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April 2004 WE ARE UNITED! Edition No. 5 Carlisle and Cumbria United Independent Supporters Trust Carlisle United Official Supporters Club The legalities for the purchase of shares in varying CCUIST - The Facts denominations are yet to be finalised. Anyone purchasing ver the past few weeks’ members of CCUIST will have shares will be given the opportunity to leave the voting rights for Oreceived correspondence circulated by what appeared these shares in the care of CCUIST. An option that can happen to be ‘The Board of CCUIST’. With the exception of one letter immediately or at a future date that decision is entirely up to the informing the membership of a Special General Meeting, which purchaser. Alternatively should the purchaser wish to sell their was on CCUIST headed paper, this was not the case. Two shares to the Holding Company who would then offer these letters sent in what appeared to be the name of the Trust and shares to CCUIST in the first instance. signed by Alan Steel were sent without the knowledge or The board of CCUIST have often been called ‘aloof’ or ‘distant’. authority of the full Trust board. Their contents were not I can assure you that in the future members of the board of discussed or agreed prior to circulation. The Board of CCUIST CCUIST will be available, can be approached and your views disclaims all responsibility for the unauthorised will be taken seriously. Via this newsletter your concerns will be communications and apologises for the misuse of the CCUIST addressed and your questions answered. Alternatively for database. This will not happen in the future. those who have access to the email, questions can be directed to any member of the board on by any of the emails as follows: You will have read much about the proposal to CCUIST that we, [email protected] / [email protected] / the membership give consideration to relinquishing our option [email protected] Your question will be answered and if on the second 20% of shares, referred to in the Agreement with thought appropriate shared with others. CUFC Holdings Limited as the First Option. All members of CCUIST will have received a letter from the board of CCUIST John Courtenay has pledged his support for CCUIST and is explaining the current situation at Carlisle United, together with firmly behind the aims and objectives of Trusts, if you are not a notice of a Special General Meeting to be held in Foxy’s already a member but would like information please do not restaurant on Sunday 18 April at 11am, a proxy voting form for hesitate to contact us, details for contact can be found on the those who are unable to attend and copies of the two press back page of this newsletter. releases from the board of CCUIST and on behalf of John Courtenay from the Club. Both were circulated to the media on On behalf of the board of CCUIST 30/31 March. Let’s focus on the reality, the Club needs an injection of money, 2nd Annual Awards Ceremony £500k will see our club financially viable for the start of the next season. I quote from the press release by John Courtenay t’s that time of year again when you the supporter join “Since the purchase of the club almost two seasons ago, we Iwith the players and management of Carlisle United and have injected cash on an ongoing basis to make up the shortfall vote for the recipients of the various Supporters’ Awards. in costs and overheads. Particularly administration CVA and Each member of the Supporters’ organisations will receive a voting supervision, which cost £492,000 having been budgeted at form in with this Newsletter, which allows you to nominate your £80,000. We have now reached a vital point in our choice in two of the nine categories available. redevelopment of the club but we need a cash injection of These are as follows: approximately £400k to clear the slate and leave only one restructed mortgage which should allow the club to stand alone Player of the Season and meet its overheads and costs going forward’’. voted for by the Supporters Goal of the Season The board of CCUIST are constantly in talks with John voted for by the Supporters Courtenay regarding the share issue and you can be assured that whilst having the best interests of the Trust in mind we will Junior Blues Player of the Season voted for by members of the Junior Blues be realistic in what we hope to achieve and passionate in achieving it. Away Player of the Season voted for those using CUOSC away travel CCUIST have at this time the option of 49% of shares in CUFC Players, Player of the Season Holdings Limited. This being available in three options, the first voted for by CUFC Players 20% followed by the second 20% and the last being the block of 9%. In reality we have only paid for 33.75% of the first 20% Carlisle United London Branch i.e. £135,000. We need to be pay a further £265,000 to secure Player of the Season voted for by members of the London Branch the remainder of these shares before we could start on the second 20%. Our club needs money now and CCUIST just CCUIST Player of the Season don’t have it, that’s the simple truth. 