This is nuts
In addition, scheme members will finally be able to secure the rights to their season-ticket seats, for all non-league games, for a period of 3 years. (A ticket will still require to be purchased for these games, of course). This “3 Year” scheme will cost £100.
I cut this statement out from the original but what it doesn't say is that they actually mean £100 per season for the next 3 years but they will give you a first year £50 deduction if you commit to all three. So between £250-£300 just for the right to buy your own seat for cup ties.
Surely as a loyal season ticket holder you should have 1st option on your seat as a matter of courtesy and not for a fee. If any, and they will as they are idiotic, fans sign up to this then I'm sorry but they are absolutely deluded beyond repair. Absolute scam. I would be absolutely raging if this were my team.
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13-04-2017 07:07 AM #121
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13-04-2017 07:11 AM #122
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In all her statement there's no mention of handing shares over to FOH. Surely that's the most important thing? She keeps asking for cash and TBF to the Yams they keep giving. But there has to be a time where she hands over at least a % of the shares.
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13-04-2017 07:19 AM #123
In a nutshell "we have to spend millions we don't have to bring our stadium up to the standard that our city neighbours have enjoyed for the last 5-10 years".
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13-04-2017 07:38 AM #127This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
So, she has found a way to make their 98 metre long pitch fully UEFA compliant
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13-04-2017 07:41 AM #128This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-04-2017 07:48 AM #129
Family yam was absolutely blazing last night. He simply ain't paying and knows a few who think the same. They'll pick and choose games "which won't be many whilst levein and Cathro are involved".
Sounds like enough is beginning to be enough.
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13-04-2017 07:53 AM #130This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Is that part clear? There have been suggestions that Murrayfield may not be available and instead they will have to ask for their first few fixtures to be away from home. Don't know how many they may be talking about, but as we would generally expect to be home when they are away and vice versa, I don't want us having a long run of home games at the start of the season then weeks without a home game later on as they catch up.#PERSEVERED
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13-04-2017 08:02 AM #133
Another thing said to me was that with the capacity growing, more fans will just not bother buying a season ticket as getting a seat will be no problem. Cash flow?
This is how it feels
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13-04-2017 08:33 AM #135
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Despite saying last night that I couldn't be bothered reading Mrs B's magnum opus, I couldn't resist a return today. It's an even dafter piece than I thought it was yesterday and I wonder if there are a few 'unintended consequences' in there.
While the week of bake sales and the (ahem) comedy events could be managed as an arm's length fundraiser with a potential VAT free donation at the end, I wonder if they've shot themselves in the foot a little over some of the other wheezes they've come up with to divert hard-earned cash from cardigan pockets straight into their coffers.
So, for example, FoH Direct Debits currently go straight to the club as a donation. No benefits are given so no VAT is chargeable. Surely the £100 cup ticket guarantee '3 year scheme' would be VATable. Crucially, I think the 'Annual Benefits' scheme would be too. The clue is kind of in the name. For Direct Debiters who've paid in more than £250 (I know, it's tragic) they'll get a 50% (I do think that should have been a 51%) discount on the 'Annual Benefit' scheme. So, effectively, their contribution so far will give them access to a chance to pay another £50 to get them discounts when they pay even more money into the club (and at a selection of Jambo-orientated businesses elsewhere). Hang in there, like Mrs B, I'm getting to the point eventually. So, I'm wondering a) are they risking cancellation of the VAT free donations in exchange for VATable schemes and; b) will the conferring of a benefit for FoH membership (however tenuous) also make that a VATable scheme?
Any experts out there with an opinion on this?
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13-04-2017 08:44 AM #136
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Then there's the 'Annual Benefits scheme'. It costs £100 a year - every year. BUT if you sign up to the '3 year scheme' you only have to pay £50 for that in year 1. Its benefits are tenuous at best.
If you are dim enough to sign up to both schemes and buy a season ticket, over the next three years you would pay £350 + 3 x season ticket cost + home cup games + pie and bovril x 18 + flour, eggs and sugar for bake sales + XXXL strip x 3 = family trip to Disneyland.
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13-04-2017 08:44 AM #137
games of beat the goalie to pay for their new stand. big team.
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13-04-2017 08:49 AM #140
Whatever way you look at this, it's going to be expensive to be a Yam next season.
Season ticket (Budget Stand) - £510
Seat guarantee - £100
Discount Scheme - £100
FoH DD (£15 a month) - £180 (they do like their 5-1 but not enough to pay £51)
Total. - £890
Thanks boys, oh and can you come along to all the events on the fundraising week - bring your piggy bank! This is the sort of thing that ends up on Watchdog.
If this is what 'big clubs' do, then I'd be happy to consider Hibs as a wee club.
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13-04-2017 08:50 AM #141
Did somebody mention a family fun day to raise cash?
Every gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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13-04-2017 08:52 AM #143
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13-04-2017 09:05 AM #144This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"It's ok."
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13-04-2017 09:18 AM #145
If only they hadnt got horses out of the scottish cup three times by us and had got the dough we got from the cup runs then they wouldn't have had to resort to this. Pleasng in the extreme.
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13-04-2017 09:29 AM #146
This is all very pleasing in my eyes.
The so called Famous are scraping about for every penny as they are totally rooked in the money stakes in their bid to fund this new mega stand!!
A 52 page document to basically say give us more dosh!
It gets even better.
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13-04-2017 09:32 AM #148
I presume missing out on Europe will hurt them further?
Not that they will have a stadium to play in in July mind.
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13-04-2017 09:47 AM #149
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The Scotsman article on this completely ignores the "begging bowl" content of Budge's statement so it's not just the west coast media that sugar coats news of their favourite teams.
Also their article states that there are contingency plans to use Murrayfield for league games in the early part of next season. If that's the case then surely all home league games for the first two quarters, ie up to the end of December, would have to be played at Murrayfield in order to avoid the unfairness/inconsistency of some away opponents playing at Tynecastle and others at a "neutral" Murrayfield.
In the past Inverness CT had to play half a season at Aberdeen,during ground improvements at Caley stadium, to comply with this rule.
If this is the case then, as the SRU is not a charity, a fair chunk of rental will be required from our Pink neighbours. Cue another funding appeal/scam from their supporters.
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13-04-2017 09:49 AM #150
Couldn't they just bake a stand? A helluva lot better than baking cakes to fund one.
They must be getting good at it by now. Three giant battenburgs with a Victoria sponge on top.
Colours of said patisseries even match their away strips so everyone's a winner.
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