We've taken James's mum to view the venue of our 'A Match for James' on 28 May 2023. We received a warm welcome and were very impressed! Thank you Bowers, great people!
Lots of prep going on. The list to put on a match is endless:
Insurance (yawn but necessary) - sorted
Ref team - being sorted
Physio - Ben Clarkson is limbering up
First aiders - hmmm, will need to work hard on that and tell them it's now't to do with Ronald
Players - got a manager, sourced a few players, zoom call later this week. 442? Assistant manager, is Pep available?
Opposition - sorted. A team of knights, they look fierce
Guest stars - loads of ideas. Just need to improve my contacts book to take it a notch above Dorset garden centres
Kit - sorted, 08/09 replica. Two keeper tops or one though? And do we size them all 5XL?
Shirt sponsors, will work on that soon
Bid to play on the legends team? Top idea (not mine), put it on the list
Sponsors - some fantastic interest already, could do with more
Donations - going well, will up the anti
Ticket sales - minimal so far, just need to sign up Messi to nudge these along a bit
Campaign slogan - got a great one with some lovely input already, watch social media in next few days for this, will it bomb or go viral? Too many questions
Contacting James's old school - done, need to follow up tho
Contacting James's old school chums - in hand, and Fabrice Muamba was in his class too (how strange is that?), gotta speak to him
Auction items, the Walker shirt bidders last Sat, wow, thank you guys, and we've now got it to auction again
Other items - starting to come in, maybe something from 1973 that will make a few of you explode with happy thoughts, some great stuff from Newcastle United, and some just fantastic help from Queens Park (the Scottish QP). More to source, my dining room starting to look like a bring n buy sale
James's other clubs - some good help already from the Gas and Stortford, O's fans talking, lots more to sort (James moved around a bit), on the to do list for next week
Mascots - well, we'll invite Sammy of course, but the human ankle-biter sort maybe? James's three young daughters will be there, will sort them kits (and one for James so he can kick the game off in style)
Trophy? Mmm, maybe, or is it OTT? Got a supplier willing to do a 30% discount, but maybe we can do better
Stewards - yep, will need some of these, possibly got a source for them, need to follow up
Catering - B&P doing that, but something for the players/Walker family. Speak to Dawn
Pre match entertainment - got an idea for that, waiting a call back
Half time penalty comp. Gotta have one of those, £2 a go to beat a top shot stopper
Balls - yep, sponsor for them needed
Programme - got a good man to do that, need to supply him with content headers etc, printing and graphics and sponsor of it to sort
Anything else? Yep, am sure there is. Just run out of steam for now
@OldBlueLady and me gonna be busy
Ideas, help, donations, expertise, cup of tea, all welcome
