Sky Blue Pete
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What other issues about our glorious club should we all focus on next? Or is it just making the experience at the Ricoh much better from next season?
If it’s a moan you require, Cov fans always provide.What other issues about our glorious club should we all focus on next? Or is it just making the experience at the Ricoh much better from next season?
What other issues about our glorious club should we all focus on next? Or is it just making the experience at the Ricoh much better from next season?
Given your success here Pete, any chance you could get involved in improving the Warwickshire rail network? It would be nice for it not to take 2hrs 7 mins to get from Stratford to the RicohWhat other issues about our glorious club should we all focus on next? Or is it just making the experience at the Ricoh much better from next season?
Match day experience for me.
What other issues about our glorious club should we all focus on next? Or is it just making the experience at the Ricoh much better from next season?
Same here.
Coming up from Essex with the family for each game would be a better experience if there was some kind of entertaining build up to the main event.
Some varied and reasonably priced food and beverage wouldn't go amiss either rather than meeting Dick Turpin on the concourse and getting pick pocketed for a cold hotdog and gnat-piss beer.
Coming up from Essex with the family for each game would be a better experience if there was some kind of entertaining build up to the main event.
not so daft!!! how about a fans share issue again, parcels of £20 up to a max 1k, would bring in some dosh and make us feel attached to the Club again
Guns of Navarone.Can we please can come on to a big beefy skank of a 2-tone classic.....I mean FFS....Its coventrys own world famous music label/brand/movement & CCFC are, last time I checked, by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen.
....A decent pie & pint would be nice too.
EDIT: Confused by the 2 threads....ended up somehow posting it on both...time for me to go home.
LutonWhat other issues about our glorious club should we all focus on next? Or is it just making the experience at the Ricoh much better from next season?
Username checks outSame here.
Coming up from Essex with the family for each game would be a better experience if there was some kind of entertaining build up to the main event.
Some varied and reasonably priced food and beverage wouldn't go amiss either rather than meeting Dick Turpin on the concourse and getting pick pocketed for a cold hotdog and gnat-piss beer.
Always going to be an issue with prices as there is in the majority of stadiums I've visited. Nothing beats Wembley though.
On the choice of beers, food, etc part of the conversation will be around what scope we have to improve things. Will depend on what is in the contract with Delaware. Better selection of real ales would be something I'd like to see - Dhillons would be ideal given their existing links and CCFC related beers.
Fan zone been mentioned a few times. Guess it depends on what is on in the exhibition hall. In reality would many use it?
The thing is why do we have to have the insects caterers? Surely they would do every other weekend with their contract so surely its not carte blanche on all events.. especially with us going backOn the choice of beers, food, etc part of the conversation will be around what scope we have to improve things. Will depend on what is in the contract with Delaware. Better selection of real ales would be something I'd like to see - Dhillons would be ideal given their existing links and CCFC related beers.
Fan zone been mentioned a few times. Guess it depends on what is on in the exhibition hall. In reality would many use it?
I used to like the grossly overpriced hot dogs but I think it was £4.50 the last time I had one and they had changed them to some horrible cheap things with a tough skin so fuck em now
Bernie Rhodes Nose knows.....dont argue!Guns of Navarone.
Just imagine it first game back.....a sunlit ricoh bouncing to this before spanking west brom on the opening day.
.....dear ccfc movers and shakers....make it so.
Great tunes bugsy....but for pure terrace singalongabilty, the guns wins....
Bernie Rhodes nose knows.....dont argue!
It shouldn’t just be one game like the community day either. If it’s shit first time work out why and change it round for the next game. Work out which location works best, what’s most popular, what drags people in and what generates revenue.Not if it's hidden away, no. The place needs life inside the bowl and immediately outside the stadium. It needs people buzzing around and sights and smells outside and flags/banners and noise inside. And I don't mean some cheesy local radio presenter on the pitch, I mean creating the conditions for fans to do it themselves and in doing so bring in more fans and keep them around longer because it's not about the football on the pitch as much as the community off it.
They need to think about how people actually approach and use the stadium. It's ass backwards, I've never come in from the front once since we've been there for a start, and now there's a train station back there. I've never seen anything on my way into the ground, not somewhere to spend money, not activities I'd like to get in on, not stuff for the kids (even though I know that's somewhere in there). The most interesting things are: people with buckets collecting for something, the wall of name bricks, and occasionally there's a TV van. Compare that to the walk into Highfield Road, the fanzine sellers, the badge seller, burger vans, throngs of people, glimpses into the ground as you approach.
I hope we've got as much access as possible to the surrounding areas, off the top of my head, I'd love to see:
- Fan zone type thing, ideally with things going on or ex players coming in.
- Merchandise sellers, both independent and official
- Standees/Displays showing the club's history. I'm sure I remember at one ground, maybe Emirates, waiting to get in and reading profiles on all the ex greats. We could move it permanently if we move to the new ground, but have a hall of fame type thing, might even become something players aim to get into
- Family things, face painting, games. Not all kids go in the Family Stand.
- Food sellers
- A committee at the club dedicated to helping us make the place more ours. Could be volunteers who turn up early and leave late and put up standees, or arrange flags, etc.
- Analysis into where our fans are coming from and thought put into the entire process including teaming up with pubs/clubs/universities to have events earlier in the day that feed into the match, or after game events.
Basically engagement with the whole CCFC community to see how they can all help each other. It sounds wrong, but the less it's about the 90 minute game and the more it's about everything else, the more resilient the fanbase will be.
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