St Ives

[A Rebel and a Saint]

There will be a couple of charity collections going on at the game on Saturday, plus a health stall as well.

 

Details on the Trust website: http://www.sloughtownsupporterstrust.co.uk/news

[Reading Rebel]

Have to say some fantastic work being done by the Trust and various charity volunteers.

[Sir Rebel1965]

With all these events going on at the ground, will there still be time and space for the game of football to be played, or should we just scrap the football and hold a fate on the pitch?

[Irishadrian]

Rebel1965

Presumably a fate worse than death?

[Sir Rebel1965]

Irishadrian - you got me fair and square, yes it should be fete, however sometimes it feels that way when clubs forget it is the football which people come to see rather than being hijacked for non-football related stuff.

 

People come to football to get away from the stress and strain of work and the problems in their life and to relax , and then they get accosted by the bucket rattlers and do gooders wanting to invade their free time. 

 

Everywhere you look and go there is someone with their hand out wanting you to donate to this, send 3 pounds a month to that, and it has now got to the stage where the charity business is constantly invading your life - in the high street, on TV, and in your leisure places - football grounds,  Many people have become alienated from giving as it is now just a commercial practice and in some cases the business side is more important than the charitable side.

 

If I want to give to good causes I will select and donate to them in MY own time - the Mark Scott appeal being one of them, and when I do, I tend to do these things anonymously and generously, for my own good reasons.

 

Good luck to those who want to raise money for there causes - but please respect my rights and let me watch football and relax.

[A Rebel and a Saint]

No one is forcing you to donate to anything, so why do you even need to mention it?

 

However in terms of promoting the Club in the community, charity work is an important part of making us look good, especially now we are back in the town.  Last season nearly £4000 was donated to charities from bucket donations and the car parking permits at Arbour Park.  Some of us put a lot of time and effort into this work to promote the Club and there are many ways to do it beyond the football pitch.

It is also good for the Club to connect with the supporters by allowing them to do collections for personal events, such as Rachel's (and one or two I've done in the past for example), as well as bigger events like the Barrel Roll which puts our name in the local papers and out in the town.

Edited August 26, 2017 by A Rebel and a Saint

[David Carpenter]

Rebel 1965. I introduced along with Danny Turner the PALS pan-disability team to the club which agreed to affiliate them. This in turn enabled them to compete in the BOBi league. At each monthly tournament some 50 teams participate enabling men,women,boys,girls to compete and have an extended social life. It is a tremendous organisation run on a voluntary basis by people you would presumably categorise as do- gooders. Without such people and with current and continuing cut backs in social welfare then more and more people would be denied a reasonable social existence. I do understand your concern regarding some charities being run perhaps in dubious fashion. The Alzheimers Society does tremendous work and apart from caring for people with Alzheimer's Disease and other multi faceted forms of dementia (currently 100 types identified to date) it has also played a significant role in increasing society's knowledge of such diseases which can strike anyone. I have trained as a befriender for the Alzheimers Society although current ill health precludes me from taking up that role. As ARRAS states there is no compulsion for you at anytime to contribute and any donation you make to any charity is rightly you choice. However for you to denigrate people who work as volunteers sometimes in difficult circumstances as "do-gooders" I find to be somewhat unpalatable.

[Sir Rebel1965]

Thanks for shoving it down my throat again!

 

You have now alienated me from any charitable activities in the future.

[epicrebel]

It's funny how you've taken offence to someone you offended. 

[A Rebel and a Saint]

If you don't make the comments you made above, there's no reason for myself or Dave to say anything at all.  You bought this on youself.

A lot of people put a lot of their own time towards running and promoting the Club, all you have to do is walk past us on the matchday and not do or say anything unless you choose to do so, most people manage it perfectly fine.

[Stuntman Mark]

Anyway onto the game. I'm really looking forward to it and expect us to make it three wins on the trot.

 

My starting XI, taking into account injuries, suspensions and absences.

 

[Reading Rebel]

Ditto with the Stuntman.

[staines_rebel_Jr]

Genuine question - does the trust and its members organise and collect more money for itself / the club or more for charity?

 

No need for an essay answer just a few words, I am genuinely interested and in no way take it as a dig or anything.

[A Rebel and a Saint]

Both, depending on what comes up across the year. The trust fundraises for itself at Christmas with the draw, and on the Sponsored Walk. The donations are made to the club each year either in lump sums or other beneficial projects. The charity events depend on what were invited to be part of.

 

Basically as it is trust board members that are generally front of house on matchdays, we run the collections whether it's trust or club who was approached to do it.

[staines_rebel_Jr]

Thanks Dan

[epicrebel]

Comfortable 

 

Slough 3 v 0 St Ives

Flood 38

James Dobson 45

Gavin James 78

 

Att618

[GlenSTFC]

Too comfortable, seemed like a pre-season match at times! The result I expected and we did enough to get the win without over doing it, could have stepped up a few gears if we had to. St. Ives we're poor but these are the games you need to win comfortably which we did. Monday at Farnborough will I'm sure be tougher even though they're not having the best start, hopefully we can take a couple of hundred over and another win would put us possibly in a top 3 position. Well done Rebels!

[Curtis]

The second goal just before half-time seemed to give us the opportunity to kill the game as a contest..... I would like to think that we did that because it's a busy Bank Holiday weekend with another match on Monday, and that under different circumstances we would have pushed on for an even more empathic win.

 

A good performance, another three points, and no apparent injuries.... so all round a good day.

[Stuntman Mark]

It was quite tight until the first goal but it was game over once that went in and we completely dominated the second half. 

 

Chris Flood rightly man of the match. Maybe the best all round striker we have had at the club for a while?

 

COYR!

[PaxtonLee]

Flood was excellent, the work he put in to get in a position to tee up Dobson for the second, it just didn't seem on. Then lovely skill on the touch line leading to the third, looked like he kept the ball in from where I was standing!

 

The first 15 mins of the second half, we were relentless but then took our foot of the gas I guess to keep fresh enough for Monday.

 

Couldn't work out if it was 3 at the back 2nd half, a back four, or flitting between both.

 

My only grumble is Turner's keepers shirt, too Arsenal for my liking!