City v Bath City SOME GREAT NEWS!

[DCM]

Gloucester City are delighted to announce that Fridays pre season match
versus Blue Square Conference South Side Bath City will go ahead with
the venue being switched to Twerton Park.

More than that, thanks to the generosity and friendship of Bath City all of the match day proceeds less the costs in staging the match (such as turnstiles, floodlights and Match Officials) will be given to Gloucester City.

Entry fees will be:

£8 adults
£5 OAP and Students
£3.50 under 16
Parking £1

Kick off will be at 7.45.

A decision on 500 club members will follow

This is a magnificent gesture from everybody associated with Bath City
and I am sure you will all join me in thanking them for helping us out in
our hour of need.

So now its up to us. Lets make this a pre season match to remember!
Please get the word around to all of your fellow supporters, workmates
and friends that they need to get to Twerton Park on Friday night in
numbers.

Every penny that you put across the turnstile will make a huge
difference to Gloucester City in the coming weeks.

You can now make a big difference by encouraging as many people as you can to make the journey to Bath.

When you get to Twerton, be sure to buy a beer in the Bath City Club
House and enjoy the luxury of running water and electricity!

Most important of all make sure that you raise the roof for Tim and the lads when they come out on the pitch and show them how proud we all are of Gloucester City Football Club and how much we are looking forward to next season. As the Supporters Club used to say ' we are roaring back'

[Neil]

Great news - thanks to our friends at Bath for this :)

[ItmustbeCity]

Excellent news and a huge thank you to Bath City

[Tiger Andy]

Fantastic of Bath. Moments like this when you realise what non-league is all about. Fair play to 'em. All we need know is uber-publicity and try get 800 odd in!

Would be great of other local clubs could help out as well. If Chelt or the Brizzle sides were to help it be tremendous.

[ZackBCFC]

This is great news, hope we can get more than 800 in (hopefully more than Rovers!)

[Pablo]

Thank You to Bath City this is great news.

Now let's get as many of us down there as possible to show our support for the lads, Tim and to thank Bath!

[Clifty]

This is great news and many thanks to the folks at Bath!!

[Simon22]

Firstly may I say how truly bad I feel for you lot. I have been looking at your forum sporadically (usually to laugh at the Cheltenham bashing you all sometimes employ) over the last couple of months, and can see how much work you had all put in to Meadow Park. Some of you must feel really crushed. I know exactly how I'd feel if it was Whaddon Road.

If there is anything that Cheltenham Town as a football club could do to help, I'm sure they would be only too eager to. No club should have to go through what you are all going through and this is a tragedy for football in Gloucestershire as a whole. I hope you pull through this and become all the more better for it.

Who knows, one day we may have competitive fixtures again, and not with us falling from a great height.

Finally I think its a great gesture by Bath, and I hope FGR have the same thought.

[Clifty]

If there is anything that Cheltenham Town as a football club could do to help, I'm sure they would be only too eager to. No club should have to go through what you are all going through and this is a tragedy for football in Gloucestershire as a whole. I hope you pull through this and become all the more better for it.

Any help from any other club will be gratefully appreciated!!

[city supporter]

A big thankyou to Bath City.....now if FGR/CTAFC/Bristol Rovers could come up with the same idea !:thumbsup:

[yuffie]

we are a bloody nice club :D

[Citizen]

I wish I had known about this before I finished tomorrow's paper at 5pm . . .

[Clifty]

Thanks for the coverage Citizen. It would be great if you could get a story in their, and maybe some sort of appeal once the water has gone??

[DCM]

Citizen, sorry but the details were still being sorted out. It would be fantastic if you could give a plug to this perhaps in the Weds paper as well as the pre match on Friday. With not everybody having power or indeed access to the net, the more people that can get to hear of the game the better it will be for everybody. Thanks.

[SHANDY LOVE MACHINE]

Well done Bath City, a great gesture.

What goes round comes around, some may recall Colin Gardner's very kind financial gesture to Bath earlier this century, and this has been remembered.

I think over the next few weeks we are going to find out who our friends are.

