RichardBuddie
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And another thing - the club didn’t even email the season ticket holders to inform them there would be a ballot - if you are a regular viewer of the club website fine, however I get most of my club news here!!
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I think that would embarrass the fans and the club, given we'll practically all be allowed back in from two days after the game. As frustrating as this has been, it isn't "demonstration" level.
Baz, I agree it would be very embarrassing and potentially damaging (a demonstration), but this not getting enough fans in is just terrible - I’ve got an 11 year old boy who is absolutely gutted at not getting in.
It is just so frustrating knowing we’re not going to be there tomorrow - I’ve actually dropped another note to the club basically asking if they can let me and my boy in by exception!! -
I bought my ST last season knowing it was basically to support the club financially through a difficult time. I half expected some kind of acknowledgment from them this season when I renewed again, maybe 10% discount on saints top or a free pie at half time for a couple of games.
No, what we get is the piss taken out of us completely!
i for one will not be rushing to buy my ST next season.
Really fair point this - a gesture, something to reward the fans. It appears that there were 3200 who coughed up last season and I’m hearing figures of 2500 - 2800 this season which is likely down to a combination of perhaps personal situations, people not wanting to commit (after committing last season for nowt back) or the current mess the club are in regarding season tickets.
So what could the club do to reward the 3200 who committed last season (that’s if they know who we were / are), an open training session at the stadium (perhaps end of season when things may be safer)? A free cup game? A packet of crisps. A free top for my son. Only a # do we get with some radio silence thrown in for good measure!!
Feeling robbed and insulted!! The club need to up their game!! -
Me and my son never made the ballot for Hearts, I have written to the club asking to be put on a ‘standby list’ if they have such a thing - I have not received a reply.
Would actually quite like my share of the season tickets money back (say an 1/18th) as opposed to St Mirren TV - which I’ll probably not get access to anyway.
I am on record months ago, possibly 1 year ago stating the club should be readying themselves for when fans can get back in some form - yet they’ve done nothing, they’ve been caught out on almost every facet (the return, the season tickets and the strips) with the most important one being PR.
Why can we not get 2000 fans in minimum - I just can’t buy this main stand red zone pish, lucky if there were any more than 3 dozen in there for the thistle game!!
I’ll bet we have not even been in contact with the council!! -
Yes I understand the app to be down, like the fool I am I have now deleted the app and now cannot locate it in the App Store to reinstate…..
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Seemingly the number of absentees at the Thistle game was in the hundreds What a bunch of selfish bastards
By the way it was really obvious that there were many empty seats at the thistle game, I had initially assumed that people had moved to sit with friends but clearly that was not the case!! -
We should genuinely be making more of this 1,000 fans in the ground issue. It's borderline scandalous. There seems to be no real issue on 30%, 40%, 50% filled grounds at this point where we seem to be either moping about how sad it is fans aren't getting back in numbers we'd like, or saying f**k all.
The fans have an absolute right to know who is making these decisions, why they are being made and why the club aren't fighting tooth and nail against any decisions made on 'social distancing' guidelines given that these don't appear to apply nearly as stringently to many, many other clubs very local to us.
Fir Park will be 47% full on Saturday for their game vs Hibs...St. Mirren Park was (allegedly) only allowed to be 12% full yesterday and only 12% full a week next Saturday.
Dundee, a city that had the outright highest infection rate in Europe until only a couple of weeks ago have applied for and expect to be granted increased capacity for our match on Saturday. And rightly so, who can blame them? And again, likely no away fans.
So why is Fitzpatrick showing up on Radio Scotland yesterday sounding like a beaten man when it comes to more supporters being let in? Why are the club not publicly questioning these decisions? This was packaged up by our SLO the other day as being a social distancing issue but that's clearly not true at all. I get some grounds have more seats, exits, facilities etc, but definitely not a disparity of 12% capacity in one ground allowed vs 47% in another.
Who ever ultimately made the decision, be it SMFC or Renfrewshire Council owe the supporters a full and frank explanation. Why should we still be balloting to see who f**king gets to go to games and who doesn't when other clubs are fighting tooth and nail to get ALL fans who want a ticket through the doors?
