Doug King Q and A (22 Viewers)

[Kilclines curly mullet]

This is by far the most important question.

For a guy who seems keen to keep a good image, I'd like to know his thoughts on the widespread complaints from fans throughout the league.

The only way King will take notice is if the away fans start to reduce.

Blues will sell out meaning from a business perspective King is justified.

Same as Leeds away 2 seasons ago, we all moaned at £45 but sold out within a few hours.

 

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[Wyken Sky Blue]

Doug,
What would you do if your son was at home, crying all alone on the bedroom floor 'cause he's hungry?

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[pusbccfc]

The only way King will take notice is if the away fans start to reduce.

Blues will sell out meaning from a business perspective King is justified.

Same as Leeds away 2 seasons ago, we all moaned at £45 but sold out within a few hours.

It will happen in the West Brom game. Numbers will be well down.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

It will happen in the West Brom game. Numbers will be well down.

That depends on how West Brom are doing. Like all football fans if they’re doing well the price becomes an afterthought.

 

[bigfatronssba]

This is by far the most important question.

For a guy who seems keen to keep a good image, I'd like to know his thoughts on the widespread complaints from fans throughout the league.

Hopefully he doesn't give a piss frig what fans of other clubs think.

His only obligation is to our fans and our club.

 

[Becksy]

I wrote an email to Doug a couple of days after the stadium was purchased with about a whole list of ways in which they could add funds / revenue on matchdays and non-matchdays now that we own the stadium. Nothing groundbreaking and I'd like to think that they have a commercial team who will have considered and dismissed most of them if not all already, but at the very least I'd have expected a courtesy response, not necessarily from him, but from the club at least pretending it was him, to say thanks for your efforts and all options are under consideration.

I'm not going to post them all here to be ripped apart by the negative bunch who will proclaim half of them stupid or obvious ideas, but the way I see it, better to be suggested twice than not at all.

My favourites were about turning the arena part into pop up escape rooms, which can be really cheap to put together and gain lots of easy revenue and opening up the fan village with screens on away games or street food days in the carparks etc. Anything really that makes it useful for more days than current and all goes back into the club. I doubt the email ever actually made it to him.

Fair play mate, if more "fans" contributed positively like this rather than criticise everything and everyone we'd all be better off. Well done for caring, ignore the twats.

 

[mmttww]

What's the club's policy on flagshagging at the CBS?

 

[bigfatronssba]

What's the club's policy on flagshagging at the CBS?

 

[covcity4life]

Hey Duggie

 

[Diogenes]

Dear Doug, would you rather sit in the cuck chair and watch john terry ploughing your wife, or plough john terry while your wife sits in the cuck chair?

 

[skyblue025]

Where's the WIFI gone?

 

[robbiekeane]

Doug,

Please can we have a proper train station that works. If this is not feasible, please could we have a Monorail instead?

 

[standupforcity]

'When are you going to sort the Tannoy system'?

 

[Deity]

If we had been given the same opportunity under Joy our questions would have been :

Why do you still own the club ?
What is the vision and ambition for the club ?
How do you plan to reunite the club and the stadium ?
How do you plan to generate the funds to Mahendra is promotion candidates ?

Etc etc

Now it’s can you improve the WiFi, tannoy, etc etc …. The very definition of the progress we have made !

 

[Potbellypig]

Doug mate, we can't seriously expect some away clubs to pay £45 for an adult tickets and £35 for a junior.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I wrote an email to Doug a couple of days after the stadium was purchased with about a whole list of ways in which they could add funds / revenue on matchdays and non-matchdays now that we own the stadium. Nothing groundbreaking and I'd like to think that they have a commercial team who will have considered and dismissed most of them if not all already, but at the very least I'd have expected a courtesy response, not necessarily from him, but from the club at least pretending it was him, to say thanks for your efforts and all options are under consideration.

I'm not going to post them all here to be ripped apart by the negative bunch who will proclaim half of them stupid or obvious ideas, but the way I see it, better to be suggested twice than not at all.

My favourites were about turning the arena part into pop up escape rooms, which can be really cheap to put together and gain lots of easy revenue and opening up the fan village with screens on away games or street food days in the carparks etc. Anything really that makes it useful for more days than current and all goes back into the club. I doubt the email ever actually made it to him.

You never know to be fair, maybe some of them will end up being looked at. I posted on here some time ago about the idea of doing stadium tours and they ended up becoming a thing not long after, whether or not an SBT forum post prompted it is another matter entirely.

 

[rob9872]

You never know to be fair, maybe some of them will end up being looked at. I posted on here some time ago about the idea of doing stadium tours and they ended up becoming a thing not long after, whether or not an SBT forum post prompted it is another matter entirely.

A museum as part of a stadium tour with items donated by the fans was one of my suggestions. Make it chargeable and like all good tours, it finishes as you enter the club shop.

 

[rob9872]

Ok, on the small chance someone might pick up on it here, I'll take a chance and post it then then run for cover before the inevitable pile on. As I said in a DM to someone on here, the one I left off that I'd really go for would be to get rid of Ticketmaster. I've removed the personal contact details so I don't get spammed

 

[The Philosopher]

Biggest thing that comes to mind is the pricing for the Birmingham game. I’d like to hear a justification.

