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Supporters Bar
- Thread starter Martyn
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I have no inside knowledge of the membership scheme but it seems to me that if you invested some money that you automatically got membership which only seems fair. I am only speculating but I imagine most investors only invested relatively small amounts so there well be quite a few of them. It could simply be that there was no need to advertise for members because the investors have taken all the places. I could be totally wrong of course which has been known.
Well, this is all very disappointing! I have attended many fanfests over the years since they started but as an exile it became increasingly difficult to get in, even more so when tickets for the next event were being sold at the ongoing event. As an exile I can't get to every game; some do but a 250 mile round trip isn't one I can make every 2 weeks. The upshot of that is that once out of the loop, it became hard to get back in again. I was hoping that I would get chance to buy a membership to get equal chance of buying a fanfest ticket for the matches I attend. It would have been nice to see memberships openly advertised but that hasn't happened. I was always much happier to know that my beer and pasty ££££s were going to the GTs but in looks like others will be profiting from me in future.
Keyham Pilgrim":21gdu3tp said:
I understand all that you’ve said but why couldn’t that have been explained? No-one could possibly have objected but as yet there is still no word on the lower bar membership so maybe that’s fully covered as well.
Which means as I said earlier that’s most here have been cooing about the prospective new bar with absolutely no chance of using it (maybe) and no doubt any events will always be sold to members first obviously as they’ll be the first ones told about it.
As someone said earlier, it is the exclusion that might lead people to not frequent it alt game day and less money going to investors and/or Argyle.
One more observation... a very large part of what made the fanfests great was the attendance of away fans. With all the good-natured banter, jokes and general togetherness that brought about. With obviously the best and most iconic example being the Fans Reunited event, but in general away supporters raved about the fanfests. Getting people from Rochdale or Portsmouth to join in the Janner song was a little bit magical.
It would be a real shame if that were to stop completely, in a new and improved venue. And purely in the interests of the punters and Rick and Dave too, a bit of variety makes it more interesting instead of exactly the same people every fortnight.
I don’t know what the answer is and perhaps this has all been considered already, but if it happened before surely it can still happen? Is the floor space smaller/bigger in the new venue?
It would be a real shame if that were to stop completely, in a new and improved venue. And purely in the interests of the punters and Rick and Dave too, a bit of variety makes it more interesting instead of exactly the same people every fortnight.
I don’t know what the answer is and perhaps this has all been considered already, but if it happened before surely it can still happen? Is the floor space smaller/bigger in the new venue?
Biggs":2sreyuif said:
So the answer is to turn away Argyle fans for Exeter or Scunthorpe fans for instance and like you say, playing to the same people every fortnight.
Which is kind of like what we’re saying.
I don't come to many hoe games, so was looking forward to visiting the "supporters" bar. Little did I realise it was only for the chosen few and is in fact a "members" bar.
Calling it a supporters bar is very misleading
Calling it a supporters bar is very misleading
I have to say that the silence over this is deafening from the GT's. Nobody can question their loyalty to the club as they have done so many wonderful things during our darkest hour, maybe its time question their loyalty to the people who helped get them into their current position....the supporters.
This should have been built by the club as a true supporters bar on a first come first served basis, with all profits going straight back into the club. They would have advertised on the official site opening hours for the whole week and availability. Had the premise of a members bar and not a supporters bar being made clear at the start im sure this would have been meet with some objections. Allegedly it seems you can only use this members bar if you helped to build it or invested in it, this will just isolate fans that might consider using the facilities in the week
As a season ticket holder I was keenly looking forward to the opening of the Supporters Bar, I thought it was one of the things that was highlighted as a huge opportunity from the redevelopment programme.
Having read five or so pages of comment on this thread, I`m still somewhat confused about where we all stand on this one, will we be able to use this bar or not and if so when ?
Could we possibly just ask The Green Taverners to release a statement regarding this so whatever the rules over use are, we at least know where we all stand ?
Having read five or so pages of comment on this thread, I`m still somewhat confused about where we all stand on this one, will we be able to use this bar or not and if so when ?
Could we possibly just ask The Green Taverners to release a statement regarding this so whatever the rules over use are, we at least know where we all stand ?
