Forever R’s meeting Wednesday 17th April 2019

Attending: Andy Sinton, Andy Evans, Julie Newman, Lee Hoos, Chris Guy and Sarah Holt

Apologies: Gordon Macey, Martin Percival, Tony Incenzo and Paul Morrissey

Chaired by AE, who shared previous minutes from last full meeting.

Review 2018-19 • Up to date full list of inductees shared by AS (attached) – very well received with a mix of era’s • 100th inductee was Bobby Zamora • Mike Kelly being inducted at QPR v Nottingham Forest on 27th April. • ‘In Memory of’ v Preston was the highlight of the season (Bobby Keetch, and George Powell). Ivor Powell Granddaughter contacted but for family reasons unable to attend. Ron Springett - Terry out of country for that game. Pete Springett - Due to Terry out of country, daughter Karen unavailable and would like to do it when both families can attend a game. • Agreed to continue to invite back Inductees throughout the Season - Forever R’s already inducted, those who have returned are: Peter Hucker, Bob Hazell, , Lee Cook, Marc Bircham, Clive Wilson, Martin Rowlands, Ian Gillard, Wayne Fereday, Tony Lazarus and Mike Barber. Some also attended the Trust HOC event. • AS has requested assistance with getting contact phone numbers and introductions.

Golf Day.... 24th April 2019 at Buckinghamshire Golf Club. • Same format as previous years • New venue, fully booked 22 teams with the same players. • Dean Wilkins will play to represent Ray. • Due to sponsorship and increased entry fee, there is potential to clear £17.5k profit • Amit Bhatia and team to participate. • AS hopes to announce 2020 golf day on the night. • Re: auction prizes, JN to speak to accounts dept regarding use of PDQ machine on the day, • AE thanked AS for all his hard work in organisation.

Inductees for 2019-20 • Same format as this year. • Theme days to be booked in the diary as soon as the fixture list is released. • Possible inductees - , Tony Thorpe, Dennis Bailey, Ian Stewart, Paddy Kenny, ? • On days when there is no new inductee, repeat visit from players who did not get chance to ‘speak’ on the pitch when they were inducted. • Continue to invite inductees back. • Stars on stools #3 – possible date with Gordon Jago fell through as he was not in the country as planned, so we need to organise one soon – it is cheap to put on and easy to organise. • CG has stated that it will be 35 years since UEFA Cup – event in October/November 2019 • Anniversary of first Premier League team.

Finance • No finance report available, but there has been minimal spending. JN to confirm with Hayley. • Football aid type event could be run to gain extra finance, but the window of opportunity is limited to a week in May. • PFA is available to support ex-players and should be approached first.

AOB • AS suggested selling any empty exec boxes as a ‘Hosted by’ (legend) event. • Andrea Bowles was last contacted late Jan with condition of Stan slowly deteriorating slowly- sleeping more etc. Appreciated call. AS will call for update before end of April. • AS to continue contact with overseas based players. • Now that Martin has stepped down from the committee, a replacement needs to be found – a new representative from the fanbase or Matt Webb?.

Next meeting of full committee: July - tbc