Cheers Matty, lets hope a few more of your fellow fans make the trip to PVR tomorrow too - and spend some dosh.

What is sad to see is that despite Charlton mentioning it on their site and Charlton forums saying lets get loads to Welling. In the 2 games since there have been hardly any Charlton Fans at PVR. About 6 for the lewes game and probably 30 or 40 for Boreham Wood game.

I would hope if we had 10,000 season ticket holders and the situation was reversed we would help the club out when they need it. We even put on a get in for a fiver scheme to attract them in numbers.

I think in future we have to contact Charlton Athletics Supporters Association to ask for help. It will get out to more people and they may turn up if the CASA are suggesting it.

Whilst their support in pre season used to be superb 3000 crowds and now its nice 2000... the support when we needed it has been very low in numbers. Many Thanks to those that came please keep coming thats 2 wins in 2 games since we asked for support. But i see that as individuals helping us, its dissapointing that a club so close and with so many fans cant turn up for a game or two and make a real difference.

if a few hundred turned up out of 15000 then a few of those and we are saved.



-- Edited by JgFc on Sunday 5th of September 2010 07:33:15 PM

I don't buy the excuse that people are too busy to come along to Welling games on a Saturday afternoon. Games last less than two hours, not all ****ing afternoon!

Although i've supported the same professional team (they play in the Premier League) for 35 years now, i would much rather come to Welling games, as it's my home town club, it's good value for money when you consider we're a good team at this level and it costs a fifth of the price to get into a Welling game than it does to see a Premier League team play, and in fact everything else is cheaper to buy in Welling's division than it is much higher up. Also, it would be hard for me to stomach these days paying £50+ to see a load of Premier League multi millionaire tossers pass the ball around for 90 minutes, and not make an effort, knowing that they don't really give a ****, because their futures don't depend on it, and afterwards they can go off to their mansions in the countryside. Welling players on the other hand, are real people with real jobs and some of them only play football for a living and aren't exactly making a fortune out of it, Healy of course isn't making anything at all from playing for us.

Those people wandering around local shopping centers wearing football shirts for teams up north (London or England) because those teams tend to win things on a regular basis, should show some local pride and support a local team that play as if every game means something to them.

-- Edited by Dogme on Sunday 5th of September 2010 08:26:22 PM

Thinking about it, the problem with us all blitzing the forums of league clubs is most people who post on them are exiles. That's why they do it 'cos they can't go down their local pub and talk about their club as they're half way round the world!

we need to open up the e+b bar on match days and let people take pints onto the terraces - guarenteed money spinner and e+b wont mind as you give them a small percentage for allowing use of their bar

Lewes, Bromley, and Stortford? have allowed it ? They were certainly doing it at Bromley and Lewes for our last matches at those grounds.

Do the conference allow their favourite clubs to break what rules they like then?

I would be fairly confident that we would get nothing and it would be Erith doing us a service.
I do not know that, but Erith to my knowledge do absolutely nothing of any use for Welling United. And contribute zero apart from rent.

Rumour is that Erith arent doing great, god knows what happened to the millions after their "ground" was burned down....

-- Edited by JgFc on Monday 6th of September 2010 02:25:04 PM

JgFc wrote:

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I would be fairly confident that we would get nothing and it would be Erith doing us a service.
I do not know that, but Erith to my knowledge do absolutely nothing of any use for Welling United. And contribute zero apart from rent.

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Spot on!

It must be great for them not even having to pay for a groundsman.

 

JgFc wrote:

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I would be fairly confident that we would get nothing and it would be Erith doing us a service.
I do not know that, but Erith to my knowledge do absolutely nothing of any use for Welling United. And contribute zero apart from rent.

Rumour is that Erith arent doing great, god knows what happened to the millions after their "ground" was burned down....

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im sure an agreement could be arranged and we get most of the profits and they take a slice

we do it for the pre-season games anyway

add on a buy a ticket get a free pint offer i think it would be a winner and for the bigger games like dartford where we should have a big crowd up to maybe even 2000 just think if half those people bought a £2.80 pint and took it onto the terraces we'd make a fortune 

and then drinking at half time + burgers and keep the bars open after the game (advertise that fact as dartford are local so some will hang around)

 

I passed at least 12 people coming out of the bar on Saturday. Some were saying they couldn't be bothered to queue - this was within 2-3 minutes of the half time whistle.

Very good - I also saw notices up about some offers on beer prices in the bar. Again well done. If people want to drink get them into the bar rather then the pub next door.

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I passed at least 12 people coming out of the bar on Saturday. Some were saying they couldn't be bothered to queue - this was within 2-3 minutes of the half time whistle.

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I am usually guilty of this. It just gets too busy in there, has taken me near 10 minutes to get a drink in at that bar in the past which would all be fine and dandy if 5 minutes later they weren't ringing the bell & telling us to sling our hook.

If I want to be a mug, spend 11 quid to get in then stay in the bar and miss the game whilst drinking drinks with the money I've put in the till then what is exactly the problem?

I think it is at Bromley where they have a guard rail running parallel with the bar with an entrance at one end and an exit at the other. It helps in creating some form of order and people seemed to get served quite quickly. Prevents a mass rush to the bar.

My dear Kevin, I hope you know the prices.

It's £1.50 for a Foster's and £7.50 for all Bitters.

Hope this is of some help.

Rubbish, a young female for £20 cash in hand to work 2-3pm, 3.45-4pm and 4.45-5.30pm would bring in more than what it would cost. You have a 15 minute window of opportunity to serve as many punters as possible, and punters wanting beer are walking away as due to the time restraint.

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Also, clubs like Bromley allow you to bring plastic cups outside as long as you stand in the drinking zone, surely Welling could arrange something similar? They'd make a hell of a lot more money through the bar during games this way, seems a fair few Bromley fans spend the whole game enjoying a few drinks. E&B let you bring alcohol out as well.

Obviously a drinking zone would need stewards but there appears to be a couple more at Welling this season than last so surely it could be arranged.

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that drink zone idea sounds like a good one

if the club are worried about trouble (which there wont be any) then have the stewards there to stop people drinking if they get rowdy and the rest can enjoy a pint or 4 while watching Welling play

would make money and make a lot of fans happy!

 

The club will listen to anyone and if they think its worth a shot on all known evidence they will go for it.

I am not sure of league rules re plastics. But it would be worth asking Barrie about it.

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Rubbish, a young female for £20 cash in hand to work 2-3pm, 3.45-4pm and 4.45-5.30pm would bring in more than what it would cost. You have a 15 minute window of opportunity to serve as many punters as possible, and punters wanting beer are walking away as due to the time restraint.

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Whilst in my heart I totally agree with the sentiment of your post the club must be carefull about employing someone cash in hand. No doubt once we are out of our present financial crisis HMRC will keep an eye on what goes on.

Best of luck with the bottle bar idea. Think it should work a treat.

 

Drinking zone is a good idea in the summer, but on a cold wet day (or night) in the middle of jan or feb means you need somwhere inside to enjoy a pint!