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Good Afternoon

At last wenesdays meeting of the OASSC a new chairman was elected in Nick Westwell.
The supporters and myself would like to thank Dave of Giftprint for keeping the supporters club alive in the interim.
I would to take this opportunity to bring the club together, directors, players, supporters and office staff.
The OASSC will be having a page in the home programmes to promote our intentions and ideas.
Lets be positive and unite, some can give more than others.
I want to start by promoting our MEMBERSHIP only £5 for this you will receive a brand new designed pin badge sponsored by loyal and quiet as a mouse fan Mr John Hughes.
I will have membership forms on me at all games or otherwise email me on [email protected] and we can arrange for you to be a member.
As of today the membership stands at 62, lets have a push up to 100 by the northampton home game.
There are a few fund raising ideas in the pipeline so watch this space
Next meeting Wednesday 4th FEBRUARY SPORTS BAR 7.15pm

Thanks Nick

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good to hear Nick :)

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Will this be retrospectively applied to those of us daft enough to already be card holding members? :D

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Nick;

Great to hear things are moving forward in a postive manner.:)

I'll e-mail you re the Sportsbar; as all bookings go through Emma at the Crown copied to the Club offices.

It's used for numerous events as you'd expect by a good number of internal and external groups.

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yes......

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Nick/ I want one. If I send a fiver, 70p or more of it will go in postage costs, so I'll make it a sixer. Address to send to ? Cheque made out to ? If you could email me a letter5, or an attachment, I will forward it to several pals.

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great news.

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Is that a pearl diver struggling to free its self from your pocket?

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Nick, I will be up for the Northampton game - are they available to pick up in the club shop before games ?

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Good luck Nick.

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My cheque on its way, Nick. You can drop it in on my pal Albert Wilkinson in Park Lane. Address with cheque

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Thanks bob will sort

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Breaking news about the new 2014.15 metal pin badge
This will be a limited edition of 100 badges only, 1st come 1st served
These will become collectors items for the future
Currently we have 65 members paid up with a couple of cheques on the way.
I can arrange membership for interested parties just email me at [email protected] and we can sort it out, I will be at wimbledon on saturday so bring your fivers !

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Details of collection for any of the 65 please?

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When they arrive we will make a statement then

thank you

nick

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The badges have arrived in my post this morning...in my opinion they look virtually fantastic..... only 100 though so contact Nick and join the supporters club to get one free.

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Can you join me and the missus,and i will give you the money on Saturday ??

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I didn't realise Nick's abilities stretched to (re) joining man and wife!;)

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Here is an image of THE Official Badge!.....and can I reiterate that Stanley Nick is doing a great job !

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Nick, are you at the Northampton game, if so where. Will pay up when I see you if that is OK

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Good evening guys and girls

Badges have arrived, so where can you collect these ?
Football 19 I have saved you two app forms to fill in can u come and see me please.

In the Sports Bar tommorrow 1.45pm till 2.45 pm
After the game in the Crown
At the supporters meeting on Wednesday 7.15pm Founders Lounge
Away at Plymouth next Saturday
Home v Oxford 10th Feb Sports Bar 6.45pm till 7.30pm
Crown after game as well
Currently 75 paid up members
My email is [email protected] if u want to sort out that way
1st come 1st served I dont want any tears if you cant get the col.ectors item badge

Have a good evening

Nick

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Cheers nick,I will see you in the sports bar
Regards
Ian

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Nick,

Will come and find you in clubhouse before game tomorrow. Can you put a form etc aside for me please

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No probs jeg red c u in clubhouse tomoz

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Will pop in around 2-30 Nick.;)

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Ok cashi

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:) See you tomorrow usual place;) I have a form :)

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Cheers mab thats good mate

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Thank you to the supporters who made themselves members today it was a shock has supporters kept coming up with their fivers in droves
Two bits of good news 1. The badges x 100 have been sold 2. Director John Norris has sponsored the next 100 thank you john so we can fulfil orders and take on new members
Every home game I will be in the Sports Bar and the Crown after so make sure if you talk to me you have a fiver in your hand!
Big thanks to John Hughes whose idea it was for the badges they have gone down a storm cheers mate

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Nick i think you should make a website for the OSC! There are thousands of Accrington Stanley fans around the world and the only way they feel attached to the club sometimes is having that membership to the club and feeling part of it.

A website could give all the news about the osc and what is happening, it could also give the opportunity for people to sign up to the osc and to pay through their via a paypal account etc.

