The Rangers AGM

[The Pontiac Bandit]

I have no idea how Bisgrove expects to effectively double our commercial income in one year. Sounds like an extremely difficult target to meet, and I doubt he’ll be able to.

Yeah, a huge target for him to meet.

You would like to think he is confident in meeting it though as why would he say it so publicly.

Edminston House and the new Bar at the shop all sound great.

Wish the club would get a move on with the safe standing though.

Noticed last week at the Prague game that large sections of the crowd remained standing for most of the game anyway.

 

[mdingwall]

Douglas Park - will have at least a plan in place by this time next year.

 

[Oranje]

What does "commercial revenue" include ?

Sponsorships, partnerships, advertising, royalties.

 

[Scott McRoberts]

I have no idea how Bisgrove expects to effectively double our commercial income in one year. Sounds like an extremely difficult target to meet, and I doubt he’ll be able to.

Why?, do you have inside knowledge of why this may not be possible?

 

[SE5]

Stewart Robertson - new Edmonton house.

Various plans looked at.

Modern multiple purpose venue. Venue for conference, concerts, dinners - maybe even an AGM - such are capabilities of the venue.

Families and fan zone.

Museum - social history of the club. A legacy project of the 150th year. Manager of O2 in England Dave Priot appointed to run it.

Two stories of retails.

Current store to become sports bar or other facility.

Completion end of 2022.

Get Rangers story out to widest audience.

Completion End of 2022 is that for the sports bar or has the date for New Edmiston House slipped?

 

[Bill the Butcher]

Edmonton House? Assume a typo or have I missed something?

 

[MrBearightside]

Can’t believe someone used the Everyone Anyone campaign to shape a question about covid passports, like the board have any control over them. Waste of a question.

I think the point was if Everyone Anyone is the true value, belief and culture of the club then surely that included 'anyone' who is unvaccinated.

The person who asked the question may just have been asking if the board challenged the government regarding covid passports based on that value and it looks like we did, but it is out of our hands.

I would be disappointed if we never challenged the government, very glad to hear we did, perhaps the person who asked the question is also now happy knowing we did

 

[Riquelme]

Douglas Park - will have at least a plan in place by this time next year.

Plan for?

 

[SuperGers07]

Howling at the covid crackpot anti vaccine lunatic question. What an idiot

 

[RobbenHood]

David Gerguson from Renfrew - ticket office shut - difficulty in getting in touch with anyone at the club. Only slo guy replies. Is new customer service officer online yet.

Robertson - shambles v Malmo. Chromed service agents and customer service manager in three weeks now. Top of list to improve. Customer service was not good enough.

Bisgrove - brough in david and team and 90% of questions responded to in same day. Ticket software needs improved.

Ferguson - only open on match daya

Robertson - asking new customer guy to asses.

Here we goooooo

David Ferguson RSC

 

[cambridgeblue]

Sponsorships, partnerships, advertising, royalties.

See Page 13 - not clear what numbers add up to £13M

https://assets.ctfassets.net/39646i...2195d01/Rangers_Reports_and_Accounts_2021.pdf

 

[RobbenHood]

I’m so gutted I’m working, having to read this during a meeting

Didn’t know you have to announce your name right enough haha

 

[The Shadow]

Can we view this live? Checked RTV but nothing showing there

 

[mdingwall]

john season ticket holder in BF4 - feasablity into safe standing manniunced two years ago.

Robertson - not completed due to covid. Not in our immediate radar. Complex problem. Don’t doubt it would improve atmosphere but others have contrary views should areas move abs fans have to be moved.

Mixed reaction to proposals.

BF1 tend to stand anyway and group there would prefer to be right behind the goals.

 

[Delboy Trotter]

Robertson confirms safe standing review wasn’t completed due to Covid and whilst it would improve atmosphere, it’s not a priority

Shambles of a way to look at it

 

[mdingwall]

D Park - improvements depend ultimately on increasing size of capacity.

 

[DejaVoodoo]

Can we view this live? Checked RTV but nothing showing there

They'll be a video on Rangers YouTube channel later this afternoon.

 

[Bill the Butcher]

Howling at the covid crackpot anti vaccine lunatic question. What an idiot

Absolute waste of time, up there with 'Reeny Gattussy' questions.

 

[SE5]

Not a great start.

By asking a pointless question do you mean?

 

[cambridgeblue]

"Safe standing wont make any money" - is what I took from that.

 

[lovenkrands72]

john season ticket holder in BF4 - feasablity into safe standing manniunced two years ago.

