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Mad Eyed Screamer said:
They also steadfastly refuse to have a shirt sponsor.
Now although having a shirt sponsor won't pay off the crippling debts, just imagine if, after 20 years, the club had accepted £20,000 a year for a shirt sponsor.
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The problem with that is many of the bucketeers see that as a hard line and would walk. Also, a far bigger problem I suspect is which company is going to part with £20,000 a year for the hassle & negative publicity that would come with it?

As a bit of background boohoo signed a 1 year deal with the woman’s team a couple of years ago for £30,000 with an option to extend. Fc refused to take up the option on a further year on ethical grounds. They went into this year agreeing to pay the women players who play on pallet park in front of under 100 people and sit rock bottom of their league having being relegated last year. Anyway the board agreed to pay the women with the money raised by sponsorship from the women’s team. They didn’t find anyone to sponsor the team & only 3 players got individual sponsorship from employers/family raising £450 in sponsorship for the year.

This isn’t a woman’s football bashing post, the men’s team sponsorship & merchandise is performing equally badly, they budgeted for big increases (57% on merchandise) & sit nowhere near those. Here’s the finances up to November when merchandise & sponsorship were £38,200 less than budgeted.

Notice there’s no mention of this in the latest appeal, when they’re looking to raise £30,000 to cover the hole in their business plan due to missing matches. Notice that the full transparency & honesty with their own fans doesn’t stretch to pointing out they need to raise the cash because their stupid business plan is falling apart again. Admittedly missing matches is a catchier title for an appeal than crap commercial committee & staff but having these games postponed again provides them a very convenient excuse to rattle the buckets with no mention of any underperforming departments.
 

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Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Reading the continued requests to keep giving, reminds me of my days at Manchester Poly, there were 54 on the course but never more than 28 on any given day. I missed 2 days the whole 2 years. Some twats you only saw twice a term!

Yet every time we had a tutor / student meeting the poor attendance was brought up and we received a bollocking.
After the 2nd bollocking I spoke up and said “you are talking to the wrong people. We are here. All day every day. What are you doing about the ones not here who aren’t hearing this message?” And the tutors went silent.

Same here with the Splitters.
They keep telling those who are paying that not enough is being paid in and therefore as a result they have to dig a little bit deeper to save “their club”.
If I was one of the regular Bucketeers I’d be asking the board “what are you doing regarding co-owners who aren’t chipping in, aren’t attending, trying to get them more involved and committed?”
I’d tell them I’m not putting a penny more in until every single absent splitter has been harassed to contribute.
And then if every single absent splitter has been contacted and very little thrown in to the buckets, I’d suggest it’s time to call it a day.
Being a splitter is like getting divorced and having to give your ex 40% of your monthly wages to her despite having no kids or mortgage to pay and she’s shacked up with a new partner!

The club have proudly declared how affordable their football is and all this nonsense about “pay what you can afford” for a season ticket.
Yet the small print isn’t even printed on club communications.
The small print that isn’t there states “we need you to continually donate money every single month to enable us to keep the cost of watching football at Pallet Park affordable”.
How do the two council members keep a straight face when attending board meetings?
The whole thing is a joke. But that joke isn’t funny anymore……
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Perhaps they have asked the non attending splitters that very question.
Perhaps the answer was 'you're a bunch of thieving wankers who run the club as your own little plaything. Fuck you with your begging letters and buckets, I ain't giving a penny until you run the club properly and more importantly, honestly.'

Just sayin'
 
Now if I am right there are quite a lot of disgruntled rags who attend the swamp, even though UMS & Scruffy Jim are the enemy, so as fcscum were set up to protest against UMS a case could be made for rattling their begging bowls around the watering holes of trafford.

Or am I missing something here - don't they all want the same thing?
 
horlock_was_super said:
Now if I am right there are quite a lot of disgruntled rags who attend the swamp, even though UMS & Scruffy Jim are the enemy, so as fcscum were set up to protest against UMS a case could be made for rattling their begging bowls around the watering holes of trafford.

