Dna Founding Member Souvenir Pack

[Betty Swallicks]

Did you get a different email? or nothing at all?

 

Not me but person involved got nothing.

 

Only info was via club website.

[Mr John]

So what is it?

[strachanmcgheegoal]

So what is it?

With my luck today it’ll be a big Santa sack that unravels to reveal fucking Millertime.

[Reliablesource]

not an issue for me. i'll be picking mine up soon enough i guess. but i'm an international DNA member, so presumably all international subscribers got the same email i did yesterday -- and it says nothing about having it shipped (see cut and paste below). it would be good if they'd included that information on the international emails.

Good news… your Founding Member souvenir pack is now ready!

 

You can collect your pack from the Pittodrie Ticket Office from Wednesday 29th August and from the Supporter Engagement Team Portacabin outside the Richard Donald Stand on matchday from 9.30am until kick-off.

 

Every supporter who signed up before 21st May is entitled to a souvenir pack, please bring photographic ID when you come to collect yours.

 

Please note, due to a delay with delivery U12 packs will not be ready to collect until Saturday 1st September.

If you require more information please contact .co.uk"]set@@AFC.co.uk

I'd imagine the emails are all the same regardless of location of recipient. What I'm sure of though is what I said previously, that the club have said it will send out packs to those that can't pick them up. I would think that will be in a while though and that they will endeavour to hand out as many as they can on site first.

[dervish]

I'm certain the club will make sure every DNA member gets their gift no matter where they are. Yurt and mattress waterproofing knows no boundaries.

[Sonoftherock]

not an issue for me. i'll be picking mine up soon enough i guess. but i'm an international DNA member, so presumably all international subscribers got the same email i did yesterday -- and it says nothing about having it shipped (see cut and paste below). it would be good if they'd included that information on the international emails. 

 

Good news… your Founding Member souvenir pack is now ready!

You can collect your pack from the Pittodrie Ticket Office from Wednesday 29th August and from the Supporter Engagement Team Portacabin outside the Richard Donald Stand on matchday from 9.30am until kick-off.

Every supporter who signed up before 21st May is entitled to a souvenir pack, please bring photographic ID when you come to collect yours.Please note, due to a delay with delivery U12 packs will not be ready to collect until Saturday 1st September.

If you require more information please contact .co.uk]set@@AFC.co.uk

I’d check that out if I was you... I got an email a few weeks ago saying asking me to confirm my address as international members pack was being sent out. It said they were asking all international members to confirm..

 

I haven’t had an email like yours above.

[shut up meg]

Have you got your pack MT?

[fine-n-dandy]

You should post up you fifteen membership packs to really wind them up. You know, show them that Aberdeen has REAL committed fanatical supportive intelligence in their ranks.

[Sonoftherock]

"Whether that is down to us not being in crisis like Hearts were when FOH was launched or our fanbase isn't as extensive or as well off as those in the north-east that support Aberdeen or that neither of those clubs have a noisy portion of their own supporters railing against them and calling them rip-offs and Ponzi schemes to anyone that will listen there is only so much marketing that can help with that"

 

How little they know...

 

AberDNA numbers will be massively down next season... think a lot of folk were expecting more for their money for some reason.

 

Personally speaking, I don't have a season ticket, so I saw it as my donation to help the club.  I didn't want or expect anything in return.  I just want AFC to be better off.  For that reason, I'll be be renewing again next season.

[V for Vendetta]

AberDNA numbers will be massively down next season... think a lot of folk were expecting more for their money for some reason.

 

Personally speaking, I don't have a season ticket, so I saw it as my donation to help the club. I didn't want or expect anything in return. I just want AFC to be better off. For that reason, I'll be be renewing again next season.

Same for me.

 

For the local lads who regularly attend I don't see a lot of point in them doing it tbh.

 

But the club could do something against the price of a season ticket if they want to get everyone on DNA to create a success story/sense of togetherness or whatever.

[Foster14]

AberDNA numbers will be massively down next season... think a lot of folk were expecting more for their money for some reason.

 

I guess a lot of it will be down to the only tangible thing we have seen being referred to as a result of AberDNA contributions being the loan of James Wilson.

 

I personally thought that this year, they'd go out and sign a player whose transfer fee would be attributed to only being possible because of DNA.  That is something we could have felt more part of.  

[BWG]

AberDNA numbers will be massively down next season... think a lot of folk were expecting more for their money for some reason.

