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Oi! Rob!! Supporters Club AGM?

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Any idea of the date for the Supporters Club AGM, Rob?

 

There's nothing that I can see on your web-site although my eyes were slightly blurred by the pink banners. Very fetching, by the way.

 

Are members of the Supporters Club to be allowed to vote for the election of Officers to t'Committee or will you simply publish the results after the event?

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What!!!!

 

The Supporters Club AGM is TONIGHT at 7.30 at the Clubhouse?

 

It's a good job you raised it Nos. There might be one or two shady characters standing for [re]election and if we hadn't known, there would have been nothing we could have done about it. I wonder who decided upon a 'no publicity' AGM? Perhaps it's one or more of those standing for re-election. Hmmmnnnn. I've heard of gerrymandering [and I've also heard of gerryandthepacemakers], but this kind of anti-democratic stuff has to be stopped.

 

Right. I'll be there. Who is up for re-election, Nos?

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Morning Affy,

 

Not quite sure what tonight has to do with anything. It is May 11, according to the SC page. It's been in the programme more than once and from what I told, all SC members were e-mailed about it a couple of weeks ago.

 

Hope this helps.

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I don't think that he is one, Zealster.

 

I'm pretty sure that Rob the Saint is and his silence on here concerning the date of the meeting is deafening. Mind you. He does get to the occaisional game - unlike that Webbo chap.

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That's fairly clear, Rob. Double 'p' in Supporters would have made it 'crystal' but I can see what you are getting at.

 

Are you standing for a second term after your first as a novice Rob? You have my vote, mate.

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I'm having a think about it, AFF. These things can't be taken lightly y'know.

 

A lot depends on what happens on Sunday, if we get a result there will be a lot more work for everyone at the club and a lot more members of the Supporters Club, not just Committee members, will have to become involved. At the moment it seems to be few that do the voluntary work and the majority just pay their subs and take the subsidised coach travel, thank you very much.

 

There, speech over, do I get the job or is it 'you're fired'?

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Don't get me started on this one, Rob.

 

Firstly, as an aside, I must tell you that I have converted to the LibDems. I've read the party manifestos religeously, compared the personnas of the lunatic at No 10, Dave 'The Bike' Cameron and Ming the Merciless, and carefully examined the macro and micro political views of the respective MPs. It's the Lib Dems for me for the future. The compelling reason? I caught 20 minutes of Question Time last night and Julia Goldsworthy is an absolute babe. She is a LibDem MP, apparently, and she's got my vote.

 

Anyway, back to your point. I think that you're being very unfair. I don't believe for a moment that fans join the Supporters Club for £3 per season or whatever it is [i don't know as I had a medical a couple of seasons ago before buying a life mebership for £25] in order to save £1.50 every time they travel by bus to an away match. Apart from anything else, the coaches hold 52 people [don't bother to tell me how many of those pay, and how many of those obtain the discount as they are members of the Supporters Club, Rob], but the maths confirm that your logic is totally flawed.

 

There seems to be a view that a pre-requisite of membership of the Supporters Club Committee is the selling of raffle tickets on match-days, and similarly, that those who sell raffle-tickets on match-days are perfectly qualified for membership of that Committee. I don't hold that view.

 

There is a good number of tasks that must be fulfilled by voluntary labour on match-days and for me, at t'Park in the absense of a Board of Directors who do so, it is the role of the Supporters Club Committee to ensure that they are. [Done.] If all other efforts fail then the Member must do it him or herself.

 

Some eejit has made the point at the last couple of Supporters Club AGM's that the Committee should consider taking on a wider role at the Club, but that has fallen on deaf ears, and that is fair enough in a democratic set-up. However, I share that eejit's views. And I said 'consider'. The reason given for dismissal of the thought? 'The Members of the Committee are too busy on match days to do anything other than what they are doing'. Fair enough, but a false premise in my view.

 

There must be enormous changes made if The Mighty Saints are to play in the Conference Nationale next season. At other grounds, I always look around while soaking up the pre-match atmosphere and see how they 'do it'. I suspect that I am one of a small handful of less than 10 Saintsfans, if that, who do so, incidentally, but that's by-the-by. The difference on match-days at practically every other Conference South ground is very significant, let alone at the next level.

 

For any club to survive at this, or the next level, it needs an active and well-supported Supporters Club and its Committee. Primarily as you are the worst raffle-ticket seller that I have ever come across Rob, you are just the man for membership of the Committee for me. Stick with it [and vote for Julia Goldsworthy - LibDem MP for somewhereoranother.]

 

I did say that you shouldn't get me started on this one Rob.

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Is it a pre-requisite for all Supporters Club Officials to sell raffle tickets? That'd be why you get white, green, orange, light blue, dark blue and yellow ones every week, AFF..? They should probably spread out a bit, although such a blanket coverage method may, I suppose, be more financially beneficial.

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Hi Rob. I have said more than once that it would be cheaper for me to climb the steps to the clubhouse, open the door, throw a tenner onto the carpet marked "To the Supporters Club" [that's the tenner so marked, not the carpet] and turn round and walk into the ground.

 

I try and cajole you to sell me a couple of strips of raffle tickets out of sympathy, Rob. Then, in the ground, along comes that super-saleswoman Mrs Lippiatt. Try telling her that you've already bought a strip, Rob. Another £1.

 

Anyway. Where was i?

 

GHA. Eh?

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