Are you suggesting these extra car park stewards should have been re deployed to support the catering? Or drive trains perhaps? Or play LWB?
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[News] Open letter from Paul Barber
- Thread starter Gabbafella
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Are you suggesting these extra car park stewards should have been re deployed to support the catering? Or drive trains perhaps? Or play LWB?
To be honest the club could do without any more fans turning up
Knotty
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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
Listen to me!!!
Stop taking those drugs.
bluenitsuj
Listen to me!!!
Please quote where I said that...........I will wait.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
True. If the extra 5 thousand or so who were missing actually came to the match, then things would be far more difficult.
...you do realise he's not Mussolini, right?
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.
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
Listen to me!!!
studio150
Well-known member
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
Issue solved. Of course this will never happen
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
It’s going to be a long ‘international’ break
- Jun 27, 2012
- 14,612
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.
- Jun 27, 2012
- 14,612
First para of the Barber letter “we can only apologise”
Knotty
Well-known member
You didn’t. I was being sarcastic but, if you don’t get what I was trying to say, I can’t be bothered.
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tL.DR
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