BFCITC Dinner - 4 May 2024 @ Hilton MCR Deansgate

[GetIntoEm]

Went to an awards do at the Hilton, Deansgate last month…table service so ordered small bottle of beer and a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc (Turtle Bay) and the robbing bast***s charged me £68 including a £6 service charge for table service (the only service available)….Turtle Bay is £12.99 in Sainsbury’s I didn’t buy any more

i only go to awards do's if work is paying. Rather be at home otherwise

[FeedTheArf]

Leisure is right - this season they have been accommodating some of the Jimmy Mac corporate guests in the Longside upper during the match. That led to the problems, certainly at the Everton game. So, for next season, they have extended the seating in the Jimmy Mac lower to accommodate them. It's not for away fans per se but if away fans are in the hospitality in that stand then they will now be sat there.

In what world do they think it’s any less likely to have trouble with the away fans in the JML than the Longside?

I sit in the JML and we regularly have away fans sat behind us in the hospitality section. As you can imagine, this season there has been a lot of cause for celebration for away fans. There have been more than a few occasions where idiots have openly celebrated goals. It’s an accident waiting to happen.

I’ve contacted the club multiple times to raise concerns and been given a generic fluff response. Surely it’s as easy as ensuring at least one of the hospitality party have a previous purchase history?

[GetIntoEm]

In what world do they think it’s any less likely to have trouble with the away fans in the JML than the Longside?

I sit in the JML and we regularly have away fans sat behind us in the hospitality section. As you can imagine, this season there has been a lot of cause for celebration for away fans. There have been more than a few occasions where idiots have openly celebrated goals. It’s an accident waiting to happen.

I’ve contacted the club multiple times to raise concerns and been given a generic fluff response. Surely it’s as easy as ensuring at least one of the hospitality party have a previous purchase history?

its par for the course, all grounds have away fans in hospitality. companies use it as a way to entertain guests, usually inviting supporters of the teams we are playing.

its down to the behavior of the individuals, no the policies of the club in my opinion. I go in hospitality quite a bit with away fans, and generally most behave and understand the need to have some decorum. I've also seen the opposite. I've also participated in hospitality as an away fan, and behave myself.

[CrosspoolClarets]

Anything with Burnley Football Club can be answered with a question…

Does it make money? No? Then we won't do it.

Yes but clever business people realise that money can be made indirectly as a longer term cause and effect.

For example, getting the fans enthusiastic, energised and enjoying meeting their players and manager should statistically have a benefit out on the pitch, just by a big chunk of fans staying more behind them when things get tough. They also tend to be the fans with bigger influences on social media. I really do think the absence of these award’s nights harms not just us but the club, manager and players too.

A large chunk of the manager’s mind should be thinking “how do I stop the fans from turning and ideally have them roaring for us”, look at Chelsea now for the problems in that regard with jeering fans and it may cost Poch his job. I’m not sure our manager or directors have yet got the experience to really excel at this.

[JohnMcGreal]

Anything with Burnley Football Club can be answered with a question…

Does it make money? No? Then we won't do it.

Does the club's womens team make any money?

[GetIntoEm]

can people just remember this is a fundraiser for BFCITC, and not a ticket sale cash grab to fund BFC. thanks

[CoolClaret]

You'd have thought the BFCITC dinner would've taken place somewhere ...erm... in the community, wouldn't you?

[ClaretTony]

Does the club's womens team make any money?

I don't imagine it can do

[DAVETHEVICAR]

The ladies game played at Turf Moor later this month against Liverpool Feds is £10 entry to ground
The Jimmy Mcilroy hospitality ( where they have removed some seats) offers , I think , about £57 for the privilege of a pay bar ( about £5-6 a pint) and think a few nibbles - not sure if a meal is included.

[ŽižkovClaret]

You'd have thought the BFCITC dinner would've taken place somewhere ...erm... in the community, wouldn't you?

Its a fundraiser for BFCITC not a BFCITC activity.....

[GetIntoEm]

The ladies game played at Turf Moor later this month against Liverpool Feds is £10 entry to ground
The Jimmy Mcilroy hospitality ( where they have removed some seats) offers , I think , about £57 for the privilege of a pay bar ( about £5-6 a pint) and think a few nibbles - not sure if a meal is included.

£15 in the Jimmy Mac hospitality, no food.

[GetIntoEm]

i never thought i'd see the day that people would be complaining about a charity fundraising event

we're turning into one of those clubs. full of moaners.

[CoolClaret]

Its a fundraiser for BFCITC not a BFCITC activity.....

So?

Be nice if a local biz in the Burnley Borough could host something like that. Not sure why some official club events are taking place in Manchester now.

[claret2018]

The way people are going on you’d think they were hosting it in Monaco, not Manchester that’s 25 minutes down the road.

[ŽižkovClaret]

So?

Be nice if a local biz in the Burnley Borough could host something like that. Not sure why some official club events are taking place in Manchester now.

A local do doesnt raise 60k. Its a fundraiser

[mikeS]

Had a Club email on this this afternoon.

[Goliath]

The way people are going on you’d think they were hosting it in Monaco, not Manchester that’s 25 minutes down the road.

You must have more points than Burnley

[claretonthecoast1882]

The way people are going on you’d think they were hosting it in Monaco, not Manchester that’s 25 minutes down the road.

Even weirder considering those most critical wouldn't attend if it was in Burnley and free

[clarets1978]

The way people are going on you’d think they were hosting it in Monaco, not Manchester that’s 25 minutes down the road.

What are driving in to get to Manchester in 25 mins from Burnley?? You're lucky if you can get out of Burnley in 25 mins these days!

[CoolClaret]

A local do doesnt raise 60k. Its a fundraiser

You have quantitive data on that? We manage to raise funds just fine in Burnley on a match day, no? So what's the difference?

Not saying have pie and peas gala in a working mans club FFS - there's plenty of good quality, upmarket venues in the area. Just feel like the club should be trying to pull the town up with it's success, that's all.

Guarantee on a similar thread approaching the end of last season it would have been, "oh whats everyone getting bothered about, so what if the player of the season awards are in Manchester..."

It's Burnley FC, that's why.