Stuart Fordyce
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has he had his Discord Q&A? Changed my phone and now can't get back in
Peter Crouch joins the Dulwich Hamlet board
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gnar182
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Nah got postponed now the question about re arrangement keeps getting dodged. Bottle job, classic Spurs player.
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hiraethified
The whole thing was a bit of PR flannel to try and turn down the heat of fans' rightly being concerned about his betting promotion.
Imagine being too busy to answer some fucking questions after what - two months? He doesn't even have to do it live on that ridiculous gaming chat platform either. He's already been asked some good questions so it only needs someone to put them together and email them to him with a polite request he answers some time this week. Job done.
Of course he could have answered them in the time it took for him to pose for that laughable 'man of the people' PR press shot of him clearing away leaves at Champion Hill for 60 seconds.
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tonysingh
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Ah but we're only the little people aren't we? Hardly important now the glare of the TV cameras are upon us. Best the big fish swim in the fetid pond of celebrity.
tonysingh
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The irony of the clubs official social media engagement platform being called Discord is delicious
jimbarkanoodle
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In The Guardian 'best shows to stream this Christmas'
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hiraethified
Why have our scarves 'fluttered less defiantly in the last couple of years'?
Anyway, like a lot of fans, I haven't got a subscription to Discovery so I'm never going to see it anyway.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
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Hang on, are we not the hipster's club of choice any more? Who has taken our hipsters?
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Oh he's on LBC now. Maybe one day he'll have time to talk to the Hamlet fans.
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Christian Burt
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I just saw the trailer and Ben said we are 130k in debt, with zero in bank (start of the season). Is this actually true? That’s not a loaded question btw! Genuinely did not think this was the case, but could well be owing to pandemic and season end?
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I am a very minor shareholder and those figures are about right. Had the season played on to a conclusion behind closed doors, the debt would have been horrendous.
Ben and co. deserve huge credit. They foresaw what may happen and amended the budget downwards last season, to reduce risk. Without that, the club may not have made it to the point where the season was abandoned.
Pandemics permitting, the future of the club is bright. It has a declared aim of paying all Covid debt down a s.a.p. Clubs who took the loan have a 20 year debt on their books. Also it's a pretty open secret the club weren't budgeting for Saturday games to sell out this season.
TV will probably over egg where the club was to make better TV. It wasn't good but when you think the club has had the financial carnage of being evicted and then two consecutive abandoned seasons - so now four seasons since we had a reasonably forecastable financial income - it is to the huge credit of those running the club that the debt was only £130k.
Ben and co. deserve huge credit. They foresaw what may happen and amended the budget downwards last season, to reduce risk. Without that, the club may not have made it to the point where the season was abandoned.
Pandemics permitting, the future of the club is bright. It has a declared aim of paying all Covid debt down a s.a.p. Clubs who took the loan have a 20 year debt on their books. Also it's a pretty open secret the club weren't budgeting for Saturday games to sell out this season.
TV will probably over egg where the club was to make better TV. It wasn't good but when you think the club has had the financial carnage of being evicted and then two consecutive abandoned seasons - so now four seasons since we had a reasonably forecastable financial income - it is to the huge credit of those running the club that the debt was only £130k.
Christian Burt
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Cheers peeps 
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Cup form had been an embarassment for as long as I can remember with the exception of a Trophy run.
PartisanDulwich
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Thought the documentary was much better than expected and highlighted the role of many volunteers (many unknown or who shun the spotlight). It also highlighted the pressure Ben Clasper as Chairman was under and the personal sacrifices he and his family had made - Peter Crouch in the first episode comes over as genuine, keen to help but unsure how best to achieve this - hopefully we will see more in future episodes
The Independent newspaper stated
"Save Our Beautiful Game ended up being more than a portrait of a struggling football club, it was a plea for recognition and acknowledgement that what Dulwich and their peers do goes far beyond football. Could Crouch simply give them a couple of grand and solve all their worries? Probably, but that wouldn’t make for a very good TV show – which this was."
The Independent newspaper stated
"Save Our Beautiful Game ended up being more than a portrait of a struggling football club, it was a plea for recognition and acknowledgement that what Dulwich and their peers do goes far beyond football. Could Crouch simply give them a couple of grand and solve all their worries? Probably, but that wouldn’t make for a very good TV show – which this was."
tonysingh
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You mustn't speak ill of our Lord and saviour, Sir Peter Crouch. That just wouldn't be the dhfc way now, would it?
Paula_G
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From a personal perspective the documentary started off well but has very much slipped into a lot of football cliches. There are a lot of missed opportunities, very little if anything about the history of the club, scenes filmed at St Albans without mentioning affordability of tickets & the number of Hamlet fans who chose not to go to that game because of it and in the most recent episode more time was given to Hanwell Town than to the women‘s team. Sadly too three episodes in & not heard one mention of Mishi. Strangely the most recent episode ended with a note that the series will return at the end of the season! From my own point of view having backed this project from day one I really hope that this series comes off.
Stuart Fordyce
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I've not seen it yet (don't have Discovery), but one of the big issues affecting the non league game is last season's funding shambles. Have they touched on this at all?
It's one area Crouch with his profile could ask some questions of the FA...
It's one area Crouch with his profile could ask some questions of the FA...
Hamlet Pete
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A big thing was made at the start about the club having no money. No specifics were mentioned and I feel the National League and its bungled grant funding was let off the hook massively
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hiraethified
The series is just a platform for 'club saving' Crouch and Discovery TV. They're not actually interested in the club at all: they're only interested in a 'good story' and ratings and that's going to dictate the story that's being told.
I'd like them to bring up the question that loads of fans have been asking for months and months, and that is how is Crouch's position as the paid face of a huge gambling company is compatible with his hugely divisive role on the board of a club that claims to be anti-gambling. I don't expect Discovery to be covering that either.
I'd like them to bring up the question that loads of fans have been asking for months and months, and that is how is Crouch's position as the paid face of a huge gambling company is compatible with his hugely divisive role on the board of a club that claims to be anti-gambling. I don't expect Discovery to be covering that either.
tonysingh
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There'd probably be no DHFC were it not for Mishi* so for him not to be featured yet is an egregious error. If that's not corrected in the final three programmes then it's an unforgivable insult to a man that embodied everything special about our club.
* yes I'm aware others have done their bit too. But without Mishis efforts the club wouldn't be here now, simple as that.
* yes I'm aware others have done their bit too. But without Mishis efforts the club wouldn't be here now, simple as that.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
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Maybe it will help those tiny attendances to pick up though right?
Paula_G
Flitting in & out like Tinkerbell on Meth
As I’ve said it’s early days yet and I expect things to change to embrace all those things that make Dulwich Hamlet special to people like me. The community work has been conspicuously absent , Gavin‘s youth only briefly touched on, the Aspire Academy also absent, the increasingly successful Womens team (which on Sunday pulled in a crowd greater than NLS Chelmsford) gets a briefer mention than Hanwell Town, the fact that this is one of most welcoming LGBTQI+ Clubs in football seems brushed over despite the fact Peter talked about this in the Express of all papers. As Abby Clancy asks in the first episode “What’s special about Dulwich Hamlet?” Hopefully that question will be answered by the end of the series otherwise I for one will be seriously disappointed.
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