You know what makes it all the more galling - even within the 1039 number the right hand side of the family stand AND the away end had practically no seats taken - so did the club not sell the tickets (find that impossible to believe) or were they all no shows (also can’t believe this).
Also what’s this with not opening the main stand up (relative to the rest of the stadium).
Given that other clubs are getting 30/40% in - we should be getting the same fair and square.
Will this not be short term though as of the 9th August is it not fully open?
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It does suggest a level of shortsightedness.
This is pretty bad - in any organisation or industry when the going gets tough (and based on my own experience) what you would normally try to do is determine the magnitude of the problem, work out your end solution (in this case selling those tickets to the customer), work out the steps needed to make the objective happen and the target date, you then assign competent resources to make it happen, most importantly you measure your progress (against the steps)!!
Something is broken here - they need a manager to manage through the problem and to coordinate.
By the way I’m not a manager - just an ordinary punter!!
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He'd used them by April. [emoji1787]
Aye, to wipe his mouth!! [emoji3] -
I reckon my seat for the new season will be facing my TV.
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You can wear the new strip whilst at home watching - if we ever release it!! -
I did notice earlier when checking that my seats in M7 were not available (I’ve already bought them and due to the chaos was getting paranoid that they may be) that there were some fantastic seats in M5 I think available to general public. Would have loved those seats from a viewing perspective, however I really like all the dudes that sit around me!!
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Does this mean we can compliment women on their appearance with this lovely jubbly weather without getting scolded?
Indeed - I was in the city centre (Glasgow) on Saturday - imagine the melt down had I commented on Saturday night about all the talent!! -
He is posting on Pie&Bovril and making an arse of himself there instead.
It’s like a wee holiday getting a break from him!! -
So, just back from a pleasant few days in Edinburgh.
Plenty of places had outside seating where masks were not required when sitting at your table, drinks served by mask wearing staff.
In the new St James's centre a very respectable 90% of people were complying (approx) which is a fairly open shopping centre, certainly not claustrophobic.
The train journey home had everyone playing the game and wearing a mask.
Edinburgh, like most places, despite less and less restrictions being in place, has seen a steady decline in cases.
The very clear evidence that the vaccine is breaking the link between serious illness and deaths continues to be very positive.
Foreign travel still seems to be looking erratic, certainly still a long way from the conditions I'd be making a booking.
I had hoped for s possible week away in October but that's looking less likely, New year is the next best bet.
Was on the train yesterday from Hawkhead to Glasgow Central and the carriage I was in containing say 15 people no-one was wearing a mask, the conductor came up to check tickets (he had his mask on) and didn’t challenge anyone, however on the return journey everyone was wearing their mask.
But if a mixed bag, I did wonder if it’s a case of someone setting the precedent regarding the wearing or not wearing of masks? -
In fairness I never had any problems either with the old supplier. Regarding registering for the new supplier and buying me and my sons season ticket it appears I was one of the lucky ones as it went through ok - the only niggling thing is my confirmation never explicitly stated that I’ve got (renewed) our own seats, however I appear to be more fortunate than many!!
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People have short memories.
Last season's ticket roll out and strip release was marketed slickly and with a great deal of publicity. That was down to The Kibble's involvement. I'm sure TF or GS mentioned as much in their updates.
This season for whatever reason, the season ticket company was changed at the last minute. I'm sure that wasn't remotely helpful. However, yet again, it has been proven that the team involved with season tickets is simply too small to deal with glitches. Even though this year's events were probably exacerbated by the fact that season ticket holders had to populate a new data base. That was never going to go well. The club should have been more proactive regarding keeping people who were experiencing problems with season tickets.
The strips debacle was not of the club's making. It's quite clear that the strips had been ready to roll out with "Skyview" on them, as evidenced by the "black bin bag" look on the away strips v Linfield and also by the absence of the stripes in any of our games so far. Obviously Joma have had to change their plans. Not much the club could do about this. Although, again, the lack of info from the club on this matter is annoying to some. Also, the club shop, which is another thing in transition, can hardly sell or take pre-orders of strips without Joma providing concrete evidence of strip production, delivery etc.
