To be fair...although @Pelly Greeny has overreacted somewhat...it is a disgrace and looks complete shite when I saw it
I'd be pissed if i'd forked out for one
You clearly have not got a fucking clue what has gone on with this farce have you? Try reading a few posts in this thread before you start telling me and the other people that you think it will be dealt with in a first class manner - I can assure you that in this case it hasn't.
I've sent numerous emails on behalf of the people who contributed to these discs asking when they'd be laid and have systematically been fobbed off, as have many others, with excuses and promises that were never going to be kept. I even spoke to Danny Wilson who'd taken over this task, he assured everything was in hand and if I'd any queries about the proposed Easter completion date he told me about during our call to get in touch with him directly - if I didn't get through to him straight away he promised he'd ring me back. Easter came and went, no discs laid so I rang as suggested, I left messages on his answerphone and he didn't bother getting back. I've had dozens of emails from various people all assuring me that it was in hand and would be sorted soon.
This isn't about pies and £54m players it about the way the club sees fit to fob off people who have paid a lot of money for memorial discs that have taken over 2 1/2 years to get sorted. There are posts in this thread and the others from people who've bought the discs as presents for people who have since died, for lads 18ths who are now 21, from people that have moved away and are unlikely to see them. You can't take over £300 off someone and fuck them about for almost 3 years and expect them to just sit back and keep saying 'oh well they've done more good than bad whilst I've been waiting since Jan 2013 for them to get this sorted' It's about treating their fans with a bit more respect than they have done.
I received an email this morning telling me where and when the 'event' starts, two days before the 'event' takes place. Hardly giving people much time to get shifts, transport, babysitters sorted is it. Unless they've almost fucked this event up as well, I'd have thought that they could have given people more than two days notice to make plans for their evening out.
I'm so sorry that my post made you sick,but I'm sure you'll get over it and find something better to do with your time other than make comments about something you clearly haven't got a clue about.
With respect I know someone who has had the piss took out of them royally by city for two fuckin years abt this, email aft fuckin email ignored phone calls passed from one person to the next, basically just screwed over and if you knew the reason why he wanted the city circle you'd be saddenedIf you have lost all respect for the club - don't come and watch a £54 million pound midfielder in an amazing arena with other world class players. You hope the national press take the piss out of our club - words fail me - what a dickhead. If you don't like the food service - again don't come - I think it is fine. Had a lovely pie chips and gravy at the weekend and really enjoyed my day out. I have bigger things to worry about in life than having to queue for 5 minutes. Young kids serving chips are not necessarily the sharpest tools but they are doing a job. If it offends you that much bring a packed lunch.
And I am sure if you emailed a polite email expressing your concerns to the club of what has happened with City Circle it would be dealt with in a first class manner. If I have an issue with the club I tend to find it is dealt with in a very professional manner.
They might have made a balls of this but they do far more good than bad. How many jobs have they provided to the City and area? Makes me sick posts like yours.
Get over it.
With respect I know someone who has had the piss took out of them royally by city for two fuckin years abt this, email aft fuckin email ignored phone calls passed from one person to the next, basically just screwed over and if you knew the reason why he wanted the city circle you'd be saddened
What gives you the fuckin right to have a pop at anyone who's moaned and had a pop at the club over this
And I don't know what point your trying to prove by by saying "Yeh but we buy £50 million players so everythings ok"
They might have a launch if they haven't been nicked by Thursday !!!!30 years of following City gives me the right to defend someone saying they want the national press to take the piss out of my club. And what the fuck does queuing for a burger have to do with it? I didn't say everything is ok - but deal with it with the club. If it is shit - ask for your money back. It snot just about the £50 million pound players - what about the clubs work in the community etc. This has been a fuck up by the sounds of it but they are entitled to make a mistake once in a while. Danny Wilson is a gentleman and great for the club. I just thought his tone was a bit off. I am sure there are some sad stories about the circles but look at the bigger picture - it is done and they are having a launch.
After getting all the money together, checking what was and wasn't ok with the families, trying to get some ideas of what to buy as a memorial that a majority were ok with - and trying to ignore people who hadn't contributed telling me what I should and shouldn't be doing with the money -, putting those ideas back to the families, then putting forward one idea to the club and getting knocked back, asking about another and being told that might be ok, waiting for weeks to find out that nobody had made any enquiries and then it getting knocked back. Asking the club what would be acceptable and being told nothing other than a floral tribute in the memorial garden that'd be binned after a week.
Asking the club if we could put a banner up around level 2 for a season, being knocked back BUT being told that there was an idea in it's latter stages that would be the perfect solution. I waited a few weeks and they came up with the perfect solution - a series of personalised discs that would be laid in the ground near the stadium and be a permanent solution. Fantastic!! Put a few ideas to the families, put the best ones to BM, back to families and forked out £354 of the collection to purchase the discs.
Was told early 2013 that these would be in place by the start of the next season - suggested we all meet up and have a sort of unofficial unveiling with family and friends at start of 2013/14 season. Brilliant.
Then it was delayed with no explanation, no email, no letter nothing. And so it began, two years of phonecalls, emails back and forward promising this and that - all a load of bollocks.
If they were for me personally I'd have probably not felt as strongly about them,but they're not for me. They are on behalf of the Bluemooners who contributed to them, on behalf of the families of the two people who died and, most importantly and what really pisses me off, as a mark of respect, a memorial and a reminder of two very special individuals who are/were/will be missed by a lot of people.
City know all about the ins and outs of these discs, the whys and whens yet still couldn't do the right thing or get it sorted .
Maybe now you'll understand why I feel so strongly about this. I just wanted to do something for the people who'd lost a friend and who wanted some way of showing how upset they were, how much Sue and Sam meant to them as fellow BM'ers and it's all gone tits up.