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Re: World Cup

By JD (JohnnyD)30/7/2023 22:57Sun Jul 30 22:57:27 2023In response to Re: World Cup

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Aren’t you a bit of a div, Nick?

I pushed so hard for the kids for free scheme to be originally introduced more than 10 years ago. The idea was received in a very hostile way….in spite of West Ham Utd doing regular “Kids for a quid” promotions for, wait for it, Premier League football!

I paid something like £1,500 (very rough estimate) to compensate Ks for the loss of earnings from kids paying on the turnstiles per season and to produce thousands of groovy plastic season ticket cards. I offered to pay to mail hundreds of them to all the schools on Kingston but the offer to mail them was rejected because K’s had “the schools in hand with a friend in the system”…apparently,

Be aware that I didn’t even promote my company on the season tickets - I paid for it personally and wanted Ks to be front and centre on the tickets without corporate sponsorship.

I distributed lots myself, aided by some of the PKK lads but hundreds and hundreds of the tickets were thrown in the trash because the club didn’t distribute them…neither did whoever they thought could distribute them to schools instead of me.

Kids for free for those youngsters resident in Kingston is an utter waste of time…and my legacy as a Ks fan (which is a what I consider the Kids for Free thing), is a joke until we’re back in Kingston.

I dont know what the current board are up to but historically, they seem to repel anyone who offers to chip in and help.

I remember a meeting at training, in the Kingston Uni pavilion, where Dowse, Martin Tyler, John Fenwick, asked several other people to put their hand in their pockets to help fund a push for promotion (the season that we lost the play off semi final at home to (I can’t remember who) because other directors wouldn’t invest in the promotion push. I declined because I’d already pumped in thousands, with nothing in return (I expected nothing) other than enjoyment, and decided that giving any more would make me an absolute mug. It was very weird. Anything anyone put into the club in the way of sponsorship seemed to reduce the amount the directors paid in rather than be added to the squad budget:

I’m one of maybe a dozen people (quite aside from the KBH chaps) who have been repelled by the way the club is run.

What an utter shambles the club has become. Awful, sad, and toxic as a result of those supporting a shambles of a board. Enough already!

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