Or am I missing something here - don't they all want the same thing?
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What is UMS?
The thing is a very large amount of match going rags despise the Rag Socks as much as any Blue does, for giving up the fight and desertion and for continuing to trade off the back of the rags
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
What is UMS?
The thing is a very large amount of match going rags despise the Rag Socks as much as any Blue does, for giving up the fight and desertion and for continuing to trade off the back of the rags
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I think that’s probably right, 20 years in and I don’t think they’ve ever tried rattling buckets outside old Trafford. I think they know they wouldn’t be warmly welcomed by those that stayed behind when the sanctimonious pricks left. Local reds have had twenty years to support the bucketeers, that ship has sailed.

The big plan is to email over 200 of uniteds overseas supporters clubs and target games like this weekend. Imagine you were say a Scandinavian or Irish united fan in town for the Brighton game on Sunday. You’d obviously want to go and watch a tribute act the day before right? You’d want nothing better than a package including a tour of pallet park, a voucher for fan food & a day out watching the mighty Blyth Spartans?

Let’s see this weekends bumper crowds fighting over themselves to spend their Saturday afternoon in moston
 

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Mostonisblue said:
I think that’s probably right, 20 years in and I don’t think they’ve ever tried rattling buckets outside old Trafford. I think they know they wouldn’t be warmly welcomed by those that stayed behind when the sanctimonious pricks left. Local reds have had twenty years to support the bucketeers, that ship has sailed.

The big plan is to email over 200 of uniteds overseas supporters clubs and target games like this weekend. Imagine you were say a Scandinavian or Irish united fan in town for the Brighton game on Sunday. You’d obviously want to go and watch a tribute act the day before right? You’d want nothing better than a package including a tour of pallet park, a voucher for fan food & a day out watching the mighty Blyth Spartans?

Let’s see this weekends bumper crowds fighting over themselves to spend their Saturday afternoon in moston
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This did work for a while I believe.
Such is the gullibility of the average rag.
The crass of 92 taking over at Salford has taken an awful lot of it away from them.
The same gullible rags seem to think that they’re in with a chance of meeting one of their heroes so are attending Moor Lane instead.
 
Mostonisblue said:
I think that’s probably right, 20 years in and I don’t think they’ve ever tried rattling buckets outside old Trafford. I think they know they wouldn’t be warmly welcomed by those that stayed behind when the sanctimonious pricks left. Local reds have had twenty years to support the bucketeers, that ship has sailed.

The big plan is to email over 200 of uniteds overseas supporters clubs and target games like this weekend. Imagine you were say a Scandinavian or Irish united fan in town for the Brighton game on Sunday. You’d obviously want to go and watch a tribute act the day before right? You’d want nothing better than a package including a tour of pallet park, a voucher for fan food & a day out watching the mighty Blyth Spartans?

Let’s see this weekends bumper crowds fighting over themselves to spend their Saturday afternoon in moston
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They’ve finally realised that local M40 folk don’t give a shit, so have gone full on to cash in on the rag tourist trade.
What next? Half and half Big Rag / Moston Rag scarves?
Ooops! I can see the M40 Sheriff running to the board right now with that idea!

What these fools don’t realise is a fan coming over from Ireland / Scandinavia for the weekend is going to go on the tour of The Swamp the day before the game. It’s their first time at The Swamp and the day before or the day after the game is the “free” day.
Are they going to get the tram to The Swamp, go on the tour, end up in the souvenir shop and spend a shed load followed by sit down lunch at the Red Cafe….
or
are they going to get the 112 bus to Pallet Park, 10 mins tour of said place, buy an FCUM scarf, takeaway lunch at the Golden Apple on the Lane and catch the 112 back to Piccadilly.

They really do have an over inflated opinion of their “product” and what they have to offer and really do scratch their heads as to why nobody outside of this cult do not wish to have anything to do with it.