The osc needs to move with the times and the amount of support for the club a good website would really get the osc moving....

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Can always help with a website etc or a young head of ideas. Drop us a PM if needed.

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I've e-mailed el capitain with your idea ,I said the same.Can you make the meeting on Wednesday,you sound perfect for the job,but it needs to go in front of the meeting.I'm sure Nick will message you tomorrow.Many thanks

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Pm sent fc stanley sir

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Ha ha milk on the badge.

At the time of the advert Stanley got paid a 'substantial sum' for the use of the name, but people in the crowd reckoned it was about £10k. No idea if it was accurate, but that was a lot of money at he time with about a £400 gate. However the figures are all complete guesses, I can't remember the admission price that season.

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This time the milks free when you spend a fiver on membership.

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Great to meet nick in the sports bar on Saturday.

Badge is amazing.

Thanks nick.

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Thank smoile for that we have more badges in the pipeline watch this space

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Unfortunately didn't get a PM Nick however I won't be able to attend the next meeting due to work commitments.

I haven't been to one for many a year , just hope there's more enthusiasm and ideas there then last time ha... Oh and more people!

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Fc stanley I sent you a pm on sunday night with an invite, we are very keen to get a website up and running but it needs an expert and dedication to do this, you are welcome to come to any meeting,
or email me on [email protected]
Malcolm Isherwood vice chairman and myself are willing to come and see you over a pint to discuss the matter, we only took over 3 weeks ago and we are not trying to build rome in one day we are trying to unite all parts of the club as one.

cheers nick

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If it's the Official Supporters Club, it would make sense for all information to be held on the official club website. Nothing worse than a new website starting up and seeing it go to the scrap heap after people lose interest - that's not even mentioning the ongoing hosting/domain costs. I'd speak to Dan & Lee Carter to see what the capacity is before going and starting up a brand new site. There have now been two separate Stanley sites that have gone to the dogs and I'd hate to see another one rot away with outdated information.

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Thanks shakermaker I have got meetings with the club in the next two weeks
its on my agenda for discussion

Cheers Nick

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Exhibit A: Accrington Stanley - Official Supporters Club :(

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Aye true, but doubt very much if Nick will abscond.;)

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But as you will see Shaker , as soon as I opened that page it must be the most uninteresting website page you could possibly see! A new website needs to be professional as well as enticing!

What the osc needs is a website that has daily Stanley news on , a website where you can sign up and pay your membership for the supporters club, a place where you can order a supporters club scarf or badge. Another idea is to try and branch out to businesses to also sign up to osc. Why not have a weekly email to each OSC member giving you all the news from the week , prices , fixtures, offers, memorabilia in the club shop, events and a thank you for being a member.

They need a good and modern Facebook and Twitter account to mass out to the millions already on there!

Why not create a smart phone app ? Giving you the fixtures , latest news from the official website , news from the osc , videos from the player interviews and links to the goals from fixtures etc. It takes time but it's easily done.

There's so many ideas but like you say, Rome wasn't built in a day.....

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I think Shaker is spot on, for whatever reason before OSC websites haven't worked previously, I doubt the OSC will be doing news stories every day or even every other day so people will lose interest in visiting an OSC website with regular updates.

You need a website that people visit daily and the Official website is one that Stanley fans visit daily if not a few times a week so why not just merge it as one, Even split running costs?

Not sure if you can now but you should be able to sign up to the OSC on the official website, Even if its in the "online shop" section, People from all over the world shop for Merchandise there so could help gain more members that way?

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Fairly sure that LancsDave has passed on the "webmaster" details to those that need them.

I also believe from Dan that Lee Carter can easily add a "bit" on (section) like the Academy page for the OSC if asked.:)

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I get where you're coming from mate, I do, but in my professional opinion (I run the website and social accounts for a large organisation which supports smaller subsidiaries) as well as in my personal capacity as a Stanley fan, I'd strongly advise against creating a new site for the OSC.

The amount of interactive features you're talking about is great, however it is highly demanding on content production. The OSC would have to guarantee that it would produce enough ongoing content to gain support on a separate site - otherwise it would go unnoticed as far as search results are concerned.

You also talk about an app - these, as a general rule of thumb, are either a) very expensive to build and maintain, or b) cheap and full of ads. The most successful apps that are not games are ones that are transactional, giving people the ability to perform multiple functions in one place. If the app only has one function (becoming a member), people will not download it. Apps are quickly becoming a thing of the past for small businesses for these reasons, but also because mobile browsers are becoming much better at rendering websites. Why pay for an app when your website does everything and the take up on the app isn't that great anyway?

