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Bedford's newly formed Football Management
Committee has re-started the Players Budget Scheme.
Fans can contribute by standing order to the
scheme with all money going directly to player wages.
FMC chairman Dave Thomas said: "We are in the
process of taking charge of the scheme. We have to sort out
paperwork. In the meantime, you can still grab a form which gives us
permission to sign you up and then get some simple paper work out to
contributors.
Last season the scheme petered out with some contributors unsure of
what happened.
We will make sure that contributors, or indeed
anybody else who cares, get regular up dates on how much money is in
that account. It's important that people know what is happening. If
we sign a player that perhaps we couldn't have before thanks to the
amount of contributions to the PBS, you will be told.
If 200 people pay £10 a month that will make a
huge difference to the forthcoming season. Hitchin were getting in
the region of £500 a week from their PBS. You could argue that kept
them up.
At the moment the weekly wage bill for the level
we are at now is not bad. But with real support from PBS we would be
seen as millionaires at our new level. It will also allow us to
build for the next two seasons. There is no point in winning
promotion only to find ourselves in trouble again.
Lets make this clear: any money that comes
through the gate goes straight into player wages. Any money raised
by the PBS goes straight into player wages. Tell fans who have moved
away that they can still contribute by joining up even if they can't
get to many games.
A successful PBS will give everybody associated
with the club a real boost. It's important now to get our club into
a stronger position than it has in the past and we are all in it
together on that score.
Not everybody can contribute financially, but you
can always volunteer to do a turnstile and get in for free. It will
save FMC paying somebody. Or volunteer to help the supporters club
who will also be contributing towards the PBS.
email
gerry.edmunds@bedfordeagles.net
or call 01234 381213 for an entry form, or pick one up from the
club, or send a sae to PBS 10 Northwood End Road, Haynes, Bedford,
MK45 3PH. Or go to http://www.btfcsupporters.co.uk/.
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