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Ticket sales for the Wandsworth Demons 20 Year Celebration close on October 15th. The night will act as a launch for a season of celebrations at the club, most of which will obviously be in London.

The night in Melbourne will be a great chance though for players from all generations of Demons to come together, meet up again, and swap stories from their days at the club.

We have a function room at Crown Casino for the night. Tickets cost $150 and are available by contacting Sam before the 15th of October.

Anyway, here are all the details of the night and a few about the weekend. More details about the rest of the weekend will be placed here as they are thought up. Please forward these details to anyone and everyone.



Schedule of Events

Thursday October 29th
A pub session somewhere in Melbourne

Friday October 30th
The Wandsworth Demons 20th Year Reunion

Saturday October 31st
Derby Day at Flemington

Sunday November 1st
Demons Family Day

Tuesday November 3rd
Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington



Family Day

This will be a massive day as well. In collating the initial responses it was noted a lot of people requested an event to which they could bring the kids. This will be on the Sunday, and we'll get more details later. An idea is to try to hire a footy ground where we could have a BBQ, a few beers, and you guessed it - a bit of a kick.

More details later, but if anyone has a contact at a ground which will help us along, please let me know.

Race Days

After some consulting we've been told that trying to organise a large group to go to the races during the Carnival is neigh on impossible. A bonus of getting the event organised early is that you will be able to organise yourselves early on and book tickets together. So please do that. We won't be organising any group tickets.



The Wandsworth Demons 20 Year Celebration

Crown Casino - Studio 3
Friday, October 30th, from 7pm
Tickets $150 or $290 per pair.

This is the main event, and I'd say the biggest single event in the club's history. It is hard to know where to start with the description.

We have booked Studio 3 at Crown for the event, which holds between 200 and 300 people.

The ticket price includes:

A sit down three course meal,
Five hours of open bar – beer and wine,
An AV presentation of twenty years of Dees history,
A DVD of the presentation (per ticket or couple),
Speeches from Dees figures from all eras,
Anything else we can think of!

The dress code is Black Tie Optional. We figure that people coming from outside Melbourne will bring a suit for the races, and so wearing it to the dinner prior to the track would be convenient. However for those who prefer to get a little dressier, the ol tuxedo can be dusted off. This also gives a greater range for the ladies, from the quite formal down to cocktail dresses.

The event is not for children. That is probably obvious but worth stating. You have to be 18 to come along.

Complimentary car parking is available in the multilevel carpark but it would need to be pre-arranged so get in touch if you might need this. Obviously though we would assume most people would be unable to drive after the event.

I think that is the key information you will need about the event.


Tickets

To book your tickets you need to email me and I’ll send out payment details. I will need the number of tickets and the full names of all of the people in your payment group. Payments will be able to be made in dollars or pounds depending on where you are.

Tickets can’t be reserved in any way other than by purchase. Sales after October 15th will be difficult, so please get in fast.


Tables

Tables of ten can be organised, and we will fill them from the front in order of booking. If you want to organise a table, you will need the names of at least five paid tickets and then the table will be yours to finalise, or we will fill any other spots for you if you want. Late tables will be on the mezzanine level.


Budgeting

I know 150 dollars isn't the cheapest ticket. It is a little more than we were thinking of charging, but to put it simply we're over-budgeting. None of us have run an event of this size before. Nearer the time when the sums are all clearer we'll be able to return some of the cash to the Family Day, as we can hire a ground and buy some food and drink for that. We also hope to be able to help the club with its jumper order for 2010 if possible.

I hope that is OK with everyone. Feel free to ask about it if you need to.



History

A major part of the night will be a presentation of images, and video from the last 20 years at the club. We have massive amounts of such things from the last 5 or so years since digital images and easy storage have been commonplace. However, we have somewhat less from the early years, though having said that the Grand Finals were at least recorded back then.

Jeremy Cumming will be collating as much information as we can get our hands on and creating a presentation for the night. This will also be handed out on DVD as part of the ticket cost.

If you have anything which you think might be of use, whether electronic or perhaps old newsletters, club shirts which you could photograph yourself in and send, or physical photos you don't mind lending us for scanning, then please get in touch with him.

However, we're only giving him about 15 minutes on the night, so really there will be only a few minutes devoted to each era. More can be put on the DVD though. But please if you have albums and albums of pictures, just email him a handful of the best ones, and try to resize them down. We can help with advice on how to do that if necessary.

If they are physical photos you wish to send, contact Jezza first and he'll work it out with you.

He can be contacted at this address.



The Committee

That’s about it. Thanks to all the people who have made offers to help so far. I have a list and if and when we need to take the organising wider I might contact people who have said they can help. Please let me know if you are able to help out as well.

For now though ideas are being run past our organising committee of myself, Mark Wallace, Bart Nash, Seb Hams, Jeremy Cumming, Craig Watson, Tommy Lineen, Kent Schubert, and Craig Stephens. Going backwards through time roughly speaking!

Sam Percy.