There are definitely glaring faults with aspects of the strip/season ticket this season, but not much The Kibble could do about it IMO.
Good balanced post and probably correct in most of the observations you make - I do wonder though what team (in terms of numbers and competency) is in place to solve the season ticket problem specifically and if they have identified what targets they need to hit and will they hit them? In other words the first home game is 3 weeks away (I think) there are numerous people with queries to get resolved, issues over people being allocated different seats etc. -
It's coz he's socially inadequate and has no experience of the day to day life most have on this forum.
So, he tries to make himself relevant crawling around for acceptance, peddling his narrow minded views while trying to be part of the crowd.
Am irrelevance TBH.
This!! He tried it on with me - getting all hysterical over an innocent comment that I made (in context I would add), tried to get me into trouble and ended up getting himself into a terrible mess, he took a real beating then, I’ve always said there’s bigger issues at play here!! -
And with that statement from Boris, it's all over for legally enforced restrictions in England including masks.
Given that we have open borders to England, we'll be forced to follow suit sooner rather than later but this is all over bar the shouting.
Thank f**k for that.
It's a real shame Sturgeon has allowed Boris to set the positive agenda here. I like her but this endless suffocating caution has really damaged her. Will be interesting to see if she accepts her hand is forced now or whether she attempts to brazen it out for another few weeks.
Over to you Nicola.
Tonight I'm going to enjoy a nice beer.
Wee Nicky will flex her muscles to a certain extent for as long as she can but I will ultimately comply (follow suit) with BoJo - expect a 2 to 3 week lag though. Just in time for furlough’s rapid demise!! -
I’ve emailed [email protected] - no reply yet - noticed someone on P&B got tickets for wrong stand BTW
Just double checked - mines are for correct stands - had the sweats there for a moment!! -
Just renewed . Quite easy. However i received an e mail with new ticket attached. A bar code on a bit of paper. What the hell do you do with that? Do we get a proper ticket later?
I managed to renew and pay no problem and I also got my mail with the e-ticket - would have been much more assuring if the ticket had referenced mine and my sons seat numbers - in fairness they were referenced earlier in the booking process.
Just worried I don’t have my actual seats that I’ve had for years!! -
Unfortunately that seems to be the norm .
Or three reminder emails and then copy in absolutely everyone on their contact list ……. Then they reply and say they’ll get back to you . 10 days later from that , still waiting . ( not about the STs , another Club matter)
So glad we brought Kibble on board , it’s brought a real professionalism and business like approach to the club .
if I treated my customers this way, I’d be selling the big issue outside Morrison’s pretty damn quick !!
I think you’re spot on here - surely there must be club staff that monitor or read these posts, we’re talking basic manners and customer service here.
Let’s not forget 3200 people last season coughed up their money and essentially got hee-haw, to that end with it being common knowledge that there is to be no fan incentive this season and with the uncertainty meaning it may be hard to project this seasons uptake you would think the club would be trying to get things spot on from a PR perspective.
I will buy my ticket and my sons - but I could understand if any other buddy that doesn’t renew. -
I don't remember getting an e-mail.
I just signed in through the article on the website.
Cheers, I must have misread Tony’s update, I’ll get myself registered, it’s funny to think that we have to re register, to cough up our money for a product that we might not receive or at best perhaps have a 1 in 6 chance of receiving, furthermore will cognisance be paid to family members for example what if my 11 year old son gets drawn in the ballot but I don’t - he obviously can’t go himself?? -
Thank you Cookie Monster!! -
Do you mean after you entered your data?
Sorry just getting back to this now, I haven’t been prompted to enter any data, last mail was Tony’s update saying we’d get a mail - which I understand others have got but I have not.
The capacity debacle
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That statement is a load of rubbish!! Historic issues my ar@e - the stadium is only ten years old for goodness sake!!
Needless to say the club never responded to my 2 emails and my son is upset.
I’ve a good mind to go tomorrow and ask to gain entry - after all I have paid up!!
Really poor from the club.