What the hell is up with the pinkun forum?

[morty]

Yeah that is very odd. I don't often look at it anyway, but I don't remember there being anything other than football on there?

 

[PukkiParty]

Yeah that is very odd. I don't often look at it anyway, but I don't remember there being anything other than football on there?

They hide it from the homepage etc, but don't hide them from Google, just using Pink'un as a place to syndicate to dominate google search results.

 

[morty]

I wouldn't have thought that a small, local sports paper would have been worth the bother to monetise it in such a way, but I guess it is.

Pity really, as you don't have to be very old to remember what it used to be.

 

[Cackleborough]

I wouldn't have thought that a small, local sports paper would have been worth the bother to monetise it in such a way, but I guess it is.

Pity really, as you don't have to be very old to remember what it used to be.

It has become a small component of a larger conglomerate not much different from Football Clubs in that sense.

 

[Cackleborough]

Quite on few fans were happy on the Pink Un Website in the summer about their rediscovered free memberships.

 

[morty]

Quite on few fans were happy on the Pink Un Website in the summer about their rediscovered free memberships.

Annnnnd thats you gone.

I warned you about going on about your grievance that nobody else cares about. And I also told you I'm not interested on whatever has gone on, on the pinkun forum, which I believe you were banned from also?

You had an adequate chance to just be normal and discuss Norwich City, and did not take it.

 

[morty]

Sorry @hogesar he is your problem now

 

[PukkiParty]

Sorry @hogesar he is your problem now

This user tried to claim something like £800 from the club due to missing games during the Covid lockdown, despite his season ticket being complimentary for life.

In a tribunal with the Football Ombudsmen.

I thought people were a bit harsh with him on the Pink'un and saw him as somebody who went a bit too deep down a rabbit hole at the expense of any ability to function as a normal human being, a bit like the way Graham Linehan blew up his entire life and career after becoming a bit too obsessed about tranvestites.

But when I saw that element of his claim I just thought that was really low and he completely lost any sympathy from me at that point.

 

[morty]

Wow, that really is the action of an incredibly petty and bitter man.

 

[Fenway Frank]

The free membership for shareholders came in handy for me though as I had no idea until it was mentioned, paid for membership for the Mrs which gave us home and away match pick. As I'm not a season ticket holder anymore it's very handy. Before anyone asks, no I didn't choose Lincoln as I've already been there

 

[Jarrold Stander]

The free membership for shareholders came in handy for me though as I had no idea until it was mentioned, paid for membership for the Mrs which gave us home and away match pick. As I'm not a season ticket holder anymore it's very handy. Before anyone asks, no I didn't choose Lincoln as I've already been there

Same here Frank. I was totally unaware until this season that shareholders were entitled to free memberships. I think it’s a fairly recent concession though.

Every little helps as they say.

 

[Sonyc]

The free membership for shareholders came in handy for me though as I had no idea until it was mentioned, paid for membership for the Mrs which gave us home and away match pick. As I'm not a season ticket holder anymore it's very handy. Before anyone asks, no I didn't choose Lincoln as I've already been there

I didn't know that and I'm a shareholder too.
Blimey, I've missed out.

 

[morty]

I didn't know that and I'm a shareholder too.
Blimey, I've missed out.

Isn't it just a club membership though? Is the away membership a different thing?

 

[Fenway Frank]

Isn't it just a club membership though? Is the away membership a different thing?

No, there was a link posted on the pinkun , you put in a few details and a couple of days later you got an email to confirm you were eligible and it automatically appeared in your account. It gives you home and away match picks

 

[Sonyc]

No, there was a link posted on the pinkun , you put in a few details and a couple of days later you got an email to confirm you were eligible and it automatically appeared in your account. It gives you home and away match picks

Thanks. I didn't know. But anyway I can't access the Pinkun for the link so I think it's just my bad luck. Unless I guess one can email the club and ask.
It might help to have a pick even once or twice a season (if possible). I no longer receive dividends (maybe a decade ago) so having some small acknowledgement of being a shareholder is welcome. I only bought the shares at the time to help the club out as it was a genuine ask.

 

[morty]

No, there was a link posted on the pinkun , you put in a few details and a couple of days later you got an email to confirm you were eligible and it automatically appeared in your account. It gives you home and away match picks

If it gives you a match pick then that makes it even more baffling what Cackleborough was on about!

 

[Jarrold Stander]

If it gives you a match pick then that makes it even more baffling what Cackleborough was on about!

I don’t think Kevin himself knows what he’s on about any more His heave-ho today was inevitable sooner or later but I think
the gist of his argument was that he was busy between 09.30 and 09.32 on the day the match picks were released.

Inevitably there would have been a big rush at that time but I find it hard to believe there wouldn’t have been an opportunity a little later in the day. We’re not talking Glastonbury or Deep Purple levels of interest here.

When all said and done if he was that worried he would have logged on at 9.30. At least he had the opportunity to do so unlike Will Jennings in today’s EDP who complains that he couldn’t get a Group 1 ticket because he always could previously so didn’t bother to get a membership. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

 

[morty]

I don’t think Kevin himself knows what he’s on about any more His heave-ho today was inevitable sooner or later but I think
the gist of his argument was that he was busy between 09.30 and 09.32 on the day the match picks were released.

Inevitably there would have been a big rush at that time but I find it hard to believe there wouldn’t have been an opportunity a little later in the day. We’re not talking Glastonbury or Deep Purple levels of interest here.

When all said and done if he was that worried he would have logged on at 9.30. At least he had the opportunity to do so unlike Will Jennings in today’s EDP who complains that he couldn’t get a Group 1 ticket because he always could previously so didn’t bother to get a membership. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

Firstly, regarding him leaving, he didn't even have the good sense to tone it down a bit, and as soon as I locked his thread he went straight to this one to carry on ranting. I don't like banning people, I have been doing this for 12 years now and he is maybe only the third or fourth I have had to deal with.

But anyhoo, yeah we have all done the away game thing, sitting on your phone refreshing a page and hoping you get a ticket. It is just how it is, and personally I think the system they have now feels about right, and while you could point at the cheek of having to buy an away season ticket just to get a match pick, then suck it up, I'm afraid. I have a lot of mates who are fans of other clubs, and trust me, they get treated a lot worse than we do, especially if you are a Prem team fan.