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I hope that we are using this fund to sign a professional keeper for Saturday.

kevgull wrote:I hope that we are using this fund to sign a professional keeper for Saturday.

Absolutely correct. We cannot risk fisher for 3 weeks, 1 match maybe but with the season just showing optimism we cannot risk playing a rookie in goal.

lucy6lucy wrote: Absolutely correct. We cannot risk fisher for 3 weeks, 1 match maybe but with the season just showing optimism we cannot risk playing a rookie in goal.

But surely, the chances of us signing an experienced keeper on loan will be exceptionally slim? So we'd end up with a rookie anyway.

The best we could probably hope for is a young keeper from somewhere on loan who maybe has played a few Conf/ Conf South games. However for every Michael Poke there is a Mikkel Anderssen (and yes, I know the level Anderssen is playing at now!). I'd love to be proved wrong though.

Given the timescale, I'd expect Fisher to play against Aldershot but longer term we cannot be playing an SDL keeper. This decision is absolutely critical to our chances of survival

With the takeover of the club imminent, will the players fund continue?

lucy6lucy wrote:With the takeover of the club imminent, will the players fund continue?

Why should it not continue? If those supporters who have a little extra to spare on a regular basis, or even a one-off donation, if they continue to contribute, it can only be to the benefit of the club we love.

I am less inclined to keep my donation going until the new owners have shown their hand. They are probably stand up fellows but I' not generally in the habit of handing over my hard earned to people I know nothing about.

Kit_robin wrote:I am less inclined to keep my donation going until the new owners have shown their hand. They are probably stand up fellows but I' not generally in the habit of handing over my hard earned to people I know nothing about.

Nobody would argue with that; it's your choice. On the other hand, I shall continue to contribute until such time as it's been proved to be either pointless or unnecessary..

Why would it continue? The whole reason for it being set up in the first place was because a number of only moderately wealthy local fans had bailed out the club to their maximum financial limit and needed all the help they could get. The idea of the fund was based upon the premise that these local fans needed help from the rest of the fanbase and it rested implicitly upon the fact they were trustworthy and worthy of support because of who they were.

A national company with significant assets and which has hosted major music events in MK is not going to want handouts from the fans, not only because it doesn't want to have to justify how the money is spent, not only because it doesn't need the money (whether it'll spend lavishly on United is another matter...) but because it'd look bad to it's investors and potential business partners if it's begging for money from the fans of it's football club, it's football club which if it was a successful business should operate based upon attendance alone.

Apples and pears. Gaming International will not run the Players Fund or I'll eat my hat.

Very good point Senor..

I am bumping this up because after the 11am AGM (as long as some truth is actually told!) then it will become very apparent that if we want any of:
- a reserve striker
- a right winger
- CR to resign
- a back-up keeper
then we can only get this through this initiative. I hope the fact that Nicho's remaining budget has been taken away from him is clearly communicated and I hope Nicho does not walk away from us because of this and other promises made which are now a distant memory. Kev was doing brilliantly assembling a very decent squad on a small budget and to complete this to a point which is the very minimum we need for this season then he is going to need our help.
I stopped my monthly payments when the GI talks started but as soon as the truth comes out I will be make a deposit (Nicho will need immediate funds to get a squad without holes in it assembled before season start). I am not doing this for Phillips or the remaining directors (who have led us down this path of disaster) but for Kevin Niicholson - who I hope will not walk before we can help him out.
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Richinns wrote:I am bumping this up because after the 11am AGM (as long as some truth is actually told!) then it will become very apparent that if we want any of:
- a reserve striker
- a right winger
- CR to resign
- a back-up keeper

- a club?

etc etc

I agree that Nicho has put together a very decent squad on a pittance, showing what shrewd and persuasive skills the man possesses.

Everything else is just a nightmare - please tell me I'll wake up soon! :no:

Richinns wrote:I am bumping this up because after the 11am AGM (as long as some truth is actually told!) then it will become very apparent that if we want any of:
- a reserve striker
- a right winger
- CR to resign

I may be a bit slow today, but who is CR ??? The only CR I can think of is Chris Roberts and he resigned years ago, thank Gawd !!

Ah - I may have got it. Chris Ralph our great groundsman who did such a good job last season. He is most definitely worth keeping. As I am posting this, the AGM is underway. I would like to be a fly on the wall ..........