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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Adi D
Nice one mate. Would have been even more humiliating if you’d been a football team but stuffed them at rugby!
I used to carry out my own wee class war against private schools on the rugby pitch! I’m a good deal more mellow now I hasten to add!
HH jamesgang
For goodness sake Ernie,
Do you think that what Lenin said about James Connolly mattered to those poor souls who were tortured by your Marxist friends?
I am going to sleep.
My friends in Celtic,
Although a fairly understandable comparison , I think that comparing Scotland to Ireland is very unhelpful in the run up to September.
Undoubtedly Ireland has many positives, but its current status is not what I would wish Scotland to emulate.
Its main export is again its people, the youngest brightest of its society, the very people necessary to ensure the country’s future economic prosperity, its future wealth creators and taxpayers for its elderly.
I am not saying for a minute that this will happen here as I believe that we have a more solid economic foundation, with or without independence.
However it does no harm to examine the possible consequences if things go wrong and we endure a similar scenario with a potential ” Brain Drain “.
Like Ireland we have a proud history of emigration, however this emigration must be based on choice : Emigration because we want to, not because there is no choice and we have to.
HH and best rgds to all.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
It’s either accept the terrible offer or reject it in favour of strike action.
A shocking tactic by the EIS leadership.
67 heaven
Since the Tories and the Lib Dems are soon to be wiped out even further if that were possible the only viable alternative to the SNP in government are Labour.
When you listen to these folk talk you know in your heart they are at it or total idiots.
At least we know what the Tories are like and they tell us what they think of us to our face. Labour like to think they are the real party of Scotland and it that kind of complacency that has brought us to where we are today.
I don’t doubt for a minute there are good real Labour people out there. I just don’t see them in any senior position within that Party and most of them are completely dense, ill-informed and blinded by their own tribal prejudices against the SNP for taking their Scottish Parliament baby away from them.
The act and talk like complete cretins and that is what you get when you complacently believe you’ve got the Scottish vote in your pocket as they have for so long.
Comments from one of the leaders of OPEC with regards to Scotland leaving the UK. He was asked about his views on a sustainable economy based mainly on revenue generated from taxation of profits from North Sea oil.
Remember this is an individual with no reason to spin the argument in favour of any side of the debate.
Opec Secretary General Abdalla Salem el-Badri said that an independent Scotland would be unthinkable.
The head of the cartel that represents the world’s 12 oil-producing nations said Scotland should retain the Union with England and warned most of the North Sea oilfields are “depleted”.
He dismissed the suggestion that Edinburgh could come under the umbrella of Opec, which controls about a third of world supply, raising the prospect of an independent Scotland’s finances being at the mercy of a group of which it was not a member.
Dependence on oil would make Scotland vulnerable to decisions on production, which Opec agrees upon during regular meetings in Vienna.
Around 16 per cent of a separate Scotland’s tax revenues could come from the North Sea. A leaked report by John Swinney, the Scottish Finance Minister, has highlighted their volatility and warned it would create “considerable uncertainty” for Scotland’s finances. Although Opec is directly detached from the oil and gas industry in the UK, whatever the group decides can still have a dramatic impact on jobs and investment in the North Sea and its hub of Aberdeen.
Mr Badri said next year’s referendum has “nothing to do with Opec” but questioned how long oil will last in the North Sea, adding: “Most of their reservoir is depleted now.”
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What the SNP do not tell you.
The SNP has put North Sea oil at the centre of their economic case for independence, even telling Scots the remaining reserves would be worth £300,000 per person!!!!!
The SNP figures assume that prices would rise as high as $150 per barrel, while the independent Office for Budget Responsibility has predicted they will fall back to less than $93 per barrel by 2017/18. The SNP also assumes there is no cost of extracting oil whereas the North sea is one of the most expensive regions in the world to produce oil. The costs of recovery are only going to increase as the reservoirs become less accessible and considerably more expensive to exploit. Shell are the latest major operator to announce that they intend to divest themselves of the majority of their UK assets with personnel on 2 Shell operated fields being informed that the assets will be sold.
North sea oil production has declined 40% since 2010. Oil and gas revenues, which last year accounted for about a fifth of total corporation tax receipts, fell more than 40 per cent in this fiscal year to £6.5bn.
HM Revenue & Customs last week published new figures for North Sea tax receipts over the past decade that were lower by an average of £600 million per year than the Scottish Government’s estimates.
A.M. 1-0
John O’Neil
21:26 on 19 February, 2014
It rather contradicts your
‘Marxists hate believers. They scorn them and they persecute them.’
