great idea for an end o season doo but seems a bit pricey, thats £60 for me an the ither half afore we hae ony drink! hope its nae being used as a fund raisin tool, ats nae fit it should be aboot.
I understand that you all think this may be dear but we are not trying to make money at this but make it a fantastic for all to enjoy. We also decided that we could not ask the Players and management along unless we was doing some food so we have decided to do the following.
3 course meal
presentations
dance
Please remember that we want this to be a supporters night to come along and meet the players and management and get the whole club togeather to hopefully celebrate a cup and league Double!!!!!
When you take the price of the meal and the band we will not be making money so please give us a hand to make this a great night and get your tickets.
I will update you all when i have the tickets printed and will also inform you where you can buy them from.
The commoitment the players have given us this year has been fantastic so let give them a night to remeber and enjoy
and if it helps boost ticket sales I suppose I should tell you all now that I will not be in attendance due to my commitments that weekend in youth football.
i.e - Insch tourney & post tourney soiree that day
Huntly Boys League tourney the next day
So does that mean it is not a fundraising dinner as quoted in an earlier post.
Seems gae deer for a three course and band instewarts hall especially if you are not going to make any money at it.
Maybe slightly expensive however this is a chance for supporters to get go to an HFC football event locally. Other than the annual boxing night the only other event is the sportmans dinner in Aberdeen.
By the way the last time I was at sportmans dinner I think ticket was £55,bus £10,raffles £20,irish bingo £10 and then the drink !No change out of £120 !
I posted what I was or at least thought I was told to put on - that it was a fundraising dinner dance but obviously I misheard - sorry to have misled everyone
I just want to say that Kathleen didn't actually mention it being a fundraising event in her note so i wouldn't thnk she had anything to apologise for.
Just want to say £30 isn't expensive especially when you think about how much a decent 3 course meal can cost nowadays and also bands can be really expensive as well some cost a £1000 a night if not more.
If your a true Huntly supporter you wouldn't really care how much it costs. It's a great opportunity to meet the players and management and have a good night!!
It is a bit expensive, but I think we need to be more "up front" with this. I assume prices have been set to ensure that the players don't pay, but is anyone else expecting a freebie on this night (directors/ commitee etc)?
As usualthat is correct we are not asking the players and Management to pay forthere night. But as usual all Directors and Committee will be paying for there own tickets. No free bees Apart from the playing staff
eh so even although I have followed the team for a good few years and me and my partner have been to all the home games this season and nearby away ones but because we cant afford to pay out the guts of £100 - see SAM post earlier - we arent true fans then - thats a bit harsh Leanng
think you will find that Cruise played at the golf club at Christmas time with 3 course meal for around £18 so unless theirs and Stewart Halls charges have increased a lot and you are having the Castle Hotel providing the meals then £30 per person is a lot when you dont have a lot !
sure they would make money from drink, raffles etc ??
maybe you can give us a sub
This message has been edited by huntlyfc on Mar 30, 2007 5:51 PM
I think this thread is getting a little out of hand.
Come on folks, we're getting a little off the point which is:
1) There is a Huntly FC night out for £30 in the summer to celebrate the end of the season (hopefully a winning one).
Now enough of this bitching. Everything has been set, and I dont think its too unfair on anyone. Lets just look forward to this and get it booked up fast.
Ive heard through the Grapevine that the meals are being supplied by the Golf Club!!
Just like yourself im NOT made of money either but if you can afford to put £10 away a week from now until then that would cover it and thats what i plan to do as like yourself i can't just splash the cash!
Im willing to make the effort and save up my money for this event as its still a while away.
Believe you me if i could give you a sub i would.
I can see from your e-mail your a dedicated Huntly supporter and im not saying everone can afford to go but as i said putting a little away every week would do no harm!
