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LH
May 29, 2016, 9:30pm

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I wonder if people would be as easy with his company's activities if they were to buy up all 3000 tickets for Doncaster away next season to sell off for double the price.
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Quoted from GrimRob


Just to remind you, there's almost never been a day when there hasn't been a prominent thread which is highly critical of some aspect of GTFC on the site for months! I don't know what the club's plans are for this individual but we were asked to help out. He sounds like a pretty clever guy to me, never met him, but we could do a lot worse than a young self-made entrepreneur.


So you're happy to be what? 90% independent? 95% independent? Independent when the club lets you?
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Embarrassing, embarrassing, embarrassing. I'm sorry but what this man is doing is immoral, I don't care if he's being described as an 'entrepreneur'. The people on this forum would be quick to criticise touts in any other form, but because he's donated a few quid to Town he's forgiven. Sad.
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May 29, 2016, 9:41pm
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Point is will he be putting his hand in his pocket again next season? 'Sponsors' tend to be more than just single occasion contributors

If not we have lost nowt by pointing out his business methods If he is going to chip in a few bob again then well done son !

I don't care if its Nazi gold so long as it helps swell Town's coffers.


Yeah, on reflection I'd probably draw the line at Nazi gold.
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May 29, 2016, 9:49pm
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I'll "attack" whoever I please, thanks, and that includes Fenty, Andrew Newman, John Newman, Gary Numan, Ticketmaster, the Football League - you can't silence people who have objections to certain things


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May 29, 2016, 9:50pm
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The fact that the club is receiving monies from an individual that is fleecing the average Joe, who just wants to watch his favourite band or favourite sporting event for the face value, instead of having to pay highly inflated prices to line the pocket of an individual and the resale companies, is bad enough! But then for the club to snuff out discussion, debate and opinion on a supposedly independent forum, for whatever self serving reason is utterly disgraceful. Yes I accept football clubs have to be run like a business, but who said ethics and morality cannot be part of that business model? The Fishy is being censored and the powers that be have allowed it. Pathetic!!
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Quoted from LH
I wonder if people would be as easy with his company's activities if they were to buy up all 3000 tickets for Doncaster away next season to sell off for double the price.


personally...i would p1ss myself at the thought of him losing money......i have a rule when it comes to tickets...i pay  how much it should be on the face value.....THE PEOPLE.create and sustain touts....stop buying and they WILL die. Simples.


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I cannot believe what is happening. The club that represents our community and Town are defending an incredibly unethical practice. A club, that has a supposed pillar of the community (Councillor) at its helm, who should be setting himself as an upstanding member of the community, is acting for purely financial concerns (regardless of the effect the unethical practice has on others) and is then actively pressuring censorship. What next? Contributors suddenly start disappearing from the Fishy because their point of view does not adhere to the clubs? GrimRob are you aware of the precedent that has been set here?
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Unfortunately people at the club don't know what it's like to miss out on tickets or bend over backwards trying to get them.

Use your nazi gold to fund our stadium or sling yer hook. I might have only donated a small amount to Operation Promotion but I'm sure the net contribution of posters who disagree is more than this guys?

He isn't a sponsor. He bought a squad place to inflate his ego. How often was he at BP last season I bet he didn't buy 2 burgers from Mariners Kitchen in the same game or an inflatable fish a match day program.

I bet he hasn't even drunk on one of those chlamydia stickers in the Pontoon urinals.
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May 29, 2016, 10:40pm

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This seems one of those classic cases of how to make a mountain out of a tossing molehill.  

Guy gives money to Operation Promotion, guy has some questionable ways of making money, fans discuss questionable method of making some money, posts taken down.  Really?

I really admire Rob and everyone who runs the fishy, it can often be something of a thankless task.  I also think most critcism on here is very open and not censored at all.

But this is majorly unecessary and so sodding counter productive.  I wasn't sure where I was on the debate between iis it morally reprehensible or clever (to be honest I think 90% of how entrepreneurs make money is somewhat reprehnsible, I mean the people behind see tickets adding bookiing fees to each ticket they sell is a way of screwing over people) this kind of reaction to it though seems to make it easier to decide which side of the fence I should come down on.  
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