemn you for that because of your negative experience. However, please be assured that it is totally different today. Teachers plan work for all of their pupils that caters for the individual needs of their pupils. Pupils are taught in groups and teachers spend a lot of time preparing work for the needs of each group in their class designed to meet the needs of those pupils. I’m retired but I know that the teachers in y school were hard working and dedicated as they are in schools across the country. A lot of things and attitudes change over time Tony.
Doc,
it’s the posh hooses, so it’s Whins of Milton, get it right :-)
And remember I’m still fae Cowie, ya roaster :-)
Hail Hail
cowiebhoy supporting the celtic to 3 in a row @ 22:41 on 19 February, 2014
Celbridge,
I’ve been oota Cowie, longer than I was in it, but it really annoys my wife ( and she was brought up in the Raploch and Culten :-) ) and ma Ghirls, although they still enjoy a wee day oot to Cowie :-)
Unfortunately I’m now stuck in Bannockburn with Doc
But agree on Bannockburn bus :-)
Hail Hail
Aye, ye’ll be feart noo, I’m Raploch and Coarntun.. (Cornton), did the PMS only a few times, picked up the odd Bannockburn spare ticket… Mainly up with my mates Da’ in his motor, just to keep him away from a Hillpark lassie… Looking back, I don’t blame him!
TD, I was having a wee joke.
You don’t like students, you don’t like teachers, there a pattern there, just a wee poke at ye, fun on the blog. You can be a tad tetchy chief.
Billy Bhoy 05
One doesn’t always find who they vote for in Government. To me this vote has nothing to do with the Political parties of the exec or Westminster. You raised those points, I’ve merely tested your credibility and that of the party/campaign propaganda you’ve posted. Anyone undecided can make their own choice if they see you as an authority on political commentary.
Is Scotland ready to be represented on it’s own to the world? Some six months before the vote, and before the no campaign has even really begun, it’s been established, there is no plan B from the yes campaign. The biggest vote in recent times and they are already clueless. As I’ve said before, it’s embarrassing.
I have opinions outside of all the parties in the Executive and in Westminster . I form them on my own. I think most people would like to do the same. Please stop posting nonsense.
Daftie Donnelly
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You see this is my point, this guys a school teacher, god help any kid in his class that falls behind, that statement said it all. Teachers my arse.
Garygillespieshamstring
Rule 1 of fight club:
Don’t have a Squerr go wi someone wearing frank wright brogues…
Ouch!!!
Incidentally Doc,
remember young Miss Doc, stated she has left the Sammi fan club :-)
Hail Hail
eddieinkirkmichael
I think my recent post covers this, also, I don’t buy the “see how it all pans out” when it comes to such an important decision.
CowieBhoy, oh aye, Whins is such a step up from HillPark, hehehe.
CelBridge Celt, I lived in the Cornton from ’79 til ’86.
macjay1, 22:43
The WAG pic? She’s standing side on and has her head turned – she’s talking to someone at the back. That big black blob is what passed for a hairdo in 1972, I believe
CowieBhoy, she hasn’t learnt how to stick with your favourites, thick and thin.
Also please read the several comments from various other posters. They cover most of the other issues.
eurochamps67
22:52 on 19 February, 2014
Theoriginalsadiesbhoy,
I too trained under Peter Rice in the mid 70′s.
He used to take us through the total football Dutch team of 74, explaining how it worked.
A brilliant man, from Bothwell, I think.
I used to volunteer at his sports clubs for the disabled. This is what he did when not consorting with some of Europe’ elite football coaches. A great, great gem of a human being.
He was a main player in the Roxburgh/Brown set up for Scotland that put together what became the Largs mafia.
EC67
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There were a lot of guys at ND when I was there and we all went on to take school teams. Peter was responsible for generating a lot of enthusiasm amongst those young teachers who took school teams. I bet the standard of coaching in many Catholic Primary schools in the 70s and early 80s must have been amongst the best in the UK.
Right back to footie
Leftclick mentioned Ipswich, the originals to introduce European style to England
Arnold Muhren and Fran’s Thysen
That was fitba players
Hail Hail
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
22:52 on
19 February, 2014
Interesting.
I get the impression that academic standards have fallen during that period and that discipline is far more of a problem.Perhaps the two are related.
Would you agree?
bada bing!!
22:44 on 19 February, 2014
Check out @dannyn827′s Tweet: https://twitter.com/dannyn827/status/436177150727970816
Having read Marc Crosas comments , i feel guilty about leaving him out of my cqnten dream team.
There was a few tough decisions to make when coming up with my team.
The really tough decisions where mostly about not letting the heart rule the head.
Because of that Crosas didn’t make my team nor did John Kennedy who wanted to include, not so much for what he did in the hoops but what he could have done if injury hadn’t ended his career.
HH
Mabye doc and crc should do an alternative dream team
“Daftie Donnelly”…..belter
Sounds like he should be in the bash street kids :-)
Janice Lockhart the female commentator at the curling says. “The G B team must have a No Surrender attitude today” Mmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Janice is Scottish btw.
jude2005
I heard that too and co-commentator Steve Cram would have no idea of any issue. Being generous an inadvertent slip of the tongue?
monteblanco
22:49 on
That life expectancy you quoted is almost the same as life expectancy for men from the Calton.
Doesn’t that make you think?
Martim1980
22:56 on
I don’t think your recent post does cover it but we’re used to the Unionists on here wanting clear and precise answers to questions on Indy but not wanting to reciprocate.
Our P E teacher was abt 10stone over weight. When we were going to the baths he wd make us walk it and he wd get the bus and go into the pub across from the baths.
Ps He was a stinking reptile of a man!!!