They really believe they have something special to offer and fail to recognise that the biggest obstacle preventing them from growing as a club is themselves. It’s not that everyone doesn’t “get them”, it’s that FCUM doesn’t “get” everyone else.

They fell for the line “if we build it, they will come”, but got it all so badly wrong.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
They’ve finally realised that local M40 folk don’t give a shit, so have gone full on to cash in on the rag tourist trade.
What next? Half and half Big Rag / Moston Rag scarves?
Ooops! I can see the M40 Sheriff running to the board right now with that idea!

What these fools don’t realise is a fan coming over from Ireland / Scandinavia for the weekend is going to go on the tour of The Swamp the day before the game. It’s their first time at The Swamp and the day before or the day after the game is the “free” day.
Are they going to get the tram to The Swamp, go on the tour, end up in the souvenir shop and spend a shed load followed by sit down lunch at the Red Cafe….
or
are they going to get the 112 bus to Pallet Park, 10 mins tour of said place, buy an FCUM scarf, takeaway lunch at the Golden Apple on the Lane and catch the 112 back to Piccadilly.

They really do have an over inflated opinion of their “product” and what they have to offer and really do scratch their heads as to why nobody outside of this cult do not wish to have anything to do with it.

They really believe they have something special to offer and fail to recognise that the biggest obstacle preventing them from growing as a club is themselves. It’s not that everyone doesn’t “get them”, it’s that FCUM doesn’t “get” everyone else.

They fell for the line “if we build it, they will come”, but got it all so badly wrong.
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Can confirm The Golden Apple is still going strong on The Lane
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
They’ve finally realised that local M40 folk don’t give a shit, so have gone full on to cash in on the rag tourist trade.
What next? Half and half Big Rag / Moston Rag scarves?
Ooops! I can see the M40 Sheriff running to the board right now with that idea!

What these fools don’t realise is a fan coming over from Ireland / Scandinavia for the weekend is going to go on the tour of The Swamp the day before the game. It’s their first time at The Swamp and the day before or the day after the game is the “free” day.
Are they going to get the tram to The Swamp, go on the tour, end up in the souvenir shop and spend a shed load followed by sit down lunch at the Red Cafe….
or
are they going to get the 112 bus to Pallet Park, 10 mins tour of said place, buy an FCUM scarf, takeaway lunch at the Golden Apple on the Lane and catch the 112 back to Piccadilly.

They really do have an over inflated opinion of their “product” and what they have to offer and really do scratch their heads as to why nobody outside of this cult do not wish to have anything to do with it.

They really believe they have something special to offer and fail to recognise that the biggest obstacle preventing them from growing as a club is themselves. It’s not that everyone doesn’t “get them”, it’s that FCUM doesn’t “get” everyone else.

They fell for the line “if we build it, they will come”, but got it all so badly wrong.
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Cult, you say?

Are you sure you spelt that right?
 
Mostonisblue said:
The big plan is to email over 200 of uniteds overseas supporters clubs and target games like this weekend. Imagine you were say a Scandinavian or Irish united fan in town for the Brighton game on Sunday. You’d obviously want to go and watch a tribute act the day before right? You’d want nothing better than a package including a tour of pallet park, a voucher for fan food & a day out watching the mighty Blyth Spartans?
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They just can't help themselves can they.
A club created because they hated their new owners and wanted out now grovelling to the old clubs overseas support to try to keep them afloat - sink you despicable rats
 
Scraped a 1 all draw at home to Gainsborough tonight with an attendance of just 1113. The number of people actually there will be much lower as that figure always includes ST holders who don’t bother going. They can’t blame the piss poor attendance on the weather or snow stopping people travelling this week either
 
kippaxwarrior said:
Can confirm The Golden Apple is still going strong on The Lane
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Fantastic news! But surely Lan can't still be there! It's 13 years since I left Moston for Boston!
Chips were 70p a bag when I moved there in 1992 and were a 1 quid 10p in 2011 when I left (I don't have a pound sign on my keyboard!)
Huge portions! That's why the queues were so long. In the Blue Bell for a few beers and the Golden Apple for supper!
 