By the way Kathleen i never noticed that note you posted about the fundraising part.
having helped organise events in the past at the Stewarts Hall
£30 seems bit dear also feel that 3 course meal will "eat" (sorry) into the time left for dancing/drinking (for those who can) AND proper time for people to mingle with players & management
also as its on a sat you will have an earlier finish time
get people in with lower head cost AND then raise funds through other events
OR
your going to have a very early start time to fit everything in
Cant make the night hope its well planned and a good one though for those who can manage
Leanne - I had to check the date of your post as I thought I must have missed the 1st April, but no, the April fools must be out and about early this year. Just wise up girl and think for a minute, there are many "true Huntly supporters" in the true meaning of the word supporter who are pensioners and an event like this would cost them half of their pension. Hopefully they may not be as computer illerate (sorry Freudian slip) literate as you and they have not seen your ramblings on here.
By the way I'm not yet a pensioner, but have supported Huntly home and away for a few decades and sorry £30 for a 3 course meal provided by the Golf Club, an hour or so's dance to Cruse in the Stewarts Hall on a Saturday night IS NOT value for money.
Andy you can come on here with your platitudes but you cannot disguise the fact that this is not a "get together", this is a fund raising event - just be honest and upfront about it.
I think some of you may not have understood exactly what i mean.
I didn't mean that just because you can't afford to go then your not a true Huntly supporter as that would be absurd!!
All im saying is its worth making the effort if you can and from MY point of view it is good value for money but everyone has their own opinions.
I would like to ask those who think it is expensive or the person who told me to wise up (how rude) how much they think a night like this should cost (just out of interest)?
Another quick note as well. I see that its been said not to be a fundraising event but would there be a problem if it was?
In the post above leanne you say this "I didn't mean that just because you can't afford to go then your not a true Huntly supporter as that would be absurd!!" But to remind you this is what you said in a ealier post "If your a true Huntly supporter you wouldn't really care how much it costs" so you have just condridicted yourself and also Harry did give his view on how much it will cost , and in fact he is quite right. This is what Harry said "think you will find that Cruise played at the golf club at Christmas time with 3 course meal for around £18 so unless theirs and Stewart Halls charges have increased a lot and you are having the Castle Hotel providing the meals then £30 per person is a lot when you dont have a lot ! " I think it is claer that this is a fundrasing event as it looks like they are making £10 or so on each head.
Thirty quid a head is expensive as many blokes who go to the match on their own will no doubt have to take her indoors meaning a lay out of sixty quid before you even have a beer (or twenty).
Looks like the fans are subsidising the cost of the players meals etc, which ain't exactly right imho.
I'd have skipped the meal and made it stovies n soup or something instead but thats just me.
Well said Stu - a sentiment echoed by quite a few at Saturday's game.
Leanne - NO ONE is rebelling against the club - its a great idea its just expensive for the everyday fan who pays their money week in week out.
Iam sure it will be a success with local businesses, glory hunter and the lucky fans who can afford the tickets snapping them up as soon as they go on sale.
Maybe at the end of the next season the club could plan something for the less well off fans.
Hope any money made from the D/D will go to help Dave keep hold of the excellent young players he has brought it and who have gave us great entertainment this season - again a sentiment echoed by many fans on Saturday. So Dave just becuase a lot of ordinary fans may not be at the D/D it doesnt we havent appreciated the commitment given by the team and yourself - its just most of us feel it is out of our price range.
Sorry Jock message detailed due to derogatory remarks towards other fans
This message has been edited by huntlyfc on Apr 3, 2007 6:32 AM This message has been edited by huntlyfc on Apr 2, 2007 7:26 PM This message has been edited by huntlyfc on Apr 2, 2007 7:26 PM
Just to put my tuppence worth in, I'd like to say me and my missus will be going, and I don't mind paying the £60 it will cost us, and we'll have to fork out for a hotel room for the night as well, but again I don't mind paying this.
Then again, I'm a millionaire council worker! (Ha, Ha !)
Seem to me people cant see the wood for the trees here.
If you go out for a 3 course meal with ur missus on a sat night the very least you'd expect to pay would be £20 each.
Then when you add in the entertainment with a band. Well take a look at the Golf Club Parties there all around the £10 mark, obviously exluding new years day before anyone jumps down my throat.
