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An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:07 pm
by Lucky7
Leyton Orient coaches

£20

Lasagne & Salad included

Think I’m washing the car that night

https://www.leytonorient.com/news/2019/ ... ning-with/

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:12 pm
by Cheshunto
Yeah, I’m gonna wait for “An Evening with Disorientated “
Just to hear where the club are going wrong :lol:

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:12 pm
by ComeOnYouOs
Meet the 'manager' used to be free
sign of the times now

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:14 pm
by Lucky7
Cheshunto wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:12 pm Yeah, I’m gonna wait for “An Evening with Disorientated “
Just to hear where the club are going wrong :lol:
:D :D

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:15 pm
by Lucky7
ComeOnYouOs wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:12 pm Meet the 'manager' used to be free
sign of the times now
Bleeding us dry hmmm

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:38 pm
by KerryGold
I know i might be in the minority but, for now, I quite like the various new revenue streams that they have got going on, eg this and the third dug out thingy etc . Presumably it is part of the CEO brief to stabilise the financial ship. If it works and has the desired effect then alll power to their collective elbows.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:47 pm
by Thor
Cheshunto wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:12 pm Yeah, I’m gonna wait for “An Evening with Disorientated “
Just to hear where the club are going wrong :lol:
I’d pay for that, I just hope that the food that night was rotten tomatoes so we can proper pelt him.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:49 pm
by Long slender neck
45 mins isn't long enough

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:53 pm
by Thor
KerryGold wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:38 pm I know i might be in the minority but, for now, I quite like the various new revenue streams that they have got going on, eg this and the third dug out thingy etc . Presumably it is part of the CEO brief to stabilise the financial ship. If it works and has the desired effect then alll power to their collective elbows.
I doubt either of the schemes you mention are gonna be massive earners for the club however, every penny counts.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:02 pm
by Bottomley’s Ghost
I don’t have a problem with the third dugout. It uses a space that wasn’t used, brings in people and money. It’s a little bit naff, but hey-ho.

But this series will replace the events in the SC that were free to members (and membership costs less than the price of this one event). The five planned evenings with will cost £100, for something that you used to get for free.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:04 pm
by Long slender neck
Who says the SC events won't happen?

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:08 pm
by Lucky7
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I don’t have a problem with the third dugout. It uses a space that wasn’t used, brings in people and money. It’s a little bit naff, but hey-ho.

But this series will replace the events in the SC that were free to members (and membership costs less than the price of this one event). The five planned evenings with will cost £100, for something that you used to get for free



I would assume the SC will still have its ale nights quiz nights etc

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:33 pm
by Bottomley’s Ghost
Yes, but I don’t think this is the same. The meet the manager nights were about people from the club coming to talk to the fans and coming to talk to them in a fan-run space. This is taking it in-house and monetising it. If the same event was put on in the community, the club wouldn’t dream of charging for it, because it would be outreach/ profile building.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:37 pm
by Rich Tea Wellin
Will Anderson coaches be answering questions?

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:55 pm
by Tent Keague
Who is Will Anderson?

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:59 pm
by Byways1
Lucky7 wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:07 pm Leyton Orient coaches

£20

Lasagne & Salad included

Think I’m washing the car that night

https://www.leytonorient.com/news/2019/ ... ning-with/
I can’t believe anybody will be mug enough to pay for this nonsense.
This sort of thing is traditionally held in the supporters club for free and the club sell a load of beer which helps to finance the donation the FC receives every season.
Diabolical idea.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 11:25 pm
by eagwgw
Club be charging for signatures next.

If you think about it, it would be easy enough to implement.
Any item could be signed, plus certificate of authenticity, for that pleasure add £5 to checkout.

I reckon enough people would go for it.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 11:46 pm
by BIGRON
£20 for a lasagne .....no ta .

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 11:58 pm
by RBMarshall
What if you don't eat lasagne can exchange the meal for beer?

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 12:45 am
by Hawaii Five O
Bottomley’s Ghost wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:33 pm Yes, but I don’t think this is the same. The meet the manager nights were about people from the club coming to talk to the fans and coming to talk to them in a fan-run space. This is taking it in-house and monetising it. If the same event was put on in the community, the club wouldn’t dream of charging for it, because it would be outreach/ profile building.
If we're being brutally honest, the Meet the Manager/owner/CEO etc nights in the supporters club were very often arranged by LOSC or LOFT as a way of persuading people to turn up to their AGMs; they're not so much club-initiated community events as the club helping LOSC/LOFT out in their attempts to get enough bodies through the door for the election of the committee members etc to be vaguely meaningful.

I guess we'll just have to wait to find out if the club will continue making people available for that purpose. Be interesting to see how LOSC & LOFT try to make their AGMs attractive if they don't.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 12:55 am
by Bottomley’s Ghost
You’ll have to jog my memory on that one. No recollection of any of the SC events being linked to an AGM, and the only LOFT panels/AGMS I’ve been to were in the Italian’s era, so people like Matt Porter were not involved at the club at the time they appeared. Happy to be corrected though.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 5:51 am
by timothy
Hawaii Five O wrote: Tue Jul 02, 2019 12:45 am
Bottomley’s Ghost wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:33 pm Yes, but I don’t think this is the same. The meet the manager nights were about people from the club coming to talk to the fans and coming to talk to them in a fan-run space. This is taking it in-house and monetising it. If the same event was put on in the community, the club wouldn’t dream of charging for it, because it would be outreach/ profile building.
If we're being brutally honest, the Meet the Manager/owner/CEO etc nights in the supporters club were very often arranged by LOSC or LOFT as a way of persuading people to turn up to their AGMs; they're not so much club-initiated community events as the club helping LOSC/LOFT out in their attempts to get enough bodies through the door for the election of the committee members etc to be vaguely meaningful.

I guess we'll just have to wait to find out if the club will continue making people available for that purpose. Be interesting to see how LOSC & LOFT try to make their AGMs attractive if they don't.
Morning Hawaii, LOSC have never arranged the many Meet the Manager evenings we have held over the years to coincide with
our terribly dull AGM'S ! There is nothing we can do to make an AGM more attractive, unless maybe you would be a guest of honour perhaps?

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 7:26 am
by Thor
eagwgw wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 11:25 pm Club be charging for signatures next.

If you think about it, it would be easy enough to implement.
Any item could be signed, plus certificate of authenticity, for that pleasure add £5 to checkout.

I reckon enough people would go for it.
Other clubs do this already, especially in the premier league.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 7:47 am
by Fellowo
£20 to hear the usual questions and standard answers (plus are we going to sign Dean Cox), no thanks.

Re: An Evening With !!!

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 8:12 am
by Thor
Are we going to sign Cox? Asking for a friend.