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Post by newboy52 on Jun 10, 2021 16:46:55 GMT
I would just like to thank all of the Supporters Club volunteers who have worked on every home matchday , some go back as far as 25 years.
Manning the Club Shop, Selling 50/50 tickets, organising the lucky striker scheme, etc.
The profits from the above have provided :- A substantial Annual donation to the Main football club. Cases of beers for the players end of season celebrations.
Also Enabling Supporters to travel to away games with a subsidised Coach,( when covid has allowed ) to faraway places such as Barrow and Hartlepool. It may well be the Parent Club will be organising and running the subsidised Coaches for the new forthcoming season , We will wait and see on that one.
It may have been an oversight that no mention or has been made about the Supporters Club in the ' The Behind Scenes ' article or even any acknowledgement of the good work done by them over the years.
In the words of Omar Khayyam :- The moving finger having writes; and having writ, moves on.
The Supporters Club having rested and reformed will doubtless emerge in a different format ready for the new Season.
Thank you to all involved in the above and your input of time and energy over the many years .
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Post by banjo on Jun 10, 2021 17:38:50 GMT
Can you explain why the supporters club has ended, is it because we are in league Two and there are new rules or something else . Shore supports would like to know.
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bh
1st team Player
Come on you Us
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Post by bh on Jun 10, 2021 18:05:03 GMT
Hi, I don’t think the supporters club is actually closing. I understand shop is being taken over by the club, not the actual supporters club. I have already received my application to continue my membership, and the notice of the AGM. Closing the club isn’t on the agenda.
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Post by newboy52 on Jun 10, 2021 20:14:12 GMT
It is true that the Supporters Club isn't Closing.
Although it was a shock that the parent club moved quickly to comandere the Club Shop and Stock. Rest assured that the Supporters Club will still continue albeit in a different form, to carry on supporting the Fans and Players. We wish Gareth every success in his new venture managing the Shop and fulfilling worldwide on-line sales Orders.
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Post by Andy K on Jun 10, 2021 20:29:49 GMT
Extraordinary.
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Post by Chalmers on Jun 10, 2021 20:38:18 GMT
It is true that the Supporters Club isn't Closing. Although it was a shock that the parent club moved quickly to comandere the Club Shop and Stock. Rest assured that the Supporters Club will still continue albeit in a different form, to carry on supporting the Fans and Players. We wish Gareth every success in his new venture managing the Shop and fulfilling worldwide on-line sales Orders. So are you saying the club shop should continue as it is? As a football league side we should have the club shop closed until august and run merchandise only that the supporters club choose snd run it out of the managers house, cash paid when you come to the bottle bar and on Facebook? How many clubs above the isthmian league have their club shops run by the supporters club? We need to move with the times, in my opinion the club shop should be in the car park somewhere and stocked with more than half a dozen t shirts and a beach towel. We have supporters all over the world, the enthusiasm of the Italian guys, exiles in Australia, Canada, etc. We are a worldwide brand and our merchandise also needs to be so to fully take advantage of our brand and our place out there. The supporters club will always be essential to this club and someone like Bruce who ran it himself in years gone by would never see it be submerged by the progress the club has had to make, it’s obviously up to the existing committee if they want to move with the times or jack ir in and allow other forward thinking fans to take up the mantle. |
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Post by jr on Jun 10, 2021 21:10:49 GMT
I just found it bizarre that the SC shop was separate to the club and had no online presence or apparent commercial awareness. The half and half scarves for the Arsenal game for instance. I also heard that a box of the old 1998 centenary shirts were found a year or two ago and just thrown away.
The shop needs to be outside the ground and open 6 days a week and all stock available online. It’s quite ridiculous in this day and age that it’s not.
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Post by sallycat on Jun 10, 2021 22:31:53 GMT
I also heard that a box of the old 1998 centenary shirts were found a year or two ago and just thrown away. I actually found this quite upsetting for a number of reasons. Why would anyone do that? |
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Post by newboy52 on Jun 10, 2021 23:07:49 GMT
I completely agree with Chalmers,we on the Supporters Club Committee look forward to seeing you at the AGM to volunteer your services on the committee for a year.To steer it in a direction that you choose.The volunteers that have run the club shop free of charge for many years ,did it for the benefit of the true supporters to run a subsidised coach to support the team through good and bad times to travel to away games. The question you can ask any of the board,will that subsidised coach still be running to away games, paid for with the profits of the relocated club shop ?
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foxtrot
Youth Team Player
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Post by foxtrot on Jun 11, 2021 7:46:36 GMT
The club is right, to survive in the EFL they have to maximise every commercial opportunity. We have to accept that birthday cards for junior supporters, coach raffles and all the other wonderful personal touches that the supporters' club provided are things of the past. Thank you to all those involved with the shop and coach travel. I can not express how much your contribution meant. It's part of what made this club , I think, unique.
So goodbye SUFC (1898) it's been absolutely wonderful.
Hello SUFC (2021) I'm sure we'll be friends.
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Post by sallycat on Jun 11, 2021 8:17:28 GMT
I don't see why we can't still do things like the birthday cards? Lots of league clubs do that.
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Post by Andy K on Jun 11, 2021 9:26:29 GMT
I recall someone posting on the forum a few months ago saying that the club will change if we go up and "be careful what you wish for". They were right. If people don't like the change, then they need to do something positive about it. Passive aggressive rants on the forum about the club just make the poster look like a fool.
If the club are having to step up their game, perhaps the fans need to as well. Maybe it's time for the supporters trust to be resurrected in an appropriate form that represent the largest cross section of fans possible and that to be a mechanism in which the fans and the club communicate effectively and constructively together.
As we are told often, we are a "fans owned club". One of the downsides of our changing of status could well be more situations like this, and perhaps we can use that as an opportunity to all move in the same direction rather than just have an opportunity for a rant because they were missed out on a news item on the main club website.
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Post by Del on Jun 11, 2021 10:00:35 GMT
Well that news item related to all the hard work done behind the scenes relating to covid & of course we would like to thank all those involved in some capacity.
The transfer of the sale of merchandise is really a separate subject.
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Post by johnp on Jun 11, 2021 10:51:52 GMT
As an ex chairperson and still a committee member of the Supporters'Club.
I do not normally answer threads on here
But in this case agree with the last two entries.
The Supporters'Club shop was not just about selling merchandise. Membership, Goal sponsorship, 50/50 ticket sales, Add on sales,to raise money for parent club plus Coach bookings.
My main entries normally go under Supporters'Club and will certainly keep you updated with further developments after Committee meeting on Tuesday. Thank you.
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Post by sol on Jun 11, 2021 13:42:01 GMT
Whatever’s next for the supporters club - let’s PLEASE have some form of transport for away games.
It’s one of the joys of watching the away game is the coach travel.
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