OH WHEN THE SPURS GO MARCHING ON

Welcome to the December newsletter ,where the remainder of the fixtures have been sorted with cut off points and prices etc…Also discussed was the plans for the xmas drinks night out ,which will now take place on December 27 at the Tavern in Barnstaple where we can watch the away game v Norwich City ko 7.30.

Other items discussed

Tickets for Everton are to be returned now that the date has been rescheduled …….Man City away, we have 10 members hoping to go tickets allowing………..The next 2 games the club are going to are Sunderland at home on Sun Dec 18th ko 3pm we will be leaving the square at 7.30 am………and Wolves at home on Sat 14th January ko 3pm again leaving at 7.30 am thanks to Clive and Wayne for driving for these games.

Match report

WBA v The Mighty Spurs

Only 3 of us managed to get tickets for this game due to the staggering amount of 190 loyalty points required
We set off at the staggering time of 9.30(god I wish Tottenham was in the Midlands) We sped along faster than Gareth Bale at times and was in a pub by about 12.30 ish with every gambling mans dream with a bloody William Hills bookies in the car park and the racing channel on in the pub. After a couple of pints and something to eat it was off to the next junction to park the car up…where for those of you that have been to wba would of witnessed the craziest parking ever seen where anything went to parking in the central
reservation… to the roundabout !!! A good turn out again from the travelling spurs fans where the first half was best forgotten apart from when we all held our breath when the pen was awarded and adebayor did his best to carry on with our tradition of missing them (vdv excluded ) but got the rebound -HT- The second half was a lot better where in the last 25 mins we was all over it and Defoes goal was a cracker (xmas Joke )and the third was the icing on the cake there was no coming back for the Boing Boing brigade ..it was a yiddio jig in the stands from us and 3 points in the bag and sitting pretty in 3rd spot …nice run home and back home at 8.30.

Games to attend

• Stoke City at Home Sat March 17th KO 3pm Cat C Price £60 Money in by Fri 27th January.
• Fulham at Home Sun13th May KO 3pm Cat B Price £65 Money in by Fri March 30th.

Next Meeting

Many thanks to the 13 members that attended this months meeting ..Apologies for my absence due to a free bar available at work it would have been rude to say no ..Many thanks to Wayne for standing in and doing the scribbling ..The next meeting will be on Thursday February 2nd 2012 ko 8pm.

Get well Tel

Last but not least a speedy recovery to Member Terry Hill who has not been too well …all the best mate.

MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Welcome back to the October news letter ,where at
present the club has 42 members with a hand full that
haven’t yet done there Membership yet so we are still
holding our own which is good …We now have a new
club flag which hopefully will be taken to the away
game to Blackburn where 10 of us will be travelling up
with Bridgewater Spurs….So far we have attended 2
games v Liverpool and A*****L in small numbers due
to being both Cat A games and tickets being hard to
get….We have 15 members attending the QPR game
where we will be leaving Barnstaple square at 8am
Thanks to Tim for driving.

Club Merchandise
I am in the process of putting in another order so if you
require Polos,T-shirts,Fleeces and now Sweat shirts and
Hoodies please let me know.

Club Funds
We have at present £664 in the club funds.

Xmas Do
We will this year hopefully be having a xmas drink
(weather permitting) with a nice sum of £180 to take
out for a few lemonades the venue and date will be
arranged at the next meeting.

Newsletter
In future newsletters will be sent via email for those
that have access, other than that it will be done via
good old royal mail ,if you have a preference please let me know.

Website
Once again I am asking Members to use our website
which is up and running ….it recently closed down due
to lack of use so please get on there and make use of it
At www.northdevonspursclub.gb.net we are now linked
up to Facebook so there is no need to register like
Before ,just get on there and talk SPURS.

Games to attend

• WBA Cat B – Away-Sat 26 Nov ko 3 pm PRICE £65 ? MONEY IN BY NO LATER THAN TUE 11th Oct.
• SUNDERLAND Cat B – Home-Sun 18 Dec ko 3pm PRICE £65 MONEY IN NO LATER THAN TUE 11th Oct.
• WOLVES Cat C Home-Sat 14th January ko 3pm
  PRICE £60 MONEY IN NO LATER THAN TUE 8TH NOV.
• Remainder of games to be sorted out at December meeting.

All Cheques Made out to North Devon Spurs Supporters Club and sent to Giles.

Other News
Next Meeting – Many thanks to the 15 members that attended the meeting this month…the next meeting will be on THURSDAY 1st DEC ….The venue will be the same but the Chichester Arms will be known now as the Green Man.

KEEP THE FAITH -COME ON YOU SPURS

Welcome back for a new season with North Devon Spurs……Welcome to the new members that have joined up…. Please get your forms back as soon as possible so that you get all the info you need……listed below are the games that the club intend to go to ….For the benefit of new members this is how it works Cat A games we have to get our own tickets via the website or the phone Cat B and Cat C the supporters club can get them .

