Post subject: Re: Constructive Improvements for MM
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 1:54 pm
bramleyrhino
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Joined: Mar 15 2002 Posts: 12792 Location: Leeds 13
Big Graeme wrote:I forgot you were a Leeds supporter and your club trips cost a bleedin' fortune, didn't other clubs have reasonable coach trips for day fans? Quins supporters arrange the odd away coach and it runs at about £25 for most away games.
Aside from the usual coach journeys for away games, the tendency at Leeds these days is to advertise most trips as "corporate" events rather than supporter ones.
The trip to Perpignan for instance, is a "corporate" trip and (IIRC) costs upwards of £500+VAT (the club effectively charter a plane from Jet2 and try to get 'supporters' to cover the cost of both their ticket and the ticket of one of the players).
I imagine that a weekend in Edinburgh booked through the Hetherington Travel Co would have been sold in a similar way.
Quote:I wish everyone would read bramleyrhino's post two or three times just to get it through some thick skulls
Quote:Mr bramleyrhino speaks a lot of sense.
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CHURCHILL wrote:Having visited Cas on a number of occasions, and knowing there isn't that much to do, I think you should introduce this to the village, it will go down a storm. You could even invite your cousins from the nearby village of Fev to join in. Such fun to be had.
You could even take it to the ski slope, have a winter event. Lets face it once Cas are relegated through the lack of a decent stadium, you're all going to need something to do on a sunday.
what and caravan park is the elite of all stadiums
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Birstalltiger wrote:north stand and east stand north stand lower was full of drunks of Hull there was bunch people dressed has Clowns making t-ts of them selfs.East stand was not that bad but outside the east stand Hull kr and Wire fans was haveing a comp who could through there mate down Hill in to the food van i do like a drink myself and had quite a few myself but i did not make a t-t of myself.
Sat 5 yards from the clowns in amongst Loiner, Cods, Trinity and Tiger families, they were loud and drunk, so what!
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Tigerpie wrote:Sat 5 yards from the clowns in amongst Loiner, Cods, Trinity and Tiger families, they were loud and drunk, so what!
They were having fun, when asked to tone it down a bit they said sorry and calmed down, jeeze do people want fans to sit in their seat with a miserable look on their boat?
Big Graeme wrote:They were having fun, when asked to tone it down a bit they said sorry and calmed down, jeeze do people want fans to sit in their seat with a miserable look on their boat?
HULLMAD wrote:what and cravan park is the elite of all stadiums
I didn't say it was, but it won't stop us getting another franchise.
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Post subject: Re: Constructive Improvements for MM
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 2:19 pm
AdmiralHanson
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Joined: Feb 25 2002 Posts: 14490 Location: Earth, Terran System, Sol Sector
Big Graeme wrote:I forgot you were a Leeds supporter and your club trips cost a bleedin' fortune, didn't other clubs have reasonable coach trips for day fans? Quins supporters arrange the odd away coach and it runs at about £25 for most away games.
That's if you're daft enough to pay the club prices ... Which I am not.
I also don't live in Leeds, so I have the additional expense of getting to Leeds to rendezvous with trips / or not have a couple of pints whilst I am at the game bacuse I'll have to drive home afterwards. Whilst I am not making that an excuse, I knew of a coach trip with the Leeds Supporters Club that was going for around the same price that I spent on the train. However, with dodgy knees and the thought of sitting jammed up on a coach seat for the best part of 4 hours, compared to the train where I could get up for a stroll / coffee or general move around when I wanted, I know what I'd prefer.
I'm trying to make constructive enhancements to the weekend ... A special train from Lancashire and Yorkshire, reasonably priced for the day and for the weekend and departing at a reasonable time after the last game (say 45 minutes after the last game from Haymarket) could be well-supported.
We're away in Catalan in a month and many people are having to cut their cloth to suit these days and given that my weekend there last year cost around £200, something comparable with a Magic Weekend cost, personally I'd chose France.
If people want to go and spend a couple of hundred pounds on tickets and accomodation in Scotland for MW, then I've no problem with that. Indeed, several of my mates did so, however there are still fans who are not generally 'supporting' the games by not being present. All I am doing is suggesting why those people don't come and possible soloutions to make it attractive for them to attend next time.
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