What a stupid post.

Not nearly as stupid as limiting your income by sticking away fans who have travelled miles in a crap corner where they can see sod all.

But hey, one day you might get a decent crowd, afterall, you've not really been given a lot of chance have you?

I'm still waiting for you to point out my lack of knowledge of UK licensing law...

Sorry GF, but you are talking nonsense there - if we cannot offer new customers a chance of a decent view of the game, we will not attract new REPEAT spectators. See my post on an earlier thread on this. If we understand that this club CANNOT afford to not get it's regular customer base north of 4,000, then we MUST invest in the additional staffing required to deliver a good customer experience. Otherwise why waste all that time (and money...) persuading them to come in the first place? The ROI metric will only make sense with repeat purchase - this is a Lifetime Customer Value justification, or not a justification at all.

If we are not prepared to do that, then we might as well accept our non-existence now - the only alternative is a slow death by a thousand cuts. I for one always choose to risk going out fighting, than surrender with a whimper. Indeed, I know of no other business who has succeeded any other way.

PS: I seriously think you have "gone native" on this topic. Just because they hear you speak, does not mean they are listening.

and I'm still waiting for you to explain your comments about being forced in the North stand at the KC

I really struggle with what is up with the east stand.

When you consider what Saints, Cas, Wakey, Reds, and even some football clubs have the east stand is very favourable. It seems to fill up for the union team.

Last time at the Stoop the Lexus/LV didn't exists. We are spoilt for choice.

In the summer it is in the sun with a bar underneath, what more could you ask for.

My preference would be open the East stand and the north stand. Stick the away fans in the north stand, overspill into the nearest corner of the East Stand. The rest is for quins fans, allocated for ST holders and the rest unallocated. Seems simple to me and preferable to the arrangement where we also open the south stand for between 50 and 100 spectators.

Its surely obvious. Whatever else, the East Stand is further away from the pitch. Yes of course you can still see, but its not as good a view as being in the Lexus.

But we did have the almost full every game, West Stand. c/w bar.

Surely this is the most logical solution...

it's the reason you can't drink in your seat at the KC B.G

UK licensing law? I don't think so.

Its because people in Hull can't be trusted to drink in their seat and additional laws at a local level have had to be made.

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No it isn't, it's a requirement of the local authority when agreeing the liscence. It is also to make life easier for stewards as you can't drink in view of the pitch for football, saves confusion.

But carry on, you're funny.

Isn't that a long winded way of saying you cant be trusted?

Nope

It's more to do with being able to employ the cheapest possible stewards!

It is not licensing law mate, it is restriction put on the stadium by the council so you could get a safety certificate, you can't be trusted to have a drink and behave by the sounds of it. Most people can differentiate between football and rugby.

It was a condition of the certificate yes, you may want to attach some other reasoning behind it, fwiw I like the fact that people aren't pushing backwards and forwards during the game anyway.

Having such a high opinion of yourselves as Quins fans is a really good way to win favour, honest.

Unless anything has changed recently with the new board, the reason the club is not licenced for the seating area is because they never applied for one.

And whenever the matter was discussed on here the majority preferred it that way, as opposed to people constantly getting up and down to got o the bars.

Michael.

They did Mav, hence people could drink whilst watching the 20/20 cricket and can at concerts etc.

The reason is because of football not allowing it in view of the pitch, it was thought that it would cause aggro with some oe the less intelligent fans saying "but we can at the rugby".

Oh aye, any business is going to turn down income from bars when it is there to be had...



Strange, fans of other clubs/codes cope with it so well too.

Oddly enough, although it's seldom discussed here, some QuinsRL fans are also of that opinion. Well, this one is, and most others have probably never been asked.

Absolutely.

I'd go with that.

have the east stand split in two from the middle, half of one half of the other

then have half of the north stand and northern end of the east stand open for home fans
half the south stand and southern end of the east stand for away fans

all easy to contain and steward