govanblue 16,847 Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 21 hours ago, G13 said: I'll do the Rangers tv again for Anniesland next season mate so chalk that up. 5 minutes ago, Keeps01 said: ? £50 in for another home GB. Two homes with happy Bears.???? I hadn't even factored in the Rangers TV Subscriptions! Oh no - that's yet another £200 we need to raise! Luckily we seem to have half of it already though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
govanblue 16,847 Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 On 15/03/2016 at 11:36 AM, Perth_Campsie_Ger said: Well done on everything you have done mate, might be able to meet you for a beer before a game somtime instead of you running around like a madman! Sounds good - I'll get you at the usual meeting point (either Albion Car Park, West Enclosure Disabled Access, Main Entrance, Exit 14 (John Greig Statue), The Megastore (hmm not so much these days ) Argyle House Entrance, Collection Booth, Ticket Office or outside Broomloan House) Oh how I miss the Swallow! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
govanblue 16,847 Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 Ok, here's the Slimmed-Down Shopping List... 1 - Convince Rangers FC to renew their donation of 2 x West Enclosure Seats (Erskine Park) 2 - Convince Rangers Supporters Trust to renew their donation of 4 x West Enclosure Seats (Erskine Park) 3 - Renew 2 West Enclosure Seats (Erskine Park) - £600 4 - Buy 2 new West Enclosure Season Tickets (Erskine Glasgow) - £600 5 - Renew 4 Combat Stress Season Tickets - £1000 6 - 5 Annual Subscriptions to Rangers TV - £250 7 - 5 Match Programme Annual Subscriptions - £250 8 - 10 Rising Stars per Home League Match - approx £400 (exact number of games unknown) 9 - 6 Rangers Lotto Subscriptions - £300 10 - Erskine Wishing Wall Fund - £1000 11 - Erskine Wheelchair Users Disabled Hospitality Fund - £1000 12 - 1 Rangers Stadium Brick (RANGERSMEDIA | READY 2016/17) - £50 13 - That's just off the top of my head - I've probably forgotten some important Funding somewhere Which comes to £5500! We've maybe got about £1k in the bank, so that leaves a hell of a lot of money to try to raise - either that, or we have to scale down our ambitions. That's why I'm going to ask members to make one Final Big Push to donate as much as they can - with the promise that it will be the only one all season (where have you heard that before?), and with the perhaps more realistic promise that your very generous donation will fund all of the above for a full Season. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeparateEntityMyArse 53,715 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 GB Looking back never squared up a donation for couple of comps you got me. Apologies. Looking to buy 10 x (fixed ?) lucky stars. Can commit to the QoS game and confirm the ticket details to you prior to the k.o. or can start with the first home game of next season. Let me know whichever suits. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
govanblue 16,847 Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 21 minutes ago, Sportingintegritymyarse said: GB Looking back never squared up a donation for couple of comps you got me. Apologies. Looking to buy 10 x (fixed ?) lucky stars. Can commit to the QoS game and confirm the ticket details to you prior to the k.o. or can start with the first home game of next season. Let me know whichever suits. I'm such a nice guy, I didn't want to say. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
govanblue 16,847 Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 28 minutes ago, Sportingintegritymyarse said: Looking to buy 10 x (fixed ?) lucky stars. Do you mean as your contribution towards next season's Fund, or in addition to your contribution towards next season's Fund? Edit: I think I get it now - you mean I've to use your £20 donation to buy some Rising Stars. No problem. Then we can look at next season's donation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bears r us 30,791 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 That is a big list G B, and if we can still do it all then fantastic. For my point of view the main priority is the matchday tickets for Erskine and Combat Stress and would like to see that as our first priority. The least important to me is rising stars and lotto. The rest is a sliding scale in-between the above. I think that is my fourpence worth now in a couple of days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeparateEntityMyArse 53,715 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 1 hour ago, govanblue said: Do you mean as your contribution towards next season's Fund, or in addition to your contribution towards next season's Fund? Edit: I think I get it now - you mean I've to use your £20 donation to buy some Rising Stars. No problem. Then we can look at next season's donation. I'm looking to buy the tickets as contribution for tickets you got me. QOS or next season , no issues which just prefer this to PayPal and if I buy these Stars you can keep what you would've spent in them for another cause. Let me know by the QoS game. And this will be in addition to me signing up for thefund next season ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Hume 13,022 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I am just ....... lost for words, and pretty sad and stunned that it is all over GB. But have to say you have been a proper star through thick and thin, and your superhuman efforts have given us all (never mind the various veterans homes that fall under the Erskine banner) some great times with your excellent fund raising abilities, and the tremendous efforts and lengths you were prepared to go to to make sure that all the hard work was only for the benefit of the veterans of our armed forces. Your selflessness is a gift mate, that many would be thankful of, and the Fund and all it's members will feel a sad loss at your departure from this worthy cause. You deserve all the respect in the world for what you have achieved. I will certainly try and put in as much as I can to help in this, your Final Rally. So much for "lost for words" eh?.......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
govanblue 16,847 Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 10 hours ago, Bears r us said: That is a big list G B, and if we can still do it all then fantastic. For my point of view the main priority is the matchday tickets for Erskine and Combat Stress and would like to see that as our first priority. The least important to me is rising stars and lotto. The rest is a sliding scale in-between the above. I think that is my fourpence worth now in a couple of days. I kind of agree with you in principle, but in practice it's not that easy (See G13, Keeps01 and SIMA above!) fourpence indeed. Keep these ideas coming, we'll reach our target in no time! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
