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Now, that's not a bad idea, smobile. As a mug punter for Stanley memorabilia especially connected with the club's history, I'd certainly buy them!

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Wonder how many of those are ManU knobheads? theres loads of em.:D

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Incidentally, I wonder what Man U think about the whole thing? They've had their name associated with something that is fast becoming a national joke, and did the club ask their permission before printing their name on the fantasy tickets? I can't see their heartstrings being "tugged" very much after this!

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I have been informed that a certain very prominent Stanley figure usually posts all club projects on twitter? But in this instance sod all!!as i dont use it this is obviously second hand, but from a very good source.

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With all the media attention generated, it may be that the full allotment of 250 are eventually sold. We certainly need the money.

However, I'm concerned that the damage to the Club's reputation can only make future (and even existing) sponsors think twice before associating their name with such a gaffe-ridden Club.

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Guessing that you're referring to Mr Heys?

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Thats it in a nutshell as far as i'm concerned.

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Il put my hat in the ring. Peter Marsden or whoever is coming out with these ideas , put it through me first , and il ask around to get some feedback from some of the fans before you go and commit commercial suicide .... Or just put it through other people!

Many a times on an away day the lads and other supporters have come up with plenty of ideas to create money at the club and how it can be modernised for a bigger market and especially for the younger generation and families!

Maybe you should ask 10 people before you do these kind of things or ask for ideas from Stanley fans as obviously the person coming up with these ideas and Peter Marsden approving them clearly can't see this is not only mocking our club but committing commercial suicide.

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No certainly not, are yeh stumped?;)

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I have been trying to put my thoughts together to post on here since I heard this, but sadly I am still a little lost for words. Deeply insulted is the nearest I can get, and I have only been a fan since the conference. I dread to think how the longer-standing fans feel. A horrendous error of judgement.

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Agreed, and if they are all sold, those in charge will see it as a vindication of the idea, as they're far too shortsighted to see the long-term harm it's doing to the club's image.

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They could even up this fiasco total to 500.they are that thick imho.:eek:

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Ah, Bumble then! :p

He did retweet the club's tweet about the tickets yesterday afternoon, if that counts as putting the club projects on Twitter.

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Just been on radio 2 about it.

Clowns.

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Referring back to Mr Heys. Apart from his obvious antics.... which I dont condone

The guy did a much better job single handed than the 10/15 'directors' that are running the club nowadays!

Answer on a postcard - Because he knew the club! He was a fan! he approached things from our perspective!

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Only 48 left

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Currently the subject of a phone-in on BBC Radio WM's tea-time show, based in Birmingham. They know someone who's bought one so are asking people to phone if they've got a ticket for something that never happened!

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None left now. All been sold.

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There's no such thing as bad publicity ...... :D

Lighten up chaps , as it was suggested I should when you were kicking one another to death last week :eek:.

The real joke is the way you're all reacting - thought we knew how to take a joke from bitter, milky experience!!

:hidewall::hidewall::hidewall:

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I wouldn't have bought one.......:dummy:
Who is this mystery club called Manchester United.....:stupid:
I've never heard of them!:indeplus:

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You're joking, surely?

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Taking a joke is one thing. The club making a joke of itself is quite another.

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Now that all of the tickets have sold, there's no doubt that the directors will see this as a big success and vindicating the decision to go ahead with it.

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Peter Marsden just been on radio, says it being taken too serious ????????
He read an email/text out from someone who is keen and has bought 100 tickets, he did say this mans name but I couldn't make it out.

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it sounded like Mr P Marsden or something

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Sorry Chimer, the simple fact that this could in fact put future potential sponsers off, is NO Joke to me,

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But sponsors like publicity (with certain rape-related exceptions, obviously)! The coverage to date (other than on AccyWeb :mad:) is humorous and affectionate.

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You've not seen what people are saying on Twitter then, which is anything but humorous and affectionate.

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I take back what I said before. We've sold them, and have been on the news quite a bit. Reminding people we still exist and that we are held in affection by lots of folk!!

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I suspect this is nowt but a facesaver.:rolleyes:

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Breaking news: ASFC to sell 250 tickets for Cambridge away in Round 4 after tonight's FA Cup draw.

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I can just hear the Bury fans on Friday - we've given 'em a ready made comeback to our chant to them 'you all support man.u' . . . . . . . It'll backfire on us as they chant back 'you didn't play man.u' :o

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I'd have bought one, but I'm saving my cash to buy a virtual FA Cup Final ticket when we get there.

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But we CAN sing ...

"We're playing Madrid next week"

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I was going to mention that Real Madrid game but Macca beat me to it. And speaking of Macca, he has had some great fundraising ideas in the past. A pity that none of these have been acted upon.

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For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?

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But we CAN sing ...

"We're playing Madrid next week"

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There is one left according to fishy

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System won't let you buy it, it's sat there waiting for somebody to complete payment.

