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But warm words don't sell tickets and we need to put that support into action. Which is why, together with the Supporters Club, we met with the club earlier this week to discuss how we could help in a coordinated campaign for "The Race to 6K".

The club have ambitious plans to market the season tickets at a series of events over the summer and when a timetable of these events is available we'll be asking for volunteers to help out. In the meantime, if there's a large-ish event taking place near you this summer, whether Football related or not, that you think the club should have a presence at, please let us know the details (dates, location, rough size, nature of event etc) and we'll investigate whether it can be added to the list.

But to kick things off, we plan to start with a "Champions League Final pub crawl" next Wednesday. Sadly, this isn't quite as much fun as it might at first sound (although we hope it will still be quite good fun) - the plan is for teams of fan volunteers to leaflet pubs showing the Champions League finals next Wednesday evening. If we are to hit the 6,000 target, we will need to get at least some of that from "armchair" football fans who live/work in Swindon, enjoy watching football but don't currently go to STFC very often. Where better to find a large group of such people in one place at once than among those watching the CL final in pubs around town next week?

The club will provide us with leaflets etc - all you need to do is meet at the Legends Lounge at 6.45pm next Wednesday. We'll be dropped in to Town to leaflet as many of the town centre/Old Town pubs showing the game as we can then meet back at the Legends Lounge for a celebratory (and by then well-earned) pint and watch the second half of the game.

If you can't get to Swindon on Wednesday or are already planning on watching the game in your own local why not pick up some leaflets beforehand and take them with you? Leaflets will be available for collection from the club from midday on Tuesday. Please email either myself or Chris Tanner at the club [email protected] to arrange collection of leaflets, which pub you will be going to etc.

If you can't make next Wednesday's Champion's League Pub Crawl, don't worry, there'll be plenty of other opportunities over the summer to help out!

"The Race to 6k" is an ambitious one but it is achievable and if we all pull together we can go a hell of a long way towards getting there. This is our chance to offer practical support for one of the most radical ticketing initiatives any STFC board has ever undertaken - we owe it to our club and ourselves as fans to do all we can to help make it work.

Im really sorry I do bums and tums on a Wednesday

That's a great idea! It's really important that fans try and get the message out there and this is a great way to do it.

I'd come along and help if I wasn't in London and in the middle of exams  :(

Target 6000 pub crawl?

Fuck that. You'd never get to the bar!

Pub crawl in London?

Do it Charlotte, we can get a girls group going round  :D

Does anyone know how many tickets we've sold now?

I think those of us who turned out last night deserve something Paul,like a club t-shirt for instance :wink:

Paul,
If there is any chance of you sending any through the post, I could get a few up in pubs down here.

Ooooo maybe we could put some out in reception at my leisure centre

(if its OK with my boss?)

PM'd you mate. Cheers

anyone doing Highworth/Shrivenham? I might be up for a pub crawl to do them :beers:

I think those of us who turned out last night deserve something Paul,like a club t-shirt for instance :wink:

Especially as we were 'staff' for the night.  :shock:

Meh. T-shirt, Shmee-Shirt. At the very least you deserve your own youth team player to act as your personal boot boy for a week. I'll chase them on it.

You're getting a special T-shirt with "You ma bitch" on it  :D

Went well I think. Thanks to those who did show - we had two teams of three doing town centre (one lot downtown, one lot Old Town) plus Spencer's "Operation Windmill Outreach", a couple of guys doing pubs in Bradford on Avon (dropped some leaflets off there on Tuesday), plus three from the SC doing pubs in West Oxon. Not heard from the out of town guys, but for the two teams doing town centre, we covered about 25 pubs which is pretty good going in one evening.

I think most of us got a more positive response than we expected. Very little hassle/negative response although what there was was more from people who identified themselves as being "native Swindonians" ie didn't really get a lot of "sod off I support a plastic Prem side" which we kind of expected. Quite a few people seemed genuinely surprised/interested at the prices, especially with the kids 3 quid a game - got a fair amount of interest along the lines of "Mum/Dad + kid".

All in all, well worth doing - we got a load of leaflets out and talked to a load of people who weren't aware of the ST prices, who were at least polite enough to feign interest  :D

Big thanks to Alan J, larwood, Lady (plus mate) and Spencer for turning out. And to Chris and Adam from the club for pitching in as well. Still disappointed at the lack of cabbage gun in the van, mind.

I am just glad I didn't get caught being a plastic in the Lava Lounge  :oops:

and the City supporter (in shirt) we saw crossing the CG when we were heading off to the pubs by the station - drew up next to her, wound down window, gave her a leaflet - "Here you are, try watching some proper football". Her face was a picture.

the City supporter (in shirt) we saw crossing the CG when we were heading off to the pubs by the station - drew up next to her, wound down window, gave her a leaflet - "Here you are, try watching some proper football". Her face was a picture.

are they doing all schools, or just a select few any idea?

what with my coaching I've worked in about 20 different schools in the local area and could drop some leaflets in if the school currently isnt being targeted

Ha ha,we went into the Lava lounge so i assume,stfctownender , that you were the Town fan in there?I saw someone i recognised in there at any rate,was nice to see a friendly face :D

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: I'd forgotten about that. Apart from that, funniest bits were Lady and her mate running off to try and make the "Target 6k" TShirts "more feminine" and the City supporter (in shirt) we saw crossing the CG when we were heading off to the pubs by the station - drew up next to her, wound down window, gave her a leaflet - "Here you are, try watching some proper football". Her face was a picture.

You can only really tell a city fan if they take their shoes off. When you see the webbed feet it becomes obvious

You could always count their fingers

Paul, you never answered whether she was a particularly skanky, crack whore look a like shitty fan

heheh, as I was saying I saw a skanky looking girl in a city shirt getting done for shoplifting at tescos early yesterday evening. Shitty fans just dont change do they? :-))(

That's probably the one !!  :D