(19-09-2021, 07:27 PM)BilltheCat Wrote: https://easternroaddebrief.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/oh-no-were-at-home/

Anybody know these people? Uncomfortable reading!!

(19-09-2021, 08:40 PM)dsmg Wrote: Can’t get the staff- Brexitttttttt

(20-09-2021, 07:27 AM)bluetagagain Wrote: To answer some of the Easter Rd questions.

I had no probs, other than a 10 min wait. People putting their ST’s in the slot was a problem. You only had to scan your ticket just like every other shop in the UK. The slot is for printed tickets and phones to scan QR codes.

Catering has always been shite at FP but I don’t go to a match to eat. Everybody pays with a card now.

The club shop sells Nike gear so of course it’s going to be expensive, the same people complained when we had cheap kit manufacturers.

There is a massive problem with staff at the moment - stewards/ chefs/ servers etc shortages everywhere not just PFC.

The match was shite though, like the Paul Cook days but toothless up front. DC needs to bin his iPad and stats and get back to basics. It’s not a difficult game.

Also , the club sent out emails and a ‘ cardboard’ card with your seat details on it and an apology also stating we’d be getting new cards.

Some people like a good whinge and it’s easy to complain , the whole stand thing with people being moved wasn’t PFC’s doing it was Portsmouth City Council who carried out a H&s check 8 weeks before the season started,

(20-09-2021, 07:27 AM)bluetagagain Wrote: To answer some of the Easter Rd questions.

I had no probs, other than a 10 min wait. People putting their ST’s in the slot was a problem. You only had to scan your ticket just like every other shop in the UK. The slot is for printed tickets and phones to scan QR codes.

Catering has always been shite at FP but I don’t go to a match to eat. Everybody pays with a card now.

The club shop sells Nike gear so of course it’s going to be expensive, the same people complained when we had cheap kit manufacturers.

There is a massive problem with staff at the moment - stewards/ chefs/ servers etc shortages everywhere not just PFC.

The match was shite though, like the Paul Cook days but toothless up front. DC needs to bin his iPad and stats and get back to basics. It’s not a difficult game.

Also , the club sent out emails and a ‘ cardboard’ card with your seat details on it and an apology also stating we’d be getting new cards.

Some people like a good whinge and it’s easy to complain , the whole stand thing with people being moved wasn’t PFC’s doing it was Portsmouth City Council who carried out a H&s check 8 weeks before the season started,

(20-09-2021, 09:02 AM)bluetagagain Wrote: I’ve been called a lot worse lol. However, if the football was better we wouldn’t be moaning as much.

(20-09-2021, 10:05 AM)teeftwo Wrote: Well it appears that despite the contentment of bluetag and exgaffer with the utter shit show that was the non football part of matchday the CEO has clearly seen fit to finally take ownership of some of the issues, something the club dodged appallingly with their statement on Saturday night.

https://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/2021/september/andrew-cullens-plymouth-programme-notes/

(20-09-2021, 10:58 AM)exgaffer Wrote:

(20-09-2021, 10:05 AM)teeftwo Wrote: Well it appears that despite the contentment of bluetag and exgaffer with the utter shit show that was the non football part of matchday the CEO has clearly seen fit to finally take ownership of some of the issues, something the club dodged appallingly with their statement on Saturday night.

https://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/2021/september/andrew-cullens-plymouth-programme-notes/

If you want to get your knickers in a twist, go right ahead mate.

I’m not bothered about the bogs, the catering, the merchandise or any of the other stuff. I’m bothered about the football, which is currently crap.

Not sure which genius came up with the idea of the season tickets with no seat numbers on them but hey, I tapped my ticket and got in no trouble, that’s job done for me.

Pub for a few sherbets, get there a bit earlier than usual (about 10 minutes earlier in my case) and everything is fine. So you have to queue for a little while until the snags are ironed out, worse things happen at sea.

As for being ‘embarrassed’ by anything, I don’t understand the concept, life is far too short for any such bollox   .

(20-09-2021, 11:10 AM)bluetagagain Wrote: I’m not denying there where problems getting in and there was also no signage, however,  a certain amount of common sense regarding scanning your ticket was needed, but, it looks like I was overestimating a certain percentage of our fans.
As regards catering etc of course there’s problems, unless you’ve been stuck in a bubble without no news for about 6 months , you’ll know there’s staff and haulage problems throughout the UK and abroad.

(22-09-2021, 11:46 AM)Pompey_in_Derby Wrote: Queue wasn't much better last night - stretching back as far as the Pompey shop to get into the Fratton End at the North Stand corner. Quite a few got in late and missed Brown's goal.

Had I been running the show, I'd have ordered the exit gates to be opened just before 7:45 as a one-off. Everybody in the queue would have had a match ticket so no reason not to.

Hopefully things will improve from now on!

(22-09-2021, 07:14 PM)Pompey_in_Derby Wrote: Why don't the club launch a 'Happy Half Hour' with cheaper beer between 1:30 and 2? Get the fans in early, offer them an incentive, fans happy, club makes more money?