Designs for new Valley Gates - Usual regime stuff: good idea ruined by lack of thought and planning

killerandflash said:

I assume these gates will be on one side of the club shop?

The problem with gates there, is that on matchdays, they'll be fully open and nobody will see them anyway unless the message is over the top, and not on the opening section, as with the Shankly Gates

D. and E. are both like that I think mate.

I'd choose E. meself

Just looked at the webpage. They cannot even properly align the five letters A-E that label the diagrams. How can they be trusted to design a set of gates.

Stig said:

Just looked at the webpage. They cannot even properly align the five letters A-E that label the diagrams. How can they be trusted to design a set of gates.

You ungrateful little shit. You have no comprehension as to what the club has gone through here. The gate maker said he could knock em up for about five grand and would draw up 5 designs for nuffin.

The club have worked for hours scanning the designs from the back of his fag packet and have coloured them in really nicely. But are you grateful? Oh no, not you. You have to find something to criticise. Something so damm picky. Well thank you very much! This will be the very last time they will bother to consult us again and it's ALL YOUR FAULT!

What about a bit of rusty corrugated iron? Served the old Valley well. Chuck a bit of ancient and lethal barbed wire into the equation and VOILA! we have a perfect representation of what these Belgian fucks have done to our football kloob.

Are they doing this to increase the gate by 2 (or 12 by their counting)?

Stig said:

Just looked again. It's not the club's site, but my friends from CAST. Sorry guys.

#awkward

Confirms that the decision not to involve the trust in the gate design was the correct one

Rock Spectacle said:

Call me crazy, but those gates are iconic as it is, they may not be glamorous but those were the ones that were first unlocked - don't take them away.

agree. We need to chain ourselves to them so they can't take them away.

She's replied to mine too:

Dear Perry,

Many thanks for your email, we really appreciate the feedback.

We have had some really useful responses around the design and the wording which will be incorporated to create some final designs for consideration.

On the request of fans, the process has now been extended with the deadline for feedback now October 20th. We agree that it is important to make sure the gates are right especially given they are to be a permanent feature to pay tribute to the club’s historic return to The Valley.

Therefore, the designs will be adjusted based on the fan feedback and presented, for review, to a working group of fan representatives ahead of the AFC Wimbledon game on October 28th in a similar process to the kit consultations on this season’s and next season’s kit.

Thanks again,
Charlie

Sounds familiar somehow?

HarryLime said:

Charlie has replied to my email:

Hi,

Many thanks for your email, we really appreciate the feedback.

We have had some really useful responses around the design and the wording which will be incorporated to create some final designs for consideration.

On the request of fans, the process has now been extended with the deadline for feedback now October 20th. We agree that it is important to make sure the gates are right especially given they are to be a permanent feature to pay tribute to the club’s historic return to The Valley.

Therefore, the designs will be adjusted based on the fan feedback and presented, for review, to a working group of fan representatives ahead of the AFC Wimbledon game on October 28th in a similar process to the kit consultations on this season’s and next season’s kit.

Thanks again,
Charlie

Never mind the gates, when does Charlie put his bins out and how big is his knob ???

Henry Irving said:

Horsfield9 said:

HarryLime said:

Charlie has replied to my email:

Hi,

Many thanks for your email, we really appreciate the feedback.

We have had some really useful responses around the design and the wording which will be incorporated to create some final designs for consideration.

On the request of fans, the process has now been extended with the deadline for feedback now October 20th. We agree that it is important to make sure the gates are right especially given they are to be a permanent feature to pay tribute to the club’s historic return to The Valley.

Therefore, the designs will be adjusted based on the fan feedback and presented, for review, to a working group of fan representatives ahead of the AFC Wimbledon game on October 28th in a similar process to the kit consultations on this season’s and next season’s kit.

Thanks again,
Charlie

Never mind the gates, when does Charlie put his bins out and how big is his knob ???

Charlie is a she.

in which case she has never put the bins out based on my experience.

Well done Henry for bringing this up. It's communication like this that the club are missing.
At least it has now been accepted that consultation with the fans is a good way forward but ridiculous they didnt think about this in the first place.
I guess the club will never learn with KM and Tone taking charge.

I wonder if they're thinking in the office "FFS some git has posted this on that Charlton Life website" after all these emails?

How about VALLEY FLOYD ROAD in the arch and 1905 on the gates?

With zero expectations I emailed a (somewhat) measured critique of the proffered designs and the quoted timescale. I am pleasantly surprised to report I got a reply thanking me for my contribution and stating that the consultation period has been extended, a bit. Feels like daisy's not got her hands on this one, which is a plus.