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SAFC play Scrooge

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Soz but the SAFC £710 will soon pale in comparison to the millions upon millions the Crown Prince and PIF have promised to pour into regenerating the local area… isn’t that right?
 

Silly story and extremely opportunistic and entitled on the behalf of Crook. We're a loss-making club and we could have a lot of vendors guilt-trip us in the media like this if they also had no shame.
 
Summerbee said:
Silly story and extremely opportunistic and entitled on the behalf of Crook. We're a loss-making club and we could have a lot of vendors guilt-trip us in the media like this if they also had no shame.
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You know what a vendor is right? May as well start with the basics for someone so impressively intelligent as yourself in business matters
 
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genewolf said:
All the people I ever met from Crook were mags.
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There's definitely more Mags nowadays in Crook like but I'd say it's only a 60/40 split. Willington is probably 60/40 more towards Sunderland.

My Dad always says when he was a lad in the 60s and 70s, there was only about a dozen Mags in Crook and Willington. It was all Sunderland...then 1992....
 
Parkside said:
Since they like to be known as the Black Cats, it might be supposed lucky when Sunderland FC cross your path. Crook Town take a different view.
Town hosted Sunderland’s under-23 side on Wednesday in the Durham Challenge Cup, 534 spectators attracted to the Millfield. After the usual deductions, the balance was £1,421.
Frequently these days, the big boys waive their right to half of the gate on such occasions – as did Newcastle United when 1,300+ turned out at Ashington the evening previously.
No such luck with Sunderland. Crook this morning received a request for £710 (and fifty pence.) Club chairman Vince Kirkup, the most urbane of men, is angry.
“We have to work hard for every penny we get and they’re a multi-million pound club. I know they’re entitled to their cut but it’s become an accustomed and much appreciated gesture that the big clubs don’t take it. To be honest, I’m disgusted.”
The score? Oh aye. Crook Town 1 Sunderland 0.
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Tbf the quote from Vince doesn’t mention Newcastle United, the article does. Absolute nectar for True Faith and the like.

The article doesn’t mention any dialogue between SAFC and Crook, I’d have hoped they could sort it out amicably before it got all shouty.
 
Yellerish said:
You know what a vendor is right? May as well start with the basics for someone so impressively intelligent as yourself in business matters
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While I misspoke, I assure you that many would consider both my accounting and business acumen to be non-existent at the best of times. :lol:

The point still stands that all small businesses and organisations have bills to pay, some of which are to much larger businesses who have huge revenues and may even have huge profits. I assume that they don't expect energy companies to cover their bills just because of the disparity in the size of the respective businesses. While Sunderland may be able to forego the money, which clubs or businesses do you pick and choose? Or should we be benevolent to all? Perhaps give up our share of the cup monies to the smaller clubs we usually face too.

There are channels for a club like this to go through if they would like us to forego the money owed, and there are good people at the club who would ensure a fair hearing. Trying to publicly shame or embarrass us into doing so is both desperate and low. I hope the club ensure every penny is collected.
 
Summerbee said:
While I misspoke, I assure you that many would consider both my accounting and business acumen to be non-existent at the best of times. :lol:

The point still stands that all small businesses and organisations have bills to pay, some of which are to much larger businesses who have huge revenues and may even have huge profits. I assume that they don't expect energy companies to cover their bills just because of the disparity in the size of the respective businesses. While Sunderland may be able to forego the money, which clubs or businesses do you pick and choose? Or should we be benevolent to all? Perhaps give up our share of the cup monies to the smaller clubs we usually face too.

There are channels for a club like this to go through if they would like us to forego the money owed, and there are good people at the club who would ensure a fair hearing. Trying to publicly shame or embarrass us into doing so is both desperate and low. I hope the club ensure every penny is collected.
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^someone hasn't read or understood the story properly.
 
Parkside said:
Since they like to be known as the Black Cats, it might be supposed lucky when Sunderland FC cross your path. Crook Town take a different view.
Town hosted Sunderland’s under-23 side on Wednesday in the Durham Challenge Cup, 534 spectators attracted to the Millfield. After the usual deductions, the balance was £1,421.
Frequently these days, the big boys waive their right to half of the gate on such occasions – as did Newcastle United when 1,300+ turned out at Ashington the evening previously.
No such luck with Sunderland. Crook this morning received a request for £710 (and fifty pence.) Club chairman Vince Kirkup, the most urbane of men, is angry.
“We have to work hard for every penny we get and they’re a multi-million pound club. I know they’re entitled to their cut but it’s become an accustomed and much appreciated gesture that the big clubs don’t take it. To be honest, I’m disgusted.”
The score? Oh aye. Crook Town 1 Sunderland 0.
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but Sunderland do have costs involved and even charities take money out to cover expenses.
using Newcastle is not a good example, they are in a multi million pound league where we are in a tin pot league that has to generate our own money.
 
He’s disgusted we asked for money that was owed? We are a league one club with massive overheads. Fuck Crook
 
Has anyone started a go-fund-me page for Crook? Will donate a tenner if they do. Possibly even £10 (and fifty pence).

II bet their chairman wouldn't have even thanked us if we gave him our share.
 
Anyone who thinks we should not help local non league clubs is quite simply wrong
It is penny pinching and a very poor show by us
 
People defending asking crook town for 700 quid for a share of gate receipts in a durham challenge cup game against our kids. Yet some seemingly happy that Donald essentially took 20 million quid out of the club and clearly has no intention of paying it all back.

This club is an absolute mess at times.
 
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