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Whalley to leave STANLEY in the next few days.can someone put the link on pleases

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aint online yet.

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Now online:

Whalley set to cut his Stanley ties (From Lancashire Telegraph) :D

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Paragraph 2 is the most interesting to me.

"19 months after relinquishing the day to day running of the club". having known Eric for many years some of the decisions made during this time certainly did not seem his style.
I spoke to him a while back regarding the cheap season ticket offer, his comments where as you would expect. this was in my opinion a big mistake as i suggest it did not put more bums on seats, just eroded the clubs income.
Also our Commercial Dept should certainly take a good look at itself (or perhaps Mr Khan should look at it) it surely isn't pulling its weight in the old days all games had sponsors, we had new boards around the ground, also how successful is our weekly draw these days.

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its certainly true that the Commercial Team doesn't appear to be doing its job. Ground not sponsored, no new shirt sponsorship tied up, boards not full, games not sponsored etc etc - Hopefully this is all linked to EW still casting his shadow but should this latest twist happen to be true then the gloom should be lifted and they can finally start to earn their corn.


As for the weekly draw, i've never liked it. I think that the main benefit of how it is at the moment is that the club do not have to do much regarding the organising of it. But I would certainly prefer a draw that is actually made at the club (half-time) and where the winners are all local. Does anybody think that the draw, with lower 'jackpots' but local winners would encourage more or less entrants?

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dont think its right to knock commercial dept, as hands were tied wi that albatross around there necks, once the DoN hopefully follows suit, then they stand a much improved chance of attracting sponsors. IMHO.

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agreed - but hopefully they have a long list of businesses to contact who have previously intimated that they wouldn't deal with us again whilst he is around

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I've had a ticket in that draw for, must be ten years Mac, but never see the winners printed anywhere does this happen and it does where are they published?

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there is a list of main winners published almost every week on the website. Failing that you can usually find them on the Blackpool or Preston sites.

There are however many bigger winners but then a couple of hundred or so £5 or £10 winners where the names aren't published - I only know whether Ive won or not when the tenner drops on the doormat!

As welcome as tenners are on the mat, to be honest any of us only ever play these sort of things for jackpots don't we?

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Jackpots...whats them? aint won a jackpot since they stopped yeh fiddling the bandits up the elite in 60s.:D

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Whalley was leaving Stanley eighteen months ago when he "sold" his 51% shareholding to O'Neill. I will believe it when I see it, but maybe it will happen "in the next couple of weeks".

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Thanks for that Mac, its just that, as I said, I've had a number in the draw for about 10 years and have never won a bean:)

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Perfectly true, but suspect his balls are trapped in the mangle this time.:D

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Well for gods sake let go the handle and let him get on his way:D

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Oh let us turn it a bit more on a tighter squeeze it it comes out tother end:D

Yes im a rhyming slang witch :p

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Not as you'd notice:D

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The weekly draw at its height had around 2000 members at £1 per week for this I understand that the club received 60 /65% say £1300 52 WEEKS A YEAR. The downside was that it needs collecting + new members need to be found to replace natural wastage. The fact that it was connected to another club is irellievent. This type of draw is not only aimed at the supporters but at every household in the area. so therefore the bigger the prize the bigger the bait.
Macca's club house draw would never raise this type of money, nor would our present commercial team who are all Don's people full of big ideas with little sunstance i'm affraid ( I exclude the guy in the shop from this as he seems to get plenty of praise) We seem to have missed the boat on so many levels, back to basics boys get your arses out there and earn your money.

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I wasnt meaning a club house draw Dave, pretty much the same as it is now/was with the exception that we do the running of it in return for being able to offer local winners rather than ones all over the North of England.

Yes, to begin with the prizes would be smaller as £2k a week income could only offer £500 jackpot - however I'm thinking along the lines that if you know people who have won you are much more inclined to enter. When we first began the Gold Bond we only had average crowds around the 500 mark and couldn't possibly have dreamed about average crowds at 1600 +. We now have a bigger market than we did and possibly more collectors available to push it.

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I believe the income dropped to around £1200 a week 18 months ago, but I'm not sure whether it has increased/decreased since

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Seven days !
Is this going to be the 'next week' we've been waiting for ?

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What do we think before Saturday's game, a minutes silence or a round of applause !!:rolleyes:

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I think three cheers would be good , but will he go quietly? I don't think so, I reckon he will want the earth for his shares .I won't hold my breathe butkeep my fingers crossed that the news really is acurate.

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Macca the thing about the existing weekly draw ( if run properly) means that you aren't hitting the speccys but the people of Accy. How many houses are there between The Crown and say Highams these should all be canvassed.
That way you leave the regulars with an extra pound for Liz's 50/50 or whatever. We should maximise every opportunity no club will ever survive on gate money. Certainly not at £6+ per game for season tickets.

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Long Time Red is correct in a lot of ways wth revenue streams

The weekly draw is a win win or should be for the Club the more folk in it the bigger the kick back

Localising it at the moment there are probably reasons for it maybe needing agents to run it?

I am a member of a few different local groups who have members draws weekly & monthly and they provide as Macca says Localised winners which in turn generates it's own publicity and keeps it's loyalty base whilst continuing to ensure they grow providing bigger prizes and more income revenue.

Maybe it is something that could be really pushed & worked upon with a "Community Club" in that part of any membership could maybe become an integral part of an income generator.

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I can't believe that the biggest and best news story that has hit our club in ages has turned into a debate about the pros and cons of the weekly draw!!!

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ha ha!

are you joining the new one then?

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If the club were quick enough there could be a special draw for the date & time for when it all becomes official :)

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Or they could run a sweep- listing Date n Time.:D

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Can I have "next week" please?

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Nice little bonus for Blackpool players in this weeks winners :D

£200L.1901 - Players PoolMr I Holloway

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Been in a coma for the last week....... Has Eric And DON shipped out yet ??????

The last thing i can remember was about a week ago - something was mentioned about "the next few days"

Just hoping i havent missed it..............

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summat about the three of 'em keep changing their minds about which i's to dot and which t's to cross.

maybe.

or summat like it.

unofficial like.

you never heard it from me.

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It was said to be in the hands of a solicitor . Looks like it is the solicitpr we used to make our Will , took him about six weeks to get it typed up and posted to us and that was without any complications.

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lets hope its not the solicitor employed by Do'n (get gone) to transfer ownership of the shares nearfly 2 years ago

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and there's another call from RH in the Observer for this mess to be sorted rapido before we start to lose players. Another quote from IK he hopes to have it wrapped up within the week (its catching ...)

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C'mon, guys, since when did a solicitor do anything in a week? It takes 'em that long to pick up the phone. And there could be at least three solicitors involved here.
Definitely the week after 'next week'.

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Some of you might be interested in reading this, which goes through the whole itinery of what's wrong with footy in general and alternatine ownership and governance structures:

http://www.centreforum.org/assets/pu...ig-society.pdf

It's good bedtime reading.

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i tried tealeaf, but .......