Robertson - not completed due to covid. Not in our immediate radar. Complex problem. Don’t doubt it would improve atmosphere but others have contrary views should areas move abs fans have to be moved.

Mixed reaction to proposals.

BF1 tend to stand anyway and group there would prefer to be right behind the goals.

Its clear the study was just announced to fob people off. Pretty poor from the board

 

[Angrybluebear]

Edmonton House? Assume a typo or have I missed something?

Clearly auto correct on phone, Mark clearly trying to get info out quick and obviously has fat thumbs

pS David Gerguson is really David Ferguson.

 

[RfcWATP]

john season ticket holder in BF4 - feasablity into safe standing manniunced two years ago.

Robertson - not completed due to covid. Not in our immediate radar. Complex problem. Don’t doubt it would improve atmosphere but others have contrary views should areas move abs fans have to be moved.

Mixed reaction to proposals.

BF1 tend to stand anyway and group there would prefer to be right behind the goals.

That’s terrible

 

[TerrySilverLoyal]

Safe standing

They will give you hints it will be looked at to satiate the fans without actually doing it

They don’t want it

 

[Delboy Trotter]

Its clear the study was just announced to fob people off. Pretty poor from the board

As many suspected. Just an excuse to kick the can down the road

 

[Square it!]

Is this live anywhere?

Here I think.

 

[mck1872]

john season ticket holder in BF4 - feasablity into safe standing manniunced two years ago.

Robertson - not completed due to covid. Not in our immediate radar. Complex problem. Don’t doubt it would improve atmosphere but others have contrary views should areas move abs fans have to be moved.

Mixed reaction to proposals.

BF1 tend to stand anyway and group there would prefer to be right behind the goals.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1297867212070559750

 

[DejaVoodoo]

Safe standing isn't a surprise. The moving of people is a pain they probably can't be bothered with.

 

[CrunchBear]

Think it's getting clear that if we want safe standing it'll take a concerted, organised campaign from the wider fanbase. Board aren't interested and will use a minority of folk who don't want to move as an excuse all day long.

 

[DamBuster72]

I understand 100% of this

May as well be written in Spanish. Clueless Loyal.

 

[mdingwall]

Steve Sinclair wheelchair user - 18 years a wheelchair user. What I would to do is to show how difficult it is to the disabled to access to enter the ground. I want to provide you with two spare wheelchairs and meet you at the Alibion and you can try it.

Will you accept this challenge?

Robertson - we have car parking facilities nearer ground than the Albion but most disabled fans don’t like them as traduce form there clears more slowly.

John Bennet - spent time with wheelchair user - he articulated the problems. We have example of resource allocation. Blue Sky Lounge for instance - giving access cuts revenue but we are taking up the challenge. People tasked to bring back menahiful plans.

 

[EndOfDays]

john season ticket holder in BF4 - feasablity into safe standing manniunced two years ago.

Robertson - not completed due to covid. Not in our immediate radar. Complex problem. Don’t doubt it would improve atmosphere but others have contrary views should areas move abs fans have to be moved.

Mixed reaction to proposals.

BF1 tend to stand anyway and group there would prefer to be right behind the goals.

Club could't be less interested.

 

[RFC Euro Bus]

Safe standing

They will give you hints it will be looked at to satiate the fans without actually doing it

They don’t want it

I don’t think it’s a case that they don’t want it, I think it’s a case that not all fans want it.

 

[RobbenHood]

john season ticket holder in BF4 - feasablity into safe standing manniunced two years ago.

Robertson - not completed due to covid. Not in our immediate radar. Complex problem. Don’t doubt it would improve atmosphere but others have contrary views should areas move abs fans have to be moved.

Mixed reaction to proposals.

BF1 tend to stand anyway and group there would prefer to be right behind the goals.

john season ticket holder in BF4 - feasablity into safe standing manniunced two years ago.

Robertson - not completed due to covid. Not in our immediate radar. Complex problem. Don’t doubt it would improve atmosphere but others have contrary views should areas move abs fans have to be moved.

Mixed reaction to proposals.

BF1 tend to stand anyway and group there would prefer to be right behind the goals.

He’d have been as well just saying they have no interest in implementing safe standing

 

[sammy1872]

john season ticket holder in BF4 - feasablity into safe standing manniunced two years ago.

Robertson - not completed due to covid. Not in our immediate radar. Complex problem. Don’t doubt it would improve atmosphere but others have contrary views should areas move abs fans have to be moved.

Mixed reaction to proposals.

