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Last Chance to Become an Academy Friend and Win Directors' Box Tickets
Last Chance to Become an Academy Friend and Win Directors' Box Tickets
Friday, 22nd Nov 2013 15:50

TWTD readers who sign up to become Academy Friends before midnight tonight can enter a competition to win two seats in the Portman Road Directors’ Box for a Town home game and watch the match as the guests of ex-Blues midfielder and academy sponsorship manager Simon Milton.

In addition to the seats in the Directors’ Box, the winners will also get refreshments in Directors’ Guests’ Lounge before the match and at half-time.

It costs from £5 a month to be an Academy Friend and to help to raise the £500,000 the Academy Association is looking for annually as the club moves to Category One status for the 2014/15 season.

You’ll have your name listed in every matchday programme, on the Academy Association website and you will also receive small Academy Association gifts, for example, a silicone band and car sticker. You will also receive a monthly newsletter via email.

Businesses can also sign up as sponsors from £500. After gruelling deadline-day talks with Simon Milton in Portman Road’s old manager’s office TWTD signed up for the Ramsey Package, which includes the Directors’ Box tickets which are now up for grabs.


The deadline day deal was agreed in Portman Road’s old manager’s office

Milton said: “I am delighted to have TWTD on board again as academy sponsors, they have supported the academy in various ways over the last five years and have always promoted the work we do here. Someone will be very happy when they win the donated tickets.”

To win the competition, become an Academy Friend here and tell us in an email sent to competition@twtd.co.uk which ex-Town, Newcastle, Wigan and Sunderland defender sponsors the academy’s U12 side before midnight and be the lucky entrant drawn at random.

Also include your name and the postcode of the address with which you signed up as an Academy Friend. Those who have previously signed up as Academy Friends are also entitled to enter.

Returning striker Alan Lee, who is now coaching in the Blues youth set-up, has also signed up as an Academy Friend.


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big_gaz67 added 15:29 - Sep 3
Surely this should be funded by the club as it is the club who benefits when

a) A first team player is developed without the cost of a transfer/signing on fee

or

b) A player is sold for several million pounds having cost nothing

Surely if the club can afford this- especially as the could afford Roy Keane's wages, to pay for (and let go on a free) several players including Norris, Leadbetter etc etc and not only get Chopra out of trouble but then pay off the last year of his contract (surely he couldn't have paid all that £ 250000 back? this would have taken 16 months if he was on £ 15k and paid 100% of his wages back)

What do you guys think
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nthstd added 15:46 - Sep 3
1) Couldn't Gav airbrush out the cardboard box?
2) As I can't wear my town shirt in the directors box, well last time it was under my black shirt, I'll stick to the Lower Sir Bobby.
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Marcus added 16:06 - Sep 3
@gaz. Every player costs something. Cost of training/development/education, wages, miscellaneous costs (travel, accommodation). Transfer fees are often irrelevant compared to the cost of wages - a Bosman transfer may be on higher wages than a £500,000 signing so cost more over the duration of the contract, signing on fees aren't always declared - although sometimes each club announces a different fee and the difference is the fee by assumption. But certainly no player costs nothing.
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ChestnutSe added 17:49 - Sep 3
Well done Phil, good stuff. Youth is definitely the way ahead for ITFC and supporting the academy is just another way of supporting the club. We all know that being a true fan is a curse really but you just have to make the most of it.
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Moscow_Blue added 18:44 - Sep 3
big_gaz67 the club is funding the lion's share of the Academy but quite rightly we all get a chance to contribute to this great cause. It was the strength of feeling on this website plus the petition signed by many of us that helped the Club decide on going for Category 1 status but this comes at a cost which we should all contribute modestly to. I very much hope you will be able to afford to sign up.
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HARRY10 added 14:36 - Sep 9
The question is whether CAT 1 status is dependent upon the supporters and sponsorship raising that £500,000. It is very fine and noble to have fans involved, but it shouldn't be reliant upon them.

Perhaps Phil could ask the club what happens if the £500,000 isn't raised. Does CAT 1 not go ahead ?
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ITFCsince67 added 22:23 - Sep 19
All a bit embarrassing with the club asking for more money from the poor fans. If they want Cat 1 Status then pay for it themselves. Hardly a mention from the club about ditching the ITFC Charitable Trust. Kicking them completely out of the club and wanting nothing to do with them. The new named trust will get my money cos that is going to help the less well off in the community and not the greed of the club.
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TotalBlue added 11:12 - Nov 18
I can believe the negativity of some people. This is a package to help fund the move to CAT 1 the thing all the moaners were saying we should of done first time round. Also look at what comes in the package... Its worth a lot more than 5 pounds a month. Firstly guaranteed play off final tickets plus a lot more!! Do your homework guys before moaning.....
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Bowler1 added 16:59 - Nov 19
itfc is now a private business and should be funded by the owner, but he does not want to know.
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