| First game of season Milne offering free tickets 19:04 - Jul 17 with 11418 views | uppersirbob |
I have seen an email from Milne to NHS workers offering free tickets for the game and they have told the NHS to let them know how many they need !
So big crowd to look good on opening day ! |  | | |  |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 19:08 - Jul 17 with 9435 views | christiand |
Now that is excellent PR work Mr Milne, hope this is true. Been very encouraged by some of the club's decisions over the summer, this is much more like the club I thought we were or would like us to be. | |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:28 - Jul 17 with 9248 views | factual_blue |
But he's happy to drive away fans who were willing to pay.
#slapintheface. |  |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:33 - Jul 17 with 9229 views | xrayspecs |
Are these the overpaid public sector workers with their pensions the rest of us look on at with envy?
Surely, we should be chargning them a Hammond premium? | | | |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:38 - Jul 17 with 9195 views | GeoffSentence |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:28 - Jul 17 by factual_blue |
But he's happy to drive away fans who were willing to pay.
#slapintheface. |
Obviously they want a lot of nurses and doctors in the ground first game, to deal with all the furious old fwckers over-exerting themselves. |  |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:43 - Jul 17 with 9171 views | uefacup81 |
Any word on how this is being effected? I'm up in Norwich, so I've pinged the ticket office an email asking if us NHS bods further afield are included in the generosity. |  |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:49 - Jul 17 with 9110 views | J2BLUE |
Benters pays for his tickets and he's a red, white and blue blooded Englishman and these foreign NHS workers get tickets for free?!?
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:50 - Jul 17 with 9102 views | factual_blue |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:38 - Jul 17 by GeoffSentence |
Obviously they want a lot of nurses and doctors in the ground first game, to deal with all the furious old fwckers over-exerting themselves. |
That's no way to talk about the first team squad.
Actually, it might be. | |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:52 - Jul 17 with 9086 views | factual_blue |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:49 - Jul 17 by J2BLUE |
Benters pays for his tickets and he's a red, white and blue blooded Englishman and these foreign NHS workers get tickets for free?!?
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:54 - Jul 17 with 9072 views | hoppy |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:38 - Jul 17 by GeoffSentence |
Obviously they want a lot of nurses and doctors in the ground first game, to deal with all the furious old fwckers over-exerting themselves. |
I think it's only the wives and girlfriends of the new signings it's applicable for, but that's still a nice touch to welcome them... |  |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:56 - Jul 17 with 9063 views | factual_blue |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:43 - Jul 17 by uefacup81 |
Any word on how this is being effected? I'm up in Norwich, so I've pinged the ticket office an email asking if us NHS bods further afield are included in the generosity. |
Bluebadger is handling the PR for this, so I'd ping him a PM if I were you. | |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 21:07 - Jul 17 with 9003 views | Ftnfwest |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:49 - Jul 17 by J2BLUE |
Benters pays for his tickets and he's a red, white and blue blooded Englishman and these foreign NHS workers get tickets for free?!?
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Thought he'd decided he was Welsh? |  | | |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 21:24 - Jul 17 with 8954 views | EatonBlue |
Does that include Doctor Who? |  | | |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 22:27 - Jul 17 with 8765 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:33 - Jul 17 by xrayspecs |
Are these the overpaid public sector workers with their pensions the rest of us look on at with envy?
Surely, we should be chargning them a Hammond premium? |
Is it the 80's again ? |  |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 15:51 - Jul 18 with 8351 views | BlueNomad |
Not fair!! Apparently public sector workers are all on massive salaries. The Chancellor said so! |  | | |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 17:49 - Jul 18 with 8242 views | bluejacko |
isnt it a shame they didnt have these ideas before they jarred off 2000 odd regular supporters? | | | |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 17:55 - Jul 18 with 8220 views | Blue_badge |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 17:49 - Jul 18 by bluejacko |
isnt it a shame they didnt have these ideas before they jarred off 2000 odd regular supporters? |
"he's jarred off"
"you jar me!"
