Re: Any official announcements yet? : Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:01 pm  

One question? if it all ends in tears as you predict! who are you gonna whine too?

And I am not sitting idly by! I am putting my hand in my pocket and supporting the club by turning up to watch em play!!!!

Re: Any official announcements yet? : Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:08 pm  

I don't like a lot of the negativety, but, sadly, I find it hard to argue with a lot of what G'fax says, in fact he says a lot of stuff I've said myself.

Advertising, Marketing, Merchandising and PR is a disaster.

I will support the club through thick and thin (and even thinner, lmao) and will attend the Hive (actually easier for me with my Tube Staff Pass and the Stoop being a b'stad of a place to get to).

Heres to 9th place! (Don't ask me why, but thats what my money is on!).

Re: Any official announcements yet? : Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:25 pm  

CrusaderPete wrote:

I don't like a lot of the negativety, but, sadly, I find it hard to argue with a lot of what G'fax says, in fact he says a lot of stuff I've said myself.

Advertising, Marketing, Merchandising and PR is a disaster.

I will support the club through thick and thin (and even thinner, lmao) and will attend the Hive (actually easier for me with my Tube Staff Pass and the Stoop being a b'stad of a place to get to).

Heres to 9th place! (Don't ask me why, but thats what my money is on!).

I don't think any of us disagree. But it's all been said and we are where we are now. Its time to move on and support the team for as long as we have one. Who knows whats round the corner - look at Salford. Where there's life there's hope. When we can't see top grade RL in London we will all be browned off so lets enjoy what we have while we have it.

Re: Any official announcements yet? : Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:35 pm  

Its all too late in the day but a string of announcements about player signings (up to them to deliver), ticket info, training ground sorted, positive comments about the office staff, an open day, a fans forum (couple of seasons late). Progress of sorts.

Just need an announcement of a extra players including a couple of scary props, a new kit.

And bags of optimism, though 12th will be a miracle at this point.

Re: Any official announcements yet? : Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:57 pm  

wire quin wrote:

Go fishing on the lake out the back GF!! take a breath will you

That's Wellington Harbour....turn left on the way out and it is the Pacific, right it's the Tasman

mickyb1234 wrote:

One question? if it all ends in tears as you predict! who are you gonna whine too?

Gus can run, but he can't hide

mickyb1234 wrote:

And I am not sitting idly by! I am putting my hand in my pocket and supporting the club by turning up to watch em play!!!!

Possibly, but it could also be argued you are by your support in buying tickets and attending endorsing the actions of the club and letting them know that they can essentially get away with everything and anything. If he hadn't already decimated the actual number of supporters the club had, there's be a lot more posters like me here and on facebook!

Hey, if they come out with a decent range of replica gear AND DELIVER OVERSEAS, I will add to my haul, but mild acceptance and shoulder shrugging is not my style.

Snoopy wrote:

Its time to move.

Jesus....that didn't take long!

Re: Any official announcements yet? : Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:49 pm  

If the yanks can refer to the Atlantic as a pond then thats a lake...

Re: Any official announcements yet? : Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:07 pm  

Think I'm going to stick to the odd walk up ticket next year, The Stoop was about 50 mins each way in the car, but the Hive is over an hour and a half each way by car, and a bit longer by public transport. So is probably doubling journey time. I usually take one or both of my kids with me (to give the wife some peace) but dragging them that far is not fun. It will be interesting to see what happens, whether Barnet FC can attract some new fans, as I'm not convinced Edgware is better connected to serve the diaspora that is our fan base unless you are handy for the Jubilee Line.

Re: Any official announcements yet? : Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:29 am  

Nesi Mataitonga now confirmed.... http://www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/515 ... teYJZ9FDqA Solomona tomorrow???

Nesi Mataitonga now confirmed.... http://www.londonbroncosrl.com/news/515 ... teYJZ9FDqA Solomona tomorrow???

Re: Any official announcements yet? : Thu Jan 16, 2014 8:42 am  

Building nicely

Re: Any official announcements yet? : Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:48 am  

Kelvin's Ferret wrote:

It does seem a terrible faff, and it appears that there is a "joining fee" equivalent to one month's membership. The only thing that is not really clear, probably quite deliberately too, is whether the joining fee in January, which is off-season is charget at off-season rate or on-season rate? I suspect you have to pay the "on-season rate" for joining even if you're "off-season".

All this tw@ting around with memberships seems like a scam to keep fans paying money when they've nothing of interest to offer. I realise beggars can't be choosers, but how many other clubs apart from Barnet FC actually have this kind of arrangement? Are there are any serious clubs out there that do this? It's just so much easier to have an up front season price to pay each year and then it's sorted. And what's the deal with the bars, am I right in thinking you need to pay extra for your membership if you want to go for a drink? What about people buying on the day (especially away fans) are we going to tell them no beer? All very strange to someone who is used to proper season tickets.

Largely my thoughts.

I did some quick calculations yesterday. Because of the joining fee, it still works out cheaper if I go to 9 home games next year and pay on the gate, than it would be to get membership (if I stand in one of the stands behind the sticks).

It's also worth remembering that, and I think this is correct, if you stop your membership at any point and then restart it again, you have to pay another joining fee.

I think the membership model is quite clever from a business perspective, but it's not one I'll be indulging in since I am highly unlikely to watch at least a quarter of our matches. I'm not going to bother watching us play the likes of Wigan or Warrington. I've seen quite enough of us being stuffed by 50, 60 points and fail to see how any of that will change in 2014 given the squad we're putting together.