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Dean Frost has come up with a proposal to generate extra funds needed to keep Ibrahim Kargbo, who is outside the existing playing budget.

The Club and Dean have agreed to auction two places for supporters to be part of the management team away to Eastleigh. This would involve: 

Travelling down on team coach (VIP coach)

Joining team in changing and being part of experience

Joining the management team on the bench

Return journey on VIP coach

This is a great opportunity for supporters to get closer to the team.  We have a very limited time to run this, so please can we have your bids by next Wednesday, 23 March, to matthewmein@googlemail.com

 



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A good idea, a very good idea, although the reason behind it being no money seems suspect to me.

Where is the money WUSA gave the club?

Is Bakare being paid yet?

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I do sympathise with Frost as Kargbo is a good player and I wonder whether there are any other players currently playing for free?

However if I were a potential sponsor I would be far from happy with the image this creates of a club with perpetual cash flow problems who have once again got the begging bowls out.

 



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Quick update we have one bid at £85, and the other spot yet to bid, whose going to start that?

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Are we on a club-wide mission to make ourselves look as amateur as possible?

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Bids only please

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Why bids only? This is a supporters forum.

Considering I've bid, I would like to be free to comment, otherwise I'll retract my bid .. which appears to have been the only one at point of writing above.

As a WUSA member, where is the money gone that WUSA gave the club? Is no other WUSA member keen for an answer on that? Why are we having to resort to this offer? and is £85 going to make that much difference, if not, not much point really, I'll save it for BTB next season.

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I believe the other WUSA money has gone towards the other signings Ade Yussef, Tomi, Gayle etc.

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and now Tomi has been released, why can't that money go to Kargbo and/or Bakare ??

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Mr A Realist wrote:

Why bids only? This is a supporters forum.

Considering I've bid, I would like to be free to comment, otherwise I'll retract my bid .. which appears to have been the only one at point of writing above.

As a WUSA member, where is the money gone that WUSA gave the club? Is no other WUSA member keen for an answer on that? Why are we having to resort to this offer? and is £85 going to make that much difference, if not, not much point really, I'll save it for BTB next season.

I assume you do understand the concept of a contract....i.e when you give someone a 38/44 week contract you are obliged to honour it in full.

I believe we currently have either injured and/or out of favour the likes of Fagan, Chambers, Osbourne, Adeyinka, Daniel, Vidal and Corne. On top of that I am led to believe that we paid off Wellard and I don't for one second think that KSA tore up his contract out of the goodness of his heart....

That is a lot of money of the current budget right there so it is understandable that the cupboard is bare.  



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Wingnut wrote:
Mr A Realist wrote:

Why bids only? This is a supporters forum.

Considering I've bid, I would like to be free to comment, otherwise I'll retract my bid .. which appears to have been the only one at point of writing above.

As a WUSA member, where is the money gone that WUSA gave the club? Is no other WUSA member keen for an answer on that? Why are we having to resort to this offer? and is £85 going to make that much difference, if not, not much point really, I'll save it for BTB next season.

I assume you do understand the concept of a contract....i.e when you give someone a 38/44 week contract you are obliged to honour it in full.

I believe we currently have either injured and/or out of favour the likes of Fagan, Chambers, Osbourne, Adeyinka, Daniel, Vidal and Corne. On top of that I am led to believe that we paid off Wellard and I don't for one second think that KSA tore up his contract out of the goodness of his heart....

That is a lot of money of the current budget right there so it is understandable that the cupboard is bare.  

 I think he's asking about the extra money at the end of January



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Wingnut, clearly I understand the concept of a contract yes. Although I don't doubt KSA didn't leave out of the goodness of his heart, clearly there must have been some saving otherwise for cash flow reasons we'd have been better paying him weekly than in a lump sum, like we are with the previous management trio.

My point, as Stoddy suggests, is regarding the WUSA money handed over. If some of this money was used to fund players like Tomi, as Polo as suggested above, then now he has left where is the money that would have gone to him being used? Why can it not be used for Kargbo and Bakare and/or anywhere Frost deems appropriate. Given it was £2400, and only 3-4 weeks back, are we to assume it has run out already?

More questions than answers, and I can't be bothered raising them anymore. If the member's of WUSA, including the committee members, who approved the money moving over aren't bothered, I bloody well can't be either. Might be worth going on that coach to the Eastleigh game, seems the only likely way of finding out.

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Point taken.

However as Polo has suggested we have also recruited Gayle and Yussuf from Dagenham recently as well as Wanadio.

For argument's sake lets assume that we were very near to budget capacity when we recruited them and say they are on, conservatively, 200 quid a week each (or at least that is the portion we are paying)

Doesn't take long to get rid of £ 2,400 quid does it??

 



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Yes, I agree. Let's hypothetical say those new signings had won us several games and we were now above the relegation line, I am sure we wouldn't be letting them all go and we'd "find the money". Is the club that poorly off that £85 quid is the difference?

