This meeting with Gibson

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outoftown said:
I'm happy to see some adult discussions took place, and the Club listening and acting on one of the concerns.
There's plenty of chairman that wouldn't have, that's for certain.
I'm also pleased that the most rediculous of the pricing was the one in part addressed, that bodes well for the listening side from the club.

I'm happy to give the club some slack in terms of ' some issues take longer to resolve than others '
( I.e. Introducing different age categories for pricing or 10 months credit for an ST can't be done in a couple of weeks )

Hopefully more adult discussions will lead to more changes for the better.
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I tend to agree but anyone with any experience of marketing, fan attitudes and just plain old customer service wouldn't have let this get past them.

The weekly wages of our bench would probably pay the annual salary of someone competent enough to look after these issues.

A mid-month deadline date with 4-5 weeks notice? Nah, that's amateur level foolishness.
 
Unravel_Morrison said:
I tend to agree but anyone with any experience of marketing, fan attitudes and just plain old customer service wouldn't have let this get past them.

The weekly wages of our bench would probably pay the annual salary of someone competent enough to look after these issues.

A mid-month deadline date with 4-5 weeks notice? Nah, that's amateur level foolishness.
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Agree with that.
There's a dozen ways to increase revenue that aren't brain surgery.
It would mean change though 🤣
 
indeedido said:
This a key point and well made. (y)

I would urge RF to keep on pressurising Gibson into addressing the other blindingly obvious pricing issues. Keep on confronting him.

I would then urge the comfy brigade of the self appointed Supporters Forum to accept that without RF prodding him, then Gibson would not have engaged.

I would then urge all of these groups lucky enough to be invited to these audiences with Gibson to communicate to the rest of us mere mortals.
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Thanks so much.... what a thing to say.
 
Unravel_Morrison said:
I thought it was quite heartfelt. I'm not sure you can really argue against it. The forum clearly had little impact during previous consultations.
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Exactly. It was clear from the communications from the ‘supporters forum’ when parroting the clubs line about costs that nothing was happening.

I’m grateful the RF stood up, filled the void when it mattered and took action. We’d be where we were last week without them.
 
mercury_redstone7 said:
I was born in Middlesbrough and most of my related family lived there, I grew up in Stockton and have lived all my life there. I played football up until I was 50 and ran a couple of successful Sunday teams. I`m a long time Boro fan seldom missed at all since 1968 only one season as a non season ticket holder. I know Stockton like the back of my hand, where I couldnt put a figure on it, Id say theres as many other club fans in the boro (Teesside Whites) is a perfect example.
This 50 50 stuff you are talking about with all due respect to you is sheer b0ll0x conjecture. The early 80s saw Middlesbrough people as a town abandoned their football team until we went bust.
There were always a few Sunderland supporters in Billingham, especially after the 73 cup win. Stockton has mostly been Boro, since the 60`s and a long time before that.
Its the same as most towns near to a town with a good football club and history. I can remember when they took the pizz out of me for going to the match when I was contracting in Middlesbrough steelworks.

Take a look at the gates we had in div 3, it took a good while before they crawled back from under their rocks back to support the Boro. Then you now always hear "I always went" like fvck they did.

Rant Over..... sorry
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Totally agree with this. Lived in Stockton born and raised in Stockton. School in the 80s out of my year approx 250plus I was one of three who went to the matches. Had the p*** taken constantly. I live away now and it’s a tad far to travel to every game but go when home usually Xmas. My son goes to every game so taught him well.
 
Decent_Left said:
OK Mr Literal - Its a simple way of explaining how the funding of the football club to enable it to carry on is guaranteed by one bloke
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You literally said he was putting in £500k a week, which just isn't true. When talking about football finances, especially when the club are pricing fans out of attending, I would say being accurate is quite important.
 
Johnny Vincents Motorbike said:
go on then, i'll ask.



who is paying the bills then?

who paid the bills during covid?

if theres a secret Middlesbrough FC financier, then i'm all ears. just speak up - to par-phrase your own words on #1 post -

"Have all those who been know been sworn to secrecy?
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We all know that Gibson (or rather The Gibson & O'Neill Company Ltd) is putting money into the club, but I wasn't disputing that.
 
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