- May 8, 2018
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Couldn’t they just employ students to hold golf umbrellas?
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[Albion] The Fan Advisory Board Thread
- Thread starter Super Steve Earle
- Start date
- Jun 27, 2012
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This is a thread about the FAB and given that they've already fed back the covered walkway issue and PB/TB noted it but the board has taken the choice that investing in the fan zone was a better use of Bloom's ££ than investing in covered walkways. and argued that probably it will have more impact on ingoings/outgoings and transport flow.
If you think the response should be - a) we request that the senior team queue up in the rain on matchdays and b) we request that you get better quotes as its not much ££ or c) we think that TB should abandon the fanzone in favour of this scheme then fair enough.
But not sure its going to get much of a hearing.
If you think the response should be - a) we request that the senior team queue up in the rain on matchdays and b) we request that you get better quotes as its not much ££ or c) we think that TB should abandon the fanzone in favour of this scheme then fair enough.
But not sure its going to get much of a hearing.
Arthur
Well-known member
Get Guinness on draft in 1901 and get rid of those poxy machines they've installed this season. Hardly any of the staff know how they work. I've seen it take up 5 bar staff to pour one pint. Even if the staff member does know how it works it takes bloody ages to pour.
You think one bus shelter covers an entire secondary school's worth of kids at kicking out time?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?
There is, in fact, a similar level of cover, proportionally, to Falmer station post match.
HTH.
It's not even that.
It's the self-interest petty moans and gripes which at no point ever look at the bigger picture thread.
It's an absolutely glorious example as you why FAB is either on a hiding to nothing or just doomed to fail, depending on whether your a glass half full or half empty kind of person.
- Apr 19, 2018
- 2,412
Put plastic cup dispensers by the water machines in WSU - at the moment you have to try and get them from a kiosk or from the DIY beer machines both of which aren't totally inconvenient but do inconvenience other fans a bit as you try and fight through to get to them. It'd be great if there was a better queueing system for kiosks in WSU too. I don't know what that'd look like but at half time and sometimes before kick-off it's a right pain moving through the queues along the concourse and toilet queues are also often so long they go outside the door from the loos by W3D and out into the concourse too.
WSU does seem like a bit of a poor relation to the other stands in my very humble opinion, but wouldn't swap the view or the people I sit around for anything.
WSU does seem like a bit of a poor relation to the other stands in my very humble opinion, but wouldn't swap the view or the people I sit around for anything.
As a civil engineer, I can absolutely guarantee it's not that simple.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.
5 minute job?
Or the 'couldn't possibly put up with a bit of rain in winter' thread
I don't accept that a handful of wet games a season justifies putting them up
jackalbion
Well-known member
- Aug 30, 2011
- 5,917
The really boring actual answer is that the area that you want the covered walkway to be at the station is not on the club's land.
I am aware of that Thats why I think club should concentrate on P&R area
jackalbion
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- Aug 30, 2011
- 5,917
Agree the waiting area there could be improved.
How many of these travel problems are the result of fans choices?
The choice to go into town to drink and get the last train before kick off when there is a mad rush, rather than head to the ground earlier on emptier trains and drink there?
Choosing to head to the trains/buses at (or a little before) the final whistle?
How much improvement would those who need to get to the ground on the last train, and need to leave at full time see if more people who don't need to arrived a little earlier, left a little later?
If the rain while queuing after the game is such a ball ache, why not wait in the concourse? You're not getting away if you're stood in the queue.
(edit: this may also require people to recognise the difference between actual need and preference/convenience)
The choice to go into town to drink and get the last train before kick off when there is a mad rush, rather than head to the ground earlier on emptier trains and drink there?
Choosing to head to the trains/buses at (or a little before) the final whistle?
How much improvement would those who need to get to the ground on the last train, and need to leave at full time see if more people who don't need to arrived a little earlier, left a little later?
If the rain while queuing after the game is such a ball ache, why not wait in the concourse? You're not getting away if you're stood in the queue.
(edit: this may also require people to recognise the difference between actual need and preference/convenience)
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
I have an electric dishwasher. Washing up by hand is like buying a dog and barking myself
These appliances are there to make our lives easier, by not having to do the menial tasks
You f***ing idiot
fan choices to expect to arrive in good time before an event and leave in similar time after an event?
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I do not have a dishwasher. Its just one of those boring little tasks I'm not bothered about doing, as long as I've got the radio or a pod on to listen to.I have an electric dishwasher. Washing up by hand is like buying a dog and barking myself
These appliances are there to make our lives easier, by not having to do the menial tasks
And on the subject in hand - ONE ceramic mug - it would take you all of 13 seconds to rinse it, if that. Its not like you're cleaning up after a Sunday roast
I would suggest if one "expects to arrive/leave in good time" when 25,000 people are deciding to travel at exactly the same time on limited numbers of buses and trains, those expectations are unrealistic.You f***ing idiot
I haven't done a survey, I don't know what percentage, but I would be quite surprised if there wasn't a significant number of people who could make travel easier and more pleasant for themselves and other fans by not leaving it until late to get the trains/P+R buses, and not rush off as soon as the game ends or shortly before).
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Pffft! The problem is other fans!
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
I find it's one of those boring tasks that I don't WANT to do, hence the dishwasher! I could wash my Albion mugs up separately, but etc,etcI do not have a dishwasher. Its just one of those boring little tasks I'm not bothered about doing, as long as I've got the radio or a pod on to listen to.
And on the subject in hand - ONE ceramic mug - it would take you all of 13 seconds to rinse it, if that. Its not like you're cleaning up after a Sunday roast