[Woody]

Firstly may I say how truly bad I feel for you lot. I have been looking at your forum sporadically (usually to laugh at the Cheltenham bashing you all sometimes employ) over the last couple of months, and can see how much work you had all put in to Meadow Park. Some of you must feel really crushed. I know exactly how I'd feel if it was Whaddon Road.

If there is anything that Cheltenham Town as a football club could do to help, I'm sure they would be only too eager to. No club should have to go through what you are all going through and this is a tragedy for football in Gloucestershire as a whole. I hope you pull through this and become all the more better for it.

Who knows, one day we may have competitive fixtures again, and not with us falling from a great height.

Finally I think its a great gesture by Bath, and I hope FGR have the same thought.

Thanks for your kind words Simon. At times like these even the most hated of rivalries have to be put aside and it is good to know that you are thinking of us at this difficult time. Any help that you and any other Cheltenham fans are willing to give would be gratefully received!

[Simon22]

CV on the Nest has suggested a friendly between us and you. Obviously with all our previously arranged commitments this is unlikely, but would absolutely love it if we could come up with something to help.

Watch This Space!!

[Citizen]

Citizen, sorry but the details were still being sorted out. It would be fantastic if you could give a plug to this perhaps in the Weds paper as well as the pre match on Friday. With not everybody having power or indeed access to the net, the more people that can get to hear of the game the better it will be for everybody. Thanks.

Consider it done.
Neil's pic of MP is right across the top of tomorrow's back page, and we have spoken to Tim.
The headline says: 'We will fight back - Harris' - and I hope you do.

[Kingo]

After the initial shock, some of the best and "worse" pictures Neil has taken I really feel that its time to roll our sleeves up and show that even the elements can't beat us.

Great gesture from Bath City, FGR could be interesting in a ground share, I have had a PM from Corby Town who are sending us a donation to help with the clear up and even Cheltenham Town are hoping to help us.

Thanks to everyone, club or person whoever you are, I am sure there will be new threads in the very new future as to how people / clubs can specifically help.

[Neil]

people - just keep showing the flickr pictures around the football websites that you use - the more coverage the better!

[Clifty]

Colin and Tim are in talks about having the FGR friendly at FGR to raise money, as have Bath City! Thanks have to go to Colin and FGR if this comes off!!

[weston branch]

people - just keep showing the flickr pictures around the football websites that you use - the more coverage the better!

Notice the Southern league site has no mention of either our plight or that of Banbury. Neil have you sent your pics to them.

[Noah]

I too have spoken with big Colin, and FGR will help us for sure. That's why he's big Colin !


Somewhere in DCM's post there's a reference to 500 Club members and admission to our "home" match at Twerton. I am sure that this is an administrative detail that neither Dave nor Bath City needs to worry about. Our 500 Club members will surely want to pay their admission, because we know them and what they do for the club.


If, however, any are of a different mind then they will only have to apply to the Trust and they can be re-imbursed subsequently. Can't see that happening myself, but the offer is there.

[Clifty]

i can't go on friday as i am at work, however i will up this months standing order by the £8 and still pay as if i was there!

[Pablo]

people - just keep showing the flickr pictures around the football websites that you use - the more coverage the better!

Is anyone registered on the Shedweb, we could put it on there, I went to put it, but I need to be registered and it could take ages for the admin to verify me.

[darrenb]

This is a fantastic show of generosity and a big thank you to Bath City :thumbsup:

[joycie]

Colin Gardner has come on to our forum at Forest Green to say that he has discussed a similar thing at FGR with Tim Harris and Eamonn McGurk.

We will have to however wait on the weather situation as on Monday evening we are at home to Swindon Town. He has had to discuss with our groundsman before making an approach as obviously the recent weather has made our pitch very easy to ruin.

[Jake]

What a generous gesture Bath!

Is there any chance of the minibus going I wonder? It might only be 40 odd miles but I can't, and possibly others too can't get there otherwise.

[Darran]

It is great that Bath are doing this. Obviously I can't go and it is very sad watching the news from where I am and knowing what most people on here (as well as friends and family) are going through.

[Neil]

Jake, I can't take the minibus but I'll give you a lift if you like...

[Jake]

Oooo thanks Neil. :D It'll best to PM you.

[spandau_wirral]

Great stuff, isn't the South West a generous place!