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Well get it completed Dave.:D

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There's a uniqueness about our club, we're not run of the mill and have a history of doing things a bit differently, and for me, this is one of those such things. We're in an always challenging financial position, and if the price of bringing some additional funds in, is some people taking the mickey, then let them carry on, as this is helping us survive.

Not escaped my notice that JC reckoned they'd lose £5K or £6K on the gate receipts from the Burton fans for the recently postponed games (less Burton fans will attend re-arranged game), and the maths from our Man U ticket stunt will net £5K - funny old thing that!

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I really don't agree with prostituting ourselves with this highly embarrassing promotion, but lets offer another 500+ tickets if indeed they have sold out, if some people are daft/kind enough to buy them! The damage to our image has already been done for most posters on here at least, so we may as well fill our boots whilst the going is good.

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Ok own up. Who has actually bought one of these?

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Was it not advertised as a limited edition of 250.....

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My guess

P M 100
J C 100
A P 50

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Who cares? I don't think the 250 buyers would mind, surely?

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Might of been only 3 buyers!!! LOL

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We'll see who the buyers are when the names are published in the roll of honour which was part of the deal.

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Be well funny if United contacted the club tomorrow morning for their share of the gate receipts as per FA Cup Rules.

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1. Anon

2. Anon the Second

3. Anon the Third

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Well i aint holding me breath mate.:)

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I don't think I'm breaking any official secrets act if I tell you there are 130 seperate buyers

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I've only had one real gripe this season and that was the return of the pezzy paper notepads for season tickets. Now they're just throwing blank real tickets around the place and using them for promotional images on the website?! :p :D

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They'll be up to £100 on fleabay by the weekend .... ;)

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Absolute fool.

I would love to know where all our wonderful board members are at this time of financial crisis??

I see Peter Shaw stepped down the other week, no doubt as he was asked for a few quid.

The whole situation absolutely STINKS and im sick to death of it.

If it wasnt for Rangers in Scotland I really do think we would be the total laughing stock of British league football.

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Utter bollards in my view. This to me is treating supporters as complete fools.:(

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[QUOTE=Revived Red;1128624]“All the monies generated from the commemorative tickets will be used towards helping John and Jimmy strengthen the squad"
Peter Marsden on 4 January.

"Any avenue that we can explore to try to bring funds into the club has got to be explored"
John Coleman on 4 January

"I can assure our supporters that we did not do this for the money"
Peter Marsden on 6 January

Someone speak with forked tongue.:mad:[/QUOTE


Have they let him out of the straight jacket yet?

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Whatever we all may have thought about this promo, well done the club, and my hat is tipped to ever it was that dreamed the scheme up.

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[QUOTE=smudgie;1128633]Absolute fool.
I see Peter Shaw stepped down the other week, no doubt as he was asked for a few quid.


I presume that you have some evidence to support this statement ?.

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Wasn't a fan of the idea at all when I first heard about it, and still not a fan of it now. Not at all. But I am happy that it raised the £5k - the club always needs the money.

I do think though that we can take some positives from our very negative reaction.

Maybe it is a British thing, while we are happy on the whole to poke fun at ourselves, and can cope with people doing so to us, we are very protective of things we love and care about.

You really can call me all the names under the sun - some people do - you can laugh at me and poke fun at me, and I will let it go over my head and chuckle at your attempts to get me to bite. But if you try to take the **** out of something I love and care deeply about – a family member, a good friend, or ineed my football club – I will react.

We even do it ourselves, to one another we call our small ground that is falling apart in places, the 'tinpot' quirks we know and love, and the way we have to all dig in to get things done. Yet if someone from another club dares to make a disparaging remark about our stadium, then they will get a reaction!

I think our true supporters could see what was going to happen – barrage of abuse from rival clubs – and reacted accordingly.

Perhaps we should all have been more worried if we hadn’t cared about our club being ridiculed – albeit only by a section of people, appreciate it got some good publicity too – if nobody had got upset about it then it would have indicated nobody cares?

Just my thoughts – now who do we play in the next round and is it on the television?

On Stanley On,

Rob

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evidence smudgie?

well done peter marsden and the staff, i didnt think it wold work but well done on selling all the tickets.

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I'm with Chimer, Rob and (:eek:) Davo on this. I thought it was embarrassing and wouldn't work, but it wasn't and did.
So let's get over it and the Shakers in the same week.

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Did you get your sequined purse out?

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Louis Tomlinson takes swipe at The Voice: 'It's like Accrington Stanley trying to compete with Real Madrid' - 3am & Mirror Online

Who needs fake tickets to get our name out there just leave it to some poncy boy hand mbee

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C'mon, Chubby, you know Davo doesn't have a purse - he keeps all his money rolled up in his suspender belt.:rolleyes:

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Boss; So Spot on!

