No more scratch cards

[premiership_bound]

What's Tony going to do now

http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10306~1013880,00.html

[cheeryoleary]

Perhaps some company has come in to provide an outsourced service?

That said, any idea what the level of profit was from these operations? Worth employing people for?

[premiership_bound]

Would not have thought scratch card sellers would be employed as such, they would just receive commissision.

The Jazz cafe will never be the same. Oh hold on a minute, it won't exist silly me.

[Huntley & Palmer]

How will Murphy pay for his drinks in the Wishing Well now, or indeed clothe himself. A sad day

[Stranded]

Won't quite be the same without "C'mon Pop Idol" or the jab in the ribs as "Pound Please" is shouted down your lughole.

My mate won't be pleased if the Golden Gamble goes, he'll have to pay full whack to get in for the first time since the stadium opened.

[Royal Lady]

"for business reasons"? What a strange reason.

[Dirk Gently]

I'd guess that lottery income - which is quite admin intensive and so will be expensive to run - has become much less significant when compared to the riches that come in from the Premier League and TV.

[Whistle]

I know - let's have a sweep on how many weeks after relegation it takes before the Promotions Dept is re-opened!

Tony will be fine working for Crucial Force Debt Collection Agency.

Every Reading fan owes a debt of gratitude to the lottery sellers past and present whose efforts kept money coming in during hard times and kept reminding people RFC still existed. If they hadn't gone door-knocking in Stavvy Rd and the like people in Korea, US etc might never have heard of us.

BIG IT UP FOR THE LOTTERY GUYS - YOU DID YOUR BIT.

[M0J0]

Perhaps some company has come in to provide an outsourced service?

That said, any idea what the level of profit was from these operations? Worth employing people for?

Don't know the figures but it appears that the club have short or selective memories..

At the time that the club nearly went to the wall "Maxwell" era and merger time.. The money collected from the scratchcards was used to help pay the players wage bill at that time.
So the collecters (not matchday) but the sellers who went out in all weathers to do a couple of rounds to help the club actually helped to keep it alive until "J M" could rescue the club.

In recognition of the work done i think we should all be rewarded, season ticket or something similar should do.

[RoyalBlue]

"for business reasons"? What a strange reason.

Also insincere. If it is for sound business reasons, do they really regret the decision? I suspect not!

[Wycombe Royal]

In recognition of the work done i think we should all be rewarded, season ticket or something similar should do.

I am assuming they got commission and free/reduced price tickets for the duration of their work?

Why should they get something else on top of that just because they are no longer required? If they had done the work for nothing then I could see your point....

[Behindu]

I hope this doesn't mean the end of Mike Kearney's association with the club...

As player, steward of the Rendezvous and Promotions Manager he must be second only to Gordon Neate amongst current staff in terms of the length of service he has given RFC ....

[Harold]

Poor old Doc - always sold me dud scratch cards anyway.

[Spud]

I hope this doesn't mean the end of Mike Kearney's association with the club...

As player, steward of the Rendezvous and Promotions Manager he must be second only to Gordon Neate amongst current staff in terms of the length of service he has given RFC ....

Hear bloody hear, a disgrace if they let him go, it's all about bottom line no more no less.

[AthleticoSpizz]

I have had/and had good banter with several different door-to-door collectors selling scratch cards (along with the Blue Riband) over the past 6 or 7 years.

Is that the end of that then?


yet another "what a shame"?

[amdocsroyal]

I have had/and had good banter with several different door-to-door collectors selling scratch cards (along with the Blue Riband) over the past 6 or 7 years.

Is that the end of that then?


yet another "what a shame"?

Yep - end of ...
As a local collector (or should I say former collector )- it is a shame when corporate economics are the main driver but that is the reality of a being a Premiership club I guess..


...Wonder what the scope is for setting up an independent lottery scratch card business?

[AndyRFC]

So that old bloke who always annoys me in the Jazz will be gone. good!

[Behindu]

"for business reasons"? What a strange reason.

Also insincere. If it is for sound business reasons, do they really regret the decision? I suspect not!

????

How so ?
They may regret the decision on historical / individual grounds but think it is right for business reasons.

We all regretted leaving Elm Park for all sorts of reasons, but it was still the right thing to do.

[Royal Lady]

"for business reasons"? What a strange reason.

Also insincere. If it is for sound business reasons, do they really regret the decision? I suspect not!

????

How so ?
They may regret the decision on historical / individual grounds but think it is right for business reasons.

We all regretted leaving Elm Park for all sorts of reasons, but it was still the right thing to do.

That's a daft analogy. To use leaving Elm Park as the same sort of thing as stopping scratch cards would mean you'd have to have stopped the football after leaving Elm Park shirley?

[Behindu]

RB was saying that RFC were being insincere in saying on the one hand they regret the decision, and on the other that it is made on sound business grounds. I have no idea why they have stopped the lottery so have no idea if it is a sound business decision but I thought the analogy was OK.



And don;t call me shirley !