BF1 tend to stand anyway and group there would prefer to be right behind the goals.

I’m sure the review was started long before 2 years ago . Must have been brought up 4/5 years ago . Just like most of the world covid is nearly an excuse now . Time for the broomloan collective to grow and take this head on

 

[Gramps1]

Robertson confirms safe standing review wasn’t completed due to Covid and whilst it would improve atmosphere, it’s not a priority

Shambles of a way to look at it

Could be wrong but was it no started years before covid?

 

[cloodie]

See Page 13 - not clear what numbers add up to £13M

https://assets.ctfassets.net/39646i...2195d01/Rangers_Reports_and_Accounts_2021.pdf

Had a quick look at the accounts with everything related to 'commercial' and like yourself I can't get anything to add up to £13m, no matter what I'm including.

 

[Broomloan]

Interested at reading the board's reaction to the Safe Standing question, of course it's the usual fob off of it whenever it has been brought up.

In addition, the 'mixed reaction' part is not true

 

[CoopBlue]

Robertson's response on the safe standing is absolutely terrible.

Hugely frustrating

 

[cambridgeblue]

Interested at reading the board's reaction to the Safe Standing question, of course it's the usual fob off of it whenever it has been brought up.

In addition, the 'mixed reaction' part is not true

Follow the money - they have done the sums - if it was a money spinner they would bring it in.

 

[mck1872]

Safe standing is never going to happen is it?

 

[mdingwall]

Mark Campbell - size and loyalty of fan base is huge - but accounts talk about Scottish football undersold and undervalued what plans do club have to change this.

Robertson - I get hard time at SPFL board meetings but we need help - look at what we have done for the European coefficient and sponsorships would be good with better governance. Until then Rangers taking reposnisblitu and get ahead with making Rangwrs the best they can be.

 

[Oranje]

See Page 13 - not clear what numbers add up to £13M

https://assets.ctfassets.net/39646i...2195d01/Rangers_Reports_and_Accounts_2021.pdf

Hopefully somebody there gets clarification. I'm isolating so couldn't attend.

I'll take a stab at it being the sponsorship/advertising lines (£4.5m), commercial and retail (£4.5m) combined with some revenue from hospitality and gate receipts. A lot of hospitality is sold under sponsorship (player sponsors in the matchday programme etc) or where the client is a ltd company rather than an individual.

 

[EndOfDays]

The club have already spoke about the disabled facilities being a priority, not sure why it needed another question.

 

[Broomloan]

Follow the money - they have done the sums - if it was a money spinner they would bring it in.

It's been said to them, on numerous occasions, that crowd funding could be an option. The potential for marketing content that could come from Safe Standing in BF would be unreal as well

 

[cambridgeblue]

Hopefully somebody there gets clarification. I'm isolating so couldn't attend.

I'll take a stab at it being the sponsorship/advertising lines (£4.5m), commercial and retail (£4.5m) combined with some revenue from hospitality and gate receipts. A lot of hospitality is sold under sponsorship (player sponsors in the matchday programme etc) or where the client is a ltd company rather than an individual.

That's a good guess but if it's not explicitly in the accounts then its difficult to track progress.

Wonder if its the sum of revenue which JB's bonus is judged on ?

 

[Riquelme]

john season ticket holder in BF4 - feasablity into safe standing manniunced two years ago.

Robertson - not completed due to covid. Not in our immediate radar. Complex problem. Don’t doubt it would improve atmosphere but others have contrary views should areas move abs fans have to be moved.

Mixed reaction to proposals.

BF1 tend to stand anyway and group there would prefer to be right behind the goals.

Absolute shambles.

It didnt get a mixed reaction, the SLO knows that too.

Never going to happen. Atmosphere will continue to be pish.

 

[RFC Euro Bus]

Hopefully somebody there gets clarification. I'm isolating so couldn't attend.

I'll take a stab at it being the sponsorship/advertising lines (£4.5m), commercial and retail (£4.5m) combined with some revenue from hospitality and gate receipts. A lot of hospitality is sold under sponsorship (player sponsors in the matchday programme etc) or where the client is a ltd company rather than an individual.

The bulk of the money will be made up from the main sponsors like Castore.

 

[VelvetThunder]

Come on guys who is gonna ask about the pies, time is marching on.

 

[RobbenHood]

It's been said to them, on numerous occasions, that crowd funding could be an option. The potential for marketing content that could come from Safe Standing in BF would be unreal as well

I’d be willing to pay double for the first season to cover the implementation cost for my space

Feasibility study should be done