hypochondriac

I reserve my right to criticise the club when I feel they have done something wrong.

I would have thought that retaining the core supporter base would be pretty much the number one priority for a football club.

Even a ten percent drop is poor. The club should be doing everything it can to make it easy for fans to renew or buy a season ticket. Especially in the club's 125th year.

Why not?

I've never attacked someone for holding a different opinion on this issue. Do you think the notice given for the removal of the installments is reasonable?

Rocket Swannie is a bit of a minor celebrity. He's been posting his tripe for years.

According to him. Even if true though it doesn't change the fact that he is not above criticism.

Technically if he goes but not as much as he would do had he got a season ticket, then he would still be loyal, just slightly less loyal. He says pedantically .

So by implication because you disagree with me, my opinion is uneducated? Barcelona saint is missing the point because no one is asking NC to update the fans with everything. I think most people's issue is that they really think they deserved more notice that installments were being taken away. Especially since it was in the supporters charter and so most people would assume it would be the same for this year. What is unreasonable about that?

Read my original post on this thread. I reckon it's pretty balanced TBH and as I said, I've defended NC in the past. I'm not sure why people get attacked purely for raising reservations about certain decisions. The post you replied to was lighthearted. If Marcus went mental then sure he would probably get some criticism but he is the one who saved the club.

I think you are completely missing the point/choosing not to listen to what is actually being said.

But that does not mean Cortese is above criticism (Liebherr maybe!)

If this were true then you would imagine Adu himself would know about it. He didn't last week...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8718071.stm FFS.

No that's Mary Corbett.

Nothing wrong with ignoring the gossip. What is wrong is the points I have described above coupled with the lack of transparency.

You have to be the worst poster in years. Either debate points properly or ignore.

We should pool all our money on here and then buy our matchday tickets in one transaction

What a f*cking joke. I hope attendances are well down this year so they learn.

It's a symptom of a larger problem. If you actually understood what I had written you would see that it was not me who deserved an explanation but Steve and indeed the others who donated because as a sponsor, one of their perks is to have a profile in the matchday programme. It's hardly an incentive to sponsor people next year if one of the privileges of sponsorship is taken away with no explanation for the people involved.

I think it's a combination of things. I have defended Nicola quite a lot on here and took a wait and see approach. The fans forum last year was really positive where he listened and acted on the requests of the fans. What concerns me recently is the Programme debacle (Steve at the very least deserves an explanation from someone seeing as his profile of the forum was in it) and the ticket thing. The fact that no one knew when the tickets were going to be released and no one knew about the lack of a installment option until the last minute. I hoped that the new owners would usher in some much needed transparency but if anything things have got worse. In my opinion Cortese is doing a lot of this stuff on his own and as he is the ultimate authority at the club, he can do as he pleases and has no one to confer with or keep him in check. Perhaps what seems a good idea to him is then released without being checked by anyone. That's where I think the problem lies.

saintbletch a good post and it's probably what I am most disappointed about. What is the point of publicising a charter in December talking about installment plans to then just change it 6 months later. I don't really understand that.

If you were guessing in December, all indications were that there would be an installment plan.

Yep. Everyone else has one, why dont we?

Why not just charge people a bit extra who want to pay in installments?