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    Sons' sorrow

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    I remember the days of going to boghead and watching the reserve team, it was free, but excellent, the doors were open, kept me from following the old firm.

    I can remember when my season ticket let me in to Scottish League, League Cup, Scottish Cup and reserve games only!

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    Sons' sorrow

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    That negativity is born of experience and frustration I assure you, to the extent that for some time now I've retired to the back benches. If there is another football club anywhere in the UK which so actively distances itself from its support then I'd be surprised.

    Not everything is wrong of course and I've given the club huge credit in the past for maintaining us at this level for the past four seasons - maybe you missed these posts. The fact remains though that DFC's attitude to its public is all too often abysmal and if you or anyone else thinks otherwise then you really do know f*** all.

    The idea of a Hall Of Fame Dinner, like so many other things, is a grand one but in reality is more difficult than most folk imagine.

    Negative I may be, but I don't think I've ever descended into personal abuse, but you came very close to it in your post of 23.25 yesterday - why not just put me on ignore ?

    No, I won't put you on ignore. I don't put anyone on ignore.

    If you feel I was descending into personal abuse, then please accept my apology. It was not my intention to personally abuse you.

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    Sons' sorrow

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    Having been chairman of both the Craig Brittain Testimonial Committee and the Gordon Lennon Memorial fund I can speak from experience. I was also involved in promoting several of the dinners in the early days at the Rock. OK3 is quite correct to point out the difficulties in staging such events. At the Craig Brittain Dinner in the last few days before it I was on the phone calling every favour in simply to get people to attend. There were many call offs in the last few days too which meant that we had to pay the Raddison for an unsold table. One of the speakers (Chic Charnley) called off six hours before the event. At the Gordon Lennon Dinner four of his team mates at Dumbarton didn't pay for their tickets despite repeated requests and one booked table of guests from another club, failed to turn up. Over both dinners there were unpaid auction items amounting to 100s of pounds. For a Hall of Fame Dinner, you would need about a third of our home support to attend at £50 a head to make it viable. In the current economic climate I can't see it.

    At the Gordon Lennon dinner, a caterer provided the food and waiting staff at cost. Even then it cost £2700. Partick Thistle gave us the function suite foc. The catering for Craig's dinner at the Raddison was about £5k......eight years ago.

    Even if you got the function suite at the club for nothing, catering at cost for a three course meal including waiting staff for 200 people would be around the £4k mark at £20 per head.

    The trust ran a great comedy night for a couple of years. They had to cancel the last one with tickets at around £20 including buffet for lack of interest.

    Maybe I wasn't clear enough Wilf, or you're maybe reading too far into what I was trying to say.

    I don't doubt for a second the effort put into the Club by passionate, willing people. Anyone who has the time, passion and willingness to do things whilst the rest of us sit back and let them gets my vote.

    I was merely pointing out that OKI3, who if it is who I think it is, seems to have a huge lot of negativity on many things about DFC. I said it above - an observation only and no malice was intended.

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    Sons' sorrow

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    OK, so who would organise it ? Events like this have to be 'worked' incredibly hard in order to fill the room, and unless there is a group of very hard-working people involved it won't fly.

    I actually doubt whether it could fly anyway, such is the apathy surrounding the club right now. And even if some folk did get involved, they'd better be prepared for negativity at every turn.

    Just an observation, with no malice intended; is your glass ever more than a quarter full?

    Of all the Sons fans I've encountered, only one stands out for negativity on all fronts: OKI 3.

    Yes, you.

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    Sons' sorrow

    in Scottish League 2 General Chatter

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    Do we have a hall of fame? Seen a few clubs having hall of fame nights recently for new inductees and wasn't sure if this was something we ever had.

    Would be great to get something set up if we dont. Could host a night for inductees once a year, make some dough off it, whilst we have the pleasure of getting steaming in the company of club legends.

    Must be a fair whack of suitable nominees kicking around worthy of a slot in our hall of fame.

    I'll start - Sir Patrick of Flannery.

    I'll add: Lord Murdo of McLeod.

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