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Re: Fan suing the club

by Red » 01 Feb 2011 14:17

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if he bough the calendar for christmas and a player left would he want his money back or a new calendar?



Newcastle fans cueing up to claim their refunds on 2011 calanders!

Yeh I think they'll be a bit snookered there.

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Re: Fan suing the club

by Royal With Cheese » 01 Feb 2011 14:55

Take the club for everything they've got. Which, according to Mr. Madejski, is nothing.

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Re: Fan suing the club

by Row Z Royal » 01 Feb 2011 16:39

silas
weybridgewanderer lol

if he bough the calendar for christmas and a player left would he want his money back or a new calendar?



Newcastle fans cueing up to claim their refunds on 2011 calanders!


Especially as, turning over to February this morning, they found none other than...yep, you guessed it. :lol:

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Re: Fan suing the club

by weybridgewanderer » 01 Feb 2011 19:44

Think Torres was january in the liverpool calendar, as he left on the 31st they are OK

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Re: Fan suing the club

by AthleticoSpizz » 01 Feb 2011 20:12

Red I think the clubs got it right here TBF - it'd be a hell of a precedent to set otherwise.
I think in this rather extreme case (and but for the sake of a quietly sensible "goodwill gesture" of a blank replacement shirt being offered), the precedent that has been set, is to not have names printed on backs of shirts..........=........much more lost revenue to the club than the price of the aforementioned gesture.


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Re: Fan suing the club

by Red » 01 Feb 2011 22:57

Interesting use of frimmers style punctuation.

I don't agree I'm afraid - people will still want to get names put on the back of shirts - and most people accept that players move on.

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Re: Fan suing the club

by moo » 02 Feb 2011 00:41


:lol:

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Re: Fan suing the club

by Stuka » 02 Feb 2011 10:03

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CLASSIC.


Anyway regarding the Sig shirt. I think clubs have it in their terms and conditions that once a shirt has been purchased with a name on the back, the club can't be responsible if the player leaves. This idiot will presumably now have to stump up some legal fees for his pathetic small claims hearing.

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Re: Fan suing the club

by Svlad Cjelli » 02 Feb 2011 10:28

Stuka Anyway regarding the Sig shirt. I think clubs have it in their terms and conditions that once a shirt has been purchased with a name on the back, the club can't be responsible if the player leaves. This idiot will presumably now have to stump up some legal fees for his pathetic small claims hearing.


He's probably assuming the club will settle quietly out of court as most businesses do with small claims. Reading FC certainly won't do that, and if he thinks they will he doesn't know them, so he'll lose his money - about £40, I think.


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Re: Fan suing the club

by RoyalBlue » 02 Feb 2011 13:53

bloody Volvo driver Just been reading an article in 4-4-2 about a fan (or customer in new football speak) who is taking RFC to the small claims court.

The issue revolves round a shirt he purchased for his son back in August, and after hearing that the Sig "I'd be a fool to go anywhere else" ardsson had signed an extension to his contract decided to buy his boy an away shirt with the Sig on the back. 2 weeks later, Sig Foxtrot Oscars to Germany and the guy requests reimbursement. Naturally the club refused and hence his decision to go to Small Claims in order to get back his £45.

Legally, the club is totally within its rights to refuse to pay back the money / give him a "clean" shirt, but morally after banking £6.5m, a few replacement shirts (that I suspect cost the club at purchase price around £10-20) is hardly going to dent the bottom line, especially after making such a hullabaloo about Sig extending his contract.

I cannot quite work out in my head whether I think the guy is foolhardy (I won't allow my little one to get a name printed on his shirt until the window has closed so the least we will get is 4 months worth of "value") or the club is being a too hard nosed on its fans / customers.


Your sentiments are understandable and correct but sadly I doubt the law will have much time for such sentiment.

BTW, I suspect the club pay less than £10 a shirt.

Super Royals The club is right - the bloke should have bought his shirt after the transfer window had closed, to trust a football player's every word is Oxf*rd stupid!


In this particular case, I believe the player's word wasn't the problem and he fully intended to stay with the club until he was persuaded to leave in the club's and his best interests!
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Re: Fan suing the club

by RoyalBlue » 02 Feb 2011 13:54

weybridgewanderer Think Torres was january in the liverpool calendar, as he left on the 31st they are OK


Day Break claimed (and showed?) it was February this am. Likewise Carroll the other way round!

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Re: Fan suing the club

by Gordons Cumming » 02 Feb 2011 14:53

At least it's not like getting Sean Evers tattooed on your arm................... :oops:

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Re: Fan suing the club

by Jerry St Clair » 02 Feb 2011 18:41

Gordons Cumming At least it's not like getting Sean Evers tattooed on your arm................... :oops:


Back in the mid-nineties a Geordie had the image of Andy Cole tattoed on his thigh about a month before he left for Man Utd.

If it hadn't been for this precedent, I'd have definitely got Elroy Kromheer's face tattooed on my left buttock cheek.


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Re: Fan suing the club

by RoyalBlue » 02 Feb 2011 20:32

Gordons Cumming At least it's not like getting Sean Evers tattooed on your arm................... :oops:


With his name on your arm would have fallen off anyway - so not a problem!

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Re: Fan suing the club

by Red » 03 Feb 2011 15:17

This thread seems as a good a place as any to put this.

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Re: Fan suing the club

by old woman » 04 Feb 2011 19:09

Reading 2010 calendar December Sig and Gregor !!!

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Re: Fan suing the club

by RoyalBlue » 05 Feb 2011 18:23

Tinrib http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=615458499


So the guy's called James McGhee?!

I wonder whether he's any relation.

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Re: Fan suing the club

by AthleticoSpizz » 05 Feb 2011 20:14

Red Interesting use of frimmers style punctuation.

I don't agree I'm afraid - people will still want to get names put on the back of shirts - and most people accept that players move on.
you agree, or do not agree with what you want "Red".

I am still in the costly "son wanting to buy shirt with name on" stage of parenthood

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Re: Fan suing the club

by Royal Lady » 06 Feb 2011 11:02

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Red Interesting use of frimmers style punctuation.

I don't agree I'm afraid - people will still want to get names put on the back of shirts - and most people accept that players move on.
you agree, or do not agree with what you want "Red".

I am still in the costly "son wanting to buy shirt with name on" stage of parenthood

Yes, and like Red said, you have to accept that players move on if you do buy a shirt with a name on. My son went through about 3 in 3 seasons where he'd just get a name put on and they'd leave - didn't bother me, or him, to be fair.

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