[Albion] The Fan Advisory Board Thread

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Tbf I think @ColonelMustard acknowledges Tony Bloom and Paul Barber are exceptional and we have a brilliantly run club. I took his central point as being he feels there is still insufficient recognition of the difficulties in the transport to and particularly from the Amex, and he thinks further communication from the club about what they are doing in this regard would be welcomed.
Apologies if I’m wrong.

 

[BN9 BHA]

We don’t sing that second verse so don’t need to know anything about ploughing or mowing

Can’t help with the ploughing but hope this is useful


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[medwayseagull reborn]

I disagree with this. Think it encourages people to sing, many of whom wouldnt otherwise.

Let’s not forget it wasn’t long ago we were playing in front of 7k every week. We don’t have a large group of long term fans.

They should have an additional set of screen lyrics in japanese.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Can we put out a consultation / survey on fan-zone in its entirety to gage a consensus and actually act on the findings.

Music choice / words on screen / Reynolds lose script, the lot please.

Personally think it needs an overhaul to build the atmosphere. Hey Jude / Put your hands up for a Brighton are imho nag and cringeworthy.

If only we had a successful DJ ( not the Dutch one) in the fanbase that could be consulted for an uplifting 10-15 musical set.

 

[Husty]

Tony Bloom often gets the train with fans to away games. I’ve also seen him on the train from Lewes to Falmer on a home game day (admittedly one of of the earlier ones, I guess he has stuff to do at the ground).

Suggesting he and Paul are out of touch when it comes to transport is, frankly, odd.

Are these sentences simple enough for you?

Nothing odd about it. Barbers attitude towards the cost of a roof over the queues would change sharpish if he was stood in them in the pissing rain every week.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Nothing odd about it. Barbers attitude towards the cost of a roof over the queues would change sharpish if he was stood in them in the pissing rain every week.

If you think covering all of both train queues and the park and ride queues is in any way practical you don't really know anything about anything.

And if we're talking about prioritising money I'd rather have cover at full back and a new winger thanks

Last week a bit of beer, this week a bit of rain. No wonder the rest of the league think we're middle class pussies.

 

[Husty]

If you think covering all of both train queues and the park and ride queues is in any way practical you don't really know anything about anything.

And if we're talking about prioritising money I'd rather have cover at full back and a new winger thanks

Last week a bit of beer, this week a bit of rain. No wonder the rest of the league think we're middle class pussies.

You really are trying to vie with Chailey for title of NSC's most condescending and-yet very obviously wrong bore aren't you?

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We'd need what, 5, possibly 10? So that's about 500k-£1mil of expenses. I reckon the club can find that money from somewhere? Obvious first point of savings in my view would be stop wasting money on a women's team who will never win anything.

 

[Guinness Boy]

You really are trying to vie with Chailey for title of NSC's most condescending and-yet very obviously wrong bore aren't you?

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6meters wide - 20meters long - £92k

We'd need what, 5, possibly 10? So that's about 500k-£1mil of expenses. I reckon the club can find that money from somewhere? Obvious first point of savings in my view would be stop wasting money on a women's team who will never win anything.

Five minute job. I'm surprised PBOBE hasn't approached you to project manage it.

 

[Official Old Man]

Upper Block was available on first day as I got tickets in there.

Which upper block?
Only SU1 was available at 9:00 but I've no doubt SU2 & 3 came online later. My friend has trouble standing and so we get front row seats. Going to every game home & away we are in the top tier and able to buy the front seats. But that's only if they are available from the start.

 

[dazzer6666]

PB and TB will 100% know the issues with transport- what could be better perhaps is some communication about what they’re doing about it (or trying to do - strongly suspect they are trying allsorts but are hamstrung by a crap and disengaged railway setup that doesn’t give a shit, a lack of suitable buses to improve the P&R flow and a lack of any suitable sites for additional P&R or near-site parking). Having one or both of them ‘suffer’ the experience won’t change that. Spending hundreds of thousands on covering the walkways for essentially half a dozen days a year doesn’t sound like good use of cash imo.