 

Personally speaking, I don't have a season ticket, so I saw it as my donation to help the club.  I didn't want or expect anything in return.  I just want AFC to be better off.  For that reason, I'll be be renewing again next season.

 

Probably because the club were phoning people up and telling them that DNA would enable us to compete with the "old firm", whatever that is.

[dave_min]

Probably because the club were phoning people up and telling them that DNA would enable us to compete with the "old firm", whatever that is.

It’s a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.

 

But that’s not important right now.

[BWG]

It’s a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.

 

But that’s not important right now.

-1

 

EDIT:  fuck the lot of you.

[TheRock]

I guess a lot of it will be down to the only tangible thing we have seen being referred to as a result of AberDNA contributions being the loan of James Wilson.

 

I personally thought that this year, they'd go out and sign a player whose transfer fee would be attributed to only being possible because of DNA. That is something we could have felt more part of.

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people felt like that, they'd be a marquee 'DNA signing'. Was never the purpose of it and obviously the club never even hinted at such a thing but does that matter? If they want everyone to keep contributing, they need to make it seem to be making a difference on the pitch. Which I don't think is even possible to 'prove'.

 

I think they'll be a pretty decent renewal rate though and probably a renewed push for new subscriptions with possibly a refreshed package of benefits which will probably offset people who are upset that Messi wasn't signed with DNA money.

[Ernie McCracken]

It's now January and they still haven't said what AberDNA influence is!!!

[dave_min]

It's now January and they still haven't said what AberDNA influence is!!!

Looks like somebody missed Livingston (away).

[Foster14]

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people felt like that, they'd be a marquee 'DNA signing'. Was never the purpose of it and obviously the club never even hinted at such a thing but does that matter? If they want everyone to keep contributing, they need to make it seem to be making a difference on the pitch. Which I don't think is even possible to 'prove'.

 

I think they'll be a pretty decent renewal rate though and probably a renewed push for new subscriptions with possibly a refreshed package of benefits which will probably offset people who are upset that Messi wasn't signed with DNA money.

 

We've done enough transfer fees recently, that it obviously doesn't even need a change in direction of the club.  We seem to be in a position where we will pay a fee or two a year.  Just needs the club to say that the extra contributions allowed that fee to be paid.  

 

You look back at the e-mail last week,  and you read through it and there is little discussion of what this has changed as a result of it, other than the GPS tracker vests being purchased.  There was no reference to it helping secure a Manchester United player on loan, as there was at the time of the deal.  

 

Ultimately, if we see Shinnie or GMS sign a new deal, I think we will see AberDNA attached it.  The contributions allowed us to push the limits of the offer and got them to sign on.  Something like that.  That might encourage people to renew.

 

I still see the value in it for people who can't get to games etc and want to contribute to the cub.  This gives them an avenue that wasn't there before.  I've just about gone full circle on it though, thinking on it from a season ticket holder perspective.  I don't see any real benefit of it besides the money off season ticket and shirt that I otherwise wouldn't get anyway, but still paying in excess of £100 more over a year than before.  

 

I agree it is difficult, or even impossible to correlate additional funds raised from this to improvements on the pitch, but I think there is both an expectation and a need to try and show it somehow.  I thought at the original inception that this was a scheme to play on the loyalty of the football fan, and it will prove to be such in the long term if they can't show how it is making a difference. 

 

To put it an alternate way, if they came and told you you're season ticket was a £100+ more than previously, you wouldn't accept that. Now AberDNA was optional, but I got sold it on it making a difference, and right now, I don't feel any different to having paid £543 for a season ticket and shirt would instead of £385 just for the season ticket.   Ultimately, each to their own, and people will have very different opinions, but I feel a bit of a mug for having paid it.  

[Reliablesource]

I think some folk look at it all a bit too much, or try to over analyse it.

 

Others just pay, if they can, a small amount extra every month to help with their clubs income.

 

To say effectively "the players didn't perform well enough this season, so I'm not paying it next season" doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

[Foster14]

I think some folk look at it all a bit too much, or try to over analyse it.

 

Others just pay, if they can, a small amount extra every month to help with their clubs income.

 

To say effectively "the players didn't perform well enough this season, so I'm not paying it next season" doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

 

I think it is the club that has marketed it as something else min, not the analysis of the average punter.  If you do that, then you have to expect the analysis of it to reflect that.  

