Membership News

Waddington Suite prize draw (vs Hull City)

It is time for our annual prize draw for Waddington suite tickets for a home match.  The club has reserved 10 places for the game versus Hull City on Saturday 3rd April 2010, kick off 3.00 pm (date/KO subject to TV as usual!)  Four of these tickets we are giving away to members via our draw — click here to apply (members only). Deadline for entries is midnight on 7 February. 

The other tickets will be up for sale to members at cost price of £125, first come first served.  Please contact any SCSSC committee member if interested, or indicate your interest on the web form (link above).  Draw winners will also have the opportunity to be presented with the signed shirt from our sponsored player, Ricardo Fuller, and by Jeff Lea’s sponsored player, Mamady Sidibe.

Magazine issued - spare for sale

Our annual magazine was sent out to 2008/09 members on or about 9th/10th November, so you should have received it by now. If you have not, then please contact us (newsletter/magazine) .

We have a handful of spare 08/09 magazines that we are willing to sell to members.  There are also a few left from 07/08 (promotion special), 06/07 and just one from 05/06.  If you would like one of these, or perhaps you are a new member that did not get one first time around, please send a cheque for £5 (for each magazine) payable to “SCSSC”, to the editor (details at bottom of next page). 

Alternatively, please contact us (newsletter/magazine) about doing an online bank transfer if you prefer.  If it is one of the earlier season’s editions that you want then please say so at time of order. 

New members

A warm welcome to the following new members:

• Alfred, Francesca and Sue Toft from Tonbridge, Kent
• Chris Caldwell, London
• Dylan and Samuel Goodwin Jnr from Poole, Dorset
• Jack Davies from Lewes, East Sussex

FSF membership FREE

Anyone can now join the Football Supporters Federation for free, and we encourage you to do so.  Please note that you will have to pay extra if you wish to receive their printed publications: the ‘Football Supporter’ and ‘Free Lions’.  Join online at www.fsf.org.uk.  SCSSC will continue to hold ‘club’ membership.

SCSSC members in the news

Some of our members found their way into Evening Sentinel newspaper (or at least the online version) over the summer, including Paul & Carolyn Ruane, Monica Hartland (now President of the FSF)  and Nick May (Dartmouth Arms). 

We have also now added the link for Keith MacKenzie-Ingle.

Here are the links to the articles:

Keith MacKenzie-Ingle - 42 year glory hunt paying off for southern Stokie

Paul & Carolyn Ruane - City fans enjoy perfect match

Monica Hartland - The first lady of football becomes president

Monica Hartland - Fans chief hails Coates

Nick May - Would you Adam and Eve it? You can get oatcakes dahn sarf!

AGM minutes / Committee changes

The minutes of our 2009 AGM, held on 5th June at the Dartmouth Arms, are now available here.  A copy will be issued to everyone just before the next AGM.   A copy of the accounts for last year is included within the minutes.

The committee was re-elected at the AGM, with no other volunteers coming forward.  However, Gary Kemp stepped down from the role of Secretary, a spot he has held for longer than any of us can remember.  Paul Tunnicliffe was elected as his successor.   The SCSSC committee wishes to thank Gary, who remains on the committee, for his services as Secretary over many years.

Since the AGM, John Wood has stepped down as APFSCIL rep as he is unable to attend all of their meetings at present.  The post of APFSCIL rep is therefore currently vacant.  If you would be interested in joining the committee and taking on this role, please get in touch with us.

Home match tickets via SCSSC!

With the large majority of tickets for games at the Brit taken up by season tickets, which are not a viable option for many Southern Stokies, there was some discussion at the AGM about what we, as a club, could do to help members get tickets for one-off matches. After some debate, it was decided that SCSSC should look into buying a ‘club’ season ticket. This would be offered to members on a ballot basis. If successful we would look into buying additional tickets in future years.

At the AGM, it was thought that it may have been too late for us to implement this for 2009/10 given that the second season ticket deadline was approaching. However, the committee (especially Julia and Garry Zuk) have been successful and we are now up and running.

In addition, with help from Stoke City we have been able to resolve the difficult issue of handing over a season ticket book. SCFC have agreed that the member attending each match can pick up a ‘normal’ ticket on the day from the ticket office.

Full details of the scheme are given here.

Your own @scssc.co.uk email address – FREE!

Fed up of having JohnSmith678@btinternet.com or some other incomprehensible email address. SCSSC is pleased to announce an alternative!

We can now offer to our members, completely free of charge, club email addresses using the @scssc.co.uk domain. For example, you could be john.smith@scssc.co.uk or delboy@scssc.co.uk or whatever takes your fancy (as long as no-one has beaten you to it!) Your scssc address will only be a ‘forwarding’ address and you will still need a ‘real’ email account and address (such as BT, Tiscali, Virgin, Tesco etc.). In other words, any emails sent to your scssc address will simply be 'bounced' on to your 'real' address.

If you wish to take advantage of this offer, this is what you need to do:

• contact us usign the contact form (select "This website" option)
• state your preferred email name, i.e. the bit before the @scssc.co.uk
• state which address(es) you wish your emails to be forwarded to (we will check these before setting up the forwarding)

This service is offered as a favour to members, and we reserve the right to withdraw it if circumstances dictate (e.g. we have to change web hosting provider to one that doesn't support this). In addition, we reserve the right to withdraw the service from any individual if we suspect that it has been abused.

For reasons of privacy and security, only the webmaster and assistant webmaster will have the necessary permissions to set up the service.

You can instruct us to stop the forwarding at any time.

SCSSC business cards

We have created some SCSSC ‘business cards’, incorporating our contact details. These are handy for giving to any potential new recruits that you may meet. If you would like some of these cards to hand out, please contact us (using the "General club matters" option, nd we will send them with your newsletter.

Any news to share?

If you have any ‘news’ to share with us on this page (and in the Newsletter column), such as births, weddings, qualifications, relocations etc., or anything else of interest to other members, then please contact us (using the "membership info" option).