The idea is that people can contribute what they want, so one of the three values in the poll above

Good stuff, gents. What are we all going to put in? Once we have an idea as to what everyone is putting in I can PM the bank details around.

I wont be at the agm either, so bank details or paypal for me as well.

I'm happy with anyone to be honest, so whatever the crowd wants, I'll make a donation.
I wont be at the AGM, so will need a way to deposit money towards this

Im happy with Healy.

Shelflife wrote: One of the points I made regarding publicising the clan was to set up a stall. Just to be clear all I had in mind was a table on each side of the ground to hand out leaflets or give out info.

Just to make a few quid to cover expenses why not sell some raffle tickets to win some Connacht or clan gear. again KISS and just sell 100 tickets a €1 or 50 at €2 and do a draw for a jersey or hoodie, we could do this at a few matches and perhaps make a few hundred euros.

true its only small money, but the might oak grows from the tiny acorn.

I personally wouldn't mind buying a ticket for €2 in a limited draw for a jersey, if the idea took off you could have multiple draws for gear at each home match.

I think the stall is a great idea -with a poster saying "sign up here for free membership" or similar. Get people to simply write their name and email address and they can be contacted in following weeks. A stall could be at st holders gig next week and at first home game- would need permission from Connacht I assume.

Fair play to diom for his work on this. I think Matt Healy is a good choice. He's a player who has shown some promise with limited opportunities. He could have a good season. Really I think if we can get this off the ground this season it has the potential to snowball.

I'm perfectly happy with Matt Healy.

Fourdogs wrote: Why not pass a sign up sheet around at the AGM, (Name, Address, email, donated amount and signature). That way you can then send out the Clan Bank account details to anyone who signs up on the night and the money can be transferred direct. It will also give you a record of who made what commitment.

Could do that as well I suppose. The idea with the bank transfer was two-fold.
1) To facilitate our ex-pat brothers (S_P) and sisters (ummmm,).
2) To avoid handling cash.

In order to track the transfers I was just going to ask everyone to put their name in the transaction description.

Are people okay with Matt Healy then as our sponsored player?

Diom wrote: Hi everyone,.............

He is available and fits the bill (as much as we can).

Regarding collecting the money, we can give the Connacht Clan bank details to those willing to partake. How does that all sound?

Why not pass a sign up sheet around at the AGM, (Name, Address, email, donated amount and signature). That way you can then send out the Clan Bank account details to anyone who signs up on the night and the money can be transferred direct. It will also give you a record of who made what commitment.

Hi everyone,

So player sponsorship is usually a private agreement between Connacht Rugby and the sponsor. This is so that players are not aware of how much they are being marketed at, and they are not aware of not/being sponsored up until the start of the season. This is there to protect fragile egos.
As such Connacht Rugby have asked us NOT to release a list of unsponsored players.

However the list is short at the minute, and if you want to sponsor an Irish player it is shorter. Also we want to sponsor a back as they have more of a chance of getting over the line, but also a back that will have a few shots as well. So we have a player in mind... Matt Healy.
He is available and fits the bill (as much as we can).

Regarding collecting the money, we can give the Connacht Clan bank details to those willing to partake. How does that all sound?

One of the points I made regarding publicising the clan was to set up a stall. Just to be clear all I had in mind was a table on each side of the ground to hand out leaflets or give out info.

Just to make a few quid to cover expenses why not sell some raffle tickets to win some Connacht or clan gear. again KISS and just sell 100 tickets a €1 or 50 at €2 and do a draw for a jersey or hoodie, we could do this at a few matches and perhaps make a few hundred euros.

true its only small money, but the might oak grows from the tiny acorn.

I personally wouldn't mind buying a ticket for €2 in a limited draw for a jersey, if the idea took off you could have multiple draws for gear at each home match.

It might be just that they have not closed the sponsorship window. We will ask them for a list if they are not going to add it though so that you can promote it. They will have no problem with that.

In previous years each player's bio on the squad section of the Connacht site listed the player's sponsor, but they've done away with that this year.

Bit of a bummer for me, I used to use that to pick the places to list on the app map of Galway.

I also didn't know Bar 8 had closed, I'll remove it from the list. Tamarind used to sponsor Keatley and then Fets. I know they've re-opened recently, so if someone can let me know if they sponsor a player this year I'll add them back to my list.

We will find out who is left but I imagine that the regularly starting players are probably already sponsored. A lot of them have long-standing sponsorship deals.

great idea! i was thinking this 2 seasons ago but dont think i suggested it!
seen that exeter (i think) do it. would be handy to have a player who doesnt make the team (if injured) for games away to munster or any of our 3 away heineken cup games to pop around to whichever bar were meeting in, in galway and he could talk about the game at half time.

im also nearly sure the player hands over a signed shirt (could be wrong here) which the clan could either sell of, or raffle to people who have given money! money from this would go into next years player sponsor.
if we did collect more then needed, id suggest keeping this to one side for next year,

also some had a good idea of €20 gets you 1 vote, €50 3 votes and €10 half a vote.
if someone hands over €10 and is told he only gets half a vote, wouldnt be surprised if they were unhappy. €10 1 vote. €20 2 votes. €30 3votes etc etc

id aim for a big player, player who would be near starting every game.
i wasnt at the wasps game so i dont know who is left!