To the politicos who support the Union…
Since my birth (Stirling) 1970, there has been 26 years of Tory Westminster government. UK Labour have just been the protest vote from England…
Are the Ernie’s & Ayr’s happy with 60% of Tory rule for the future generations of Scotland?
Maybe that’s how they like it…? Sounds masochistic to me…
Time for a real change, John Smith a true believer of democracy would have told you that!
To all the Celts… Hail Hail.
jamesgang
21:25 on 19 February, 2014
Adi D
Nice one mate. Would have been even more humiliating if you’d been a football team but stuffed them at rugby!
I used to carry out my own wee class war against private schools on the rugby pitch! I’m a good deal more mellow now I hasten to add!
HH jamesgang
The rugby at my school was a great leveller, as there was usually bodies everywhere after the Milton v Posso v Cadder clashes
And we were all at the same school.
StAugustinesCSC
PF Ayr
If any of them were genuinely good I’d say so.
The only one who I thought was any god was the guy who represented Grangemouth when that carry on was upon us. He sounded like a clued up and decent man.
The things he talked about suggested to me he’d be a good man to have on your side in an Independent Scotland.
The others are in my view grossly out of their depth if I am being kind and on the gravy train if I am not.
Any confirmation on the match change to the 14th?
can i have raspberry on that champions league ice cream
Did you even bother with a ball?!!!?
:-)
HH jamesgang
Ernie,
If I have to deal with a quarterwit, can he at least aspire to be a halfwit?
Are you seriously trying to deny that Marxists hate believers? He is you know.
Go to sleep.
Snake Plissken
21:27 on 19 February, 2014
’67 heaven
Since the Tories and the Lib Dems are soon to be wiped out even further if that were possible the only viable alternative to the SNP in government are Labour.’
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Not so fast, pal.
Aren’t you forgetting these guys?
http://www.scottishjacobites.com/
Scotland – Auch Aye!
Athletico go 1 up after some recent sustained pressure ;-)
Did Robben just spit on Sagna?
https://t.co/bxxPJY1JcU
Ernie Lynch
I never said they were credible. I just said the supported Independence.
Can I have rasp…..
Are you sure that was rugby or tag team slaughter !
jamesgang
21:30 on 19 February, 2014
can i have raspberry on that champions league ice cream
Did you even bother with a ball?!!!?
:-)
HH jamesgang
Only kicking them ;-)
J.Oneil
Self determination is a great idea,Cubans have been doing it for 50 years,but their larger neighbour USA dont like them for it,do you think England will adopt the Blockade policy if Scotland have a bloodless revolution??.
Met a lot of Cuban dissidents,but they were all in Miami Florida,not nice people,Scarfaces an` evrything!!
Pigs are in the bay CSC
I only switched over for a while and Milan had had more shots on target but it looked like Athletico were going for it. Milan trying to pass from the back but in all honesty just don’t have the personal to do it. Making lots of mistakes.
John O’Neil
21:30 on 19 February, 2014
I’m suggesting James Connolly was a Marxist who didn’t hate believers.
2-0 Bayern
Muller bags the second for Bayern,header into the corner.
Since Arsenal last won a trophy, Pep Guardiola has retired as a player, became a manager, took a year out and won 18 trophies along the way
@wiki
Greatestleagueintheworld 0 Bayern 2
Lastnight’sgreatestleagueintheworld 0 Barcelona 2
Love those type of headed goals. Very enjoyable football.
Snake Plissken
21:31 on 19 February, 2014
‘I never said they were credible. I just said the supported Independence.’
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Some might say that the latter suggests the former.
Bayern fans doing the Huddle.
Good game of football tonight..
Oh dear how sad not to worry another 2-0 defeat at home for two teams in the greatest league in the world.
Ernie Lynch
And those people are Brit nat Nuts and politicians worried about their bank balance taking a dent when they become redundant.
The Scottish Cringe is an illness which can be contagious: which is evidenced by the huge chip in the shoulder and the thinking that us Scots are inferior to every country in the world. The message Cameron, Clegg and Balls have been trying to get across and folk like yourself are helping them in getting that message across.
I am copying an article by Campbell Martin a former member of the SNP who was expelled from the party as a consequence of accusing senior SNP members of diluting the objective of
http://campbellmartin.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/listen-up-jocks.html
Campbell
“Listen up, Jocks”
By Campbell Martin
The arrogance and ignorance of British Unionist politicians was there for all to see last Thursday (February 13).
Gideon (call me George, it makes me sound tough) Osborne dropped into Chilly-Jocko-land to tell the oiks that he wasn’t for letting us use our own currency if, as looks increasingly likely, we vote to re-establish Scotland as a normal independent nation.
