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PILTONSTANY

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Apparently they are charging Killie fans 6 more than Celtic fans at Rugby Park this Sat :shock:
 
Apparently it`s 26 quid for Killie fans and 20 for the smellies. Is he trying to push them into something? Why the fuck would any club do this to its own fans? We all knew Michael Johnston was an arse. He asked his own ST holders to give up their seats so they could flog them to the huns a couple of seasons ago, but this is beyond belief and completely indefensible?
 
Is it cos they're expecting a boycott from the Smellies? Even if that's the case, it's a feckin outrage & Johnston is indeed a feckin erse.

Could be an "ICTplayingatPittodrie" style attendance methinks :hmmm
 
[Killiefc.com Forums] Newsletter - IVSC Protest on Saturday
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The Irvine Valley Supporters' Club have had enough of Chairman Michael Johnston and his mismanagement of our club and are organising a protest before the match against Celtic this Saturday. The plan is to congregate near the front of the Park Hotel at 12 noon, thirty minutes prior to kick off, and they are inviting all Killie fans to join them whether attending the match or not. The IVSC would like to emphasise that this is a peaceful protest and no violence or abuse will be tolerated, fellow fans must be respected if the point of their protest is to get across...Johnston is killing our club, he has to go.
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fair play to them...but the chairman has just signed the laddie silva?
 
Kenny said:
fair play to them...but the chairman has just signed the laddie silva?
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An ok player for them in his 1st stint but nothing more. I very much doubt the Killie fans will be placated en masse by that. So we'll have home & away supports both boycotting AND it's on TV.

Anyone want to guess the attendance? I reckon around the 2000 mark.

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Stolen from dotnet who in turn borrowed it from the Killie Pie Trust. I'll give it back when we're finished with it ;-)

The first point about the charity ball is almost understandable but petty. The second point about the Q&A is I suppose like our LWT meetings and there was a wee foray by the club to Sunnyside - put that down as petty.

If Hibs treated us this way and all the other crap, never mind frothing and seething, I'd be apoplectic with rage.

It is with a growing sense of disbelief that many
supporters of Kilmarnock Football Club look back at the
events of September 2013. The Chairman of the Club
appears to be developing a new business model for
football that requires no fans at all.

At the start of the month the Club informed the Trust
that no one would be attending the charity ball to
celebrate the Trusts tenth anniversary. The reason given
was they faced a moral dilemma as the ball was not being
held at the clubs hotel. The Trust had planned to hold
the ball there but were told the chosen date was booked.
A matter of days later the Chairman wrote to the
Kilmarnock Supporters Association to inform them that
the club would no longer provide any member of staff for
question and answer sessions at Association meetings,
until the democratically elected chairman of the
organisation was removed from office.

These Q & A sessions have always been a great way for
players and coaching staff to engage and communicate
with the supporters. This format permits an open and
honest dialogue without any agenda or loaded questions.
It allows questions to be answered fully without them
being distilled down to a sound bite or a headline. They
are heaven sent for a new manager who is trying to
mould a team, as he can get across his hopes and fears
for the season to a receptive audience. Unfortunately
Alan Johnston has now been denied this opportunity by
the Chairman.

Just as fans recovered from these localised PR disasters,
news broke of the Chairmans offer to drop ticket prices
by 20% for Celtic season ticket holders for the game at
Rugby Park. This one day only offer was available until the
ticket office closed at Celtic Park on the Tuesday before
their Cup game. No equivalent offer was announced for
Killie fans for more than 24 hours and any Celtic fan that
had purchased their ticket before or after Tuesday had no
recourse for a rebate.

Mr Johnston has chosen to hide behind rules, a tactic he
has used many times before. Rules that were written with
no expectation by their authors that a club would ever try
to deliberately disadvantage its own supporters. Imagine
how long a shop would last if it only ever offered
discounts to people that live outside its town. There has
been no explanation why the two offers were not
announced together. In order to calm the situation the
Chairman took to the local paper in order to inform the
support that they had over reacted.

Crowds at Rugby Park have been in decline for a number
of years and the current chairman seems incapable of
reversing this trend, in fact his actions at times seem to
be hell bent on chasing away as many home supporters
as possible. Many Killie supporters this season have made
the incredibly difficult decision to not attend home games
as they refuse to prop up the current regime. They have
been driven to this by a number of decisions that have
alienated fans over the years. This decision in particular
seems almost perverse at a time when the Club should
be working hard to build stronger bonds between
themselves and the supporters.

The Killie Trust believes that the only way to save our
Club is to urgently take it into true community ownership.
This ownership would draw upon the skills and resources
available within the support to develop a club that puts
its supporters and its community at the very heart of
everything it does. There are a huge number of
community owned clubs that are doing amazing things.
They have achieved this by fully engaging with their
supporters and have incredible levels of participation at
all level of the club. There is no room any more for
people that believe there is money to be made from
exploiting football fans.

As a great Scottish manger once said without fans
football is nothing apparently Michael Johnston knows
better.
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Were the same supporters as indignant when they sold their tickets, their ST seats and their souls to huns so those bastards could celebrate their league title in 2011 at Rugby Park?
 
I've got a lot of sympathy and time for Killie supporters.Any time I've met one they've been sound and can recall after the league cup victory being congratulated after the match and consoling some kids who had just seen their team horsed.Plus it's an awfy easy road down there to be a hun, so power to them for supporting their local team.

Their current owner is a scumbag,though.
 
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