Shabby Yellow
Junior Member
- Joined
- 7 Dec 2017
- Messages
- 67
Having been a member of the various iterations I would like to express my growing disbelief that a group of supporters can be so badly treated.
I've been enjoying the lounges for some twenty years, reading the programme and a chat pre match, the halftime despondency whether we're winning, drawing or losing and the pint in bar to celebrate or commiserate with each other afterwards. The package of tea, biscuits, programme, team sheet and parking space was good value and also enabled me to give a lift to other supporters who sat in the East Stand and take them home afterwards.
Yes, it's had its moments that have been spoken of many times on this forum - tea is too hot, too cold, wrong types of biscuits; everyone getting their season ticket prices except for lounge members was a yearly gripe. But we have been a group where staff didn't know where to put us. At various times over the years we were manged through the ticket office, corporate, marketing, commercial. People would come and go, we even had a grand presentation by Ian Lennagan one season.
I really have no idea who is responsible now hence my raising on the forum. I can only guess that is it run by someone who has been instructed to reduce the average age of supporters. Many of the members were fortunate to be able to spend a little more for a parking space near the ground and a little extra comfort - I'm not sure how many of the less able will manage to keep coming. The way we have been treated though does not encourage older supporters to want/ be able to attend. The last straw for me was creating the Britannia lounge - any supporters involved in that? This included the approximately £12 pie as part of the package. Now that has been withdrawn it is now the Britannia Club where for only £9 a game you can have access to a bar to pay stupid prices for a drink. I wonder where the cigarette packet is that was written on as it should be framed.
This may seem trivial to many but it has chipped away my passion for the club. Yes I'll still go home and away but I've only been to one pre-season match, I'm not going to get my usual home shirt. Not out of spite but out of a feeling of being let down. I'm not asking for special treatment - I know some have managed to get parking spaces, etc based on hounding the right people but we should all be treated with an element of respect hence my writing here.
Supporters panel, OxVox, I know we ex- 1893'ers are a small group but it would be good to have some explanation of how this situation has been allowed to happen.
I've been enjoying the lounges for some twenty years, reading the programme and a chat pre match, the halftime despondency whether we're winning, drawing or losing and the pint in bar to celebrate or commiserate with each other afterwards. The package of tea, biscuits, programme, team sheet and parking space was good value and also enabled me to give a lift to other supporters who sat in the East Stand and take them home afterwards.
Yes, it's had its moments that have been spoken of many times on this forum - tea is too hot, too cold, wrong types of biscuits; everyone getting their season ticket prices except for lounge members was a yearly gripe. But we have been a group where staff didn't know where to put us. At various times over the years we were manged through the ticket office, corporate, marketing, commercial. People would come and go, we even had a grand presentation by Ian Lennagan one season.
I really have no idea who is responsible now hence my raising on the forum. I can only guess that is it run by someone who has been instructed to reduce the average age of supporters. Many of the members were fortunate to be able to spend a little more for a parking space near the ground and a little extra comfort - I'm not sure how many of the less able will manage to keep coming. The way we have been treated though does not encourage older supporters to want/ be able to attend. The last straw for me was creating the Britannia lounge - any supporters involved in that? This included the approximately £12 pie as part of the package. Now that has been withdrawn it is now the Britannia Club where for only £9 a game you can have access to a bar to pay stupid prices for a drink. I wonder where the cigarette packet is that was written on as it should be framed.
This may seem trivial to many but it has chipped away my passion for the club. Yes I'll still go home and away but I've only been to one pre-season match, I'm not going to get my usual home shirt. Not out of spite but out of a feeling of being let down. I'm not asking for special treatment - I know some have managed to get parking spaces, etc based on hounding the right people but we should all be treated with an element of respect hence my writing here.
Supporters panel, OxVox, I know we ex- 1893'ers are a small group but it would be good to have some explanation of how this situation has been allowed to happen.