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1 hour ago, Brockvillenomore said:

At the fans meeting in May or June last year the Directors covered all this, explaining they had reviewed the staff and structure and it was now the lowest it had been since the Ochilview days.  

Indeed and they outsourced the accounting function which has saved a lot.

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7 hours ago, Brockvillenomore said:

At the fans meeting in May or June last year the Directors covered all this, explaining they had reviewed the staff and structure and it was now the lowest it had been since the Ochilview days.  

A number of staff quit last year which brought the head count down.

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15 minutes ago, RC_Bairn said:

Thanks.  I don't recall seeing the FSS AGM or who stood for the committee.  But I might have missed it.

From what I remember from a year ago at the last AGM there were no new candidates that put themselves forward and so the committee were re-elected by default. This year's AGM is also coming up and there was a recent notice about standing for election for the committee.

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On 31/01/2023 at 15:49, Blame Me said:

Indeed. 

Going by the Falkirk Daft podcast with KJ we seem to have a good relationship with the council when it was brought up about moving operations out. 

However, going by my weekly visits (poor facilities replenishment, which I assume is the councils purview) and the public relationship between the two you'd wonder if the club and council knew each other - Some examples of where they could jointly do more to help each other in my view.

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All the talk about cost cutting and revenue generation reminded me of a conversation I had with my in law. The Stadium can do more to be a focal point for the local community, to increase footfall on site. Doesn’t need to be solely football but what about hosting bingo nights in hospitality if there’s spare capacity during the week. Anything bringing more people to the Stadium can only be a good thing.

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34 minutes ago, GunnerBairn said:

All the talk about cost cutting and revenue generation reminded me of a conversation I had with my in law. The Stadium can do more to be a focal point for the local community, to increase footfall on site. Doesn’t need to be solely football but what about hosting bingo nights in hospitality if there’s spare capacity during the week. Anything bringing more people to the Stadium can only be a good thing.

Agreed...... but we need to think of ways that the Club can maximise revenues from the parts that it effectively owns within the Stadium.  Not much point if it just fills the Council's coffers and the Club dont get anything as payback.

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37 minutes ago, GunnerBairn said:

All the talk about cost cutting and revenue generation reminded me of a conversation I had with my in law. The Stadium can do more to be a focal point for the local community, to increase footfall on site. Doesn’t need to be solely football but what about hosting bingo nights in hospitality if there’s spare capacity during the week. Anything bringing more people to the Stadium can only be a good thing.

Could be a bit of a lottory and may not be enough room in the house.

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9 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Glad to see the club publicly calling out people for asshole behaviour. 

I've been pretty raging at a football game but I've never been so raging that I'd Chuck legal tender at someone. I am pretty tight tho. 

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36 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:

All depends on the cut the council will take for services opening up.

Got to be a decent return or people end up being useful idiots for the mob that own the stadium.

 

Why not utilise the south stand? Or the other areas of the main stand the club do have. The council only need be involved (or paid) when and if the club use the function/corporate suites and catering facilities within the main stand. There are plenty other areas of the stadium that could well be being under utilised, the south stand bar for example. 

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23 hours ago, NavyBlueArmy1876 said:

Yogi hooring himself up for the Aberdeen job on sportsound. Even voluntarily mentioned he spent £50k on John Stewart. Some laugh eh 

When he first started yapping it was ok but then went quite cringe worthy, trying to say he only paid money for Stokes to Hibs, John Stewart, Alan Gow and Dean Holden, no mention of fucking wads of cash in wages to the likes of O'Brien, Lovell, etc. Openly hawked himself for the Aberdeen job, just surprised he never mentioned the "fundamentals" and creamed his pants about Aiden McGeady.

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Griffith's was thought to be a massive bandage on a misfiring team.  We don't have that issue as we now have 4 strikers at the club and we can generally get a goal or two.  Bringing in more would make balancing the books an even harder task.

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