 

I don't believe there has been a much transparency on what difference it has made, if any.  I, and I imagine many others, will have believed before this year that their outlay on season tickets, additional match tickets, merchandise and although not directly benefiting AFC financially but still spending money following them, away games/trips, was enough.  

 

I ultimately jumped on the bandwagon, spent a bit extra and just believe that there should be something put forward as a this is what we did with it this year that we wouldn't have otherwise.  Maybe that will come in time, before renewals, but I feel the e-mail the other day was an attempt at that and left me scratching my head about it.  

 

And ultimately, if it is just a case of reducing the impact of directing any resources to the new stadium/training complex, it should really just be sold as that.  I'd be more on board with that, than a fallacy about this being to improve football budget.  

[TheRock]

I'll be interested to know how much we are spending on staff wages this season. The last financials said wages we up quite a lot 17/18 from the previous season. I guess we won't know if resources have been diverted away from the playing budget until the next set of financials at the end of the year.

[TynesideDon]

I just see it as a small donation to the club. It's 12 quid a month so I don't really miss it and although it's hardly likely to get us parity with Celtic, if the money it generates helps keep us ahead of Hearts and Hibs then it's worth it.

[Parklife]

I just see it as a small donation to the club. It's 12 quid a month so I don't really miss it and although it's hardly likely to get us parity with Celtic, if the money it generates helps keep us ahead of Hearts and Hibs then it's worth it.

£12 is only 1/5th of what you spend on animal porn after all.

[TynesideDon]

£12 is only 1/5th of what you spend on animal porn after all.

I wouldn't have a clue how much that sort of material would cost (I didn't realise people still needed to pay for porn in this day and age) so I'll bow to your superior knowledge on this subject mate.

 

If you are paying £60 a month for that sort of thing may I suggest you shop around cos I think you're being ripped off.

[boboisared]

I wouldn't have a clue how much that sort of material would cost (I didn't realise people still needed to pay for porn in this day and age) so I'll bow to your superior knowledge on this subject mate.

 

If you are paying £60 a month for that sort of thing may I suggest you shop around cos I think you're being ripped off.

 

[Reliablesource]

I think it is the club that has marketed it as something else min, not the analysis of the average punter. If you do that, then you have to expect the analysis of it to reflect that.

 

I don't believe there has been a much transparency on what difference it has made, if any. I, and I imagine many others, will have believed before this year that their outlay on season tickets, additional match tickets, merchandise and although not directly benefiting AFC financially but still spending money following them, away games/trips, was enough.

 

I ultimately jumped on the bandwagon, spent a bit extra and just believe that there should be something put forward as a this is what we did with it this year that we wouldn't have otherwise. Maybe that will come in time, before renewals, but I feel the e-mail the other day was an attempt at that and left me scratching my head about it.

 

And ultimately, if it is just a case of reducing the impact of directing any resources to the new stadium/training complex, it should really just be sold as that. I'd be more on board with that, than a fallacy about this being to improve football budget.

It's pretty clear what the difference is. About half a million quid a year into the club by the end of each season. I think that is quite good.

 

I wouldn't think you'd be able to draw conclusions or comparisons on player budgets until a couple of seasons have past.

[Reliablesource]

I just see it as a small donation to the club. It's 12 quid a month so I don't really miss it and although it's hardly likely to get us parity with Celtic, if the money it generates helps keep us ahead of Hearts and Hibs then it's worth it.

Aye.

[Foster14]

It's pretty clear what the difference is. About half a million quid a year into the club by the end of each season. I think that is quite good.

I wouldn't think you'd be able to draw conclusions or comparisons on player budgets until a couple of seasons have past.

So it is the mug thing then? Paying more for the same thing. I wouldn't do that anywhere else without due consideration so points back to my comment about taking fans for mugs and playing in their loyalties.

 

To put it in another direction, Kilmarnock have not done anything similar yet seemed to have levelled the playing field with us. Therefore what does that extra £0.5m really mean?

[mcdougall(4)]

So it is the mug thing then? Paying more for the same thing. I wouldn't do that anywhere else without due consideration so points back to my comment about taking fans for mugs and playing in their loyalties.

 

To put it in another direction, Kilmarnock have not done anything similar yet seemed to have levelled the playing field with us. Therefore what does that extra £0.5m really mean?

 

 

Having a grass pitch like a proper club should 

[Foster14]

So we'd have a plastic pitch if not for this? Interesting, might keep it going next year then...