Games To Attend

• Liverpool Cat A -Home- Sun18 Sep ko 1.30 on sky sports. Tickets go on sale -Bronze Mon 8th Aug-Lilywhite Tue 9th Aug.
• A*****L Cat A- Home- Sun2nd Oct ko 4pm on sky sports. Tickets go on sale Bronze Mon 22Aug-Lilywhite Tue 23rd Aug.
• QPR Cat B -Home-Sun30th Oct ko 4pm on sky sports ..PRICE £65 MONEY IN BY NO LATER THAN TUE 23 AUG.
• WBA Cat B ? Away-Sat 26 Nov ko 3 pm PRICE £65 ? MONEY IN BY NO LATER THAN TUE 11th Oct.
• SUNDERLAND Cat B Home-Sun 18 Dec ko 3pm PRICE £65 MONEY IN NO LATER THAN TUE 11th Oct .
• WOLVES Cat C Home-Sat 14th January ko 3pm
• Remainder of games to be sorted out at December meeting.

All Cheques Made out to North Devon Spurs Supporters Club and sent to Giles.

Other News
Bridgewater Spurs have kindly invited us to jump on there bus for games when we are short on people to attend games,it helps them fill the coach
and gets us to the game ,Ideal !

The Supporters club has now got the title of being a Satellite Club ,which translated in English means compared to last season we can order any amount of tickets for Cat B or C small or large where as last season we had to have at least 10 people going to get tickets.Which is where the Bridgewater Spurs offer comes handy.Bridgewater Spurs have also asked if we wish to attend the away games against Wigan on Sat 24th Sept and Blackburn on Sat Oct 22nd with them please let Giles know as soon as possible if you are intrested so we can get a idea of numbers.

Other Info
We are in the process of purchasing a new supporters club flag 6ft x3ft which we can take to a few games this season.

Membership Forms

First Game
9 members are attending the Everton game we will be leaving the square at Barnstaple at 7.30 where our chairman will be driving -thank you Giles.

Next Meeting

Welcome back ….on the agenda was our Annual meeting of the year to form the committee for the year ahead ,and to discuss other items….the committee will be as the previous year…..names and contact numbers as above .

1. Membership will be same as last year with £10 covering family members as well.
2. Club Funds-We have at present £ 555.49 at the end of the clubs financial year.
3. Website- The new website is up and running and can be found here please apply to join by following the instructions for the Message Board, Gallery and other items ,please join as it was set up to be used by the clubs members.There will be items posted on there in the coming season regarding games so it is worth signing up.
4. The Clubs official PoloShirts,T-Shirts and Fleeces
   have been a great success.Please get in touch if you wish to place an order.
5. Player of the Year- ……We were invited to go up to the actual awards at the clubs training ground the day before the Birmingham game ,but once again it was all to late to organise any thing…hopefully another time may be.
6. Due to the increase in fuel and transport the club has had to increase each category of game by £5.
7. In future any one that drives the mini bus up to the game will have there ticket paid for and will only have to contribute to the hire and fuel costs.
8. There will be no charity donations this year .

Other Items
The last game of the season was attended by 24 members,thanks to Butch and Tim for driving the 2 mini buses up to the game…..

Help!!
The club has 2 boards which we place in the rear of the mini bus when we go up to the games ,somewhere we have misplaced the one with the 125Years on ..if anyone knows where it is please get in touch Ta.

Membership
Please find enclosed new membership form for North Devon Spurs ,please return ASAP and don’t forget you need to get official membership from Spurs to attend games with the club.DON’T FORGET-DO NOT THROW YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD AWAY AS THEY WILL BE USED AGAIN FOR NEXT SEASON.

Fixtures 2011/2012
Once the fixtures are out we will sort out which games to attend.

Goal Time
Congrats to Gary Paine who won the time of the last goalscorer v Birmingham courtesy of “Super Pav” and won £ 32.50

Next Meeting
The next meeting will be on Thursday Aug 4th Many thanks to the 13 members that attended for this AGM meeting.

Behaviour and Conduct
It has been brought to the clubs attention about general behaviour when on the bus going to games ie swearing and such , please remember that there are children on board -Many thanks

David Beckham at the lane ..he knows it makes sense

NEXT MEETING

The next meeting of the mighty Spurs of North Devon is on Thur 3rd March ko 8pm…Please continue with your support.

CLUB SHIRTS

Club shirts are still available in Polo,T-Shirt or Fleece get in touch if you require to place an order.

CHRISTMAS DO

Due to the bad weather the xmas do was cancelled ,the club is hoping to do something later on in the year (funds permitting) when we celebrate winning the League 20/1 or the champions League 25/1 or the FA cup 8/1 …a nice 4200/1 Treble for £1.

FUTURE GAMES

The next game the club is attending at home to Manure utd ..on Sun 16 Jan the bus will be leaving the square in Barnstaple at 8am SHARP ….The club will also be trying to get tickets forAC.Milan at home any one interested to let me or giles know asap they go on sale Thur Feb 10 if you want to try and get your own

…..Also we will be trying to get tickets for the away game v Chelski PLEASE let Giles know by early March if you are interested……also pencilled in at the moment is the last home game of the season v Birmingham on Sun May 22 ko 4pm Cat C MONEY IN BY FRI 8 MAY price £55.….On the subject of prices the club may have to review the charges made to attending games ..not by much maybe the odd £5 just to help out due to the increase in Fuel and the hire of vehicles ….Which isn’t bad since the club started we havent had to increase the prices…at the moment the club is having to subsidize some of the games.