I know it was before Doug’s time, but they did do us a favour by letting us use their ground. They could have said “no” and made it difficult for us (where was next on the list? Walsall? Burton? Villa (!!!)? Rugby?).

Robins had always said that Birmingham had been “class” in how they treated us.

It’s not a good look to have with the £45 charge.

What goes around……

Maybe a rethink or a free F&B voucher (I’m guessing we have F&B control now?)

Just a thought…..

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

A museum as part of a stadium tour with items donated by the fans was one of my suggestions. Make it chargeable and like all good tours, it finishes as you enter the club shop.

Am I wrong in thinking that a museum was already in progress? There was a post on it earlier in the year

 

[rob9872]

I know it was before Doug’s time, but they did do us a favour by letting us use their ground. They could have said “no” and made it difficult for us (where was next on the list? Walsall? Burton? Villa (!!!)? Rugby?).

Robins had always said that Birmingham had been “class” in how they treated us.

It’s not a good look to have with the £45 charge.

What goes around……

Maybe a rethink or a free F&B voucher (I’m guessing we have F&B control now?)

Just a thought…..

They did treat us well and I'm certainly grateful, but lets not pretend it was charity. It was a good business decision by them that charged us £1m+ per season not to mention all the F&B and the trade we took to the local area. They also repaid us kindly by smashing up the toilets (twice). If anyone is getting free vouchers it should be the home fans forking out £45 who I do have sympathy for. I also imagine we'll now pay more for our away tickets at some grounds and can't really complain. It will be more than once too, so I do disagree with the overpricing decision it's wrong, but fek the Bluenoses.

 

[rob9872]

Am I wrong in thinking that a museum was already in progress? There was a post on it earlier in the year

Not seen it, but it would be good. I was hoping we'd get a temporary one in one of the mothballed City Centre places like IKEA with pieces borrowed, but now we have a stadium, then a permanent one makes much more sense.

 

[Tommo1993]

I know it was before Doug’s time, but they did do us a favour by letting us use their ground. They could have said “no” and made it difficult for us (where was next on the list? Walsall? Burton? Villa (!!!)? Rugby?).

Robins had always said that Birmingham had been “class” in how they treated us.

It’s not a good look to have with the £45 charge.

What goes around……

Maybe a rethink or a free F&B voucher (I’m guessing we have F&B control now?)

Just a thought…..

We paid them a pretty high rent. We paid all we owed and owe them nothing more. Wish people would stop making out that we owe them the world.

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

Am I wrong in thinking that a museum was already in progress? There was a post on it earlier in the year

Club was asked about it during the fan forums.

Think they said, it’s a good idea and they would like a space dedicated to our history however not owning the arena made it difficult.

Edit: This is from the July meeting

BB and AL raised about prospect of museum at the Arena, and the importance of celebrating the history of the Club. DK said that it would be great to showcase the Club’s history in a dedicated space, and being able to display trophies for fans to view too, however not owning the Arena makes this challenging.

 

[Skyblueweeman]

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Ok, on the small chance someone might pick up on it here, I'll take a chance and post it then then run for cover before the inevitable pile on. As I said in a DM to someone on here, the one I left off that I'd really go for would be to get rid of Ticketmaster. I've removed the personal contact details so I don't get spammed

So basically you compiled a long list of ideas as you're getting a commissionable kick back for number 6? Clever sausage.

 

[Skyblueweeman]

In all seriousness @rob9872, that's a decent list of suggestions. Good work.

 

[glasgowfan]

The amount of people already who simply can’t understand basic instructions of how to submit a question and responding directly to the post on X….

The number of people who don't realise it is not "the amount of people"....

 

[pusbccfc]

Hopefully he doesn't give a piss frig what fans of other clubs think.

His only obligation is to our fans and our club.

He's charging our fans £45 for a game against West Brom which is on sky at 12:30.

 

[pusbccfc]

That depends on how West Brom are doing. Like all football fans if they’re doing well the price becomes an afterthought.

Not this time. A 12:30 game at the end of November is different to a game in April last season when both sides were fighting for the play offs.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Get him to answer about the ticket prices and his hate for kids

 

[clint van damme]

Why do people keep going on about what he's 'charging away fans', he's charging home fans too.

Obviously many of us on here are ST holders so not affected but it will still affect some home supporters.

 

[pusbccfc]

Why do people keep going on about what he's 'charging away fans', he's charging home fans too.

Obviously many of us on here are ST holders so not affected but it will still affect some home supporters.

Exactly.

Lots of questions need to be asked. Where will it stop? £50 next season?

 

[jto123]

‘Put, Doug King is refreshingly laid back for a man with such responsibility’

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Not this time. A 12:30 game at the end of November is different to a game in April last season when both sides were fighting for the play offs.

If we’re both in the top 6 that’ll be a sellout for the general sale.

the only way ticket prices Will go lower is if nobody attends. Currently the attendances suggest that the pricing is not a problem

 

[pusbccfc]

If we’re both in the top 6 that’ll be a sellout for the general sale.

the only way ticket prices Will go lower is if nobody attends. Currently the attendances suggest that the pricing is not a problem

There hasn't been a £45 game yet. Birmingham will sell well because of the general hype and lots of people work with their fans creating a bit of a rivalry.

West Brom doesn't have much of that. I don't think anyone considers them a rival.

West Brom fans are a lot more vocal about their anger towards the prices. They will have some form of boycott.