Boro Equality, Diversity and Inclusion survey

TeessideCleveland said:
In the comments I have said I personally think that they should resume taking the knee again until the booing stops
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I totally agree and when it happened I did contact the club and ask why and the response was pretty much its players choice and we are trying to get the message across in other ways...problem is I don't see a whole lot else happening
 
BoroLioness said:
Yes I agree with you. Hopefully some of us will have some good suggestions for the club that they can implement. I made several suggestions one which is a very simple one but could be helpful and welcoming to female fans...free sanitary products...simple and helps female fans to feel welcomed and like the club are giving a cack about them
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Hopefully the club take on board some of the suggestions.. I think we are way behind on inclusivity and diversity. When we’re mentioned in the same breath as Milwall you know something isn’t quite right!
 
BoroLioness said:
This is the reply from MFC

"We normally publish an overview of the data in our Riversidebyside Annual Achievements report which goes on our website."
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Riversidebyside is utter bollokcs.

Inclusion..
We boo taking the knee
We chant ‘town full of rent boys’
We don’t have a womans team

It started in 2017 - five or six years of work on inclusivity and what do we have to show for it?
 
newyddion said:
Hopefully the club take on board some of the suggestions.. I think we are way behind on inclusivity and diversity. When we’re mentioned in the same breath as Milwall you know something isn’t quite right!
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Millwall were one of the very first clubs to take these issues seriously. The Millwall Community Trust (est. 1985) has an enviable record in community engagement.
 
I have completed it, just in case the last one was different.

I do believe the Riverside is more inclusive than it and Ayresome Park were, in the past. By a significant margin too in the case of Ayresome.

I do know from doing work for the Foundation that they try and do include all members of the community into the activities of the Club.
 
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JackG said:
Millwall were one of the very first clubs to take these issues seriously. The Millwall Community Trust (est. 1985) has an enviable record in community engagement.
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My mistake.

Crystal Palace’s Michael Olise was hit by a bottle, Conor Gallagher was targeted by homophobic chants, and Ashley Cole was racially abused during the weekend’s FA Cup third round.
Palace won 2-1 at The Den to reach the fourth round, which began with a number of Millwall fans booing players who took the knee to protest against racism.
The fans then followed that up by striking Olise with a bottle in the second half, and Gallagher was the subject of the chants throughout the game.

Millwall released a statement saying they would investigate the incidents.
"Millwall Football Club has a zero-tolerance policy against all forms of discrimination and will investigate any incident of alleged abuse accordingly. As is club policy, any individual found guilty of discriminatory abuse is issued with an immediate lifetime ban," confirmed a club spokesperson.

Oh, fined for racist chanting in 2019 as well.
It was only us and Millwall that didn’t take the knee..
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newyddion said:
Riversidebyside is utter bollokcs.

Inclusion..
We boo taking the knee
We chant ‘town full of rent boys’
We don’t have a womans team

It started in 2017 - five or six years of work on inclusivity and what do we have to show for it?
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We're soon offended when Paedophile chanting comes from any opposition fans (also offensive and horrible, of course), but the whole Town Full of Rent Boys rubbish has to be stopped too.

I'd like to say we're better than that, but I'm not sure we are. We certainly should be - as it isn't 1975.

I find as much as I love football, I'm not in love with the fans and a great many of the players - due to attitude. Then every once in a while someone like Sol Bamba comes along, or a George Friend, and I find myself thinking that some of these boys are excellent human beings.
 
Hap said:
We're soon offended when Paedophile chanting comes from any opposition fans (also offensive and horrible, of course), but the whole Town Full of Rent Boys rubbish has to be stopped too.

I'd like to say we're better than that, but I'm not sure we are. We certainly should be - as it isn't 1975.

I find as much as I love football, I'm not in love with the fans and a great many of the players - due to attitude. Then every once in a while someone like Sol Bamba comes along, or a George Friend, and I find myself thinking that some of these boys are excellent human beings.
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we are behind the times.
 
newyddion said:
Riversidebyside is utter bollokcs.

