Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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It appears one of the leading lights of the supporters club runs a pub and was encouraging supporters to use his pub before the game and cheaper burgers
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Not good news coming out of Crabble. Check out the website . Jim states that unless players take a 20% pay cut, the club may not be solvent come the end of the month. Assume this is furlough related. Entire first team squad available on a free transfer and I have also heard that De Haviland and L'Ghoul have gone (that may or may not be true).
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DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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This is going on up and down the leagues. Few other Kent clubs at National and below saying there is no playing budget. In fairness to the owner there has been a bit of an artificial bubble for players getting paid more than the clubs can afford. When you take out sponsors and directors putting in money there are few clubs that are solvent.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Not looking good
Looks like we going to through another
Club go under and start again
Down the leagues we go..
Unless some magic new sponsor comes in
Not looking good
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I was surprised that Striker was put on hold, it would have been the ideal time to encourage us to pay by direct debit and keep some funds coming in.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Short bit featuring Jim P on BBC SE Today yesterday, from 22:10 for about 2 minutes (expires this evening; the clip, that is, not the club).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000lrxr/south-east-today-evening-news-10082020?t=22m05s
Is Elphicke into football, or just boats? It'd be great to see her on a mazy run through the government's defences rather than moping about in the changing room.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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http://www.doverathletic.com/news/striker-lottery-to-return/
The Striker Lottery returns tomorrow commencing with week 40.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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Pity there is no link to allow you to sign up for it though
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DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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Ross Miller wrote:Pity there is no link to allow you to sign up for it though
Can you imagine the security needed for such a system? Payment details, player details, draw numbers etc.
They have the next best thing: email/phone....
"If you have any questions, you can email Harry at
striker@doverathletic.com or call him on 01304 822373 (option 4) and leave a message."
Anyhow, they club just saved £800 a week with Inih Effiong transfered to Stevenage.
And the Academy is back (£5000 per student a year from the Government).
Not denying it's a dire affair in football at the minute. End of furlough is going to be very interesting.
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
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Frankly the security is straightforward, I have set up various ticketing, raffle and merchandising systems on a number of websites using a wide range of standard e-commerce and membership plug-ins and payment gateways.
I f the club can run a webshop without anyone being concerned about the security of their data then something like striker is only marginally more complicated.
Good to see the academy back, shame there is no reserve/U23 set up to facilitate their progression into the first team
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DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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Ross Miller wrote:Frankly the security is straightforward, I have set up various ticketing, raffle and merchandising systems on a number of websites using a wide range of standard e-commerce and membership plug-ins and payment gateways.
I f the club can run a webshop without anyone being concerned about the security of their data then something like striker is only marginally more complicated.
Good to see the academy back, shame there is no reserve/U23 set up to facilitate their progression into the first team
True about Webshop - they still handle payment details, GDPR obligations etc. Could you offer to set it up for them?
The academy is not really about pathway (as they call it), it's more a money making venture to secure the higher education payment from the Govt for that young person, and also bring the UK stats up a bit for young people in education. At Dover's level it's mostly ex league academy players that end up on the books (Alfie Pavey a good example of that).
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Some fund raising ongoing
In hope club survives
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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As speculated earlier, Nassim L’Ghoul departs on a free transfer, as does Lee Worgan, who joins Chelmsford.
DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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Neil Moors wrote:As speculated earlier, Nassim L’Ghoul departs on a free transfer, as does Lee Worgan, who joins Chelmsford.
L’Ghoul played a trial for Folkestone at the start of lockdown. Reckon he'll next pitch up at Dartford....
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Shame about L'Ghoul; I was hoping we'd at least be able to field a ghost team.
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DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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As the gov has announced easement to lockdown....
Capacity is 5000, with social distancing what would an acceptable capped capacity be at the Crabble?
1000?
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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DFL wrote:As the gov has announced easement to lockdown....
Capacity is 5000, with social distancing what would an acceptable capped capacity be at the Crabble?
1000?
Fans tend congregate behind the goal that Dover is attacking, switching ends at half time. To accommodate 1000 people with adequate distancing would necessitate using the seated areas, I think.
Karlos is the man to listen to.
And please don't call it 'the Crabble'. DAFC play at Crabble - no definite article. Sorry to be pedantic but it's a bit grating for most locals.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Very kind
There are others more knowledgeable than me I'm sure.
Changing ends hasn't been happening so much since promotion due to more segregated games.
Parmenter's last comment was 15% capacity which is 861 with no away fans. How he's going to do that isn't known yet.
We may know soon - see this tweet:
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DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
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Would think business interests will lead on the move back to fans at games, the snooker is an indoor venue, so with fans there would expect the same at games.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Well supporters are doing there bit
Let's hope they survive
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