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Nigel Brooks

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The one thing we all have in common, apart form our passion for Brentford, is access to computers and e-mail (unless you are reading this through some paranormal activity). Lets' put them to use to help save our club.

I have sent the following e-mail to every contact in my address book.

“As most of you know, I am an avid football fan.

Brentford, my local community team, are in serious financial difficulty.

We are not one of the ‘glamour’ clubs, but one that is at the heart of the local community.

Our current chairman is withdrawing his guarantee for our overdraft within the next month and, as losses of £4M have been accumulated, extinction is probable if a significant cash injection is not made in the short term.

The initial target is to raise £1M before 30th June 2002 in order that the club can continue to trade into next season and can continue its dialogue with potential investors and other interested parties.

Brentford Supporters have already been elected to the Brentford Board and have fought and won a successful campaign to have a fan elected as a councillor to Hounslow Council with whom we are discussing relocating from our current ground.

Please, if you or your company would like to help us preserve a tradition of football within this community, a tradition lasting over 100 years, then click on this link for more details.
www.beesunited.org.uk

Even if you are unable to support our cause directly, please forward this message to friends, colleagues and business contacts as the more publicity we gain the greater our chance of success.

Thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail”


Why not do the same to your own contacts (use the one above or compose your own) for the more publicity we gat the gretaer the chance we have.

Whatever you do, do it now.
 

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Originally posted by wee_dave31:
Just zapped that off to all 50+ contacts in my address book.


Well done wee_dave, that's around 200 more people who know about our situation.

If we can get this rolling, we could see 000's more new contacts by the end of the week.
 

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Sorry to bump this so early, but this is a free (apart from 5 minutes of your time) way to get wider publicity.
 

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Now I'm really pissed off!!!!

12 hours down the road from asking for a five minute investment of time and only wee-dave has responded.

It's about saving the club -right?!?

Sorry, but I'm unimpressed. If everyone registered on this board sent an e-mail to 10 mates we'd have 15,000 more people aware of our plight.

If you think it's a crap idea then say so, but then suggest something equally easy to do to get free publicity.

Rant (for the moment) over :mad:
 

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ma\ybe people have done so but have not posted on the board? :confused:
 

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I've sent this to about 20 bods. To be fair most of them probably won't even read it once the word 'football' is mentioned.

But you never know............!
 

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yup,I sent off to anyone I thought would listen. Didn't realise you wanted a reply
 

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In fairness Nigel, i have done the same too, and the content of my e-mail was very similar to yours. I have sent it on to, hopefully, over 400 people, including the BBC, and journos from around the country.
Also, most Brentford fans that I know, have been doing something similar too, take Ayes Bee who telephoned everyone on his mobile phone, to spread the word.
We're all doing our thing, it's not a discussion topic though, is it?
Good work though fella, and well done to everyone who is doing something, or has been doing so for the last year or so.
 

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Just gone to my 50 odd addresses :)

Well you never know do you!
 

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Originally posted by sponshagga:
yup,I sent off to anyone I thought would listen. Didn't realise you wanted a reply

Thanks everyone who has done this so far.

Sorry sponshagga, you're absolutely right, I should have asked anyone who has sent a mail to stick a 'one-liner' on this thread. It would be nice to know how many have been sent out.

By my reckoning it's now about 700 more people who know wht we are trying to achieve.

Thanks again guys, and keep those e-mails going.
 

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Just got this e-mail back from my Geordie mate Dave......

Rob
Good luck with this. I've forwarded it to the London Mags who generally realise that we should all be in this together. Financial support from people like me is unlikely to materialise but I hope yourselves and teams like Bradford go on to prosper. ITV digital are scum.
Dave


So that's all the London based Toon fans that know of our plight then!
 

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Some of the responses I've received:

"This has probably been suggested before/already done but maybe the supporters could contact each of the London Premier League clubs and see if they would be willing to offer assistance in a joint gesture or individually. They could each maybe re-direct a portion of their 'football in the community' money as it is in all their interests for clubs such as yours to continue to play a part in the league system and provide a way into football for upcoming talent. Also, the smaller clubs are just as important for maintaining London's football profile. Just a thought but as I said, probably already tried/thought of and dismissed." (West Ham fan)

"Alright Dave - very worthwhile effort and I wish you all the best, even if you are on the wrong side of the river. Didn't you inherit Palace's
chairman? South London sabotage at it's finest..." (South London-based Liverpool fan)

"Will forward this on to all my cronies chief. Bad memories of the Hands off Hibs campaign resurfacing..."(Hibs fan)
 

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shall send it off to my address book. Can someone send it to all the relevant media addresses??
 

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I have passed this onto representatives of Carlise/West Ham/Brighton/Newcastle/Millwall/Bristol City/Liverpool & Wycombe.

Also to a friend in Helsinki who works at the british embassy & one in Melbourne who has lots of footie loving ex-pat mates.

I have said to them that even if they can't help, a message of support on the web would be nice!!!
 

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Brilliant guys, thanks :)

Let's keep the momentum going.
 

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It's the weekend, it's overcast, there's only egg-chasing and Eurovision on the box, so......dust off the address books and get mailing.

Have a good weekend folks, see you on the GPG on Monday. :) :)
 
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