In my opinion the pros of dovetailing on the ASFC official website far outweigh the cons for two main reasons:

• Whenever ASFC publish a link to a news story via their social feeds, or whenever a person is browsing that site, there's a good chance they'll follow a link to the OSC to become a member. You already have an audience here; you wouldn't need to build one.
• You would have no hosting, domain or support costs (if the club was being super stingy they would ask you to share a portion of their costs, but this shouldn't be anywhere near what you'd pay for a new site).

Creating new social feeds would be perfect. They're free, you have the benefit of making people admins who regularly use social media, and you can use them to link to content on the official website. You wouldn't need to procure half the amount of content you would for a website.

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Was agreed to do that, just ran out of time to finalise it.

A section on the official website is best way forward at least short time. All supporter information in one place.

The demands of a website are very big in terms of keeping it fresh with news.

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You can now and will be able to do so as long as the OSC require it. It's a bit lost at the moment becuase it doesn't come in to the categories for the retail but if the OSC had their own section it could be moved.

Accrington Stanley Supporters Club Membership 2014-2015 - Accrington Stanley FC

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Well my time isn't needed as it seems! Good luck the osc and hopefully you can generate more members by merging to the official site!

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Nothing was decided at the meet on Weds, just to look at all options, is how i understood it.

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That's what the previous posts were, just options. Pro's an Cons whichever method is used. Whatever is decided at the meetings is what counts.

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Good Morning

The next meeting of the OASSC is on Thursday 26th February 7.15pm in the Founders Lounge
ALL SUPPORTERS are very welcome, members and non members, all different supporter groups and all ages.
A major fundraising project will be launched on the night !!
Thank you to all those who are now members of the OASSC we have currently 111 paid up members.
We are awaiting the new batch of the pin badge to enable us to boost the membership over 200.
How can i become a member ?
Club shop forms on the counter and the lads behind the counter will give there assistance
Before and after the game in the Sports Bar see myself
By email [email protected]

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Just got back from Portugal and the ASC badges have arrived in the post this morning,so a special thanks to Black Dragon Promotions for pulling out all the stops to get them to me before Friday.

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At the over 50's walking football today young tearaway Robin Rylett presented me with a signed Stanley football from the season of our promotion back into the football league to help raise funds for the OASSC .Robin a very kind gesture many thanks.

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I am giving a box of football stuff to sell at the upcoming football fair - check your emails, Nick.It needs collecting soon in Ossie.

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Thank you mr bob dobson for that
thank you to all those people who have donated programmes and shirts so far really appreciated
still more stuff wanted please, can collect as well

Thanks Nick

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My new badge has come in for a lot of praise - it shows the borough coat of arms alongside a bottle of milk.

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It was designed by a young un Bob, Everyone ive spoke too thinks its great.:);)

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Bob they will be available to buy via a membership at your reunion on 7th march re portsmouth game

cheers nick

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I shall try to drum up some support. Membership should be mandatory.

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Might be an idea for next season, When the club are giving out Season Ticket forms, Why not put on the bottom of the form about opting in to pay for a Supporters Club membership?

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That's a cracking idea !!!

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Its been noted baldy thanks it will be on agenda at thursday meeting

thanks

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Has the OASSC got a Facebook page ? There is a Stanley group with only 53 members and Nick Westwell is not a member.

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Is the supporters club meeting tonight? and what time? thurs 26th feb

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yeh 7-00.

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Thanks, I don't think I will make it.

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Sorry Chrisr it was 7-15, I was picked up early.:o

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Anything to report from the meeting ?

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Press Release Monday, next meeting 19th March, 7:15pm in the founders lounge. You're welcome to attend

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Accytom 101....Luton Town 1-2 Accrington Stanley

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Good morning

Reminder for this weekend alot going on via the OSAAC

Before the game on Saturday the sale of the new metal pin match badge Asfc v Portsmouth
Only £3, special edition of only 300 available
You can buy from club shop, inside the main stand, outside the home end bottom of steps
and the away end.
After game in the Sports Bar 5pm till 8 , Club get together, ex players, current players, directors, management team, all supporters welcome, and making his comeback to the stage the one and only Mr
Frank Martindale
Sunday is programme fair day in the Sports Bar 11am till 2pm
Food available with tea and coffee served by the girls Jill and Shelia
Everybody welcome £1 for adults
All proceeds from our busy weekend go to the OASSC

