West Indies 11-6 Mitchell Starc 5-6

CW - India’s last wicket to fall was fantastic 😆

I should clarify, the insurance payout paid for 3rd floor upgrades.

So Michelle has just said the Dons Trust paid for the floodlights upgrade. Plus the fans repairs fundraiser paid for the 3rd floor upgrades!

And the cricket!

Just love the sledging!

Of course, if it's part of a corporate programme, they can get the £600 vat back

I hope it works, no way will I knock such ideas even though they are the opposite of what I want from football. May they all have great success but Pete is exactly right, show us the costed plan for stopping losses.

In effect, we're asking £4k for a general admission season ticket with subject-to-availability access to the silver lounge before the game, with no food or drink + a couple of new events. That's twice the cost of a ST in the 1889 Lounge with food and drink and a padded seat in the hospitality tier [Link]

I am a member of the yellow and blue club but only to donate money to the club not actually do any of their meeting stuff but certainly can't stump up £3,600 and equally I only want to watch the games.

There was a Vice Presidents club in the WFC era, and I assume this is just a rehash of it

I'd be more interested in what's being done to stem the annual financial losses. All this Patron thing is, is another form of begging bowl, without a word on loss management.

If the Y&B club made £400k over 14 years, that's an average of £28.5k per season. Taking a guess that the other 'significant contributions' might add up to, say, £100k, it would be £36k. So we need the Patrons idea to be about 40 times more successful.

Would be interesting to hear from existing members who now have to pay £3,600 a year instead of £1,000 to join the rebadged Blue and Yellow Club.

Great win in the cricket to put England 2-1 up

Patron and VP schemes look great, hope there's decent take-up from the Galts of the world.

Actually need to revise my figures... after VAT is paid to HMRC it's £3k per patron, so we'd need 83 patrons to get to the quarter of a million net, or just over 7% of the 7,000 fans to reach the £1.5m

Not really of interest to me personally as I just want to go to the game, watch the match and come home, rather than hang out schmoozing in the boardroom / “1889 lounge” or wherever, but there will certainly be a lot of people keen on this (as Laurence has pointed out, this is exactly the sort of thing that “John Galt” has been plugging on here)

Ric Braz, I am ready and waiting. :o)

The “Patron” and “Vice President” schemes are exactly the sort of thing that we should be doing to raise cash - you are never going to get serious money by just asking people to donate to the club for no return, but if we give something(ie basically “access” in one form or another) in exchange for the cash there is a chance to get some decent income. Whether it will raise enough to make a serious dent in the losses is anyone’s guess but this is clearly the way to go.

The Patrons idea is interesting. Suppose we have 7,000 fans and 1% of them take up the idea, that's 70 x £3.6k = quarter of a million pounds per season. So if we get to 6% that would fund our current operating losses.

Hibernation over for another year. Ah, to be able to switch on'telly again, without tennis on all beeb channels. Bloody marvelous. Will be able to watch House of Games again, nosebag on, scoff scoff, burp burp.

WAWF looks a flop. £7.7k and mostly from one donation of £5k.

Laurence get ready for the 17 line diatribe in response.

I’ve lost count of how many different begging bowls we currently have!