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SamF · 06-09-2009, 10:21

Getting a bit annoyed with the club, all this publicity, all this effort and money from so many people and they don't have the sense to put anyone in the club shop all weekend. Been down twice to try and buy something and the place was deserted both times, surely they must realise Saturday is their best day to make the cash. That along with having one person on the bar at the fans forum it's just suicidal business practise, get another barmaid on for a couple of hours would have cost the club 10 quid and instead of people queing for half an hour and then slowly supping to save having to go back up people would have got onto their second and third drinks, making more profit for the club.

At the meeting we were resassured that once this debt has cleared the club won't face the same troubles as it is being ran much better now, I fail to see any evidence of this even at the very basic level.

Another issue is how they dismissed keeping the donors list on the website up to date as unfeasable - it is easily possible to automate the process and when I went down these last two days I was going to offer to do it for them but again there is nobody there. If it is so hard for somebody who is determined to help the club to do so what the hell chance do they have of persuading the casual supporters.

As for a couple of new fund raising ideas how about getting the good local restaurants, the college one at globe centre, over coffee, dunk etc to give the option of adding a £1 donation to the SOS fund with every bill.

Also how about taking the SOS shirts on the road but instead of being in red have them in the home teams colours with their name on the back. For example for the shakers a blue shirt with SOS on the front and BURY on the back.

06-09-2009, 10:21	#5
SamF Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,784 Liked: 192 times Rep Power: 0	Re: Fund raising and publicity Getting a bit annoyed with the club, all this publicity, all this effort and money from so many people and they don't have the sense to put anyone in the club shop all weekend. Been down twice to try and buy something and the place was deserted both times, surely they must realise Saturday is their best day to make the cash. That along with having one person on the bar at the fans forum it's just suicidal business practise, get another barmaid on for a couple of hours would have cost the club 10 quid and instead of people queing for half an hour and then slowly supping to save having to go back up people would have got onto their second and third drinks, making more profit for the club. At the meeting we were resassured that once this debt has cleared the club won't face the same troubles as it is being ran much better now, I fail to see any evidence of this even at the very basic level. Another issue is how they dismissed keeping the donors list on the website up to date as unfeasable - it is easily possible to automate the process and when I went down these last two days I was going to offer to do it for them but again there is nobody there. If it is so hard for somebody who is determined to help the club to do so what the hell chance do they have of persuading the casual supporters. As for a couple of new fund raising ideas how about getting the good local restaurants, the college one at globe centre, over coffee, dunk etc to give the option of adding a £1 donation to the SOS fund with every bill. Also how about taking the SOS shirts on the road but instead of being in red have them in the home teams colours with their name on the back. For example for the shakers a blue shirt with SOS on the front and BURY on the back.