[maccawozzagod]

with regards to income and how best to generate it, I would suggest that our club WILL always struggle to make ends meet through the gates. One thing I suggested to Mr Marsden when he took the Chair was that we absolutely must learn the lessons of history and this club is doomed to always be the underdog. Does that mean we give up? Absolutely not, but we need to devise ways around it.

How many people get a taxi or bus to the ground? we need to be taking that money. Stan Lee's Taxis?

How many pints do our fans drink on matchday in establishments other than ours? We need to be taking that money.

How many people buy food on matchdays from establishments other than ours? We need that money

How many people have gym memberships? we need to be taking that money and it would also be a place for our players to go.

The last comment is a crucial one for me. It's not just the gym idea, there are others. But something that the club may spend money could be turned into a business idea under our clubs umbrella. The club premises do not need to stop at Livingstone Road. We absolutely could have Stan Lee's Gym. There is nothing to stop you or I opening a gym in the town so there is nothing to stop the club doing so. Owned and operated by the club as a subsidised service for the squad but also ran as a standalone enterprise with all money going back into the club. Taxi's, catering establishments, whatever can all follow suit.

It's no good bemoaning the extra 1500 people who watched the culmination of the Conference season as times have changed in that ten years. We need to be brave and embrace an entire new way of operating where the gate money is not king.