Show the membership scheme the red card!

[Chilton's Hundreds]

Secure Your Seat ?

What about the poor buggers in the West Upper who don't know which zone they might be in next season never mind which seat ?

This is what happens when a bad, bad idea gets off the ground and no one speaks out against it in the early stages of development.

 

[originallambrettaman]

Hull City owners snub the club’s fans

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There has been no response from Hull City to the Hull City Supporters’ Trust’s call for the club to suspend its new membership scheme and talk to supporters.

The scheme in its present form has alienated thousands of City supporters, especially by the club’s treatment of its youngest and oldest fans. The removal of concessions has priced many of these out of attending matches at the KCOM Stadium, whilst the zoning policy and “evictions” from one stand have also made it impossible for many groups to attend as they would wish.

By staying silent Hull City executives are ignoring the wishes of the vast majority of fans, as evidenced by the fantastically well-supported red card protest at the Brentford and Bolton matches as well as the outcome of the Trust’s survey, which found 85% of respondents were unhappy with the membership scheme.

We know Ehab Allam has expressed the view that fans are “irrelevant” but as Hull City supporters we are his customers and the club must start to listen to us. Successful businesses fully engage with their customers; for a football club this is even more important, yet Mr Allam makes no attempt to do this.

To reiterate our call to the club, on 21 April we proposed that:

1) Hull City immediately suspends the introduction of the new membership scheme;

2) The club’s board and senior officials meet urgently with the Trust and other fan groups to discuss the issues and the way forward;

3) The club works in partnership with the Trust, initially on refining costings for a continued season card scheme for 2016/17 and then later on refining an opt-in membership scheme.

We have also written to Hull City, and warned supporters, about serious concerns with some of the scheme’s terms and conditions. These include that the club:

• appears to wish to sell contact details to third party marketing agencies, and supporters have no opportunity to opt out of this arrangement
• can increase the cost of monthly membership every 90 days (that is, up to four times a year), not just once a season
• insists on having supporters’ permission to undertake credit checks, yet the scheme is not a credit agreement nor is its terms and conditions structured to be a credit agreement

Should the club ignore us our protests will continue at the match against Rotherham on Saturday and through the play-offs: the issue is hugely important to too many fans.



Next step:

Should the club not respond positively we are asking fans to repeat the Red Card protest before kick-off on Saturday, and to make their opposition to the scheme clear verbally as well. We also repeat our encouragement that fans delay signing up to the scheme.

Red Cards will be available at The William Gemmell on Anlaby Road from 10 a.m., and we’ll be at West Park Gates from 11 a.m. Again, we’re calling for volunteers to help distribute them. If you want to bring your own stock of red paper and distribute it, we’d welcome that too!


Scrap the scheme!

 

[DMD]

Secure Your Seat ?

What about the poor buggers in the West Upper who don't know which zone they might be in next season never mind which seat ?

This is what happens when a bad, bad idea gets off the ground and no one speaks out against it in the early stages of development.

I keep saying it, but the seat moves are a significant factor that keep being overlooked and marginalised.

 

[FILEYseadog]

NOT signing up is the best weapon fans have.

 

[Chilton's Hundreds]

I keep saying it, but the seat moves are a significant factor that keep being overlooked and marginalised.

I admit it is getting overlooked by the discontent over the membership scheme.

I still can't believe anyone with half a brain at the club thinks this is a good idea.

 

[Party Hull!]

I hadn't seen those terms as I have not been bestowed with a brochure, but they are as snakey as it gets.

I've always suspected Ehab had a fork tongue.

James Mooney feeds him dead mice.

There's no hope of contact with the club, they'll never do it. Cranking up the pressure and public humiliation for the owners is all that's left.

 

[originallambrettaman]

Season Membership Update - Opportunity To Move Seats Put Back A Week

Existing Season Card holders are reminded that the deadline to secure your current seat for the 2016/17 season is this coming Friday, 6th May.

We also ask supporters to note that, due to the imminent sale of tickets for the home and away legs of our Play-Off semi-final with Derby County, the period to move/select new seats for 2016/17 has been put back and will now commence on Monday 16th May.

http://www.hullcitytigers.com/news/...-back-a-week-3095266.aspx#JRmf6UsDKrV7z0wU.99

 

[Mr G. Raff]

The credit check/search could be a real problem for some that later apply for credit or a mortgage elsewhere, because if there are too many searches it can put a black mark against your name as it indicates that you are applying for loans too often!