The position adopted by the Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer was fully supported by his opposite numbers in the British Unionist coalition – Ed Balls for Labour and ‘Tame Jock’ Danny Alexander for the Liberal Democrats. On the British state broadcaster, the BBC, one Labour MP on the panel of Question Time went as far as blasting the Scots for “wanting their independence, but they want us to allow them to continue using the English pound”.
Throughout the day last Thursday, television news programmes did their very best to portray the British Unionist’s latest version of an old scare-story as a devastating blow to “Alex Salmond’s strategy for a currency union” after Scotland retakes its independence. In reality, it was nothing of the kind.
Contrary to the British Unionist position – and the slavishly-loyal British media – there is absolutely nothing to stop an independent Scotland using the pound as its currency. It is also in the interests of the (rest of the) United Kingdom to enter into a currency union with an independent Scotland, principally in terms of balance of payments figures and cross-border trading costs.
The pound (sterling) is an asset of the United Kingdom, as is the Bank of England. These assets are owned and used by the four current component parts of the United Kingdom – Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. If one component part leaves the British Union, then it must either be compensated for the loss of assets it helped fund while a member or another arrangement could be made, such as continuing to share the asset. The SNP position is that, after independence, it would be in everyone’s interest to continue sharing the Bank of England and the pound.
The other side of the ‘deal’ regarding agreement on assets is, of course, liabilities – the debts run-up by the United Kingdom. The SNP has stated it is willing to accept a proportional share of debts accrued while Scotland was a member of the British Union.
However, what the British Unionist triumvirate of Osborne, Balls and Alexander said last week is that an independent Scotland must take its share of the UK’s debts but would not be allowed continued use of shared assets. If that was to happen, then the (rest of the) United Kingdom would have to stump-up massive compensation to Scotland to offset the fact they were retaining an asset Scotland had helped fund while it was a member of the UK.
In fact, if the (rest of the UK) decided to play hardball in such a way as described by Osborne, Balls and Alexander, then an independent Scotland would be well within its rights to point out that UK debt is the responsibility of the UK – a position already accepted by the UK Treasury – which means a newly independent country, like Scotland, need not accept liability.
In reality, the British Unionists are simply getting desperate as polls show the direction of travel in the independence referendum is from ‘No’ to ‘YES’. The Unionists are losing the argument, so they have decided to ramp-up the scare-stories. There is no positive case for Scotland remaining a part of the British Union, so the Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are reduced to describing Scottish independence as an apocalyptic land where absolutely everything goes wrong.
We are back to being told that alone amongst all the peoples on Earth, only the Scots are incapable of successfully running their own country. Independence is the normal status of virtually every nation in the world, but if the Scots achieved that status we are so stupid and so incompetent we would turn it into a disaster. The British Unionist message is: ‘Listen up, Jocks – you are too wee, too poor and too stupid to govern your own country’.
David Cameron’s ‘love-in’ with the Scots (albeit in a speech delivered in London to English journalists and English Tory activists) lasted barely a week before the British Unionists reverted to type and re-engaged in attacks on the intelligence, abilities and skills of people living in Scotland. As polls continue to show the ‘YES’ vote rising and the ‘No’ vote falling, expect those attacks to get stronger and more vicious – and expect every distortion and lie to be reported as fact by the loyal British media.
Meanwhile, the so-called ‘Scottish’ Labour Party continues to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the toxic Tories and their Lib Dem lapdogs as they hammer Scots with the Bedroom Tax and other savage cuts to essential services and benefits. In addition, the so-called ‘Scottish’ Labour Party continues to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the toxic Tories and their Lib Dem lapdogs as they launch attacks against the people of Scotland. In fact, ‘Scottish’ Labour politicians are often amongst the most vitriolic in disparaging the abilities of Scots.
Thankfully, more and more Labour members in Scotland are distancing themselves from the party’s British Unionist coalition with the Tories and Lib Dems. Ordinary Labour members can’t stomach the Tories and their policies any more than the rest of us, which is why the campaign group ‘Labour for Independence’ continues to grow, and why many traditional Labour supporters will be voting for independence in the referendum on September 18th.
Independence is simply being a normal country, where those of us living in Scotland elect a government to represent our interests and deliver policies to meet our needs. In an independent Scotland we will always get the government for which we vote, and it won’t be Tory. Never again will we have Tory governments or policies imposed on us, and never again will posh-boy millionaire Tory MPs swan into Scotland for the day to tell us we are too wee, too poor and too stupid to govern our own country.
Arsenal very lucky to escape with a 2-0 defeat.Roasted in the second half.
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