Good afternoon to all and welcome to what we all hope will the most successful season yet here at Surrey Street. The purpose of this article is to let all fans of the mighty GNE know that we now have an official supporters club (and explain what the people in the clubhouse behind a table are doing). Hopefully this will explain where we came from, who we are, and what our plans are for the future.
The first I heard of the plans to start the club was at a meeting of the old Events Committee at which our beloved chairman asked us to look into the possibility of developing a supporters club to rise phoenix like from the ashes of the old committee. With remarkable haste a public meeting was convened and a fantastic turn out of faces both old and new spent an evening discussing the possibilities and direction the fledgling club should go. A steering committee was created and in only one week a constitution) was borrowed, butchered, ratified, and a committee elected.
The raison d’être behind the GNEAFCOSC is to promote all aspects of the football club and this defined the way the structure of the supporters club was created.
Advertising and events are an obvious target and the team in place have already started a blanket advertising campaign of pubs in and around Glossop (a job that wasn’t too hard to sell). Hopefully these will become a common sight and allow all those without internet access to still be kept up to speed with fixtures, events, and the like, although it may mean more visits to local hostelries! Several businesses on the High Street have been approached and most are delighted to display posters in their windows, so keep your eyes peeled and use the High Street before we lose it!
Those of you lucky enough to have been on the trip to Market Drayton were not only privileged to a wonderful day but, probably inadvertently, became a part of history as they travelled on the first official Supporters Club bus. Those who were there seem united (and that’s a word I will be using very sparingly) in the view that it was a cracking day, the state of my voice and wallet on Sunday would seem a good indication that a good time was had, We hope to run as many of these as possible during the season (depending on interest) and membership will guarantee privileged booking rights.
We will have presence at all home games this season, we want everyone who shows an interest to be able to come forward to any committee member with ideas or schemes and keep the Supporters Club moving forward. We hope to have some pen pics in the clubhouse with a brief resume of what responsibility is held by each member and what plans are afoot for the near future on a specific board to be displayed in the clubhouse.
After much discussion it was decided that £10 for adults and £5 concessions for the full years membership. I can almost hear the question `what do I get for that? ` wafting from all corners of the ground. Well, to be honest, we haven’t decided all the details yet. Much depends on how popular the Club is and what we can afford, we must never lose sight of the fact that the primary aim is to provide the Football Club with support, the travel I have already mentioned, and we hope to have an official badge ordered in the very near future. We also want to make this as accessible as possible to youngsters, so maybe something for the juniors would be appropriate.
So, enough waffle and on with the season. I hope you all agree the Supporters Club is a positive step for followers of Glossop North End, and we see many of you as members in the next few weeks.
Nick Tansley (Proud to be Chairman of the GNEAFCOSC)
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