Guess what I'm not now getting for my Birthday? Clue:- It's on Saturday and wor lass was going to get it tommorrow?

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

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Isn't she queuing up already Rik? they go on sale at midnight!

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Happy Birthday Rik ol son - keep your pecker up.
Maybe I should rephrase that - or maybe not, it might do you good!

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Happy birthday an' all that.

You don't seem to post much these days - work commitments or another forum?

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

I actually found away to make a few quid off the internet, and with a #776 pair of tickets to fork out for It's just at the right time. That's why my web site and postings on here have been limited. If you are wondering how to make enough for your season ticket in a month from the iNTERNET? you'll have wait till my book comes out, then buy a copy .

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

And.... we'll have less of the old boy , I'm still one of the youngest on here.

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Have a fantastic birthday Rik! (:o)

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Happy Borthday Rik!

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Have an ACE birthday laddie!

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Oops, nearly forgot, all the best Rik. Enjoy.

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Are you having another orgy with Maria, Ulrika and Alston Girlie to celebrate, or just staying in quietly with your 6 wives while you tinker with your Grand Prix car? Whichever you choose, enjoy it.

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Happy Birthday, Rik! Once you make your millions on the internet, you can just buy out the whole ground! :-)

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

More sleeping on the draining board Rik? Happy borthday bonnie lad.

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Another internet millionaire, one of our own this time. First a book deal and usually next comes a 10 million line of credit courtesy of Yahoo. You wont forget us? Happy Birthday Rik.

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

All the best Rik, always in your debt for your initial help in the early days for me. Bill

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Have a great birthday Rik......best wishes

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Many happy returns, O Pissed Off Waiting List Blerky (artist formerly known as Ace, formerly known as Rik). Keep the chin up bonny lad. I'm confident Freddy and the lads will come good with the tix after all these years.

-- Anonymous, July 13, 2000

Gan doon th'lang stairs an' straight alang the Close 'til yeh git to Baker's entry, where you can ha yersell a bun for your borthday. Congrats on your book and enjoy your big day. -phoenix

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000

Happy Borthday, Prince !

Enjoy, enjoy and I know you will get what you want.

Haven't been on, or even been able to look at, this lovely board for a looonnngggg time due to a battle for survival out here...but as I write, we still have our heads just above the water line.

Come hell or high water though, we'll somehow make it back for the first home match of the season.

Lots of love.

val.

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000

Happy Birthday. Can't wait to read the book. I'm looking for a job that pays big money for doing nowt! (Silvio Maric got the last one)

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000

Better late than never. Is this your last one or will you have another one next year?

I have decided not to have any more after this coming January.

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000

The bastards just rang me to tell me that I won't be getting a season ticket next season, as they have sold them to people who have been on the list for 6 months rather than 6 years, Gutted isn't the word to describe my feelings at the moment. I am cosidering what action to take, first step was a letter to Liason officer Rogan taylor, next step, to see who else this has happened to and publisice it on my site , finally , get in touch with friends at the MAG, Talk of the toon, and the ronnie gill. I don't want to get the NOTW in on this, but it really does stink. They sent out (so they say) all the application forms to whoever was on the list on Friday. So how is it my form arrived Tuesday, when most other peoples arrived on Saturday? The footnote said, "be quick they are allocated on a first come first served basis" I just can't believe this. I really can't

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000

That s*cks, rik! The club probably can't do anything to rectify the situation this year, but if they're smart(stop laughing, it could happen!) they'll find out which waiting listers were left out on this go round, organize them by order of how long they've been on the list, and take it from there properly next year. I know, I know, I'm using logic again, bad me! But...how difficult is it really?? If your letter really was posted on Friday (check the postmark), then there's nothing the club can do if your local post office decided to go on holiday and not deliver on time. if your letter was posted later, you've definitely got a complaint! Still, this situation really should have been handled more efficiently. :-(

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000

Another horrible aspect is that they had clearly lost rik's details when they wrote out for confirmation and his waiting list number when it was readded to the list was one of the seriously recent ones. No care was taken to reinsert his details with the same weighting they should have carried so even if they had distributed them by length of time on the list, rik shows up as an applicant from the last year or so.

The fact that it's details from when the list was first drawn up that have gone 'missing' has that horrible ring about it of problems encountered whilst transferring data between databases. I've twice been involved in major transfers between systems when huge amounts of information have ended up corrupted and been destroyed. Like all decent administrators I had kept a paper-trail and was able to reenter the lost information at considerable effort and with extreme annoyance levels - I think the terms 'decent administrators' and 'considerable effort' preclude our Club from this equation, especially when you consider their history with things like the Website where they pay a disinterested third party to run the thing.

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000