Tonight and tomorrow afternoon are your last chances to get your Christmas raffle tickets in for the draw, which is tomorrow night. So to give yourself a chance at picking up a brand ne dirty great big telly, or some fantastic hampers, please get your tickets in. All you need to do is fill in your contact details on the ticket stubs and give us a fiver for each book, its that easy. And if you’d like to help us prepare for the raffle, there will be a small group of stoical people sitting in the bar area folding tickets and dropping them in a bucket. If you can join them for just an hour your help will be greatly appreciated.
Also, Christmas Raffle Night is normally a busy one for the Club, so make sure you give yourselves plenty of time to find a seat before the draw starts to happen after 8 pm.
As well as collecting our prizes, the other thing we’ll be doing over the weekend is watching sport. And we have plenty of that for you to look forward to, starting tonight at 7.45pm with Championship football between Sheffield Wednesday and high-flying Wolves – Dan Chambers’s team is getting on TV even more than Mr Redmore’s Villa at the moment.
Tomorrow we start at 12.30 pm with Leicester-Palace on Sky. Then in the afternoon we’ll have the regular results service on to keep the raffle ticket folders groaning as the teams fold almost as much as they are, before we have a great game for you to watch at 5.30 pm, when Manchester City host Spurs. If our Hull City fan wants to make trouble by having her team’s game at Cardiff on one screen she can but we’re guessing everybody else will be keen to see City-Spurs.
On Sunday we start at 1pm with Wasps taking on La Rochelle on BT in rugby’s version of the Champion’s League. Then at 2.15pm we’re putting one of our screens on to the football when West Brom play Man Utd, it’ll be on both screens once the rugby’s over. After that at 4.30pm we’re showing Bournemouth against Liverpool. That’s not the end of the weekend as far as the footy’s concerned, because on Monday night we’ll be showing a thriller between Everton and Swansea from 8pm..
Finally, the organisers of Friday’s Turkey Trot are getting anxious at the number of people that haven’t yet stumped up the cash for the day. To ease their suffering, please could you get your money in behind the bar straight away.