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diamond82 wrote:Reading the programme from the Darlo game it looked like at least 65 tickets had been purchased based on the ticket numbers. Multiply 350 by 65 and add the VAT and you get £26731.25. Now I was as sceptical as the next person initially but far from reeking of desperation I think those results should be viewed as quite successful for shirt sponsorship for a team in the fith tier of football who hadn't been able to sign up a sponsor prior to this.

Unfortunately the ticket numbers started at 26, so only 39 tickets were sold raising £13650+vat.

http://www.thediamondsfc.com/page/NewsD ... 37,00.html

Still, at the end of the day it's a lot better than £0.

coltrane wrote:Holding a raffle for this kind of thing smacks of desperation to me and having to buy enough tickets to make sure that the organiser wins looks pretty naff to say the least, maybe the less said on this subject the better as it all looks just a little bit poo! :(

Yes, the club IS desperate for money. Keith Cousins will tell you that if you ask him, so to do ANY kind of fundraising is a desperate measure to KEEP OUR CLUB GOING. If you think that's wrong please tell us where, and how to do it differently. I'm sure your suggestions will be listened to at the club and they'll even give you the chance to enable it if you ask.

Two of Diamonds wrote:

coltrane wrote:Holding a raffle for this kind of thing smacks of desperation to me and having to buy enough tickets to make sure that the organiser wins looks pretty naff to say the least, maybe the less said on this subject the better as it all looks just a little bit poo! :(

Yes, the club IS desperate for money. Keith Cousins will tell you that if you ask him, so to do ANY kind of fundraising is a desperate measure to KEEP OUR CLUB GOING. If you think that's wrong please tell us where, and how to do it differently. I'm sure your suggestions will be listened to at the club and they'll even give you the chance to enable it if you ask.

I wouldn't bother ToD, its a waste of time trying to convince some clowns, some people would prefer to just find all negatives in this world rather than offer praise or alternative solutions. :roll:

I've got a solution. Start actively looking for next seasons sponsors right now.

I know the financial climate is bad, but theres no excuse for a club like us not to have a shirt sponsor in my opinion.

CountHermanDeBanker wrote:

Two of Diamonds wrote:

coltrane wrote:Holding a raffle for this kind of thing smacks of desperation to me and having to buy enough tickets to make sure that the organiser wins looks pretty naff to say the least, maybe the less said on this subject the better as it all looks just a little bit poo! :(

Yes, the club IS desperate for money. Keith Cousins will tell you that if you ask him, so to do ANY kind of fundraising is a desperate measure to KEEP OUR CLUB GOING. If you think that's wrong please tell us where, and how to do it differently. I'm sure your suggestions will be listened to at the club and they'll even give you the chance to enable it if you ask.

I wouldn't bother ToD, its a waste of time trying to convince some clowns, some people would prefer to just find all negatives in this world rather than offer praise or alternative solutions. :roll:

You're the clown if you think that it makes good sense for a business to have to raffle off one of it's main providers of funding to someone buying a ticket, shirt sponsorship should be a sought after commodity worth 20 or 30 grand so to have to stoop to raffling it off says something about the way the club is going. I don't for a minute blame the chairman for the lack of interest in shirt sponsorship he is doing all that he can, but raising a few grand by raffling off something that is worth much more can hardly be seen as something to rave about can it? In fact it's poo! :roll:

Ah yes, of course, I'd forgotten the greatest business saying: No money is better than some Money.

wewantourdarbyback wrote:Ah yes, of course, I'd forgotten the greatest business saying: No money is better than some Money.

Hear, hear. :lol:

Now if that don't prove your clowning about Coltrane, I don't know what does.

^^ +1

In an ideal world, yes we'd want more for the shirt sponsorship and not have to resort to a raffle, but we've had to.

CountHermanDeBanker wrote:

wewantourdarbyback wrote:Ah yes, of course, I'd forgotten the greatest business saying: No money is better than some Money.

Hear, hear. :lol:

Now if that don't prove your clowning about Coltrane, I don't know what does.

But to be fair you are a clown ;)

BartonRaz wrote:I've got a solution. Start actively looking for next seasons sponsors right now.

I should imagine that looking for any sort of sponsor is an on going task for KC, Helen, Rachel etc.