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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 21:57:20 GMT
Couldn't go tonight, but the funniest story of the night is Babe Station being played in the bars at half time. What's Babe Station? Is it about pigs? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 23:38:07 GMT
Couldn't go tonight, but the funniest story of the night is Babe Station being played in the bars at half time. What's Babe Station? Is it about pigs? Actually, it is. |
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Post by emperorsuperbus on Aug 15, 2018 0:58:01 GMT
Queuing down Glos Rd to get in was such a walk up in last 30mins before the match. Easy workout. My m o m Ollie Clarke. Brilliant breakup of play. Played the simple ball. Capped off by classic trademark goal, running with ball striking from distance. Other notable performances from Danny, James Clarke, Payne. Locks again indifferent. Smith i blame goal for as allowed too much space in 2man wall direct free kick that hit post and led to corner he never came off his line for. Easy header again...this time from set piece. A bit better passing tonight. Too often crossing never got past the first defender but that's ultra critical as we controlled vast periods of the game and rarely looked in trouble. Wonder who we'll get in next round? Ollie Clarke was player of the season two seasons ago, right from the off he turned up looking like a mid field general and kept it going all campaign, but then last season he played ponderous off colour football from start to finish. The last couple of games he seems back on it again. |
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Post by emperorsuperbus on Aug 15, 2018 1:16:40 GMT
Good performance, no idea if that was Creepy's first choice 11, if it was then we are miles better than a L2 team. Payne seems to be on a Duracell diet. We had them chasing shadows in midfield at times. Ticket / admission was a farce. Huge lines of people at the ticket office, one steward on car park duty telling people that you could pay cash at the turnstile. Bit odd as I thought we wanted to eliminate that, anyway, off to the turnstile, where a Lady was walking along the queue taking the money and shoving it into her trouser pocket before you got to the turnstile (I kid you not) no ticket given in exchange, no receipt, when you got to the turnstile the chap inside just asked if you had already paid the Lady outside. Gorringe walking around behind the Blackthorn end looking quite stressed. Sorry Tom, but you need to think again, this was a complete mess  Anyone else with a story to tell about the admission farce? If fans can anticipate many turning up without ticket for Cup game club should too. Put the woman working the line with her pocket into a ticket booth or turnstile issuing ticket for the cash, not only would look more professional but probably would be touch more legal too. if they wanted to double, maybe triple the gate for this one, with knock on cash benefits, maybe let season ticket holders get in free with their season tickets? Would have reduced queuing? What are they putting babestationgate down to and ensuring it won’t happen again? Mr Local resident with universal remote switching channels when Mrs Local went t bingo? |
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Post by Peter Parker on Aug 15, 2018 4:59:56 GMT
Good performance, no idea if that was Creepy's first choice 11, if it was then we are miles better than a L2 team. Payne seems to be on a Duracell diet. We had them chasing shadows in midfield at times. Ticket / admission was a farce. Huge lines of people at the ticket office, one steward on car park duty telling people that you could pay cash at the turnstile. Bit odd as I thought we wanted to eliminate that, anyway, off to the turnstile, where a Lady was walking along the queue taking the money and shoving it into her trouser pocket before you got to the turnstile (I kid you not) no ticket given in exchange, no receipt, when you got to the turnstile the chap inside just asked if you had already paid the Lady outside. Gorringe walking around behind the Blackthorn end looking quite stressed. Sorry Tom, but you need to think again, this was a complete mess Learning experience for the club and the fans. The fans have to get used to buying in advance, perhaps especially more so on an evening game when time may be tighter, whilst club can learn from tbe demand side of things. The 2nd round could be against someone like West Ham and we will all need tickets in advance anyway As for the game, we weee pretty comfortable and Matthews really impessede. Always wanting the ball and energetic with good feet |
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Aug 15, 2018 6:04:34 GMT
