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It’s actually a unique site built from scratch and we simply hope that we can continue to attract visitors to the site both from within and outside the Club which will be driven predominantly by good, up-to-date content where generally our report match writing is pretty much up-to-date and fair so both sets of players can usually enjoy the read.
The web site has also been a critical driver in our exciting announcement of our first all Club sponsor – Astus who, with the help of our new kit supplier Umbro, delivered 5 brand new kits to the club for this weekend.
So, who are Astus? Astus are the UK's leading Corporate Barter Company which means they allow their clients to part-pay for their media campaigns using stock and work with a number of blue-chip companies including Vodafone, Mercedes Car Group and Budweiser. Any of you guys who work in media or marketing should check out their website as what they do is very unusual! www.astusuk.co.uk.
Our thanks to long-time Nottsborough stalwart Rob Chamberlain for helping us with this deal.
Our thanks too to Umbro who will be our exclusive kit supplier for the next five years which will mean some commitment from the club please in that twice a year we will set up a kit and boot clinic where the guys from Umbro will visit us with some great stuff all at discounted prices to the Club.
But all of this investment does not mean we have suddenly turned into a rich club overnight! Far from it and as many of you know we are paying top market prices to Kingston Uni for our floodlit grass training facility so as a club we still need to find c£14Kpa and as we all know to our (annual subs) cost, this is a big burden on a Club who is entirely financed by our own players so thanks again to all for their prompt payments at the start of the season which are critical to us.
Given all our investment into Kingston Uni, we look forward with great anticipation to their £1m redevelopment of Tolworth Court and, whilst we might be expecting some slight upheaval during the building phase, the quality of facilities going forward should make it all worth while and further cement our position as a leading SAL club. I hope most would agree that we already have some of the best pitches in the League so this is just an extra boost.
Finally back to the result on Sunday. Whilst pleased to win 3-2 against the SAL rep side was it really that sensible for all on the pitch to play two games in two days?? Having not being scheduled to play in the first two league Saturdays at all, the 1s somewhat ran out of steam against Actonians in the game on Saturday. Well done to them for their great two goal comeback but you can’t help but feel that those in power might have looked a little more carefully at the fixture list fro the start of the season….??
Anyway I know how hard it is to schedule these things and I wouldn’t for a second want to undermine the hard work of the SAL guys so we will just crack on and hope that we can emulate, match and surpass the achievements of last season.
Enjoy the website and speak soon
Jonty
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