Just time for a bit of an update. First and foremost as I mentioned in the Wester Hailes match report there has been major progress on the strips. Nigel has initially agreed to cover the costs 100%, but wanted to take a week or so to consider the decision. I will be trying to speak to him this Wednesday to find out what the story is and if he gives us the green light I’ll have them ordered on Thursday morning. They will be the design I’ve already posted up about a month or so ago, but with one wee difference. After hearing from Gordon Mackenzie that he had a contact in the strip making business I checked him out, but there isn’t much price difference, so due to the brilliant service I’m going to stick with soccerdirect for the strips themselves and the sponsorship printing. But I’ll be making use of Gordon’s contact Colin Campbell Sports because he does embroidered badges at a small increase in cost (£3 for soccerdirectfc.co.uk to print the badges, and £6 for Colin Campbell to embroider). Essentially this just means the strips will last a lot longer and the badges wont wash off as this kind of printed stuff generally tends to do.
Secondly, I’m really really struggling to try and get some opposition for the coming week. I’ve tried Musselburgh Baptist FC but they are in an injury crisis and wouldn’t be able to pull a team together. I also tried Arthur’s Feet FC from the intra mural league, but their man in charge is in Shetland this week and promisingly they are up for a game the week after. The Witchery haven’t got back to me yet, and after their recent success in the Plockton Super Cup it would be very quality to bring them back down to earth with a bump at Fisherrow. Unfortunately I don’t think Teuchter’s will be up for a 4th game on the bounce against us, but if push comes to shove I will ask Richie tomorrow. Its too soon to play Wester Hailes again, and even if they wanted to they would probably want to bring us to Wester Hailes, which would be dreadful. The final avenue I’m exploring is The Meadows Bar, who don’t officially really have a team but last year they were down at the meadows twice weekly with a pair of nets pulling in a brilliant summer kickabout every time from a random pool of players roughly 100 strong. They haven’t got back to me yet, and hopefully they will return my text tomorrow. Big Gordon is currently in negotiations with the Napier University captain to pull together a bit of squad to play us, which currently seems the most likely team to give us a game, but still very uncertain. As you can see i’m pretty desperate so anybody with any other contacts, please do not hold back on asking/bullying them into playing us next week.
Keep the faith
JD
