1931 Fund sponsoring women's team #31

[Alan Crockford]

Hello all.

Just a quick note to confirm that the 1931 Fund sponsorship of the women's team's Number 31 is a standard player sponsorship package - £250 paid having been raised via a sweepstake that some friends and I ran.

Nothing was taken from the 1931 Fund treasure chest, which is safely buried 36 paces north west of the tallest yew tree in Heavitree Park.

We await news from ECFC of how they wish to use our £15k for this year's League One squad.

On that front, my personal view is a muddled mix of frustration at lack of squad improvement, optimism that giving youth its chance may just work out okay and admiration for our principled focus on getting what we want from the transfer market rather than settling for what we can more easily get. It'd be lovely to see our patience rewarded - and if an extra £15k helps overcome any barriers then we'll have done our bit.

If anyone would like to join - perhaps exiled fans like me who don't click the SJP turnstiles so often - then please email 1931fund (at sign) gmail.com

NB Usual Gmail fornat of course. Trying to avoid more spam

Cheers and UTC
Al

 

[Hants_red]

Cheers for the update Alan.

 

[Hants_red]

Update from Alan Crockford...


Thanks for your support and patience last session. Without a men's player for our famous shirt we went ahead as per my last email with a £3k payment to the women's team.

There's a little story here

1931 Fund Donate To Exeter City Women - Exeter City Community Trust

Exeter City Women have received a boost ahead of the 2023/24 Season as the 1931 Fund have pledged a £3,000 donation to further assist the team’s development. The 1931 Fund was started in 2009 after City last won promotion to League One. Since then, fans paying £19 each month into the Fund have...

exetercct.org

I'm grateful to Lynne, Al and Trev for joining some of the women's players on the pitch at SJP. There's a nice pic on the ECFC women's Twitter pages.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1655908080276652034

With your ongoing support, we'll have around 22k to pledge for the coming season, so we expect to be back to our core business of helping the ECFC first team.

I don't want to jinx anything, but despite City reiterating that the first part of this summer is going to be quiet on the transfer front, it does look hopeful that our next No.31 could be announced quite soon. Fingers crossed.

 

[andrew p long]

Read into this what you will..

Update from Alan Crockford...

I don't want to jinx anything, but despite City reiterating that the first part of this summer is going to be quiet on the transfer front, it does look hopeful that our next No.31 could be announced quite soon. Fingers crossed.