20%, 25.1%, 29% or 49% voted for by the Committee of CCUIST none would have overall control of the club 25.1% is achievable Most Improved Player of the Season and give CCUIST a voice to be heard for years to come. nominated by Paul Simpson and the training staff Our energies need to be put into raising the shortfall, then Carlisle United Ladies Player of the Season moving onto the last 9% or part thereof. Experience shows that voted for by members of the Ladies team to run a football club takes a great deal of money. Often You were sent in our last newsletter nomination forms for a requiring an injection of several thousand of pounds on a Team of the Century. If you could complete these and return regular basis, that’s reality. This is something CCUIST would them with your nominations for the above awards we would be not be able to do, certainly not in the short term and must work very much obliged. Hopefully some of those nominated in this with others to give a secure future for our club. category will be able to join us for the evening. WE ARE UNITED! Page 1 April 2004 WE ARE UNITED! Edition No. 5 Thank You hank you, hardly expresses the gratitude of the Supporters’ Club to those who have supported, sold tickets Tor helped in any way they could with the Grand Draw. Monies are still arriving from the sale of tickets but to date we have a grand total of £13,619. When your Supporters’ Club decided to have a Grand Draw to raise money which would be used for a specific purpose at Brunton Park we had no idea it would be the success it has been. Those in the know told us that you normally receive a small percentage of tickets returned from the amount circulated. So we though lets go for 6 - 8 thousand pounds which would be very nice. It was soon apparent that this amount would be exceeded. What has been really nice was some of the notes of encouragement which many members returned with their sold tickets. There was no competition to sell tickets, all sales were much appreciated and everyone selling or buying tickets have contributed to the success of this draw. We asked for applications to be made by those wishing the Yvonne Bowman and Louise Fawcett presenting the cheque to Neil money to be made available to their departments within Dalton at half time during the Carlisle v Hull City game Brunton Park or the money to be available for specific improvement. The successful application was made by Neil Dalton who asked that the money raised by the draw to be made available to purchase TechnoGym equipment, which will be used by those requiring treatment under the supervision of the Physio department at Brunton Park. The equipment was to cost £12,000. A cheque for that amount has now been handed to Neil. It’s hoped that delivery will be prior to our June Newsletter when you will be given an update with pictures of the equipment. The purchase of this equipment places Carlisle United in the position of being one of the best equipped physio departments in the 2nd and 3rd divisions of the Football League. The remainder of the monies raised together with other money will be used to refurbish Foxy’s Restaurant with audio and visual equipment, similar to that already supplied by The Supporters’ Club in the Sunset Suite. The equipment in the Sunset Suite has proved very popular on match days and will establish the two function suites as desirable conference venues for the future. Once again a huge thank you from the Supporters’ Club you really are a fantastic Susan Elliott and Bob Lindsay presenting a cheque for £12,000 to Neil Dalton bunch of supporters. CUFC Physio Kate Rowley Quiz Time 1 Who scored Carlisle’s last goal in the top 6 Name the player who has made the most flight (old Division 1) in 1974/75 Season? appearances for Carlisle United? 2 When Carlisle won the Auto Windscreen 7 Who scored Carlisle’s first league goal this Shield on penaltys at Wembley in 1997, who season 03 / 04? were the five penalty takers? 8 Who scored Carlisle’s goal in this season’s 3 How many times did John Halpin break his league cup tie at Walsall? leg whilst playing for Carlisle? 9 When Carlisle won the 3rd Division in 4 Ivor Broadis, George McVitie and Chris 1994/95 season who finished 2nd and 3rd? Balderstone all played for Carlisle United, and which other club? 10 Who was Carlisle’s top scorer in their season in the top flight in 1974/75 5 When Jimmy Glass scored that famous goal in 1999 who took the corner leading to it.