Saturdays' recruitment drive

maccawozzagod · 06-07-2006, 22:52

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From the 22nd July through to the 5th August we want every shop possible in the town to display some element of <st1:City><st1

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Of course, there is always the matter of incentive. Accrington Stanley Football Club have offered a prize of four tickets to the Gazelle Lounge to a Nationwide League 2 game this season. The Gazelle Lounge is a hospitality suite that includes complimentary drinks, half time buffet, programme and reserved seating. This is always a popular option amongst the sponsors.<o

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The business premise that has the most eye-catching display in town will receive this prize as well as getting free publicity through the Official Matchday Programme and the supporters fanzine ‘No F in roof’.<o

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We are also going to have mainstream media behind our drive, with the two local newspapers getting involved and we are also talking to the major local radio stations in an effort to really drive this promotion.<o

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www.accringtonstanley.co.uk contains any information you may require about the club, sponsorship and The Gazelle Lounge. It also contains a poster under the banner for the next game. It would be a great help if you could print one off for our home matches and display them in a window.<o

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www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f93/red-white-fortnight-22529.html Contains all you need to know about Red and White Fortnight. This is a forum for local people and will contain discussion about the various display around town, as well as a poll for the eventual winner.<o

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www.stanleyultras.co.uk Contains all you need to know about Stanley Ultras. Also it will contain more discussion about what events we are backing this year as an effort to increase the profile of ASFC.<o

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Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you will find it a worthwhile and entertaining project should you wish to get involved. If you need any further info please contact me at [email protected].<o

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The Ultras

maccawozzagod · 06-07-2006, 22:55

If you can read beyond all the codey type stuff in the above post, that is a copy of the letter that will accompanying the Burnley match poster for us to give out to as many shops and pubs as possible on saturday.

The meet will outside the Market Hall at 9:30. I will probably be at the Burger stall. Please wear red and white as that is the whole point.

If anybody wants a copy to run some off for their local shops (Ossy,Clayton, Bash, Huncoat, Harwood and Rishton all unaccounted for as yet, as well as any number of local shops and pubs) the please PM me with their E-mail and I will send it you.

Does anybody know how to clean it up to put on General Chat?

Redash · 07-07-2006, 15:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by maccawozzagod

Does anybody know how to clean it up to put on General Chat?

With the original document, you could try to copy all the text into Notepad, that will remove all the office formatting and code. Then copy and paste from Notepad to post on the forum.
That also goes for all documents that are done in Word or similar, as the office code causes many problems with web pages.

Willie Miller · 07-07-2006, 18:14

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On the 5th August of this year there will be a monumental moment in Hyndburn sporting history. This is the day that League Football returns to <ST1

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In 1962 football in <ST1

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ceased because of the apathy displayed by the people of <ST1

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towards their team. The club folded due to a lack of support and crippling debts. The modern day team have no debts whatsoever and under the guidance of Eric Whalley will continue to trade in a solvent fashion. However, the support still needs to increase in order to sustain League football in the town. The Ultras are determined that we should get around town and do all we can to get people to the ground. This is where you, the local businesses come in. We all know that the feelgood factor associated with sporting success has knock-on benefits to the local economy in many different guises. We want to include everybody in our recruitment drive and have devised Red and White Fortnight to raise the profile of our club.<O

</O

<O

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From the 22nd July through to the 5th August we want every shop possible in the town to display some element of <st1:City><ST1

Stanley</ST1

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East Lancashire</ST1

to see that we are alive and well and that we are proud to say that we support Accrington Stanley.<O

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Your display could be in the form of a window display, a flag or scarf behind the counter, allowing your staff to wear an <ST1

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shirt on Saturdays, or even just a good luck poster on the door. You needn’t spend a lot on your display, a dozen red and white balloons cost just pence. You may have an <ST1

Accrington</ST1

fan amongst your staff who could bring in their scarf or shirt. The sky is the limit on what can be achieved with just a little bit of thought and creativity.<O

</O

<O

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Of course, there is always the matter of incentive. Accrington Stanley Football Club have offered a prize of four tickets to the Gazelle Lounge to a Nationwide League 2 game this season. The Gazelle Lounge is a hospitality suite that includes complimentary drinks, half time buffet, programme and reserved seating. This is always a popular option amongst the sponsors.
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The business premise that has the most eye-catching display in town will receive this prize as well as getting free publicity through the Official Matchday Programme and the supporters fanzine ‘No F in roof’.<O

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We are also going to have mainstream media behind our drive, with the two local newspapers getting involved and we are also talking to the major local radio stations in an effort to really drive this promotion.<O

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www.accringtonstanley.co.uk contains any information you may require about the club, sponsorship and The Gazelle Lounge. It also contains a poster under the banner for the next game. It would be a great help if you could print one off for our home matches and display them in a window.
<O

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www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f93/red-white-fortnight-22529.html Contains all you need to know about Red and White Fortnight. This is a forum for local people and will contain discussion about the various display around town, as well as a poll for the eventual winner.
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www.stanleyultras.co.uk Contains all you need to know about Stanley Ultras. Also it will contain more discussion about what events we are backing this year as an effort to increase the profile of ASFC.<O

</O

<O

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Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you will find it a worthwhile and entertaining project should you wish to get involved. If you need any further info please contact me at [email protected].<O