Good performance, no idea if that was Creepy's first choice 11, if it was then we are miles better than a L2 team. Payne seems to be on a Duracell diet. We had them chasing shadows in midfield at times. Ticket / admission was a farce. Huge lines of people at the ticket office, one steward on car park duty telling people that you could pay cash at the turnstile. Bit odd as I thought we wanted to eliminate that, anyway, off to the turnstile, where a Lady was walking along the queue taking the money and shoving it into her trouser pocket before you got to the turnstile (I kid you not) no ticket given in exchange, no receipt, when you got to the turnstile the chap inside just asked if you had already paid the Lady outside. Gorringe walking around behind the Blackthorn end looking quite stressed. Sorry Tom, but you need to think again, this was a complete mess Anyone else with a story to tell about the admission farce? If fans can anticipate many turning up without ticket for Cup game club should too. Put the woman working the line with her pocket into a ticket booth or turnstile issuing ticket for the cash, not only would look more professional but probably would be touch more legal too. if they wanted to double, maybe triple the gate for this one, with knock on cash benefits, maybe let season ticket holders get in free with their season tickets? Would have reduced queuing? What are they putting babestationgate down to and ensuring it won’t happen again? Mr Local resident with universal remote switching channels when Mrs Local went t bingo? Or people buy a ticket in advance, or if they really can only pay on the day may I suggest doing that first before going in the pub? I find it really hard to believe that so many people collectively decided at the last minute to go along for Crawley in the league cup. There is nothing wrong with the system, it has been used at scores of clubs for several years now. May be a couple more booths would help. The problem lies with the Luddites who refused to adapt to the (mostly positive) change that has taken place at the club. |
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Post by emperorsuperbus on Aug 15, 2018 7:54:00 GMT
Anyone else with a story to tell about the admission farce? If fans can anticipate many turning up without ticket for Cup game club should too. Put the woman working the line with her pocket into a ticket booth or turnstile issuing ticket for the cash, not only would look more professional but probably would be touch more legal too. if they wanted to double, maybe triple the gate for this one, with knock on cash benefits, maybe let season ticket holders get in free with their season tickets? Would have reduced queuing? What are they putting babestationgate down to and ensuring it won’t happen again? Mr Local resident with universal remote switching channels when Mrs Local went t bingo? Or people buy a ticket in advance, or if they really can only pay on the day may I suggest doing that first before going in the pub? I find it really hard to believe that so many people collectively decided at the last minute to go along for Crawley in the league cup. There is nothing wrong with the system, it has been used at scores of clubs for several years now. May be a couple more booths would help. The problem lies with the Luddites who refused to adapt to the (mostly positive) change that has taken place at the club. unable to cope with late surge of people without tickets could have happened last season too under old system? Needs a bit of flexibility like they have in supermarket checkout with tannoy announcement “can all staff ticket booth trained please report to cash booth please”. I fear our club boobed on Tuesday is going into national press for all wrong reasons. “Footy club boobs. Professionally run football club became BRISTOLS Rovers when exposing children to XXX RATED porn channel. Jack, 9, told his mum, why is that lady’s boobs so big mummy, they frighten me. Mellisa, 18, was heard to say, forget the pony daddy, I want what she’s got.” You know what I mean. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 9:37:25 GMT
Or people buy a ticket in advance, or if they really can only pay on the day may I suggest doing that first before going in the pub? I find it really hard to believe that so many people collectively decided at the last minute to go along for Crawley in the league cup. There is nothing wrong with the system, it has been used at scores of clubs for several years now. May be a couple more booths would help. The problem lies with the Luddites who refused to adapt to the (mostly positive) change that has taken place at the club. unable to cope with late surge of people without tickets could have happened last season too under old system? Needs a bit of flexibility like they have in supermarket checkout with tannoy announcement “can all staff ticket booth trained please report to cash booth please”. I fear our club boobed on Tuesday is going into national press for all wrong reasons. “Footy club boobs. Professionally run football club became BRISTOLS Rovers when exposing children to XXX RATED porn channel. Jack, 9, told his mum, why is that lady’s boobs so big mummy, they frighten me. Mellisa, 18, was heard to say, forget the pony daddy, I want what she’s got.” You know what I mean. Is any publicity good publicity? The Sun, of course.I'm not at all sure where we are trying to go with this ticket thing. As far as I'm aware the little bing-bong boxes in the turnstiles aren't recording any data, they are just looking for a valid bar code, so we won't record a pattern of behaviour for the card holder. Personally I would have the card being scanned when buying drinks at bars (bit like a Tesco Clubcard, Tesco aren't doing that because they want