A Sponsors View

A SPONSORS VIEW or the third season in a row, The Guild was pleased to be match Fsponsor for Wealdstone Football Club and on a somewhat damp Monday evening in March, Wealdstone welcomed Welling United in a National League South match. Under floodlights at Wealdstone’s home, Grosvenor Vale, the match proved a cagey affair with the hosts scoring in the last minute to secure three vital points. As match sponsors, The Guild awarded the Man of the Match Above - Man of the match as chosen by the Guild Ricky Award to the scorer of the late goal Ricky Wellard, for his Wellard collecting his award overall dominant performance. Below- Ricky grabbing his late winner The Guild and Wealdstone FC share their historic roots in Harrow and we place great value on being an active player in our local community and on our support of our local team in their quest for league football. Peter Smallwood, Guild Public Affairs said, “Wealdstone is a community club, run by the fans for the fans. We are pleased to have a continuing relationship with them and look forward to sponsoring them again in the future”. Paul Rumens, Wealdstone Club President said, “The Guild are ongoing supporters and friends of the club and we value their support greatly.” DAVE PRATT PIC. STEVE FOSTER WEALDSTONE v EASTBOURNE BORO ASSESSING OUR RIVALS For the first time in a couple of years we’ve decided to revive this ‘Progwatch’ feature, where we run the rule over our fellow National League South clubs’ programmes and decide that ours is much better. It’s a time-honoured format that works! Stones director (and self- confessed programme buff) Pete Worby, pictured below, has volunteered to provide the words so, offended officials of our rival clubs, he’s the one to seek out and berate this time around! PROG WATCH 2017-18 hose of us who purchase our summed up the lack of effort put into actually read. With nearly 23 pages home programme will be well this programme. of adverts I guess the Commercial aware of its quality and The highlight of the programme – Manager might be pleased but it’s Tcontent. We have long been the Manager’s Notes on page 5 !! an uninspiring effort. blessed, or should I say spoilt, with a SCORE: 5/10. SCORE: 7/10 (slightly generous magazine product that delivers week DARTFORD This 52 pager mark due to the £2.50 selling price!). in and week out. It is against the from Dartford that retails at CHELMSFORD CITY A bumper standard of our programme that I £2.50 certainly flatters to 64 page programme for our measure the offerings produced by 2deceive. At first glance it looks pretty replay Trophy trip to Essex – all other clubs. Tim has asked me to good but a closer inspection reveals 3the more impressive because it was review our away programmes, so a distinct lack of content. Lots of produced at short notice following a here goes.. photographs and some nice lay-out 1-1 draw at Grosvenor Vale three OXFORD CITY I have to say in parts but sadly, pretty much a days before. that I was far from impressed complete lack of interesting words to I like the content and lay-out of the by the offering from the cathe- stats pages and I also like the large 1dral city. A 40-page player photo on the 2 programme that centre pages (perhaps retails at £2.50 had something for us to little by the way of consider at some original offering... and stage). It’s had it not been for the professionally laid out, fact that City had nicely printed and pretty beaten Colchester Utd decent. in the FA Cup the It doesn’t match a week before one Wealdstone programme wonders what on earth for “readability” but it the programme does sell for £2.50 so a contributors would thumbs up from me and have written about! it gets a high score. They gave an entire SCORE: 9/10 (would page (see above, next have been 8.5 but the to the cover) given over selling price of £2.50 to advertising the next earns the 9!). two matches - and that WEALDSTONE v EASTBOURNE BORO ASSESSING OUR RIVALS CONCORD RANGERS A massively disappointing programme from Concord 4Rangers. The one thing to admire is the low charge of £2 for this 44 pager as there is little else to put in the positive column – unless of course you like reading the seven pages devoted to Concord Rangers’ Club History and Pen Pics of the Concord players - plus even a Concord Rangers team photo. I imagine that their supporters must love reading this week after week! There’s even a full page quiz that has a whole 5 quiz questions (answers the following issue!!) – truly awful. I would happily have gone for a 2/10 but due to the low selling price it earns a SCORE OF 3/10. HAMPTON & RICHMOND all the participants in National page centre-fold photograph. For a club that’s currently League South. A poor poor effort. The lowlight, without question, surely getting an awful lot of things SCORE: 3/10 has to be the full page quiz 5right, it’s something of a shock for BOGNOR REGIS TOWN The containing a whopping 10 questions. the Hampton programme to be quite only redeeming feature about Thanks to a couple of original arti- such a shocker. At £2.50 for just 40 the programme issued by the cles (one on the subject of Bovril pages I thought it was simply 6Boggies is the fact that it sells for and another debating what consti- appalling – there were 12 pages of £2. About 4 pages of readable tutes a “fan favorite”) the programme what you would call original writing content including a decent editorial is just good enough to be classed as but astonishingly the programme and a decent set of Manager’s average. editor saw fit to include 3 pages Notes but that’s about it. Due to the SCORE: 5/10 from someone who was giving a low price this 40 page programme, BRAINTREE TOWN My initial round up about how his “imaginary” nearly half of which are adverts, reaction to the Braintree Town Hampton side were doing on his scores a 4 rather than a 3. Oh, and programme was that it was Football Manager computer game. did I say how (below) average the 8somewhat Mickie Mouse. It’s just 28 Bizarre or what? Yet another cover was? SCORE: 4/10 pages, virtually lacking in colour, programme that leaves the writer TRURO CITY The Truro devoid of quality photographs and distinctly unimpressed – a half page printed on plain, non glossy paper. listing Hampton’s timeline, an index programme was just 32 pages which makes the cover price of However, it’s actually quite quirky that fills half a page, a page about and I like it. It contains an awful lot the history of local street names, a 7£2.50 seem somewhat excessive. It’s yet another pretty unimpressive of information with a very small font whole Club Directory page simply size being used – it’s crammed full listing the names and addresses of effort with the highlight being another double of information. It’s a decent read which isn’t something you can say about many of the programmes we come across in National League South. Also on the plus side - it sells for £2. SCORE: 7/10 More reviews in next Satur- day’s super Stones programme! WORLD of BALL The column for Wealdstone fans to air their views on the wonderful world of football. (Email us to have your say.) Talking ’bout our next generation (of supporters) o there I was, alight- not going to QPR, Chelsea, ment? A decently competitive ing at Ruislip Gardens Fulham, Brentford, Watford or game, that’s for sure. A club Sand traipsing along the any of the other professional at a level high enough to have West End Road on my way to alternatives London has to a significant following, highly The Vale. Ahead of me was offer. Instead, they’ve chosen likely. But what about chang- a gaggle (an unfairness? an to follow the stones, the mighty ing ends? The ability to move acne?) of teenagers, scurry- mighty stones. freely between stand and club ing along and chatting nine to house? Travelling to away the dozen about something or Pass the duchy games at clubs which are, in other. And then I realised what You hear a lot of total rubbish the most part, reasonably easy they were saying - they, like about young people these to get to? me were on their way to the days. We’re told that ‘millen- Many young fans may well Vale, just as excited as I was nials’ and ‘Generation Z’ want have been taken to a profes- about the game ahead. different things to the genera- sional match for their first Of all the truly amazing tions before them. And, sure, game and also to the Vale un- things to have happened to our to an extent they always do. All der their own steam. And they club since we took root in Ruis- young people want to be dif- will then have an opportunity to lip, attracting a new generation ferent to their parents in some work out where their allegianc- of support has to be among form. But ultimately, what we es really lie, taking into account the most gratifying. We’ve got all want is the sights, sounds the value of these specifically youngsters considering our and all-round sensory overload non-league liberties.

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