THANKS NICK [email protected]

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Ps about the asfc v portsmouth badge
If anybody lives out of the area within the Uk and you want a badge I wiil send in post £4 please
Just email on [email protected]

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Thank you to supporters who bought fundraising tickets,match badges and memberships your financial support means alot to the club
Sorry if I missed anybody with memberships its been a bit manic, if you want to email me on [email protected] we can sort
Otherwise I will be in Sports Bar for the York game 1.30 till 2.45pm selling fundraising tickets, match badges and memberships
Just a few Portsmouth match badges left just send me an email
Thanks also to Frank Martindale, The Players and Jimmy and John for joining us in the Sports Bar AFTER THE GAME

Tha

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Don't forget the programme fair tomorrow...Well done to Jill today for signing many new members for the OASSC...Well done to our Chairman,Ben the Clayton End Programme seller and the lads in the shop for a fantastic effort selling the match badges approximately 250 sold....awesome truly awesome.....

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I predict that, when the design of the OASSC badge is publicised in the national press, in both football magazines and newspapers, they will become much sought after. Good to meet Nick in the bar today - and here's wishing success to the fair there tomorrow, Sunday.

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Thanks mr dobson

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well done to all, seems like a Fantastic effort :-)

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Thank you all who attended the programme fair today
Thanks also to all the volunteers within the the OASSC
A great success the next one in September
Thanks to Clayton Park Pies for sponsorship

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looked very decent turnout, well done nick and the oassc

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Thanks derek got your knowsley prog for u c u at york game in sports bar mate

cheers nick

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top man cheers see you then derek

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Over £1000 was raised this weekend by members of OASSC who put in some long hours to benefit Accrington Stanley, its been a great effort by a great team, your honesty and social skills have been 1st class, i am a great believer that people buy off people rather than what you are selling.
We will continue to march on together with the next meeting now in the Sports Bar at 7.15pm
Thursday 19th March all are welcome, many new things on the move, come and make a difference and have your say

Have a good day

Nick

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Splendid result nick, well done all involved.:)

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Will someone please remind me of the surname of John, who was MC on Saturday when I had a meal in 'hospitality' before the Pompey game. I know him but cannot think of his surname. He did a first class job.

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Top effort Nick and his team.

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keep at it Nick (and team), it's great to see the Supporters Club getting in the public eye. I know from first hand experience that it can be a long and arduous, unthanked role - but the payoff can be fantastic when things come together.

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Mate of mine picked one up for me on Saturday - looks great from the photo he sent me.

Cheers Nick - Great effort.

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One just gone to the Yukon, any other out of the way spots?

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Just like to say welcome on board to our new secretary of the OASSC Jill Macintosh
Jill is also now the membership secretary and is working very hard to boost the membership
Memberships can still be done through myself [email protected] or Jill of course, club shop as well
Current membership now stands at 162 thank you to all for getting on board
Still only £5 to join this includes our brand new pin badge

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Welcome, Jill. With publicity in the national and the football press, with a photo of the bade, I feel sure many from outside our areas will be attracted to joining.

On Stanley, On.

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I used to sell memberships on ebay - never millions but prob 20-30 a season.

Do you have historical records of members Nick? I may have some books from a few years back or Mel might have some

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My spelling mistake above - should read BADGE.

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Phew! Thought you'd misspelt BABE :D

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Whatever we achieve for the good of the club I will support as much as I possibly can. But we must increase our gates attendance some how. we should be able to muster 2000 as a home crowd from a town of 80,000+ A letter to the local press may help.

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Please support The OASSC and buy a match badge for sale at different parts of the ground tomorrow .......all for a good cause!

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Will do :)

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Good Morning

Just to confirm what chubbyman [ the man that never sleeps] has stated

OASSC WILL BE SELLING Match Badges today Asfc v York City at four outlets
1. Bottom of steps home end 2. Away end entrance car park 3. Club shop
4. OASSC table will be set up selling badges, memberships, changing room raffle tickets that will be in the Sports Bar

All proceeds go to the OASSC

Thanks Nick

ps anybody who needs to see me i am on the away end car park entrance selling badges

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Dates for future OASSC meetings all in the Sports Bar All Thursdays

April 9th 7pm till 8pm followed by fans forum with John and Jimmy

April 30th 7.15pm

May 28th 7.15pm

June 11th 7.15pm

July 2nd 7.15pm

Thanks Nick