Always a Wasp

I was in the club shop on Saturday and they said they had spent all week printing out new cards for everyone and were currently testing them, hopefully to be sent out this week or next.

If I recall correctly. The catering is now with Delaware North. As with most stadia, it's outsourced and then we get a share of the profits made.

CCFC won't get anything from food and drink sales unless it's been specified in the tenancy agreement that they would.

A couple of years back CCFC negotiated to receive 50% of the concourse F&B relating to their games. This was reported by the football club as £75k one year, profit being 30% and CCFC receiving half of that, which would amount to a revenue of £500k so is reasonably consistent with my numbers above. Corporate/hospitality is bought by CCFC on a match by match basis and sold on.

I think it only fair that CCFC reap some of the dividends from the footfall that they generate. Perhaps what they get may be thought of as a little generous since they've invested nothing and take none of the risk.

I haven't noticed much in the change to Delaware North other than new uniforms. I have noticed a couple of older staff who seem to be a bit more clued up in serving people (not the lass in the Mill who went off to change a barrel and then forgot to come back to finish my order). Hopefully this new deal will give Wasps a better return.

Is food and drink revenue? Does that not all go straight to Compass, rather than us? And then Compass give us our 50% share of the %agreed upon.

Valid point, but Wasps owned 70+% of Compass (71, 72, I don't recall the exact figure) so the large majority of it came to us. Wasps, as of last year, now own 100% of Compass so going forward it is all ours. 

You also lose quite a bit of screen real estate with all the details under the users name (i.e. their status, signature, applaud/smite buttons)
It results in a lot of scrolling, but at least no resizing.

I don't think it looks as good on mobile as it does on desktop, but it's nice not having to resize the screen all the time

I agree about the username etc. taking up a bit too much room on the mobile site (the desktop one is fine), and would add that I'd like a bigger delineation between posts (it's currently a thin pale line the colour of the background - again only really noticeable (to me) on the mobile site and not really a major issue).

I too have large adverts at the top of the screen but once you scroll down it's not an issue - certainly better than that silly delayed loading sidebar on DW that resets your page back to the top halfway through reading a post.

An improvement I've noticed is now you can now tell which page of a thread you're on - before you could only tell by hovering over the page number, which doesn't work on touch screen devices. Important when you have the option to go to the latest unread post.

I found the previous site inconsistent on mobile, sometimes it would size the screen to fit and looked great, other times it was like looking at the mobile site on a tiny screen and you had to zoom in and move the screen around to read everything. This new one seems to be consistently at the same, readable size.

I'm not really up to speed on things like Karma and PM's but these seem to be missing from the mobile site. I can do emojis though !

I'm using Chrome on PC and Android mobile.

Keep up the good work VV!

P.S. I'd like a 24 hour time stamp rather than AM/PM, but just my personal preference.