Just amazed that Bakare is scoring goals, and Kargbo playing very well, and both doing so for free, and we risk losing them over relatively small amounts of money in the grand scheme of things. So frustrating.

Anyhow. I've made my bid. I hope others follow, otherwise as Chris says above, might do more harm than good.

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When did Tomi go? I missed that one.



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Danson Mark wrote:

When did Tomi go? I missed that one.

Same place as Bakare went?



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Why post that basically nobody is interested? And where are the bids from people who help organise these things??? As far as it stands I could bid £2.

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Is that a bid J

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If you would like it to be, just saying why post "oh only 1 bid, no others" why not be positive and build interest...lie if you have to, "oh loads of interest, could you be the lucky bidder". You guys make a effort to arrange something then seem negative about it yourself.



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No serious question J, I am trying get bids, I am bloody shattered just completed a 20 mile charity walk. Update bid 1 is up to £85 and second place is bidding at £100

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Matt The Hat wrote:

No serious question J, I am trying get bids, I am bloody shattered just completed a 20 mile charity walk. Update bid 1 is up to £85 and second place is bidding at £100

 Surely the two highest bids get the two spots, otherwise we aren't getting the most money possible. Anything else is just defeating the object.



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No there are two places available. Place one bid is at £85 and place two is at £100

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So if the first spot goes for say £200, with a losing bid of £170 and the second spot goes for £100,we get £300 instead of £370?

 

With thinking like that, you can get a place on the board.

 

No wonder this club is in the state it is.



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I would bid but pointless as they probably wouldnt let me on the coach

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Stoddy wrote:
Matt The Hat wrote:

No serious question J, I am trying get bids, I am bloody shattered just completed a 20 mile charity walk. Update bid 1 is up to £85 and second place is bidding at £100

 Surely the two highest bids get the two spots, otherwise we aren't getting the most money possible. Anything else is just defeating the object.

 I am surprised as I would have thought the 2 highest bids would be the winners.



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Yes Daveyboy you would be able to go on coach



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If we are going for ideas to generate funds, why not a pre season friendly of Fans vs Players at PVR. Squad of 16 fans. Top 16 bidders get a spot. Every bidder GUARANTEED atleast 45 minutes. Would build a relationship between fans and players which is recent months seems to have deteriorated and would also raise presumably a larger amount of funds.
I have nothing against this Management idea myself. As it would give two fans more of an insight of what goes on on matchday and would help them build a better picture of how things are dealt with in matchday preparations.

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A nice idea Charlie, but unlikely to happen given we aren't likely to have 16 signed early enough to do this, insurance, risk of injury, etc.

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Re: auction.

To WUSA committee taking bids in, please consider my £85 offer retracted. If the powers that be won't support the current manager with funds, I don't see why I should, and if fair and reasonable comments made on a fans forum aren't considered acceptable and are to be deleted, then my support will be withdrawn. My offer is as legally binding as my earlier comment libellous - not at all.

All the best to Frost, Ashby, Turner and the current playing squad.

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THE BLONDE KID IN A HOODIE wrote:

If we are going for ideas to generate funds, why not a pre season friendly of Fans vs Players at PVR. Squad of 16 fans. Top 16 bidders get a spot. Every bidder GUARANTEED atleast 45 minutes. Would build a relationship between fans and players which is recent months seems to have deteriorated and would also raise presumably a larger amount of funds.
I have nothing against this Management idea myself. As it would give two fans more of an insight of what goes on on matchday and would help them build a better picture of how things are dealt with in matchday preparations.

 This is a good idea for the end of the season rather than pre season.



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Re: auction.

To WUSA committee taking bids in, please consider my £85 offer retracted. If the powers that be won't support the current manager with funds, I don't see why I should, and if fair and reasonable comments made on a fans forum aren't considered acceptable and are to be deleted, then my support will be withdrawn. My offer is as legally binding as my earlier comment libellous - not at all.

All the best to Frost, Ashby, Turner and the current playing squad.

 My couple of quid looks good then....



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Would be up for the end of season game, as long as we sign KSA again so I can man mark him.

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It would be a race for who gets injured first...

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Ashford Wing wrote:

Would be up for the end of season game, as long as we sign KSA again so I can man mark him.

 Easiest job in the world. Just gotta stand still next to him for 90 mins



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Latest bids are now at £100 per place, I will close this at 5pm.

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Congratulations too???

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Congratulations to Mr J Brown and Mr S Pitt

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Congratulations to Mr J Brown and Mr S Pitt

 biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin That's brilliant, and would be the most amazing thing ever if it was true.



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Fair few people seem to be up for the idea of an "End of season Fans vs Players WUSA Fundraiser". Any chance someone at WUSA could see if the team would be willing to do this and take part?

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I'm pretty sure someone looked into this before and it was a no-go due to the players not wanting to get kicked by people not overly good at football! Plus as soon as the season ends they normally go on holiday. I do like the idea but I think with the current situation and the end of season close it's probably not possible to do it this year, but we can try and put this forward to the management next season, whoever it is!

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