govanblue 16,847 Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 9 hours ago, Sportingintegritymyarse said: I'm looking to buy the tickets as contribution for tickets you got me. QOS or next season , no issues which just prefer this to PayPal and if I buy these Stars you can keep what you would've spent in them for another cause. Let me know by the QoS game. And this will be in addition to me signing up for thefund next season ? Okay, I'm sure we could work that out. How would you (or one of the bairns) like to draw the numbers for the opening draw next season? ps - here are your numbers again... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
govanblue 16,847 Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 7 hours ago, Bobby Hume said: I am just ....... lost for words, and pretty sad and stunned that it is all over GB. But have to say you have been a proper star through thick and thin, and your superhuman efforts have given us all (never mind the various veterans homes that fall under the Erskine banner) some great times with your excellent fund raising abilities, and the tremendous efforts and lengths you were prepared to go to to make sure that all the hard work was only for the benefit of the veterans of our armed forces. Your selflessness is a gift mate, that many would be thankful of, and the Fund and all it's members will feel a sad loss at your departure from this worthy cause. You deserve all the respect in the world for what you have achieved. I will certainly try and put in as much as I can to help in this, your Final Rally. So much for "lost for words" eh?.......... aw shucks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bears r us 30,791 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 1 hour ago, govanblue said: I kind of agree with you in principle, but in practice it's not that easy (See G13, Keeps01 and SIMA above!) fourpence indeed. Keep these ideas coming, we'll reach our target in no time! I know it's not easy G B, and I know we won money which was great at the time. I just want your great work to continue and the matchday tickets for me is what the Erskine and Combat Stress will enjoy the most. I hope we can still do everything again next season but prioritising is not something we should think is wrong. That is my sixpence worth used now so will give you some peace for a day or two. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
govanblue 16,847 Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 3 minutes ago, Bears r us said: That is my sixpence worth used now so will give you some peace for a day or two. We could save a lot of time if you just give me the 5 Grand now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
govanblue 16,847 Posted March 17, 2016 Author Share Posted March 17, 2016 4 minutes ago, Bears r us said: I hope we can still do everything again next season but prioritising is not something we should think is wrong. That's the problem with unsustainable growth - the inevitable cutbacks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perth_Campsie_Ger 17,994 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 28 minutes ago, govanblue said: We could save a lot of time if you just give me the 5 Grand now. If my coupon comes up at Cheltenham today you can have 5k, that will leave me with 125k for myself lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bears r us 30,791 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 3 hours ago, govanblue said: We could save a lot of time if you just give me the 5 Grand now. It would indeed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bears r us 30,791 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 3 hours ago, govanblue said: That's the problem with unsustainable growth - the inevitable cutbacks. With my half full glasses on, we should call it re-direction of available funds G B, it sounds better than cutbacks. I have no doubt the members of the fund will do all we can to make most things happen again next season. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Hume 13,022 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Bears r us said: With my half full glasses on, we should call it re-direction of available funds G B, it sounds better than cutbacks. I have no doubt the members of the fund will do all we can to make most things happen again next season. Ever the diplomat Bud ....... and your last sentence gives me confidence that the members will get behind your sentiments. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAVIE8CH 296 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 have club 1872 poached you to be their main money grabber, sorry fund raiser Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bears r us 30,791 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Bobby Hume said: Ever the diplomat Bud ....... and your last sentence gives me confidence that the members will get behind your sentiments. Cheers mate, I think once G B starts the new donate thread we will get a good response. Helping Erskine and Combat Stress by donating a few £'s is a good feeling for most of us. Also the beauty over the last few seasons is that some have deeper pockets than others, but no one cares, it has been done in the right spirit and one persons £5 is anothers £50. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Hume 13,022 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 32 minutes ago, Bears r us said: Cheers mate, I think once G B starts the new donate thread we will get a good response. Helping Erskine and Combat Stress by donating a few £'s is a good feeling for most of us. Also the beauty over the last few seasons is that some have deeper pockets than others, but no one cares, it has been done in the right spirit and one persons £5 is anothers £50. Exactly Bud, it is truly better to give than to receive, especially when it is for such a worthy cause for people who have continually, voluntarily put themselves in harm's way so that we can all be safe. As you say £5 or £50 it is all going into the pot to help them who helped us. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bears r us 30,791 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 1 minute ago, Bobby Hume said: Exactly Bud, it is truly better to give than to receive, especially when it is for such a worthy cause for people who have continually, voluntarily put themselves in harm's way so that we can all be safe. As you say £5 or £50 it is all going into the pot to help them who helped us. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
only14me 381 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 GB, I'll cover a RangersTV.tv annual subscription for an Erskine Home. Sorry to learn this will be your last Fundraiser. Thanks for all your hard work and the joy you brought to Veterans. Good Luck for the future, bud. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamess 3,422 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 So to summarise - a new donation thread will be starting soon, aimed at getting ready to fund next seasons expenditure. Excellent news. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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