Expressions I used regularly while living in Ipswich between the mid-50's and the mid-70's. Haven't heard them used at all for the last 40 years or so, assumed they'd died out.
Are they still in use in Suffolk or are you an old codger like me? |  | | |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 17:58 - Jul 18 with 8217 views | bluejacko |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 17:55 - Jul 18 by Blue_badge |
"he's jarred off"
"you jar me!"
Expressions I used regularly while living in Ipswich between the mid-50's and the mid-70's. Haven't heard them used at all for the last 40 years or so, assumed they'd died out.
Are they still in use in Suffolk or are you an old codger like me? |
Yep Old!! but used all the time in the Army, and I am one of those stuffed over with the concession price so pardon me if I don't get all exited!
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:38 - Jul 17 by GeoffSentence |
Obviously they want a lot of nurses and doctors in the ground first game, to deal with all the furious old fwckers over-exerting themselves. |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 08:05 - Jul 19 with 7986 views | Benters |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 21:07 - Jul 17 by Ftnfwest |
Thought he'd decided he was Welsh? |
Half Breed innit |  |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 09:04 - Jul 19 with 7933 views | Benters |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 20:28 - Jul 17 by factual_blue |
But he's happy to drive away fans who were willing to pay.
#slapintheface. |
Indeed.
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 10:39 - Jul 19 with 7888 views | uefacup81 |
Seems some of the old ways have yet to die, though. Got a response to an email to the ticket office as to whether a long-standing fan working in the NHS here in Norfolk could be considered for inclusion:
As my colleague mentioned in the previous email nothing has been confirmed or decided regards providing NHS workers with tickets for the Birmingham fixture.
"Should Ipswich Town Football Club decide to offer tickets, these would be supplied to the Local NHS management within Ipswich for them to distribute as they deem appropriate at their discretion. We would be unable to offer tickets beyond the Ipswich area, as this then encroaches on other football clubs and with 1.7 million employees in the NHS (circa 4,000 in the Ipswich area) this would also be unfeasible."
Good old ITFC, eh! | |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 10:48 - Jul 19 with 7867 views | ITFC_Forever |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 10:39 - Jul 19 by uefacup81 |
Seems some of the old ways have yet to die, though. Got a response to an email to the ticket office as to whether a long-standing fan working in the NHS here in Norfolk could be considered for inclusion:
As my colleague mentioned in the previous email nothing has been confirmed or decided regards providing NHS workers with tickets for the Birmingham fixture.
"Should Ipswich Town Football Club decide to offer tickets, these would be supplied to the Local NHS management within Ipswich for them to distribute as they deem appropriate at their discretion. We would be unable to offer tickets beyond the Ipswich area, as this then encroaches on other football clubs and with 1.7 million employees in the NHS (circa 4,000 in the Ipswich area) this would also be unfeasible."
Good old ITFC, eh! |
Surely you must know a colleague in the Ipswich area who could acquire the tickets for you? |  |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 10:57 - Jul 19 with 7851 views | uefacup81 |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 10:48 - Jul 19 by ITFC_Forever |
Surely you must know a colleague in the Ipswich area who could acquire the tickets for you? |
It'll be worth a punt if they do go ahead with the offer, but I imagine a lot of it would depend on how many tickets each individual department gets. In the meantime I pinged the delightful Sarah a response, so let's see what happens (other than another copy/paste reply)...
"Hi Sarah
Thank you for replying to me so swiftly, even if it does seem like the kind of standard 'cut-and-paste' effort that the club seems to have become so fond of in recent months.
I would hope that the aim of any such offer would be to reward and thank Ipswich fans for their tireless and vital work in the NHS, rather than a cynical attempt to get 'bums on seats' and increase match day revenue. Therefore it disappoints me greatly that you seem to have taken a stance that seems to say:
"Sorry but you live too far away. Norwich City FC would be aggrieved if we offered a free ticket to an Ipswich fan in their area. Also, if we gave you a free ticket, the rest of the 1.4 million NHS employees (including, I imagine, those who have no interest in football, and those who support teams other than Ipswich) would want one too."