So i really dont see the problem that everyone has in this debate.
surely thjsi cant be yet another case of a certain section of the fans moaning just for the sake of moaning like we seen at the start of the season??
Come on people, we're all supposed to be pulling in same direction.
Surely its only fair that the players shouldnt pay. Espec as they have worked hard and given us a far better and more exciting season than any of us were expecting in October. Who in October would have taken being in the first week of April and still very much in with a chance of two cups??????
It's fairly obvious from this thread that there are mixed feelings about the cost of this event. It's a shame that all the good work done building up the bond between the board room and the fans is now being damaged, but it does highlight one very obvious failing in the planning process.
Earlier this season one of the Board was appointed as Fan Liason, surely part of this role should have been canvassing fans for their views on this event, either by having a walk about and talking to fans at a home game, or by asking the Support's club to help gauge the views. This is NOT intended as a critisism of the Fan Liason officer, any single person in the board room should have been capable of thinking this through.
Mention has been made about costs at Sportsman's Dinners and Boxing nights but they are not a valid comparison, for one thing these events tend to have a targetted audience with tables being sold to business groups where money is no problem, and where there is great competition to see who will bid the silliest amount for a famous footballer's shirt! The end of season DD was, I thought, meant for the ordinary fan who pays his money at the gate every other week.
Don't really see why £30 is unreasonable when you work out costs. People seem to be forgetting all the other costs.
Getting tickets printed off.
A licence has to be obtained for the Stewarts Hall.
Door stewards will presumably need to be hired.
Waitresses need to be employed.
The Band.
Dunno the exact costs or no's but guesstimating I work it out as being reasonably priced.
£30 for printing tickets, £30 for obtaining licence, £3600 (£18 x 200 in no.) for meal inc waitresses, chef kitchen hand etc (presumably wine on table), about £250 for door stewards and £1000 for the band.
Total comes out around £5000 divide it by 170 people (note 30 players not paying) comes out around £30 per person.
It is alot of money but for what's on offer isn't that bad if I'd had a good meal, the bands been good and there is a good turn out from players to have a bit of banter then it'll be worth it to me. If the club do make profit from it then I don't see the harm in that either. I'd rather have the club generating profit from this sort of thing and fans loyalty been repaid through some sort of deal at the turnstiles anyway. Then that way you guarantee its the loyal supporters who benefit from that. For those who wish to meet players but feel a £30 per head function is asking too much then have a Pre-Season open day for Players and Fans alike to mingle.
The Club are obviously trying to make it something a wee bit special. possibly more formal than some fans are used too?
Whats wrong in trying to make an effort??
Other club in the League have the same format of dinner dance at the end of there season(in the same price bracket i'll add) and you dont hear the same complaints there?
The simple thing is if your not happy...dont go!
But we call our Self Supporters (ie Supporting the club, not moaning for the sake of it) then we should go along and have a good night! We might be celebrating a cup win or a double!!
I'll also add that this was mentioned at the Fans Forum and nothing negative was said about the idea.
We have a board meeting next week, and as you all know, we listen very carefully to the supporters. If you have any more views to put to us, do so now.
Seems like this is being marketed like the corporate events. With the age of quite a bit of our loyal fanbase you won't get folks paying 30 quid a head then more for drink & extras. Where does the money go if it's not a fundraiser? What are WE paying for?
In response to "what are we paying for" in the last post - from my investigations -£170 for Hall, £400 for band and £12 per head for meal. So with 100 tickets sold that's £1200+ profit BEFORE money from drink, irish bingo etc.etc.
Noticed in the Chairman's Message in the Newsletter dated 7th April he says "what format the event should take and how much it costs is clearly a matter of debate" - doesn't seem to be much debate happening with the fans. Looks more like "We say, You pay"
AFter talking with many supporters and reading the web site, we have now decided that after the Forres game there will be a chance for all supporters to meet up with team and management to celebrate what has been a very successful season. So come to the social club after the Forres game where there will be a buffet and you can share the memories of the season with players and management.
Then on June 16th we will be holding our awards dinner dance as planned in the Steward Hall. If this is successful we hope to make it a permanent feature of our annual club events.
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