Okay, so most of you are aware Off It came up with a great idea a couple of weeks ago of a mass charity bet with a similar group of Palace fans for the coming season. How someone whose brain is so puggled could come up with such an idea surprised all of us here at Life Towers !
The rules of the bet have been simplified and will hopefully benefit Demelza for a minimum of £1,000. The rules are:
1. At the end of the 08/09 season, i will create a Justgiving page for Demelza.
2. If Palace finish above Charlton, fifty of our members will donate £20 each – Total £1,000
3. If Charlton finish above Palace, fifty from Holmesdale.net will donate £20 each – Total £1,000.
If Holmesdale.net raise the 50, then we have a slight waiting list and hopefully those can be 'matched' and included as well. If you are a Palace fan reading this and think its a good idea, then please log yourself into H.net and help support them.
Thanks to all those that supported the idea, and a big thank you to the Holmesdale.net admin guys for at least putting it to their members. We had previously intended to offer the bet to the other main Palace Forum, the BBS, but my initial posts on the subject were deleted by moderators, and after many days chasing on my part, they decided it was not something they 'would feel uncomfortable with permitting this to be promoted on here'
Fortunately the Holmesdale guys were happy to give it a go, and its got a good initial response so far. As a result, i would appreciate it if banter of the more 'adult variety' can be directed towards other threads, and those connected to the Challenge are kept friendly.
The Charlton Life 50 are:
£1,000 now
Off It
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NLA
AllLeftFoot
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http://www.holmesdale.net/page.php?id=106&tid=79681
I hope that Son of Selhurst gets to hear about the bet so I can "get back" the £20 I "lost" to the Geoff Thomas Foundation last year when I lost the same, but solo, bet with him.
Well done to the lads that have pledged to cough up so far.
PS. "puggled"?
If you think you can keep up - you're on.
(Are you drunk?)
I agree. The fact that they couldn't rise to a gentlemanly bet to the benefit of charity proves they're no-mark muppets. Well done the holmesdale lot.
Might help some of the baby like banter to cease
That way both charities end up in pocket.
Just kidding.
Well done the Palace lads should be a bit of fun.
Who's gonna tell the players then.
Henry - do you think this is something Pards et al would be up for? Maybe even £1000 per player?
Players aren't allowed to bet on things they are directly involved in - not that I could see the likes of Jerome sticking his hand in his pocket, not now that it costs so much to fill up his Bentley.
Would that be allowed?
I'm sure that would be allowed - but don't hold your breath!
To be fair, a lot of them probably get involved with Demelza and other charities already, but my guess is that this is mainly through club sponsored involvement, etc. It would be nice to think that they might collectively cough up for something, but I just can't see it really.
To be fair a lot of players do things for charity and good causes of their own pretty much like we do I'd guess.
Bit unfair to say XXXXX wouldn't do this or that unless you've asked them direct and they've said "no, I've got the payments on my 4 X 4 with personalised number plate to worry about".
I think the Holmsdale on Line is the smaller of the palace sites. The BBS is much bigger but also seems to have a much higher percentage of idiots (ask Charlton Dan) desperate to insult us but NOT hate us
is this gonna be a 50 v 50 meet up at the end of the season then at a neutral venue ;-)