Mostonisblue said:
Scraped a 1 all draw at home to Gainsborough tonight with an attendance of just 1113. The number of people actually there will be much lower as that figure always includes ST holders who don’t bother going. They can’t blame the piss poor attendance on the weather or snow stopping people travelling this week either
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So they have just beaten their all time League worst attendance figure - set just 3 days ago!
 
LEAKED FCUM MEMO TO CO-OWNERS

Dear Co-owners
The board at FCUM held an emergency meeting after last night's game with Gainsborough Trinity, attended by a RECORD BREAKING low attendance of 1,113. Thanks to all who attended, you can truly say - in Roy Castle style - that you are a record breaker! The club shop is now selling ''I SWEAR I WAS THERE" pin badges for those 1,113 hardy souls to proudly proclaim that they really were there. A strictly limited run of 3,000 pin badges have been released.

But nevermind the missing games fund - let's talk about the missing fans!
We built this club for YOU. You ungrateful bastards. We have had so many games postponed this season that we had to organise a missing games fund. We need fans on the ground to contribute to the missing games fund but if fans are missing, the missing fans can't contribute to the missing games fund and then we have to ask the attending fans to dig even deeper to compensate for the missing fans not being there.
We can't pull the wool over Manchester City Council's eyes much longer now that two council officials are on the board, attend board meetings and can fully see the shit show we are in.

We appeal to all current and former Co-owners to be ''United" (pun intended) and donate at this time of need. We understand that many of you invested in our absolute balls up of a Community Shares Scheme and lost hundreds - in some cases thousands of pounds. We "get that" and are sympathetic. But that was the old board that conned you. Please trust us, the new board, that your donation will really make a difference in saving the club until the next time we call upon your help to save the club. Which will probably be May when the season ends.

FCUM for life.....
FCUM Punk Football - we mean it maaaaan
 
The latest chapter in the fc saga is they’re off to play a pointless game in Montenegro against a team that don’t get paid or charge admission which is why the stadium and kick off time are both TBC

It’s going to take a couple of days to get there & they play in Workington on the Saturday before the Monday game but if the fans can book up for both the away trip and the home game ASAP as money is tight and they’ve already forked out for the players flights.

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FENIX TROPHY ¼ Final: FC UNITED OF MANCHESTER v FANS UNITED

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Mostonisblue said:
The latest chapter in the fc saga is they’re off to play a pointless game in Montenegro against a team that don’t get paid or charge admission which is why the stadium and kick off time are both TBC

It’s going to take a couple of days to get there & they play in Workington on the Saturday before the Monday game but if the fans can book up for both the away trip and the home game ASAP as money is tight and they’ve already forked out for the players flights.

fc-utd.co.uk

FENIX TROPHY ¼ Final: FC UNITED OF MANCHESTER v FANS UNITED

FC United of Manchester - News Story
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Can't they get that "Big Red" and Ginger gimp, Mick Hucknall to sponsor them ?
Remember, "Money's Too Tight to Mention"...
 
Mostonisblue said:
The latest chapter in the fc saga is they’re off to play a pointless game in Montenegro against a team that don’t get paid or charge admission which is why the stadium and kick off time are both TBC

It’s going to take a couple of days to get there & they play in Workington on the Saturday before the Monday game but if the fans can book up for both the away trip and the home game ASAP as money is tight and they’ve already forked out for the players flights.

fc-utd.co.uk

FENIX TROPHY ¼ Final: FC UNITED OF MANCHESTER v FANS UNITED

FC United of Manchester - News Story
fc-utd.co.uk fc-utd.co.uk
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This is what I don't understand.
They have no money. They are skint with no sign of any proper money coming in and yet they fuck off for this charade. Basically a jolly for the board and their hangers on.
Why aren't Manchester City Council saying something ? The council gave them a payment holiday and they get rewarded with this !
 
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