Opinion RIP Skinny Martyn's old monuments

[Gasometer]

As if the club can't afford storage when it pays a guy 500K to masquerade as a coach.

Woooooo.....

 

[hale]

Is that a fake XR out the front?

Criminal act if it is.

Your car or was that Greg Miller's?

Heheh, must've been Miller's, I took the tram.

 

[hale]

Thanks for the photos hale
You even managed to find my name and the rest of my familys names

Ha! Excellent. So are you or any of your family one of the four John Williams?
If yes but you'd like to maintain privacy, you don't have to reveal which one

 

[Roozee]

Found some of my old photos, taken circa 2004 on my first pilgrimage to Arden St.
Very disappointed to hear the statues were ditched!

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How do you even 'dispose' of something like that... are they confirmed destroyed? maybe someone rescued them?

Nice one. Cheers for the photos.

Still waiting for more details to find out the full story on this and the off chance that maybe they are still sitting in a yard somewhere.

 

[Roozee]

The "receptionist" responds to this email?? That's disappointing in itself.

The whole thing is pretty disrespectful.

Very true.

I get a mental picture that with the second email I sent, that has been forwarded to the relevant department, that there's some scrambling going on in the background!

 

[Roozee]

Depends as to whether they kept the monuments intact or simply kept the name panels and two players.

These are the things that I'm trying, and would like to, find out.

 

[Roozee]

Thread title reads like a war story

Will change if the club confirms it's not the size of a car radio now!

 

[GoNorth]

The "receptionist" responds to this email?? That's disappointing in itself.

The whole thing is pretty disrespectful.

The receptionist replied to my email re Brent Harvey last year too.

 

[hotham]

I can't say that i'm suprised that the monument holds no value to the 'club'. I have memories of Bryan Martin digging the hole for the momument and talking to him about why he chose to construct it. I'm old school so doesn't sit well with me.

 

[Saintly35]

I'm just wrapped your concern was considered so importantly and elevated to receptionist level Roozee.

As if you'd want or need a higher level of response.

 

[hotham]

The "receptionist" responds to this email?? That's disappointing in itself.

The whole thing is pretty disrespectful.

Give her a chance she could be CEO in 12 mths.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Christ, It's a receptionists job to filter through the chaff and pass on relevant information to the right area or answer it themselves wherever possible.

This kind of stuff doesn't need to go straight to the CEO, they have better things to be doing.

 

[Roozee]

I'm just wrapped your concern was considered so importantly and elevated to receptionist level Roozee.

As if you'd want or need a higher level of response.

I'll shoot the messenger if I have to!

 

[Roozee]

Christ, It's a receptionists job to filter through the chaff and pass on relevant information to the right area or answer it themselves wherever possible.

This kind of stuff doesn't need to go straight to the CEO, they have better things to be doing.

The relevant department is just fine. Clearly the receptionist wouldn't be in the know on the finer details of something like this.

No need to exaggerate.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

The relevant department is just fine. Clearly the receptionist wouldn't be in the know on the finer details of something like this.

No need to exaggerate.

Mate, it's not an exaggeration.

You contacted the club, the receptionist answered your query to a point that I see is adequate for general inquiries.

You weren't happy with the answer and pushed further and they passed it on to someone that may have a more in depth knowledge of the subject.

But people are making the receptionist out to be useless and making comments about how the club is run based on a receptionist answering inquiries when in fact this is exactly how it should be done.

There's no need for someone with the knowledge of (say) a CEO to answer random emails when someone down the chain can be doing it.

 

[Whereitallbegan]

Is that a fake XR out the front?

Criminal act if it is.

Your car or was that Greg Miller's?

Looks like standard 95-96 EF Futura! As for the monument, the shape of frame holding the names, would have looked great as a bar in my rumpus room with a couple of slight adjustments

 

[Roozee]

Christ, It's a receptionists job to filter through the chaff and pass on relevant information to the right area or answer it themselves wherever possible.

This kind of stuff doesn't need to go straight to the CEO, they have better things to be doing.

Mate, it's not an exaggeration.

You contacted the club, the receptionist answered your query to a point that I see is adequate for general inquiries.

You weren't happy with the answer and pushed further and they passed it on to someone that may have a more in depth knowledge of the subject.

But people are making the receptionist out to be useless and making comments about how the club is run based on a receptionist answering inquiries when in fact this is exactly how it should be done.

There's no need for someone with the knowledge of (say) a CEO to answer random emails when someone down the chain can be doing it.

Ummm....yeah. That's an exaggeration. No-one else other than you suggested this doesn't need to go straight to the CEO and I or anyone else that I can see was not thinking that.

Someone down the chain will be dealing with it. Just not the receptionist.

And for what it's worth I have no problem with the receptionist answering my query. She has done her job.

Apart from the fact that the receptionist stuff is tongue in cheek which you have taken way too seriously it seems that some people actually feel strongly enough about this matter that it should be answered and/or dealt with at a higher level. Not the CEO - just the relevant department.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

The "CEO" comment was an example of someone who would have a large and varied knowledge of the club.

Sorry you seem to have got stuck on that point.

 

[Roozee]

Apology accepted.

 

[muttley45]

Even if Skinny Martyn's contribution has been consigned to the scrapheap, at a bare minimum, one would hope that there exists a complete photographic record of the plaque, with all the names intact for posterity's sake. As for where it should be displayed, there are multiple options.

 

[Gasometer]

Give her a chance she could be CEO in 12 mths.

Coach in 6

 

[Gasometer]

Looks like standard 95-96 EF Futura! As for the monument, the shape of frame holding the names, would have looked great as a bar in my rumpus room with a couple of slight adjustments

Not xr6 rims?

 

[Gasometer]

Christ, It's a receptionists job to filter through the chaff and pass on relevant information to the right area or answer it themselves wherever possible.

This kind of stuff doesn't need to go straight to the CEO, they have better things to be doing.

Yes.

Like the 24 pack of Sausage Rolls for the Members Function in July.

 

[SnowyontheTram]

This is shocking and disgusting if the monument has been 'disposed' of.
For a true Shinboner like Skinny Martyn to donate his blood, sweat and tears deserves so much more.
Understand if it could not be kept at Arden St, but to dispose of it?????
I have a laminated Picture Memorial of Skinny Martyn that the club were giving out when he died - from the same reception that overlooked that monument.
How we have lost our way and forgotten what it means to be a Shinboner.

 

[shinboner_99]

Just Guessin' but I'd be surprised if the Martyn family weren't consulted before the decision to dispose of it was taken.