BrahimHemdani
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I have recent experience of just how far Rangers will go to help out (which I hope to be able to share at some point) but suffice to say that it made me proud to be part of the Rangers family.
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I don't agree with that; but let's agree it WAS loud in the 18th minute but not loud in the 72nd. Hard to judge percentages, as you say it does depend on where you were sitting.
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And I might compromise with you and go as high as high 50% on the 18th minute but much lower on the 72nd.
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That would certainly be a very interesting experiment but how would you price season tickets - in line with the lowest or higest price or somewhere in between? However, very often those who end up paying high prices for airline toickets, do so because they have been forced to book late in the day and there is no such compulsion (usually) to attend a football match. Of course you wouldn't want to adopt the Greenair model, otherwise you may have to pay to use the toilets, over-sized banners would be charged extra and the game might not last 90 minutes. Or you could follow the Orangejet guarantee that the game WOULD last 90 minutes provided that your carry-in bag was not more than 50 x 40 x 20cm including handles and wheels.
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Black hole, being the operative phrase it seems.
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Who's writing your script
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And they'll be at least 4 and possibly almost 6 months out of date, depending on the cut off date (not sure if it will be the usual 30th June).
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I only saw one in the MRE in the 18th minute and one at full time.
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Yes he did and he won. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1320093/Tom-Hicks-George-Gillett-lose-Liverpool-High-Court-battle.html
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That's pretty much where most of the banners were, there were a few more similar in the next section to the right.
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From my seat in the MRE, I'd say that in the 18th minute, there were a lot of banners displayed in the Broomloan Front right section where the Union Bears etc now have their pitch and the chanting was mainly coming from the Broomloan and definitely loud enough to be heard clearly in the directors box; but I very much doubt that 50% of those in the stadium were taking part. Certainly nothing like the 75% referred to by Billy Dodds. Personally I would have put it at no more than 25%-33%, I didn't hear anyone chanting in the Main Stand. I didn't hear anything at all in the 72nd minute, to the extent that in the 78th minute I asked someone sitting beside me when it was happening and he said it already had. One person in the MRE held up a banner as the directors left the box at full time.
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Yes, but you are an easier target than the Sun, so long as you are sure you are on safe ground.
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Are you sure you won't get a call from a lawyer for repeating it?
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If this is true, then the police should dismiss the complaint out of hand. However, the person who posted it wasn't too clever, the meaning is clear but by saying "For all we know you could be planning to torch Stockbridges car/house or hold a protest banner up outside the ground. Folk might be up for one but not the other" it might imply that folks were up for the wrong thing; it would have been better to say "For all we know you could be planning to hold a protest banner up outside the ground or torch Stockbridges car/house. Folk might be up for one but not the other". Police/lawyer note: I am not making any such suggestions. Edit: It would have been better not to say it at all.
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Prediction (1) - There will be a protest against the board. Prediction (2) - Rangers 3 Stenhousemuir 0
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The problem with this as Kilmarnock are finding out is twofold: What you really want to do is introduce differential pricing, to a greater extent than just having slightly different prices for the different stands. However, if you offer a sudden sharp reduction, to sell unsold seats, which is entirely logical, you then upset all those who have paid full price. Note however, that we accept this in airline and hotel pricing, on the basis of paying a higher price to secure a seat or hotel bed on the date and fare class that we want. So it might be realistic at Ibrox if almost all seats were sold and the last 1,000 say were sold at a discount, perhaps £15 or more radically £9.99? However, you could only do this on a selective basis otherwise too many non-season ticket holders would hold off to the last minute. Reducing prices across the board is another matter. Leaving aside 35,000 or so season tickets, essentially you are talking about selling 10,000 -15,000 tickets for a home game. So if you sell 10,000 at £17 in round figures you get £142,000 but if you reduce the price to £15 for everyone and shift all 15,000 you get £187,500 (all net of VAT). Assuming that you are selling 10,000 regardless of price, for every £1 (gross) you reduce the ticket price you lose £8,333 so you would need to sell an extra 625 seats to break even. Personally I don't think that a pound or two would make much difference and you would probably lose out, although there might be an offset with other sales revenue. If you reduced prices to say £9.99 across the board ex season tickets, the maximum you could bring in would be around £125,000 so you would lose out compared with selling 10,000 at £17.00; and even then I'm not convinced that you would sell out the second time we play Arbroath, for example. An alternative might be to adopt the American model of differential pricing based on quality of opposition but more radically than we have done in the past, perhaps combined with (1) above. However, that would be difficult if not impossible in SPFL1 or even the so called Championship and would need to be reflected in season ticket prices. Currently I am paying the equivalent of £20.50 per game which is more than I would pay to buy the seats game by game and this can only be justified in order to secure the seat I want, which isn't an issue at present as there are lots of empty seats. Conclusion - not easy to get the right balance; but the Germans have achieved it so worth experimenting I'd say.
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It certainly would explain the timing of Walter's resignation. By his own admission, Business Man of the Year, he was not; but he WAS his own man and we all admired him for that.
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Unfortunately that's the position we've been in for the past 2 years.
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Most footbal fans are diehards who attend at (almost) any price, so that might increase the attendance by 10%-20% but not enough to compensate for the lost revenue.
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Purslow is in a different league altogether, he stood up to Hicks & Co at Liverpool and won. Just the type of man we need to sort things out; he would significanlty improve our profile and standing in the football world. But we would need him long term or at least for 3-5 years, not the short term deal he had at Liverpool and what would his salary be?
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McCoist - I’ve taken a pay cut and so have my staff
BrahimHemdani replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
Of course not. He didn't have any choice but to take a pay cut. -
I'll simply beg to differ, Zappa; but for reasons that I won't elaborate on (but are well enough known) will not debate it further on here.
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Might have depended on what was in the leaflets! Would that be at right angles?
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BBC Scotland unlikely to challenge Trust RFC verdict
BrahimHemdani replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
That's certainly another way to look at it.