Have you sent this message elsewhere, such as Channel 4?

--- In gevincountdown@..., "zefcountdown"
<zefcountdown@y...> wrote:
> --- At theotherplace,
> "Damian Eadie" <wombraider@b...> wrote:
> >
> > I know one or two of you have been
> > mooting ideas about travel and
> > accommodation for November 10th -
> > the date of RW's memorial.
>
> > However, i've discovered today that
> > the memorial service is organised on
> > the basis of a TICKETS ONLY event.
>
> > I gather the maximum capacity is
> > 2400 people. It's unlikely everyone
> > who wants to come is going to get
> > the chance
> >
> > DE
>
> Apologies in advance for the fact that
> this is a v-e-r-y long message .... :-)
>
> -----------------
>
> Before Richard was laid to rest, IIRC an
> entirely reasonable request was made of
> the public - asking that we should NOT
> attempt to attend the *private* funeral
> service for Richard. And notwithstanding
> the behaviour of certain tabloid rags,
> I'm sure that the vast majority of
> ordinary members of the public HAVE fully
> respected that request to keep Richard's
> funeral service as a private event.
>
> At around the time of that request, we
> were promised that there would also be a
> *public* memorial service. And that we
> could pay our respects there instead,
> rather than at the private funeral service.
>
> But the promise that we could later attend
> a public memorial service for Richard was
> made without *any* reference being made to
> a limitation upon the number of people who
> would be allowed to attend the said public
> memorial service. Thus implying that at a
> later date, we would ALL get a chance to
> attend the public memorial service for
> King Dick - and not just a small fraction
> of the people who may be interested.
>
> Because only 2,400 tickets will be
> available for a public memorial service
> held at that venue, I wouldn't be surprised
> if the number of applicants for tickets to
> Richard's public memorial service outstrips
> the capacity of that venue by about 2 to 1.
>
> And that estimate does not include all of
> the extra people who WOULD have attended -
> but who would be put off from applying or
> attending by the likely scarcity of tickets.
>
> But there IS a way around this problem ....
>
> -----------------
>
> Do any of you remember seeing glimpses of
> any special editions of "Songs Of Praise",
> which have been variously held in famous
> sports stadiums?
>
> IIRC, these have involved
> - a sports stadium
> - a (Sunday?) Christian religious service
> being held
> - and a crowd of people far larger than
> you'll probably be able to fit inside even
> the very biggest of cathedrals.
>
> Surely this is one situation where the
> same kind of thing also ought to be done.
> With a memorial service for Richard being
> conducted of course, rather than the
> usual Sunday mass cum religious service.
>
> -----------------
>
> Now out of all of the sports stadiums
> where any Richard Whiteley memorial
> service could possibly be held at, IMO
> there is one place that stands head and
> shoulders above the rest for suitability.
>
> A hallowed place, which Richard himself
> must have visited countless times.
>
> A place where if you'd told Richard
> "We will need to hold a public memorial
> service for you at ********** when you
> die, because there isn't a cathedral
> built that is big enough!", then he
> would have been delighted.
>
> One of the few venues for a memorial
> service whose appropriateness to a
> "King Of Yorkshire" is the equal of
> even a cathedral.
>
> A place in the city in which RW did the
> majority of his greatest work - Leeds.
>
> And place with room for 14,000 - not a
> measly 2,400. With extra possible
> standing room for more people, if it
> was needed, in the outfield?
>
> Yes, the place that gets ticks on all of
> these boxes is HEADingley Cricket Ground.
>
> The home of Yorkshire County Cricket
> Club, and test match cricket venue for
> some all-time best ever performances
> (e.g. England v Australia 3rd test 1981).
>
> --------------------
>
> So please x 14,000 can we have the venue
> for the Richard Whiteley Memorial Service
> changed to HEADingley Cricket Ground instead?
> Date: T.B.A. (but before December is best).
>
> So that we can *all* be allowed opportunity
> to 'HEAD' for Richard's Memorial Service.
>
>
> Zef