As Coley says "keep the faith":)

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We're "laughing all the way to the bank" with our £5,000 raised according to Annabel Tiffin on North West Tonight. :rolleyes:

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Normally I try to put forward a reasoned argument for the money raising schemes the club put out I'm with Rob on this one. I don't like it and wouldn't go for it myself. I rate rate this along with the commemorative league cup semi final t-shirt that Rangers have tried to sell and there is no way I would buy one of them.

That said, it is £5000 of easy money and loads of publicity. I am proud of the club and, as rob says, would joke about it with the rest of us on the Clayton End but sod anybody else who tries it. I've had the "Accrington Stanley, who are they" which is met with "I've not heard that before" said with a scowl. Some of the women I work with have been talking about it - "Is that your dodgy club trying to sell tickets for a game that won't be played?" met with " if there's mugs that want to pay £20 a shot then it's easy money 'cos we're skint". And I work in Dumfries where most people couldn't find Accrington on a map.

I just wonder how many actually believe they have a real ticket for a match or a promise of a chance to buy a ticket for an up and coming friendly against Man Utd :D. Given the amount of people who spend hundreds of pounds on ebay buying iPhone 6 boxes or PS whatever boxes or Xbox thingy boxes and expect the real thing it wouldn't surprise me :D.

So, well done on the £5000 just think of a better way next time please.

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Real ticket: your remark about mugs applies :). Buying a ticket for a match played yesterday really wouldn't be too bright!

Promise, which was implied: maybe, and if the friendly does come off (two hopes, and Bob's dead) I hope the club invite the 250 for a grand day out :D

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Hard to argue wi that,;) But proud of em,i am not, The fact Mr Marsden says we didn't do it for the money, to me implies that all stanley fans are stupid,:( Everyone who goes to the crown ground knows damn well money is always very tight, and unless we get some kind person throwing much moolah our way it always will be the case, anyway now that hopefully the pantomine season is oer we, lets do Bury on friday night. KTF.

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Just to clarify, proud of the club as we all are as fans not the decision to go with the ticket idea. I could possibly have worded it better. :o

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Think yeh worded it well mate, wasn't a pop at yeh, just my 2 pennorth.;)

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How much would someone be willing to pay for a playoff home shirt from 2010/11 season ?

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An actual shirt or a commemorative one?

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One of the ones that wasn't used on the day because JC was supercilious and ended up using the league shirt in sted of the specialy made commemorative shirt that i have::D

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Sounds like just the item for Stanley Nick's programme fair, Mab.
By the way,was it Stevie Wonder who had a big hit with "Supercilious". ;)

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He obviously still hasn't got over us beating his beloved Doncaster Rovers in JPT a few years ago whilst wearing shorts borrowed from them :D

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[QUOTE=rob;1128


Just my thoughts – now who do we play in the next round and is it on the television?

On Stanley On,

Rob[/QUOTE]

Rob,

Agreed with all you posted and share your ideas and feelings in total !.....but my initial thoughts were ... " I wonder who we don't play in the Cup Final ,and if we print tickets for this will they be of any value ?..... and of course could the replay, if one was necessary, generate a £ or two for the club coffers ?.
And of course it would undoubtedly be televised because a Wembley occasion never misses !.

But all that is for next season !.... So ' On Stanley....On !!!' .

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:( Thats the problem with Pre-entered text !!:( Superstitious was what i was meaning;)

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Tyson gets subbed for scoring 40 yard free kick.

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Somebody trying their own fund raising with the Man Utd tickets. Cheap at only £55 :D . And no, it isn't me :D

Accrington Stanley V Man Utd | eBay

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If anyone's daft enough to pay £55 quid for it, can't blame the seller for making a bob or two from a useless piece of paper :rolleyes:

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Given that Stanley won't have had a home game for over a month:eek:, maybe it's the club that's trying to raise some more cash.:rolleyes:

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Looks like the fund raising is having a positive effect- according to Sky:o

New date for Accrington v Bury | Football News | Sky Sports

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There are times when I despair of the media and its
commitment to accuracy! :(

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Having those games cancelled must have opened a window to build that new stand - still quick work in bad weather though :D

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Just read the Bury programme on the Manchester United tickets it says the £5000 raised from the virtual tickets will be used by Coley to build his team, unfortunately the money has been spent on a virtual striker.

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That's all very well but can he score virtual goals? ;)

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Stanley to score goals is virtually impossible

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But we will try virtually any player up front. Even Macey had a go on Tuesday night

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But alas another non-striker in the squad !..... The phrase 'clutching at straws' comes easily to mind D !, and he just didn't get into the game at all !...but I'm sure I heard someone say that he's a fair singer and very good to his Mother !.....
So this particular 'Wengerbabe', IMHO, is not only Arsenal's loss but appears to be Stanley's loss as well !..... But we'll see.

( Alfred.E. really rates him though !)

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C'mon, Yonmon, give the lad a break. He's still a teenager learning the game. A test as to how quickly he learns will come tomorrow (weather permitting) when Northamton are in town. Check out two of their three goals last week. Expect a lot of high crosses and Cobblers lunging all over the penalty area.