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Cleethorpes Whites Committee Announcement
******* URGENT **********
The AGM which was scheduled for Friday is cancelled.
The owner of Blundell Park Hotel telephoned us today and cancelled our booking. This is because Grimsby Town are playing Lincoln City on Friday night.
The commpmttee were aware of the fixture, but did decide on going ahead because the fans would have been inside the ground at 8.00 pm.
This has now been take out of our hands after Police advice to the hotel.
The committee are aware that we have to set membership and travel costs and we are intending to hold an urgent committee meeting on Thursday evening.
The committee have only received one application for the committee “Lizzie Smith”. The current committee have all agreed to hold a post on behalf of the branch.
All will be revealled by Saturday and we will inform our members and site visitors.
The committee
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Cleethorpes Whites Competitions
Can I ask all existing and potential new members to fill out the form below if they want to be added to the play lists for the following competitions in 2010/11 season?
Prediction league (£20 Leeds vouchers per month to win - free to enter if a member of Cleethorpes Whites)
Last man standing (£10 to be won each winner, unless knocked out. Rolled over until a winner- Free to play)
The above competitions are free to enter. We appreciate we have not set the price of CW membership yet, but please submit your name/s if you want to play. This is so I can start filling out the players grid list.
Thanks Andy
The competitions were a fantastic success last season and I am sure that this season will be no exception. We are anticipating new members for the championship campaign. It will be a lot tougher to predict.............
Enjoy our FREE competitions
Cleethorpes Whites to host Leeds on the Road
This morning the committee received a communication that our application to host a Leeds on the Road event is successful. GREAT NEWS
We have been notified that the event will take place on Friday October 29th. This is the night before the Scunthorpe game.
Venue
The committee thought it would be nice to give some funds to Grimsby Town and book their venue.
Full details will be announced after our AGM......
This will be a ticket event and we will be selling tickets on a first come first served basis to Cleethorpes Whites members first. If there is any tickets left we will then sell them to other regional members club’s and on the door on the evening. (there will be a charge for entry)
The reason why we will be doing this is that the committee will want to focus on organising the event and not selling tickets. We would like to sell out as soon as possible.
The profit from the evening is a 50 -50 split between Leeds United and our branch. This is a fantastic way to raise funds.
IF you have any ideas on what we should do on this event? Please email Andy leeds1972@gmail.com
Example - Disco - Buffet - Sit down meal - Quiz - Act - Auction
We already anticipate a SELL OUT
Cleethorpes Whites NEEDS YOU
This is going to be a big event and the committee need help.......If you would like to assist with the planning of this event? Please contact the committee as soon as possible
Further details will be announced at our AGM on Friday 30 th July.
Anyone who is interested in going away to Scunthorpe? You must be a member of Leeds United membership scheme and Cleethorpes Whites.
The committee have put a form below to register your interest in going to the Leeds on the Road event, this is so we can gauge numbers.............
Kosice 0 v Leeds 1 (Paynter)
One defeat, one win and one goal scored; statistics that Simon Grayson would like to outdo at the start of Leeds United's domestic season but an outcome which sent him home from Slovakia with a warm glow.
This summer's exodus from Thorp Arch to Ruzomberok and Kosice will not go down as the tour when Leeds United tore through Slovakia's finest but for Grayson it comfortably served its purpose: a two-match sequence in which United's second performance bettered their first and the wheels rusted by seven weeks of inactivity began to turn once more.
United's time on the continent ended last night with a merited victory over MFK Kosice, 72 hours after an equally deserved loss to MFK Ruzomberok 200 kilometres north. If pre-season's raison d'etre is to pull a club's squad along an upward trajectory of fitness, form and purpose, Grayson will take comfort from the fact that their second outing in Slovakia was the more acceptable of the two.
These are premature stages of his plan for the Championship but, with a curtain-raiser against Derby County no more than three weeks away, he will not be able to say that for much longer.
Much as he prioritised hours of training in cruel Slovakian temperatures, it was necessary for his players to give a more convincing impression of a settled team in Kosice than they had in Ruzomberok.
Many of them had the guise of strangers in patches of Tuesday's game, as they were bound to do in an opening friendly when Grayson's team included two Slovakian trialists and several contracted professionals who had met each other less than a fortnight before.
A greater degree of organisation revealed itself in Kosice, where the players frazzled in brutal heat, and a goal was forthcoming at the start of the second half.
Those on the outside of Elland Road will look for goals this summer, the first since Jermaine Beckford's exit, with the intention of learning whether his loss has been adequately dealt with.
It cannot have disappointed Grayson to see it arrive from the boot of Billy Paynter, one of those required to plug the hole.
His strike arrived on 55 minutes in a period of the game when Kosice's willingness visibly sagged. Prior to it, Leeds had held their hosts in check with a disciplined display which slowly worked Kosice into a dead-end. It is a position that the Slovakian team know well.
They are by some distance the greater of the two clubs encountered by Leeds this week yet also the lesser. The club trailed in far behind Ruzomberok at the end of the most recent Corgon Liga season and they are no longer the powerhouse who gave Slovakia its first representation in the Champions League.
Hard times have schooled the club as proficiently as Leeds in financial carnage, perhaps inevitably when their season ticket prices stoop as low as 18 Euros.
Kosice's advantage last night, as Ruzomberok found on Tuesday, should have been the wind of a full pre-season in their sails.
Grayson expected Jason Crowe to miss the friendly in Kosice with a foot complaint, and a niggle affecting Lloyd Sam stymied his involvement
Ticket Update
Phase 1
Cleethorpes Whites have now sent in the phase 1 application for away games. Members who have missed the deadline, must submit their own application at 10.00 am on Monday via the fax system or telephone.
Leeds v Derby
The tickets have arrived safe. Can members who have requested tickets please contact Roger to arrange payment. The branch will not be ordering any other tickets for this game. Members who decide to go to this game will need to purchase themselves via post, online. Regional members club’s now can only apply once per each game, but we do have a two week priority booking period where we get first choice of tickets.
Next 3 games
Members are reminded that we do have a priority booking period to purchase tickets.
Cleethorpes Whites will be sending for tickets on the Saturday before members can purchase them. We really need our members to be organised and plan well in advance of the games that they would like to go to...
Please see below the next 3 games.
Leeds on TV (4 Times)
The first two games of Leeds season in the Championship are being shown live on BBC. The first game Leeds v Derby County will be shown live at 5.15 pm on Saturday August 7th.
The second game will be shown live on Sunday August 15th and kick off for this game is 1.15 pm
The third game to be shown is Doncaster v Leeds and will now be played on Friday September 17th - Kick off 7.45 pm
The fourth game is Middlesborough v Leeds. The two teams have not met since 2003 and the game is to stay on Saturday October 16th, but kicks off at 5.20 pm.
Leeds Membership
Can you please make sure you have renewed your membership with Leeds before you apply for away tickets. The first game in Phase 1 is Nottingham Forest and we expect a big demand for tickets.
If you were a member last year you can renew online here
Leeds United have swooped to sign Swansea City left-back Federico Bessone on a three-year deal.
The 26-year-old started his career at Barcelona, where he played in the C team along with compatriot and Argentine icon Lionel Messi.
He featured 22 teams for the Swans last term and joins fellow Argentine Luciano Becchio at Elland Road
Federico is not to well known to Leeds fan’s, but all the Swansea message boards are buzzing with comments about him. The majority of people really rate him and states “He is quality and will be missed”
So the jury is out on Bessone and we will have to wait and see. What are your thoughts to the player? Have a go on our poll below......
Poll
What do you think of Grayson’s 4th signing?
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