</O

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Yours truly,<O

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The Ultras

John_Timmins · 07-07-2006, 20:43

will be there tomorrow with a few friends

K.S.H · 07-07-2006, 21:39

Translated

THE Ultras were formed by a group of like-minded fans who were passionate and committed to increasing the atmosphere at Accrington both home and away. We believe that our support, for a club our size, is second to none and ‘The Ultras’ will only improve this in the long term. By supporting Stanley with large, colourful flags and banners, and travelling in numbers it is hoped that we can make a difference. It can be hard to follow a lower league club at times but we do it because we love our club. Also, we all know what happened to the club in 1962, so it is vitally important that we, the fans, continue to do our bit.
OnStanleyOn

On the 5th August of this year there will be a monumental moment in Hyndburn sporting history.
This is the day that League Football returns to Accrington for the first team in over 44 years

In 1962 football in Accrington ceased because of the apathy displayed by the people of lace Accrington towards their team. The club folded due to a lack of support and crippling debts. The modern day team have no debts whatsoever and under the guidance of Eric Whalley will continue to trade in a solvent fashion. However, the support still needs to increase in order to sustain League football in the town.
The Ultras are determined that we should get around town and do all we can to get people to the ground. This is where you, the local businesses come in. We all know that the feelgood factor associated with sporting success has knock-on benefits to the local economy in many different guises. We want to include everybody in our recruitment drive and have devised Red and White Fortnight to raise the profile of our club.

From the 22nd July through to the 5th August we want every shop possible in the town to display some element of Stanley support in their shop. We want to see the whole town decked out in the Red and Whitery of Stanley. We want the whole of East Lancashire to see that we are alive and well and that we are proud to say that we support Accrington Stanley.

Your display could be in the form of a window display, a flag or scarf behind the counter, allowing your staff to wear an Accrington shirt on Saturdays, or even just a good luck poster on the door. You needn’t spend a lot on your display, a dozen red and white balloons cost just pence. You may have an Accrington fan amongst your staff who could bring in their scarf or shirt.
The sky is the limit on what can be achieved with just a little bit of thought and creativity.

Of course, there is always the matter of incentive. Accrington Stanley Football Club have offered a prize of four tickets to the Gazelle Lounge to a Nationwide League 2 game this season. The Gazelle Lounge is a hospitality suite that includes complimentary drinks, half time buffet, programme and reserved seating. This is always a popular option amongst the sponsors.
The business premise that has the most eye-catching display in town will receive this prize as well as getting free publicity through the Official Matchday Programme and the supporters fanzine ‘No F in roof’.
We are also going to have mainstream media behind our drive, with the two local newspapers getting involved and we are also talking to the major local radio stations in an effort to really drive this promotion.

www.accringtonstanley.co.uk contains any information you may require about the club, sponsorship and The Gazelle Lounge. It also contains a poster under the banner for the next game. It would be a great help if you could print one off for our home matches and display them in a window.

www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f93/red-white-fortnight-22529.html Contains all you need to know about Red and White Fortnight. This is a forum for local people and will contain discussion about the various display around town, as well as a poll for the eventual winner.

www.stanleyultras.co.uk Contains all you need to know about Stanley Ultras. Also it will contain more discussion about what events we are backing this year as an effort to increase the profile of ASFC.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you will find it a worthwhile and entertaining project should you wish to get involved. If you need any further info please contact me at

[email protected].

Yours truly,

The Ultras

maccawozzagod · 08-07-2006, 11:08

a big thank you to those that turned up this morning. It only took us about an hour and a half to blitz the town centre. Many posters were being put on doors before we had even closed them!

Everybody has had a letter detailing red and white fortnight and when the media get hold of it this week it will reinforce what they have already been told.

To anybody that didn't turn up but wants to get involved still, just print a poster off, print off the text in previous messages and take it to you local newsagents, fag shop, post office, barbers, pub or workplace.

The whole idea is for Stnaley to be in your face at least until the season starts proper. The more posters we get up the better.

I heard through Mystic Meg that todays attendance was going to be about 800. So anything above that we have done (I wish).

maccawozzagod · 08-07-2006, 11:09

oh yeah, and other than us I counted four Stanley shirts in town this morning.

and about 20 stanley fans

K.S.H · 08-07-2006, 11:23

Good effort, I see quite a few in Stanley shirts when I was down - most hanging round the burger van

See quite a few of the posters are being displayed, i'm gonna print a few off for every match and put them on the notice boards inside the town hall and market hall entrances. Do you just pin your own up in these places or do you have to see someone, anyone know?

maccawozzagod · 08-07-2006, 11:33

that was us earning our dinner.

Thanks for the posters KSH, they look really professional.

As far as sticking up your own are concerned I think the etiquette (hark at me with big words on a weekend) is that if their is a notice board you can stick your own up, if there ain't then you can't.

K.S.H · 08-07-2006, 11:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by maccawozzagod

that was us earning our dinner.

Thanks for the posters KSH, they look really professional.

As far as sticking up your own are concerned I think the etiquette (hark at me with big words on a weekend) is that if their is a notice board you can stick your own up, if there ain't then you can't.

That will do for me, if I get arrested for it I will point them to this post