TheFarPost Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 As promised, the announcement on Season Tickets is now up on the Club website, and going out on social media. https://www.dumbartonfootballclub.com/news/?mode=view&id=4409 Have a good weekend and stay safe... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super-son Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Good statement from the club. I did think that there would be an issue using season ticket money just now for both the reason that the club has stated and also it would leave us with no budget for when the season did start.One suggestion I have would be that I personally wouldn't mind setting up a monthly payment of say £30-40.This money would be used to start paying towards my season ticket and then pay whatever else I owe when the season does starts. Or if by the time I've paid my season ticket monthly and the season hasn't started yet just leave the monthly payment to continue until the season does. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallochSonsFan Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 The bit about reconstruction is interesting. If we end up with 14 - 14 - 14 and the Sons move to tier 2 then I'd expect season ticket prices to increase as we'd be in a league with mostly full time teams. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordo1872 Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Good statement from the club. I did think that there would be an issue using season ticket money just now for both the reason that the club has stated and also it would leave us with no budget for when the season did start.One suggestion I have would be that I personally wouldn't mind setting up a monthly payment of say £30-40.This money would be used to start paying towards my season ticket and then pay whatever else I owe when the season does starts. Or if by the time I've paid my season ticket monthly and the season hasn't started yet just leave the monthly payment to continue until the season does.That was my thinking behind a monthly contribution. The club offered this as an option last season (£25 pm) and there’s also the Manager’s Fund but I don’t think any of those options would suit what you are suggesting. For the liability reasons mentioned in the excellent club statement, and because the Manager’s Fund is specifically ringfenced for a playing budget.Paying in to the MF now wouldn’t be a bad way of building a good budget for when we do get back to playing. The club will need a separate fund for ongoing operational costs though. It would be good to know what that monthly sum would need to be and see a push for contributions to cover those costs specifically. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BendtnerBairn Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Morning lads, just dropping in to say I just dropped the kickstarted for a new Scottish football magazine I created with a couple of other fans. There is a column in there called The Part Time Journal in which Danny Denholm explains the importance of nutrition in a lower league footballers diet. There's some other cool articles / illustrations in there aswell. It would be great if you could back / share it with as many fans as possible. The link to our kickstarter is: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottkelly/stonewaller-magazine-number-1?ref=project_build 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Muir Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 As promised, the announcement on Season Tickets is now up on the Club website, and going out on social media. https://www.dumbartonfootballclub.com/news/?mode=view&id=4409 Have a good weekend and stay safe...That is a perfectly balanced and well thought out statement from the club. Well done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFarPost Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 12 minutes ago, Jumbo Muir said: That is a perfectly balanced and well thought out statement from the club. Well done. Thank you... we're trying our best to communicate, listen and engage. To a significant extent DFC is now a supporter-run club, and one with a determination to grow far deeper roots in the community. This means, on the non-playing side, that *everyone* other than our excellent p/t general manager and p/t marketing exec (sponsored by C&G, who have been incredibly supportive) is an unpaid volunteer. Long-term ownership and business sustainability issues remain critical, and have still to be resolved. But the backing we've received through donations of time and money during lockdown, and in the months preceding it, shows where the heart and soul of the Sons lies... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFarPost Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, super-son said: Good statement from the club. I did think that there would be an issue using season ticket money just now for both the reason that the club has stated and also it would leave us with no budget for when the season did start. One suggestion I have would be that I personally wouldn't mind setting up a monthly payment of say £30-40. This money would be used to start paying towards my season ticket and then pay whatever else I owe when the season does starts. Or if by the time I've paid my season ticket monthly and the season hasn't started yet just leave the monthly payment to continue until the season does. Thanks very much for this offer (and for others we have received, directly or indirectly). The Club Board is meeting via teleconferencing regularly, and all the ideas people have are being weighed up carefully as part of the overall picture. The liability issue is - as someone else mentions below - the one we need to be very careful about. There has been talk in some quarters of the game about "skipping a season" in the lower leagues. While many of us feel strongly that this is something which needs to be avoided (because the consequences for small clubs could be fatal), we can't totally ignore it. Hopefully decisions will be made in the near future, and we will then be on surer ground and able to proceed with plans like this. The other issue, of course, cash flow. Getting ST money in and spending too much of it ahead of the costs of a season would be robbing Peter to pay Paul, as the old saying goes. So our financial decisions need to be based on reducing expenditure as far as we can, increasing income-generation wherever we can, and not making commitments we cannot guarantee with down the line. Meantime, we will be proceeding with the online auction (next week) and other ideas. Edited May 30, 2020 by TheFarPost 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverton End Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 @TheFarPost What's being sold in this online auction, is it Sons' memorabilia? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) Boggers On Tour/Mr Boggers not letting lack of access to pubs inhibit his dross ramblings on the Facebook page. I guess the pub's loss is the off licence's gain. Edited May 30, 2020 by Boghead ranter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionel wickson Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 2 hours ago, Boghead ranter said: Boggers On Tour/Mr Boggers not letting lack of access to pubs inhibit his dross ramblings on the Facebook page. I guess the pub's loss is the off science's gain. Aye, winning that 10/- Postal Order in the club's programme quiz in season 1970/71 seems to have really gone to his head! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 29 minutes ago, lionel wickson said: Aye, winning that 10/- Postal Order in the club's programme quiz in season 1970/71 seems to have really gone to his head! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverton End Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 3 hours ago, Boghead ranter said: Boggers On Tour/Mr Boggers not letting lack of access to pubs inhibit his dross ramblings on the Facebook page. I guess the pub's loss is the off licence's gain. Did he complete his sponsored walk/shuffle to Cappielow? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Silverton End said: Did he complete his sponsored walk/shuffle to Cappielow? Didn't see it mentioned, tbh. Edited May 30, 2020 by Boghead ranter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microdave Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Did he complete his sponsored walk/shuffle to Cappielow?If this was the league cup game last year then he did. I saw him arriving as I was leaving. At half time! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFarPost Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 On 30/05/2020 at 15:50, Silverton End said: @TheFarPost What's being sold in this online auction, is it Sons' memorabilia? All will be revealed very soon... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverton End Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 31 minutes ago, TheFarPost said: All will be revealed very soon... Ok. Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWL Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Somebody from G84 just dropped a cool one thousand pounds into the Just Giving fundraiser. Obviously, that's just change down the back of the sofa for Helensburgh folk but that's some gesture. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 1 hour ago, PWL said: Somebody from G84 just dropped a cool one thousand pounds into the Just Giving fundraiser. Obviously, that's just change down the back of the sofa for Helensburgh folk but that's some gesture. I think they know Ann Budge 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 I'm really quite amazed at the amounts we're raising. I really thought £25K would've been a struggle but the response has been unreal given the circumstances. I'm certainly much more hopeful looking to the future now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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