MIFTHEBINO Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 (edited) Hi all, You have maybe read a bit of the media coverage about our campaign to save my wee club Stirling Albion. If not, then here is a link to one of the articles- http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/06052009/63/...ing-albion.html http://www.itv.com/Sport/Football/News/Gen...-723318618.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/taysid...ral/8035661.stm Our club is going to fold if we dont do something and we are trying to get as many "real" football fans signed up to our campaign as possible. We need you guys who are as equally passionate about your team as we are at our wee club to sign up- I am sure you couldn't imagine life without Everton to watch on a Saturday- we are the same at Stirling. We basically have the begging bowl out to fans of all clubs to help us save our club. Our current chairman has been in charge for over 25 years and has brought us to the brink of financial collapse. If sucessful, we aim to never be in debt again and involve the local communty to try and build a decent support in years to come. We are hoping that fans in England might adopt us as a second team and take an interest in our wee club. For your £40 investment, you would have a real say in the running of our club, but note, this is not like the Ebbsfleet model thats been done before. We will return your money if we are unsucessful at taking over our club (see our terms and conditions). Any businesses can also help and there is details on the website as well. To read more about our plans, please visit http://www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk/ Thanks for reading. Edited May 7, 2009 by MIFTHEBINO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Best of luck with it, hope you're successful. Lost my local club in 1974...very sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIFTHEBINO Posted May 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Many thanks Mike. I really dont want us to go down the pan so we are doing our best to get as many people to sign up as possible. Every membership counts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIFTHEBINO Posted May 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 The campaign team is doubling it's efforts to try and get fans of other teams to sign up as imost people get paid at this time of the month. Please,please,please sign up to the campaign, every membership counts if we are to save our wee club. At the end of the day, all your risking is £5 as you will get £35 back of your money if it doesn't come off and a part of our club if it does. Thanks again to all those who have signed up- please spread the word to friends and family. http://www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy the blue Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 Have you lads try contacting Duncan Fergusson, the best player your fair city ever produced, he is not short of a bob or two Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Red Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 In an ideal world all football league clubs would survive. My Scottish team (Where I used to live) Livingston are close to folding.. I hope we have a petition somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIFTHEBINO Posted June 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Have you lads try contacting Duncan Fergusson, the best player your fair city ever produced, he is not short of a bob or two He was a couple of years older than me at Bannockburn High- despite this, I dont know him. It would be great if we could get him onboard. Anything to try and attract people to sign up and help us save our club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 What about Iain Turner? Duncan's former agent details: Dennis Roach PRO International Ltd. Mudeford House, 85 Mudeford CHRISTCHURCH, DORSET BH23 3NJ Tel:+44-1202/47 48 86 Fax:+44-1202/48 41 29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIFTHEBINO Posted June 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Many thanks for your help. I have past his details onto the campaign group. Good shout about Ian Turner as well. We put out an appeal via five live, the bbc,etc to try and get fans of the Scottish and English cup finals to donate a £1. Many thanks to the Everton fans who did this, it's greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIFTHEBINO Posted June 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 With father's day coming round, whats more quirkier than giving a membership as a present to your father or father in law. I think most sports daft dad's would love to own a piece of a senior football club. If you want the membership sent out for Fathers day, please send us an e-mail (campaign@buystirlingalbion.org.uk) once you have bought their membership (please use their details so it goes out to them). http://www.buystirlingalbion.org.uk/ If you dont want to do it over the net, please send a cheque to Stirling Albion supporters trust PO Box 21602 STIRLING FK7 1DD with your details (or a letter saying if it's for fathers day for someone else) and make it out to "Stirling Albion Supporters Trust." The campaign is ongoing, so please consider us for a membership, every membership is vital to us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIFTHEBINO Posted June 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2009 What about Iain Turner? We are in the process of signing up Ian and his family and we are hoping he will get some of the Everton players to sign up as well. We are collecting old mobile phones for recycling for the campaign. Not only does it help the environment but our cause will benefit by at least £5.00 when you donate your old mobile. It is easy and it costs you nothing to do. Send as many old mobiles (removing sim card first) as you can find to: FREEPOST RRRA-CZXK-UKEK Stirling Albion Vulcan Road North Norwich NR6 6AQ. Most people have old phones tucked away in their homes so please send as many away as possible as this could earn the campaign a lot of money. It doesn't matter if they are broke as we will still get money for them. There is now a full campaign update for June here- http://redwebforum.com/rw/index.php?option...70&Itemid=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIFTHEBINO Posted June 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Both Andy and Jamie Murray have signed up for their £40 memberships to save their local club, Stirling Albion. This is fantastic news for us and it means we now have Ronaldo, Andy & Jamie Murray, Steven Caldwell (Burnley), Gary Caldwell, Carlos Alberto, Stephen Hendry (snooker champ), Nick Nairn (chef), Justin and Colin (Designers) and Frank Skinner have all signed up as well as a few local celebs. We are hoping this might spur more people onto signing up due to Murray Mania at Wimbledon. To read about Andy and Jamie signing up, see the link below- http://bit.ly/1alSch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Hmmm....good publicity I guess but Andy Murray, "I'd like to help, here's £40." ? Is he quite sure he can afford that much? Unclear just how much you need to raise (and I'm not suggesting he should do it all himself) but if he really cared I'm sure the Murray piggy-bank could cough up a couple (or three) extra zeros on that £40 without causing him too much hardship . PS. I'm not an "English Murray basher," like the man a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIFTHEBINO Posted June 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 Sadly, he's not a Stirling fan though. If all the celebs who have backed us gave us one week's wage, then we would have more than enough. Our target is 20,000 members at £40 is in effect our target is £800k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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