 

[Mr G. Raff]

Season Membership Update - Opportunity To Move Seats Put Back A Week

Existing Season Card holders are reminded that the deadline to secure your current seat for the 2016/17 season is this coming Friday, 6th May.

We also ask supporters to note that, due to the imminent sale of tickets for the home and away legs of our Play-Off semi-final with Derby County, the period to move/select new seats for 2016/17 has been put back and will now commence on Monday 16th May.

http://www.hullcitytigers.com/news/...-back-a-week-3095266.aspx#JRmf6UsDKrV7z0wU.99

Presumably that also means that general sale starts a week later than previous.

 

[BillyBlysPaperboy]

Hull City owners snub the club’s fans

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There has been no response from Hull City to the Hull City Supporters’ Trust’s call for the club to suspend its new membership scheme and talk to supporters.

The scheme in its present form has alienated thousands of City supporters, especially by the club’s treatment of its youngest and oldest fans. The removal of concessions has priced many of these out of attending matches at the KCOM Stadium, whilst the zoning policy and “evictions” from one stand have also made it impossible for many groups to attend as they would wish.

By staying silent Hull City executives are ignoring the wishes of the vast majority of fans, as evidenced by the fantastically well-supported red card protest at the Brentford and Bolton matches as well as the outcome of the Trust’s survey, which found 85% of respondents were unhappy with the membership scheme.

We know Ehab Allam has expressed the view that fans are “irrelevant” but as Hull City supporters we are his customers and the club must start to listen to us. Successful businesses fully engage with their customers; for a football club this is even more important, yet Mr Allam makes no attempt to do this.

To reiterate our call to the club, on 21 April we proposed that:

1) Hull City immediately suspends the introduction of the new membership scheme;

2) The club’s board and senior officials meet urgently with the Trust and other fan groups to discuss the issues and the way forward;

3) The club works in partnership with the Trust, initially on refining costings for a continued season card scheme for 2016/17 and then later on refining an opt-in membership scheme.

We have also written to Hull City, and warned supporters, about serious concerns with some of the scheme’s terms and conditions. These include that the club:

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  • appears to wish to sell contact details to third party marketing agencies, and supporters have no opportunity to opt out of this arrangement
  • can increase the cost of monthly membership every 90 days (that is, up to four times a year), not just once a season
  • insists on having supporters’ permission to undertake credit checks, yet the scheme is not a credit agreement nor is its terms and conditions structured to be a credit agreement

Should the club ignore us our protests will continue at the match against Rotherham on Saturday and through the play-offs: the issue is hugely important to too many fans.



Next step:

Should the club not respond positively we are asking fans to repeat the Red Card protest before kick-off on Saturday, and to make their opposition to the scheme clear verbally as well. We also repeat our encouragement that fans delay signing up to the scheme.

Red Cards will be available at The William Gemmell on Anlaby Road from 10 a.m., and we’ll be at West Park Gates from 11 a.m. Again, we’re calling for volunteers to help distribute them. If you want to bring your own stock of red paper and distribute it, we’d welcome that too!


Scrap the scheme!

Club rang me to confirm my bank details today! As a founder member this is 500 club should have had my membership price frozen in W5 at £379.
The club advise me that the Chairman has rescinded the decision to freeze prices for OAPs as listed on the membership prospectus, and that my membership will be £486.
They further advise that a letter is going out to 500 club members advising them of the Chairmans decision.

Should have learnt not to trust Eygptians when passing through the Suez Canal many times.

The club can stick the membership scheme, stick the play offs, my seat will be empty on Saturday at the KC as a protest. The membership scheme is not fit for purpose! Having supported Hull City since 1954 I'm done now.

 

[Quill]

Anyone else get the feeling they've pushed it back as they haven't had too many renewals yet?

There's no ****ing chance I'm renewing, especially after what I read in the T&Cs.

