Wonga

[Ba's Strawberry Syrup]

The Harvard Business Review have recently described Wonga.com as having the worst business model in the world. They argued that the lending company were strategically, economically, competitively and ethically bankrupt and criticised the extortionate levels of interest and fees they charged for their products; ripping off and taking advantage of their customers without regard for their ability to pay.

Never have 2 such different organisations been so perfectly matched imo.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18612279

No one cares about the ethics of the company that sponsors our league, why has everyone suddenly jumped on this bandwagon? Wonga are perfectly transparent and it's not a had concept to figure out, if people fall into their trap it's their own doing, Wonga isn't holding a gun to their head. People can't claim ignorance or that it's their only option, how hard is it to google Citizens advice bureau ? However lets go along with the fact that Wonga are a corrupt immoral company who have huge ethical issues and con people out of money. Weren't Liverpool's sponsors investigated for illegal practices? Villa are sponsored by a Casino, Stoke by Bet365 and your own sponsor detail is now coming under scrutiny. As I've said why is Wonga coming under scrutiny for sponsoring a team? Why not these other companies which you could argue do less to protect their 'vulnerable' customers.

 

[monty987]

All this Wonga carry on is just a bit of banter, but the thing is that the ST Jame's park now is not the same as in the 1970's it is a completly different stadium, so when supporters say ' i remember this or that' it is not the same, like when we moved from roker park, you cannot get the roar like behind the roker end on a windy day. I reckon standing could be brought back behind the goals, but more safety measures put in place first, and take our capacity to about 60,000.

 

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All this Wonga carry on is just a bit of banter, but the thing is that the ST Jame's park now is not the same as in the 1970's it is a completly different stadium, so when supporters say ' i remem
ber this or that' it is not the same, like when we moved from roker park, you cannot get the roar like behind the roker end on a windy day. I reckon standing could be brought back behind the goals, but more safety measures put in place first, and take our capacity to about 60,000.

We barely get 40k so we have absolutely no need to increase attendance. Stadiums like ours could quite easily have standing parts. The problem with Hillsborough now all has been revealed was you couldn't swing a cat in Leppings Lane and the Police sent 24 thousand Liverpool fans down there. It could have been avoided and we would never be having these conversations, it certainly wouldn't be an issue at our ground.

The reason standing was abolished was because of the myth it was the fans fault, now the truth is out there it so easily could have been avoided, if the authoritys hadn't of ****ed up on a monumental scale.

Bring back standing!

 

[Sidthemackem]

Agree with the standing point entirely. We could have it on the lower tier at the SoL and it wouldn't be deep enough to cause a problem. When we had the big old terraces crowd movement was a problem, but it wouldn't be in a small section. The other disasters were either outside the main ground on steps (Ibrox), caused by fire in an old stadium (Bradford) or official cock-ups in an area with OTT fencing (Hillsborough).