BillyBlue wrote:A few years ago these Race Nights were held in various pubs round town, Concle & Bay Horse were a couple I seem to recall. Just thinking that it might be an idea to try this again, hoping that by using different pubs a few people who've been to the soccer before might become interested. Only downside is the lost revenue in the Crossbar but this could be offset by selling the future match tickets etc on the night.
Your right about the Cross bar losing the revenue but when I was on the Survival Fund we used different pubs & came to an arrangement with the landlord.
Basically the landlord would make a large contribution towards the bottles of wine. The wine used to make a large dent in profits so this sort of set up worked very well. I also had an arrangement with a local off licence, we would buy all our wine off him & we would get a big discount, not only because we were buying the wine from his shop but he wanted to help the club at the time. This worked reall well & IIRC the most we raised in one night was just under a £1,000 (John or Russ would be able to confirm that)
Things have change & I dont know if either of these would work now, any way I'm sure they've been weighed up & thought of by the BDF who are doing a fantastic job as it is.
Back on topic - I'm selling some cards, I'll let you know in a day or two how many.
We didn't underestimate them, we just didn't think they were that good.