Alongside that, whilst I appreciate that there may be 4,000 NHS employees in the Ipswich area, I would be surprised if even 25% of those deemed eligible, by whatever convoluted rules you use, would take up such an offer, given that a large number will be working on the day, and a larger number take no interest in football.
As you will see from your database, I am a committed long term customer (I won't use the word 'fan' with you, as that seems to carry no weight these days) of ITFC and have spent a significant amount of money in recent years following the club when my shift pattern allows. As it stands, I would not have been attending the Birmingham match but for this offer, and your intransigence on this matter will only serve to ensure my non-attendance and will see what money I would have spent in and around the stadium spent elsewhere.
Just when it looked as if the club had rediscovered the positive relationship with the fans that existed prior to the debacle of recent years, it appears that long term customers who live slightly further away are deemed 'expendable' by the powers that be.
As I am sure you will appreciate, I am not asking that a blanket offer of free tickets be made to NHS employees outside the Ipswich area, merely that a lifelong supporter who lives in Norfolk be treated in the same way as the rest of his fellow supporters.
Surely that is not too much to ask?
Yours
Uefacup81" | |
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| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 11:06 - Jul 19 with 7828 views | PhilTWTD |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 10:57 - Jul 19 by uefacup81 |
It'll be worth a punt if they do go ahead with the offer, but I imagine a lot of it would depend on how many tickets each individual department gets. In the meantime I pinged the delightful Sarah a response, so let's see what happens (other than another copy/paste reply)...
"Hi Sarah
Thank you for replying to me so swiftly, even if it does seem like the kind of standard 'cut-and-paste' effort that the club seems to have become so fond of in recent months.
I would hope that the aim of any such offer would be to reward and thank Ipswich fans for their tireless and vital work in the NHS, rather than a cynical attempt to get 'bums on seats' and increase match day revenue. Therefore it disappoints me greatly that you seem to have taken a stance that seems to say:
"Sorry but you live too far away. Norwich City FC would be aggrieved if we offered a free ticket to an Ipswich fan in their area. Also, if we gave you a free ticket, the rest of the 1.4 million NHS employees (including, I imagine, those who have no interest in football, and those who support teams other than Ipswich) would want one too."
Alongside that, whilst I appreciate that there may be 4,000 NHS employees in the Ipswich area, I would be surprised if even 25% of those deemed eligible, by whatever convoluted rules you use, would take up such an offer, given that a large number will be working on the day, and a larger number take no interest in football.
As you will see from your database, I am a committed long term customer (I won't use the word 'fan' with you, as that seems to carry no weight these days) of ITFC and have spent a significant amount of money in recent years following the club when my shift pattern allows. As it stands, I would not have been attending the Birmingham match but for this offer, and your intransigence on this matter will only serve to ensure my non-attendance and will see what money I would have spent in and around the stadium spent elsewhere.
Just when it looked as if the club had rediscovered the positive relationship with the fans that existed prior to the debacle of recent years, it appears that long term customers who live slightly further away are deemed 'expendable' by the powers that be.
As I am sure you will appreciate, I am not asking that a blanket offer of free tickets be made to NHS employees outside the Ipswich area, merely that a lifelong supporter who lives in Norfolk be treated in the same way as the rest of his fellow supporters.
Surely that is not too much to ask?
Yours
Uefacup81" |
I think the plan is for a limited number of tickets to be offered to specifically Ipswich Hospital for one game rather than anything wider. |  | | |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 11:09 - Jul 19 with 7809 views | uefacup81 |
| First game of season Milne offering free tickets on 11:06 - Jul 19 by PhilTWTD |
I think the plan is for a limited number of tickets to be offered to specifically Ipswich Hospital for one game rather than anything wider. |
That sounds likely. Surely it would have been easier for the club to say that, than to say "we've not got space for all 1.4m of you, so pipe down"? | |
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