25 Şubat 2009 Çarşamba

"save our club"

Weymouth FC 1890 yılında kurulan ve bugün amatör kümede mücadele eden bir kulüp. Weymouth FC taraftarları bugünlerde mutsuz ve keyifsiz. Kulüpleri finansal zorluklar içerisinde; kapanma tehlikesi ile karşı karşıya. Taraftarlar bu duruma kayıtsız kalamazdı, kalmamışlar da. saveourclub adlı bir web sitesi açan Weymouth FC taraftarları kulüpleri için bu site üzerinden para topluyorlar. Para toplama şekilleri ise daha önce benzerlerini gördüğümüz bir yöntemin uygulaması. Piksellere bölünmüş bir alan bulunuyor. Bu alandan piksel büyüklüklerine göre bağışta bulunabiliyorsunuz. Bulunduğunuz bağış ve piksel alanına göre logonuz tabloda yerini alıyor. 10 x 10 pikselden 10 £'den başlayan ve 100 x 100 piksel 1000 £'e kadar olan seçeneklerden biriyle Weymouth FC'nin ayakta kalmasına yardım etmeniz mümkün. Postu sonlandırırken Weymouth FC taraftarlarının sitede yayınladıkları anlamlı manifestoyu da ekleyelim dedik.

IT'S hard to explain to a non-fan what it is that drags us out on a freezing cold night to stand on the terraces and shout ourselves hoarse supporting our club.

How can you describe the highs and lows that football can bring? The feeling of unity, the passion, the despair, the pride and the joy all in the name of sport.

If they don't know how it feels they can't understand how supporting a club simply BRINGS US TOGETHER.

A group of people who would never meet each other in the outside world suddenly have a common bond - OUR CLUB.

OUR CLUB is Weymouth FC, formerly one of non-league football's biggest and most successful sides, its proud history dotted by giant-killing cup runs. The club fell on hard times but after nearly 20 years in the wilderness the Terras - so called after the early terracotta-coloured kit - finally clawed its way back to the top flight of non-league football in 2006..

However, this success came at a price and a series of near-catastrophic financial crises have followed. The latest situation we have been plunged into threatens our very existence.

But we have followed our team through thick and thin, have ridden the highs and the lows and the challenges have only strengthened the pride we have in OUR CLUB.

We are not going to let this club die without a fight and we are hoping that anyone who has ever pulled on a football scarf of any colour will understand our plight.

Football is not for the big-shots who can buy up a few shares and cast them aside when they are bored. Clubs cannot be "owned" no matter how many shares a person holds because a club is more than a commodity.

It is more than the bricks and mortar of the stadium, more than the players on the pitch, more even than the fans who sing its name with pride.

OUR CLUB is our past, our present and OUR FUTURE.

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