[News] Open letter from Paul Barber

[timbha]

I couldn’t go Saturday, thought I had Covid, thankfully not test was negative, but for the Watford game, I was surprised to see a relatively large number of stewards located at the Bridge Car Park, I couldn’t really see what a lot of them were actually doing to get paid, so maybe this shortage of stewards is a logistical issue rather than actually a shortage of bodies?

Are you suggesting these extra car park stewards should have been re deployed to support the catering? Or drive trains perhaps? Or play LWB?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Expecting another open letter from Barber on how the season ticket sharing scheme has been scrapped given the huge swathes of empty seats leading to lack of attendees purchasing items from the kiosks.

To be honest the club could do without any more fans turning up

 

[Knotty]

No mention of the shit train service either

I hadn’t realised that Paul Barber runs the railway company as well as the football club.

On that basis, he probably runs Highways England too, so I demand an apology for the traffic jam I encountered on my 100-mile drive to the Amex.

 

[bluenitsuj]

I see there was some clouds as well.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/uk/brighton/historic

Barber out.

Stop taking those drugs.

 

[timbha]

To be honest the club could do without any more fans turning up

And without some of those that did turn up

 

[BN9 BHA]

And without some of those that did turn up

Absolutely

 

[bluenitsuj]

I hadn’t realised that Paul Barber runs the railway company as well as the football club.

On that basis, he probably runs Highways England too, so I demand an apology for the traffic jam I encountered on my 100-mile drive to the Amex.

Please quote where I said that...........I will wait.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

To be honest the club could do without any more fans turning up

True. If the extra 5 thousand or so who were missing actually came to the match, then things would be far more difficult.

 

[A1X]

No mention of the shit train service either

...you do realise he's not Mussolini, right?

 

[lawros left foot]

Amazed it’s taken 10 years and a Pandemic to get this apology. The catering and stewarding at The Amex has been consistently shite since day dot.

In comparison to other grounds, it’s not though is it.

In normal times I have rarely waited longer than 10 minutes to be served in the West stand upper, although I don’t buy anything at halftime. Most away games I have had to wait at least as long, and often for an inferior product at the same, admittedly, extortionate price. And at gigs etc, the service is about the same or worse, very rarely better.

 

[Swansman]

...you do realise he's not Mussolini, right?

Yet another Barber out! reason.

 

[Guinness Boy]

What a thoroughly depressing place NSC is.

Populated by miserable, entitled, whingeing adults behaving like selfish, ignorant schoolchildren. I don’t understand why some support BHA, desperate as they are to pounce on anything and everything the club says or does, and criticise endlessly.

Ours must be the worst club in the country because, judging by all the experts on NSC, it gets nothing right.

Or possibly our marketing, communications and facilities are SO good that we're never quite going to deliver on our own promises. In fact, let's take Saturday's opponents.

No one goes to Everton for a "match day experience". You drink in the pubs around the ground, turn up at 2.45 and squeeze into a seat that's half a foot wide with enough leg room for a dwarf, so that you can peer at the game trough a roof envelope or round a pillar. Consequently their entitlement runs only as far not having a manager who managed Liverpool, even though he's clearly sorted them out into a formidable unit in a matter of weeks.

We, on the other hand, have an incredible ground with no pubs anywhere near it, a closed car park (for which I blame LDC and Matthew Bennet BTW) and inadequate train service. We have probably some of the best food and beer in the whole league in our concessions and, as there are no pubs anywhere near, people go to buy it and therefore queues build up. We talk about "customers" and "match day experiences" yet we cannot even provide step free access for someone's disabled mother.

Like I said above, I feel very sorry for PB who tried to warn everyone and can do nothing about Sodexo's staffing issues. But that doesn't mean we always deliver on our uber-polished marketing messages. And the very location of the ground and high quality of goods within causes its own problems.

 

[bluenitsuj]

...you do realise he's not Mussolini, right?

Wow. I did not know that.

You do realise that the club pay a lot of money to Southern to provide an enhanced service to us on Match days? No, well now you do.

 

[studio150]

There is a simple solution to reduce the queues allow people to take flasks keep their bottle tops and even take food into the ground.

Issue solved. Of course this will never happen

 

[LamieRobertson]

It’s going to be a long ‘international’ break

 

[chaileyjem]

There is a simple solution to reduce the queues allow people to take flasks keep their bottle tops and even take food into the ground.

Issue solved. Of course this will never happen

You can take food into the ground.


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[Stat Brother]

What a thoroughly depressing place NSC is.

Populated by miserable, entitled, whingeing adults behaving like selfish, ignorant schoolchildren. I don’t understand why some support BHA, desperate as they are to pounce on anything and everything the club says or does, and criticise endlessly.

Ours must be the worst club in the country because, judging by all the experts on NSC, it gets nothing right.

I would say it's unbelievable, but it just isn't is it.

With Albion fans behaving like c***s at the stadium, it's hardly surprising we're behaving like c***s on a faceless messageboard.
Maybe, just maybe us Albion fans are c***s.


I wonder how bad these calamitous first world problems would be if the Albion had won and 'we' were top.

Entitled c***s that we are.

 

[chaileyjem]

I took Paul's comment in his letter as being an example of him never being able to apologise.
.

First para of the Barber letter “we can only apologise”

 

[Knotty]

Please quote where I said that...........I will wait.

You didn’t. I was being sarcastic but, if you don’t get what I was trying to say, I can’t be bothered.

 

[GT49er]

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