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Bingo wrote:

Why would anybody want to go to the crossbar 3 hours before a game anyway to be told when to talk when to cheer, where to stand and when to wave a scarf by some patronising arsehole from the BBC

This has surprised me as well. I didn't think those who appear to be going would. Give us a wave

Who is considered an Xbar regular ? I can think of several people who go before and after the game pretty much every game who haven't even been invited. A lot of those who appear to be going drink in another pub before the game . . .

The first 75 people who came in to the Crossbar for the Gateshead game should have been given a ticket. Simples

Doesn't the corporate packages start from 1:30 ? So how has Phil Collier managed to get in ?

Another top draw(er) thread hur hur hur

Buzzing when I woke up to see it Zak. Knew it must have been a shitstorm, 10 pages in a day!

Blame John Mackay

Bingo wrote:

Holkerbird wrote:##

You didn't want to go but don't disparage those who do.The people who work on the programme are probably decent folk earning a living. Why turn on them? Each to his own I say.

I'm sure some are Elaine but as a general rule the national medias coverage of non league is a load of patronising crap - why so much arguing about being at something which won't be very good anyway I have no idea

But that is your opinion which isn't necessarily anyone else's. You didn't want to go so why are you so against those that do? If I wasn't interested I wouldn't be bothered what anyone else was doing and certainly not insulting the event.
If it causes all this division and ill feeling perhaps we are better off left at the bottom of the footballing heap and ignored in future.

K-Man wrote:Who is considered an Xbar regular ? I can think of several people who go before and after the game pretty much every game who haven't even been invited. A lot of those who appear to be going drink in another pub before the game . . .

The first 75 people who came in to the Crossbar for the Gateshead game should have been given a ticket. Simples

Doesn't the corporate packages start from 1:30 ? So how has Phil Collier managed to get in ?

So those 75 people might be people who have been to a couple of games and only since we won promotion and some could have been Gateshead fans too.
I think it has been done as fairly as possible with limited numbers.

No invite for me, luckily I know Paul Ince very well. I'm sure I will get in.

a former member of this forum, the different groups were allocated in different ways. How the others selected their list I have no idea, or interest tbh.

Ian asked me to select 8 people from the Trust plus a few as a reserve list in case there were those who did not wish to/ could not attend.

I thought the fairest way to do this would be to use a random number generator online and pick out 8 numbers which related to membership numbers of members. I used this site https://www.random.org/

K-Man wrote:Who is considered an Xbar regular ? I can think of several people who go before and after the game pretty much every game who haven't even been invited. A lot of those who appear to be going drink in another pub before the game . . .o

And boycotted the xbar not long ago lol but on the flip side travel week in week out so arguments for both sides really.

Ian had a job to do and did it, those who don't like the outcome go elsewhere and watch it on tv it will be better anyway

tictactoe wrote:

K-Man wrote:Who is considered an Xbar regular ? I can think of several people who go before and after the game pretty much every game who haven't even been invited. A lot of those who appear to be going drink in another pub before the game . . .o

those who don't like the outcome go elsewhere and watch it on tv it will be better anyway

This seems to be the Barrow AFC mentality at the moment.

Holkerbird wrote:

Bingo wrote:
I'm sure some are Elaine but as a general rule the national medias coverage of non league is a load of patronising crap - why so much arguing about being at something which won't be very good anyway I have no idea

But that is your opinion which isn't necessarily anyone else's. You didn't want to go so why are you so against those that do? If I wasn't interested I wouldn't be bothered what anyone else was doing and certainly not insulting the event.
If it causes all this division and ill feeling perhaps we are better off left at the bottom of the footballing heap and ignored in future.

Yes it's my opinion Elaine you seem quite happy to ram your opinion down everyone elses throat

It's not causing me ill feeling and I'm just saying I don't know why all the fuss about a one hour event hours before the game

Anyway I'll leave it for now as I do have more pressing things happening - enjoy

Will the BDF store be open?

Steeley wrote:Will the BDF store be open?

Yes.

Cracking new line of Paul Howarth bookmarks and Sean Singh slippers just arrived, iirc.

K-Man wrote:Who is considered an Xbar regular ? I can think of several people who go before and after the game pretty much every game who haven't even been invited. A lot of those who appear to be going drink in another pub before the game . . .

It's not just for Cross Bar regulars though - looking at the groups mentioned in Ian's post (you did read it, didn't you?) you're probably looking at no more than 10 from each group so there's bound to be folk missing out - same as not every member of the NSC would have been invited etc etc