to give you points on the card), whenever buying anything at the counter at PL, the card would hold a personal membership number which you would retain for life, it would help build a full profile for every customer. When buying merchandise at the counter at PL are the staff looking to create a customer record, or are they searching to see if one exists already? I know that's not possible when the shop's rammed full of customers, but it could be done during quieter periods. Do we have a proper mail order department yet, and have we sorted out packaging so that items are no longer just rammed into plastic bags and posted? I could go on, even more.... I think we have the colonel of an idea but have given about 2 minutes thought to implementation. In defence of Tom Gorringe, I think that if he's trying to sell advertising, deal with corporate clients, modernise communication, sort out ticketing and get our retail operation out of the 1980s, in all honesty, that's more than 1 job, he's going to struggle to do all of that himself. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 9:45:27 GMT
unable to cope with late surge of people without tickets could have happened last season too under old system? Needs a bit of flexibility like they have in supermarket checkout with tannoy announcement “can all staff ticket booth trained please report to cash booth please”. I fear our club boobed on Tuesday is going into national press for all wrong reasons. “Footy club boobs. Professionally run football club became BRISTOLS Rovers when exposing children to XXX RATED porn channel. Jack, 9, told his mum, why is that lady’s boobs so big mummy, they frighten me. Mellisa, 18, was heard to say, forget the pony daddy, I want what she’s got.” You know what I mean. Is any publicity good publicity? The Sun, of course.I'm not at all sure where we are trying to go with this ticket thing. As far as I'm aware the little bing-bong boxes in the turnstiles aren't recording any data, they are just looking for a valid bar code, so we won't record a pattern of behaviour for the card holder. Personally I would have the card being scanned when buying drinks at bars (bit like a Tesco Clubcard, Tesco aren't doing that because they want to give you points on the card), whenever buying anything at the counter at PL, the card would hold a personal membership number which you would retain for life, it would help build a full profile for every customer. When buying merchandise at the counter at PL are the staff looking to create a customer record, or are they searching to see if one exists already? I know that's not possible when the shop's rammed full of customers, but it could be done during quieter periods. Do we have a proper mail order department yet, and have we sorted out packaging so that items are no longer just rammed into plastic bags and posted? I could go on, even more.... I think we have the colonel of an idea but have given about 2 minutes thought to implementation. In defence of Tom Gorringe, I think that if he's trying to sell advertising, deal with corporate clients, modernise communication, sort out ticketing and get our retail operation out of the 1980s, in all honesty, that's more than 1 job, he's going to struggle to do all of that himself. Just a thought but if the club were better at retaining staff perhaps he wouldn't have so many roles? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 9:57:57 GMT
Is any publicity good publicity? The Sun, of course.I'm not at all sure where we are trying to go with this ticket thing. As far as I'm aware the little bing-bong boxes in the turnstiles aren't recording any data, they are just looking for a valid bar code, so we won't record a pattern of behaviour for the card holder. Personally I would have the card being scanned when buying drinks at bars (bit like a Tesco Clubcard, Tesco aren't doing that because they want to give you points on the card), whenever buying anything at the counter at PL, the card would hold a personal membership number which you would retain for life, it would help build a full profile for every customer. When buying merchandise at the counter at PL are the staff looking to create a customer record, or are they searching to see if one exists already? I know that's not possible when the shop's rammed full of customers, but it could be done during quieter periods. Do we have a proper mail order department yet, and have we sorted out packaging so that items are no longer just rammed into plastic bags and posted? I could go on, even more.... I think we have the colonel of an idea but have given about 2 minutes thought to implementation. In defence of Tom Gorringe, I think that if he's trying to sell advertising, deal with corporate clients, modernise communication, sort out ticketing and get our retail operation out of the 1980s, in all honesty, that's more than 1 job, he's going to struggle to do all of that himself. Just a thought but if the club were better at retaining staff perhaps he wouldn't have so many roles? Can't argue, but I think they've recruited him to do this, and it's not one job. He'll burn himself out and / or get disillusioned trying to spin that many plates. He looked pretty stressed last night. |
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