Inclusion..
We boo taking the knee
We chant ‘town full of rent boys’
We don’t have a womans team

It started in 2017 - five or six years of work on inclusivity and what do we have to show for it?
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Totally agree and I will certainly take this back to them...more needs to be done and not just to pay lip service to PL or EFL
 
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Part of the reason for me pushing fans to fill this survey in is to give the club a kick up the backside to take EDI seriously across the whole club...they don't even have a dedicated EDI officer, it is basically tagged on to various roles and very little to bring it together other than this EDI board from what I can tell. I have said to them that if they are to take EDI matters serious then they must have a dedicated post and team to it.. we will see if they listen to what they are being advised of
 
Ref: comments like I don't see more inclusiveness at the Riverside or the club doing anything more etc

I see more fans of differing racial types and more players too than in the past (5 of the 14 used at WBA). Yusuf is a high profile example of a Boro fan who is fully integrated into the fan base of the club. He has also done video interviewing work for the Club.

Thye staff working at the Riverside are more diversified than in the past. I was served by a East European woman in the ticket office for the QPR game.

There are more women and girls attending games and particiapting in pen shoot outs, mascots etc - Boro have one of the highest percentages of female fans in the country. A women aged about 50 say on her own near me at WBA. She had a Boro scarf and no one obviously near her was with her. I did not speak with her, but I thought how great it was that she was comfortable doing that, sorry to say it was not have happened 30 years ago or very unlikely.

I personally have not heard any racial chanting for many years at the Riverside from Bor fans, probably the last was at Ayresome, for me. In contrast I remember seeing monkey gestures and chants aimed at Ugo when he returned to Villa in 2001 and I was in the Holt End.

The rent boys chant is heard occasionally, but its becoming less and less. I believe some younger fans may not even know what it means.

I am told the facilities for people with a disability are very good at the Riverside, but I have not attended a game in that section, but know someone who takes his son who has a wheelchair. They also have allocated car parking spot in a club car park. The father gets free entry to Boro home games.

The Foundation have a special bus that they use to bring fans from East Cleveland to games, particularly for fans without a car. I think its only £2 so its helping low income groups.

The Club have been helful with food banks to help people on Teesside who are struggling with food poverty. There was a collection point in the ticket office.
 
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BoroLioness said:
Part of the reason for me pushing fans to fill this survey in is to give the club a kick up the backside to take EDI seriously across the whole club...they don't even have a dedicated EDI officer, it is basically tagged on to various roles and very little to bring it together other than this EDI board from what I can tell. I have said to them that if they are to take EDI matters serious then they must have a dedicated post and team to it.. we will see if they listen to what they are being advised of
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When I worked at a College employing 200 people there was not dedicated EDI officer, one person had it as a significant oart of their job, but we all had regular training and integrated into everything we did. It was in my lesson plans and I kept a EDI log which all other staff members could access electronically. It was everyones responsbility.
 
Bit of a crap survey but I filled it in anyway, There was no mention of balloons at all. Really disappointing.

Edit - most of my answers were 'prefer not to say'. I don't like putting labels on myself.
 
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Redwurzel said:
When I worked at a College employing 200 people there was not dedicated EDI officer, one person had it as a significant oart of their job, but we all had regular training and integrated into everything we did. It was in my lesson plans and I kept a EDI log which all other staff members could access electronically. It was everyones responsbility.
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Agree it is everyone's responsibility but organisations that have a dedicated role and team actually do better on EDI matters as they are completely dedicated to it and not as well as other matters. It focuses the work and importance of EDI
 
The Ruthsayer said:
We do have a women's team.

Welcome to the official website of Middlesbrough Women F.C | Billingham, Durham

www.middlesbroughwomenfc.co.uk www.middlesbroughwomenfc.co.uk
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Not part of MFC tho..
Rofesleg said:
I wonder if we'll ever reach the point where inclusivity happens naturally without the need for dedicated company officers, surveys, action plans and targets.
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small gestures and increases in visibility can make a big difference.. we’re not doing any of that atm
 
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