Only 13 of the forum members have voted and we have over €300 promised.

There are nearly 400 users of this forum, I know we can reach €500 before the season starts proper.

Remember you can get involved for as little as €10.

Hey guys, great idea. One problem though is that we have discontinued our association with MCF for now. The reason is that they cost money to employ as a service and we were not making enough use of them to justify the cost.
We just stopped the account a couple of weeks ago!

I have to change the areas of the site that we have them up on and we will have to see about another option for remote supporters to contribute.

Happy to contribute, think it should suggested at €20 each so that as many as possible can contribute. If individuals want to contribute more then that 's fine too of course.

The other thing that struck me was that the Clan probably shouldn't be sponsoring our Blue Chip players for which corporate sponsors will queue up, but rather ensuring that our players yet to make names for themselves are sponsored for the year ahead.

I'm more than happy to follow up with the branch in relation to this if there is enough interest.

I've added a poll and moved this into the Clan section

Count me in

I'd throw a few bob in for it.

ConnachtCows wrote: I'd contribute for definite

Anyone able to set up a vote on this. If we get enough interest we could maybe deal with it at the AGM

Q1. Would you be willing to contribute to the Clan Sponsorship of one of the players? Y / N

Q2. If Yes, how much would you be willing to contribute;
• €10
• €20
• €50

I'd contribute for definite

Borders no.2 wrote: While they were listing out the team on the big screen, I saw a few players without sponsorship. Would anyone else be interested in contributing to a player being sponsored by the Connacht Clan? George Naoupu was an obvious one who stood out as not having sponsorship.

I believe it used to be something like €500 to sponsor a player. It may be more now but I think its very possible to get 50 people contributing €10 or 25 contributing €20 and it would give the Clan a bit more publicity among supporters.

Maybe a Connacht Clan player sponsorship site similar to the grassroots to greenshirts could be set up by the branch to allow everyone contribute whatever they felt they could and maybe we could sponsor more than one player?

Just an idea.

Great idea man, I would be in for that. Can you see if you can find out more details.
I would leave the contribution amount open to whatever each person wanted to put in. If the amount was €500 then it could be (4 x €50, 10 x €20 and 10 x €10) or any combination as long as the total was reached.

Borders no.2 wrote: While they were listing out the team on the big screen, I saw a few players without sponsorship. Would anyone else be interested in contributing to a player being sponsored by the Connacht Clan? George Naoupu was an obvious one who stood out as not having sponsorship.

I believe it used to be something like €500 to sponsor a player. It may be more now but I think its very possible to get 50 people contributing €10 or 25 contributing €20 and it would give the Clan a bit more publicity among supporters.

Maybe a Connacht Clan player sponsorship site similar to the grassroots to greenshirts could be set up by the branch to allow everyone contribute whatever they felt they could and maybe we could sponsor more than one player?

Just an idea.

It's agood idea, and has been mooted before..

But the Branch won't get involved (apart from to accept the cash) it will be down to the Clan to organise themselves...

Maybe use the MyClubFinance facility used on the Clan Registration page...

www.connachtclan.com/about-the-clan/join-the-clan

While they were listing out the team on the big screen, I saw a few players without sponsorship. Would anyone else be interested in contributing to a player being sponsored by the Connacht Clan? George Naoupu was an obvious one who stood out as not having sponsorship.

I believe it used to be something like €500 to sponsor a player. It may be more now but I think its very possible to get 50 people contributing €10 or 25 contributing €20 and it would give the Clan a bit more publicity among supporters.

Maybe a Connacht Clan player sponsorship site similar to the grassroots to greenshirts could be set up by the branch to allow everyone contribute whatever they felt they could and maybe we could sponsor more than one player?

Just an idea.