Fans' Forum

[General B]

I would happily pay a £10 membership fee if I got an assurance that I would never again have to sit next to someone with balloons on his head banging a STAR branded spazclapper incessantly.

[Maguire]

The one thing that should unite us is Reading FC but it seems to divide us as there are so many ideas on what is best for the club.

This is fair point, mind. I was thinking only yesterday that I can't imagine any solidarity at all between myself as an individual and the supporters trust of the club I support. Just worlds apart in what it means to follow a football club and what we look to get from the experience to the extent that I could follow Fulham instead for all the difference it'd make to either party.

[southbank1871]

Paula, I may not agree with you not wanting someone who attended the fan's forum to soy a summary on here (how about if they did it on an area of the board that you have to be registered to see?), but I can understand it, particularly if you've been out under pressure from the club. However, I think it's the way you responded to Cypry that has got most people's backs up. It was his first fan's forum and he wasn't told that he couldn't post a summary on here, so your PM to him was pretty disgraceful IMO and he deserves an apology. I'm sure if you do this, we can all move on.

[Big Foot]

Paula, I may not agree with you not wanting someone who attended the fan's forum to soy a summary on here (how about if they did it on an area of the board that you have to be registered to see?), but I can understand it, particularly if you've been out under pressure from the club. However, I think it's the way you responded to Cypry that has got most people's backs up. It was his first fan's forum and he wasn't told that he couldn't post a summary on here, so your PM to him was pretty disgraceful IMO and he deserves an apology. I'm sure if you do this, we can all move on.

^This

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

This thread just get better and better....PM messages posted by mistake then removed, what ever next?

[strap]

4. Are these guys a bunch of helmets?

Naaaaaa!

Looks like a 80's Book club. Not one of a forward thinking modern football club.

More like the left wing loonies who "run" most local councils these days, (shudders in revulsion ....)

[Silver Fox]

Paula, I may not agree with you not wanting someone who attended the fan's forum to soy a summary on here (how about if they did it on an area of the board that you have to be registered to see?), but I can understand it, particularly if you've been out under pressure from the club. However, I think it's the way you responded to Cypry that has got most people's backs up. It was his first fan's forum and he wasn't told that he couldn't post a summary on here, so your PM to him was pretty disgraceful IMO and he deserves an apology. I'm sure if you do this, we can all move on.

+1 from me

[cmonurz]

And another from me.

Over 50,000 posts between me and SFers. Board heavyweights can't be ignored.

[Blakey's Right Peg]

Paula, I may not agree with you not wanting someone who attended the fan's forum to soy a summary on here (how about if they did it on an area of the board that you have to be registered to see?), but I can understand it, particularly if you've been out under pressure from the club. However, I think it's the way you responded to Cypry that has got most people's backs up. It was his first fan's forum and he wasn't told that he couldn't post a summary on here, so your PM to him was pretty disgraceful IMO and he deserves an apology. I'm sure if you do this, we can all move on.

Nail. On. Head.

[Hoop Blah]

At the moment I am the only STAR board member willing to even post on here.

Well there's a blindingly obvious weakness in your organisation I'm afraid STAR. This board may have it's fair share of idiots, WUMs and posters who don't actively watch the team play that often these days but it remains the largest and most active place for dicussion on all things RFC. If STAR don't recognise that and embrace it as the most popular and, believe it or not, representative place for fans to dicuss the progress, successes, failures and issues relating to the club and it's supporter base (that's the one the STAR board have pledged to represent and effectively work for) then it's perfectly understandable the criticism you're having to take.

The only other places that come close to this are Twitter and I guess the Facebook pages, but from what I've seen they're an even smaller pool of similar contributors

Have you guys tried recruiting a more representative cross section of support onto the board? Perhaps there should be a drive to encourage a member or two from your ranks with a more positive HNA perception to step up to a board position and engage with the forum some more. It's a massive communication problem if STAR fail to engage with this place. Perhaps you could even have a discussion about co-opting a reliable and forthright NHA contributor onto your board to give the place a voice in your organisation.

[southbank1871]

Mags for STAR?

[Hoop Blah]

Mags for STAR?

Probably the next logical step on the path to world domination now that he's got his mod status.

[STAR Liaison]

However, I think it's the way you responded to Cypry that has got most people's backs up. It was his first fan's forum and he wasn't told that he couldn't post a summary on here, so your PM to him was pretty disgraceful IMO and he deserves an apology. I'm sure if you do this, we can all move on.

I have apologised and Cypry and I have had a conversation (where I got the pm right!) that has sorted things out.

[southbank1871]

Fine. If we can just get this thread to 20 pages and then it can be HoF'd.

[southbank1871]

Also, was BM genuinely aware of Cypry's post and upset by it?

[Nick Shorey my Lord!]

I'll chip with a +1. It's "just" common sense that's needed and appears to be severly lacking from STAR.

[STAR Liaison]

At the moment I am the only STAR board member willing to even post on here.

Well there's a blindingly obvious weakness in your organisation I'm afraid STAR. This board may have it's fair share of idiots, WUMs and posters who don't actively watch the team play that often these days but it remains the largest and most active place for dicussion on all things RFC. If STAR don't recognise that and embrace it as the most popular and, believe it or not, representative place for fans to dicuss the progress, successes, failures and issues relating to the club and it's supporter base (that's the one the STAR board have pledged to represent and effectively work for) then it's perfectly understandable the criticism you're having to take.

The only other places that come close to this are Twitter and I guess the Facebook pages, but from what I've seen they're an even smaller pool of similar contributors

Have you guys tried recruiting a more representative cross section of support onto the board? Perhaps there should be a drive to encourage a member or two from your ranks with a more positive HNA perception to step up to a board position and engage with the forum some more. It's a massive communication problem if STAR fail to engage with this place. Perhaps you could even have a discussion about co-opting a reliable and forthright NHA contributor onto your board to give the place a voice in your organisation.

We have had Board members who are some of the most frequent HNA contributors in the past but at present the negativity on here has put off the current members.

You may all be glad to hear that as of September I will no longer be a Board member as I have completed the maximum term as Chairman and I am not sure when I am not involved with STAR how much I shall read this board, and I certainly won't be posting as starliaison.

So I can pass it on who would you nominate as a co-optee? No promises of course but I can always suggest it. Of course it would mean outing them as they could not be anonymous as a Board member.

[Hoop Blah]

However, I think it's the way you responded to Cypry that has got most people's backs up. It was his first fan's forum and he wasn't told that he couldn't post a summary on here, so your PM to him was pretty disgraceful IMO and he deserves an apology. I'm sure if you do this, we can all move on.

I have apologised and Cypry and I have had a conversation (where I got the pm right!) that has sorted things out.

As I understand it, there was a bit of a public dressing down as well wasn't there? Or was that just from a couple of regular posters on here that jumped on his back a bit?

Obviously the PM that Cypry shared was initially intended to be private, but if I'm correct in that he got a bit of a public lambasting as well I'd have said it would've be polite and sensible to make more of a public apology to straighten things out. In the world of public relations and stakeholder management it really is important to make these kind of things a bit more public.

Obviously ignore the above if I'm wrong and there wasn't any 'official public dressing down' from STAR.

[Royal With Cheese]

Will you get a pension?

[TFF]

Of course it would mean outing them

It's like Justin Fashanu never happened