 

[PLT]

Club rang me to confirm my bank details today! As a founder member this is 500 club should have had my membership price frozen in W5 at £379.
The club advise me that the Chairman has rescinded the decision to freeze prices for OAPs as listed on the membership prospectus, and that my membership will be £486.
They further advise that a letter is going out to 500 club members advising them of the Chairmans decision.

Should have learnt not to trust Eygptians when passing through the Suez Canal many times.

The club can stick the membership scheme, stick the play offs, my seat will be empty on Saturday at the KC as a protest. The membership scheme is not fit for purpose! Having supported Hull City since 1954 I'm done now.

This is absolutely shocking.

 

[The greengrocer]

everyone should boycott the scheme! Saturday should be a wall of noise against the robbing bastards

 

[Barchullona]

Club rang me to confirm my bank details today! As a founder member this is 500 club should have had my membership price frozen in W5 at £379.
The club advise me that the Chairman has rescinded the decision to freeze prices for OAPs as listed on the membership prospectus, and that my membership will be £486.
They further advise that a letter is going out to 500 club members advising them of the Chairmans decision.

Should have learnt not to trust Eygptians when passing through the Suez Canal many times.

The club can stick the membership scheme, stick the play offs, my seat will be empty on Saturday at the KC as a protest. The membership scheme is not fit for purpose! Having supported Hull City since 1954 I'm done now.

Happy will be along to tell you that you are wrong and are ungrateful to our owners who can do no wrong.

 

[Edelman]

NOT signing up is the best weapon fans have.

Exactly!!!
Theres no use moaning about it then giving in to it which some will do.

 

[The greengrocer]

We need To involve Flamingo land & MKM! we say NO flamingo we say no! And whatever else rhymes with MKM? Let these people who actually go to the game know that by supporting this scheme they're gonna piss off their own customers.

 

[Edelman]

Club rang me to confirm my bank details today! As a founder member this is 500 club should have had my membership price frozen in W5 at £379.
The club advise me that the Chairman has rescinded the decision to freeze prices for OAPs as listed on the membership prospectus, and that my membership will be £486.
They further advise that a letter is going out to 500 club members advising them of the Chairmans decision.

Should have learnt not to trust Eygptians when passing through the Suez Canal many times.

The club can stick the membership scheme, stick the play offs, my seat will be empty on Saturday at the KC as a protest. The membership scheme is not fit for purpose! Having supported Hull City since 1954 I'm done now.

The thing is Billy he wont give a crap about you.
Im starting to think that they would be happy to run the club into the ground and take the hit on badness.
Then they can go back and cite the name change bollox for all the problems.

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

Price increases have started even before the first payments have been taken.

Looks like the masses of those signing up must have slowed a little.

 

[Chilton's Hundreds]

Club rang me to confirm my bank details today! As a founder member this is 500 club should have had my membership price frozen in W5 at £379.
The club advise me that the Chairman has rescinded the decision to freeze prices for OAPs as listed on the membership prospectus, and that my membership will be £486.
They further advise that a letter is going out to 500 club members advising them of the Chairmans decision.

Should have learnt not to trust Eygptians when passing through the Suez Canal many times.

The club can stick the membership scheme, stick the play offs, my seat will be empty on Saturday at the KC as a protest. The membership scheme is not fit for purpose! Having supported Hull City since 1954 I'm done now.

It quite clearly states on the club's website that the 500 club will have a price freeze.

If they've rescinded that then what else have they rescinded without informing anyone ? That no family will pay more then last season ?

It just goes from bad to worse.

 

[spesupersydera]

Club rang me to confirm my bank details today! As a founder member this is 500 club should have had my membership price frozen in W5 at £379.
The club advise me that the Chairman has rescinded the decision to freeze prices for OAPs as listed on the membership prospectus, and that my membership will be £486.
They further advise that a letter is going out to 500 club members advising them of the Chairmans decision.

Should have learnt not to trust Eygptians when passing through the Suez Canal many times.

The club can stick the membership scheme, stick the play offs, my seat will be empty on Saturday at the KC as a protest. The membership scheme is not fit for purpose! Having supported Hull City since 1954 I'm done now.

That's absolutely disgusting, after 60+ years of support to be treat with such utter disdain is beyond the pale. I'm afraid yours won't be the only disgusting tale we're going to hear in the coming weeks.