Blanco 4,900 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 17 minutes ago, Will said: BRING THE BLOODY YORKSHIRE PUDDING WRAPS BACK, I DID NOT IMAGINE THEM Ah you did @Will. They never existed 🤷♂️ 🤣🤣🤣 Link to post Share on other sites
Naisby 736 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Instead of the club running the concessions can we have independent ones as well or instead of. That way the club could make a guaranteed income and the fans would get a better quality product and service. Link to post Share on other sites
Redcar Rioja 5,872 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, Naisby said: Instead of the club running the concessions can we have independent ones as well or instead of. That way the club could make a guaranteed income and the fans would get a better quality product and service. Great idea but the reality is that if a well known Burger or Chicken Franchise set up in the Riverside they would need to do it X 4 for each Stand. The investment in kitchen equipment however would be the same as for a Drive Thru restaurant which would normally be open for circa 80+ hours a week. The cost (X 4) of setting up to claw back investment on just three days a month at most and even then for no more than 5 hours at a time would be astronomical and commercial suicide. Then consider the trained Staff and what to do with them in between games. They would need to be charging something like £75 a burger (probably more without doing the maths) to get close to their Head Office model return on investment. The next best or nearest thing would be for the Fast Food franchise to have a restaurant near to the ground for matchdays but just off a Main Road for normal day to day trading where 95% of their turnover will come from. That already exists on the A66 roundabout. That leaves the Club with the only option of making their own alternatives. Any improvements will have to be in the form of the Club's catering Manager looking at existing menu offerings and quality within the cost restraints imposed unfortunately. Link to post Share on other sites
Denzel Zanzibar 6,931 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 13 minutes ago, Redcar Rioja said: Great idea but the reality is that if a well known Burger or Chicken Franchise set up in the Riverside they would need to do it X 4 for each Stand. The investment in kitchen equipment however would be the same as for a Drive Thru restaurant which would normally be open for circa 80+ hours a week. The cost (X 4) of setting up to claw back investment on just three days a month at most and even then for no more than 5 hours at a time would be astronomical and commercial suicide. Then consider the trained Staff and what to do with them in between games. They would need to be charging something like £75 a burger (probably more without doing the maths) to get close to their Head Office model return on investment. The next best or nearest thing would be for the Fast Food franchise to have a restaurant near to the ground for matchdays but just off a Main Road for normal day to day trading where 95% of their turnover will come from. That already exists on the A66 roundabout. That leaves the Club with the only option of making their own alternatives. Any improvements will have to be in the form of the Club's catering Manager looking at existing menu offerings and quality within the cost restraints imposed unfortunately. Newboulds used to be in the concourses, they were the ones who first introduced the Parmo in a Bun concept to the Riverside masses Link to post Share on other sites
Redcar Rioja 5,872 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 20 minutes ago, Denzel Zanzibar said: Newboulds used to be in the concourses, they were the ones who first introduced the Parmo in a Bun concept to the Riverside masses Newboulds aren't there now to my knowledge, commercially the numbers just don't stack up. Link to post Share on other sites
smogsterking the Inspirati 2,453 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 I'd like us to bring Warnock back for an exit interview and when he arrives sees Wilder had also been invited. It could be like a new Clough Revie interview where Warnock tries to defend how he did the best he could with what he had only to see how Wilder has transformed the same players. That and is there a date confirmed for that game Mikkel Beck had started arranging at the start of lockdown. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
WirelessBoro 67 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Just on the academy coverage - I used to follow Burnley on Twitter and they would do minute by minute commentary for u23s and u18s games on their club feed. It was actually really annoying, totally clogged up the feed, certainly off putting for casual followers… I’ve been off Twitter for a while now but it seems they’ve opened an official Burnley Academy account with all the coverage. The main account retweets a few bits but you don’t have the minute by minute commentary filling your timeline. It’d be good to have a dedicated account like that for those of us invested in what’s happening at the academy. Link to post Share on other sites
Denzel Zanzibar 6,931 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 5 hours ago, WirelessBoro said: Just on the academy coverage - I used to follow Burnley on Twitter and they would do minute by minute commentary for u23s and u18s games on their club feed. It was actually really annoying, totally clogged up the feed, certainly off putting for casual followers… I’ve been off Twitter for a while now but it seems they’ve opened an official Burnley Academy account with all the coverage. The main account retweets a few bits but you don’t have the minute by minute commentary filling your timeline. It’d be good to have a dedicated account like that for those of us invested in what’s happening at the academy. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
boro-unger 3,817 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Denzel Zanzibar said: Yeah, he should follow arsenal instead! 3 Link to post Share on other sites
wilsoncgp 9,230 Posted January 17, 2022 Author Share Posted January 17, 2022 Had another meeting tonight, should have the minutes up for you in the next couple of days once the chair has them written up and approved and then I'll try to add any context where needed for you all. 👍 2 Link to post Share on other sites
wilsoncgp 9,230 Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 https://boro.support/middlesbrough-supporters-forumminutes-47/ Minutes from Monday's meeting are live. Any questions let me know, I'll try to give some more info later! Link to post Share on other sites
wilsoncgp 9,230 Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Regarding the meeting on Monday, we had this response on the youth games, after the club had, just the day before, started to do some matchday coverage of the game 😄 And these were the responses on the audio/video streams situation and the MFC Foundation shirts. I did ask about the badge in the group the other day (forgot to raise during the meeting) but nobody has heard anything on a change and I get the feeling it would be a huge undertaking, I'm mainly thinking of anything in and around the ground which shows the badge that would need updating, club merchandise as well, what do they do with clothes with the current badge on if they change it now? It sounds like it could be quite expensive/devalue something that still has value right now. I reckon it will be something the club will be more open to if we are back in the Premier League, a lot of the stuff we've asked about has come down to "Is this more value for money than x, y or z?" but if we're in the Prem, it's more "What nice-to-haves can we justify now?". 2 Link to post Share on other sites
boro-unger 3,817 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 23 minutes ago, wilsoncgp said: Regarding the meeting on Monday, we had this response on the youth games, after the club had, just the day before, started to do some matchday coverage of the game 😄 And these were the responses on the audio/video streams situation and the MFC Foundation shirts. News to me about them having raffles for the shirts. They can't advertise it very well/as much as the auctions. I've only ever seen social media posts and mfc website articles about the auctions, not about any shirt raffles. Thanks for asking though 🙂 Link to post Share on other sites
wilsoncgp 9,230 Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 On 1/23/2022 at 3:33 PM, boro-unger said: News to me about them having raffles for the shirts. They can't advertise it very well/as much as the auctions. I've only ever seen social media posts and mfc website articles about the auctions, not about any shirt raffles. Thanks for asking though 🙂 I can only think that the raffles are ones that go on throughout the season and aren't the same shirts as the Foundation matchday ones? I certainly don't remember any from those games going for raffle. Link to post Share on other sites
wilsoncgp 9,230 Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 Mentioning this for anyone in attendance tomorrow who may be interested. From the Matchday info page for the Luton game: Middlesbrough Supporters Forum is partnering with MFC to hold a collection in support of the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, following the country's invasion by Russia. It's to offer much needed items for displaced Ukrainian people, many of whom are women and children. A van will be located outside the Legends Lounge between 11am and kick off at the Luton match on Saturday. It is important to note that those not attending the match are asked to arrive before 1pm with their donations to ensure access. A list of items that are requested can be found here. Link to post Share on other sites
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