 

[Husty]

Five minute job. I'm surprised PBOBE hasn't approached you to project manage it.

I don't think I've ever been to a school in this country that didn't have covered walkways. If your local primary school can find the funds and the where withal to organise such a thing why do you think its so ludicrous to think the football club with £200mil in annual turnover and a staff now in the thousands can't be expected to do the same?

 

[Guinness Boy]

I don't think I've ever been to a school in this country that didn't have covered walkways. If your local primary school can find the funds and the where withal to organise such a thing why do you think its so ludicrous to think the football club with £200mil in annual turnover and a staff now in the thousands can't be expected to do the same?

Covered walkways to the school bus? Course they don't. My thirteen year old daughter waits in the rain for the bus to and from school, even when it's pouring down. Not really too hard to ask some grown adults to do the same, especially when they currently have the option of staying indoors with a beer until there's no queue and will soon have a fanzone to do the same in.

 

[trueblue]

improve the toilets in WSU, 6 sinks in the wrong place at the moment and 4 dryers again wrong place. too many NOT washing their hands.... Probably need more seated areas and more urinals . 4 deep at half time is really not healthy.

Agree with the comment about the the hand dryers and general lack of seated toilets. The dryers are in the worst possible position as you have to fight through the queue to get near them after using the sink - possibly they're not allowed to be close to the water, but it's never worked logistically. Likewise, the queues around the bar at the North end in WSU which make it difficult to move anywhere at the top of the stairs. Getting rid of the TV there might help. And another vote too for more of the beer vending machines, which are about 10x quicker than the humans, give you the drink you ordered and it's not flat.

 

[Hotchilidog]

PB and TB will 100% know the issues with transport- what could be better perhaps is some communication about what they’re doing about it (or trying to do - strongly suspect they are trying allsorts but are hamstrung by a crap and disengaged railway setup that doesn’t give a shit, a lack of suitable buses to improve the P&R flow and a lack of any suitable sites for additional P&R or near-site parking). Having one or both of them ‘suffer’ the experience won’t change that. Spending hundreds of thousands on covering the walkways for essentially half a dozen days a year doesn’t sound like good use of cash imo.

With regards to the trains there is very little they can do. I understand they do have more of a hands on responsibility for the traffic management regarding the ingress and egress of the car parks/park and rides.

 

[Beach Hut]

This thread should be - The "Official" Albion Fan Advisory Board moan thread​

 

[dazzer6666]

This thread should be - The "Official" Albion Fan Advisory Board moan thread​

No need to shout

 

[Cotton Socks]

We don’t sing that second verse so don’t need to know anything about ploughing or mowing

Please don't let facts spoil my moan!

 

[Wardy's twin]

This thread should be - The "Official" Albion Fan Advisory Board moan thread​

No its the The "Official" Albion Fan Advisory Board Constructive Criticism thread

 

[amexer]

PB and TB will 100% know the issues with transport- what could be better perhaps is some communication about what they’re doing about it (or trying to do - strongly suspect they are trying allsorts but are hamstrung by a crap and disengaged railway setup that doesn’t give a shit, a lack of suitable buses to improve the P&R flow and a lack of any suitable sites for additional P&R or near-site parking). Having one or both of them ‘suffer’ the experience won’t change that. Spending hundreds of thousands on covering the walkways for essentially half a dozen days a year doesn’t sound like good use of cash imo.

I do not accept that errecting a cover for P&R Queues would cost a great deal

 

[Husty]

Covered walkways to the school bus? Course they don't. My thirteen year old daughter waits in the rain for the bus to and from school, even when it's pouring down. Not really too hard to ask some grown adults to do the same, especially when they currently have the option of staying indoors with a beer until there's no queue and will soon have a fanzone to do the same in.

Oh I see, you're just being deliberately obtuse now, or thick? Quite possibly the latter

You see, if I was the father of a 13 year old girl standing in the pissing rain I'd be wondering why there aren't bus shelters, as is common up and down this country. Maybe I just have higher expectations in life than you though?