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Originally Posted by cashman
i go in the store, which i will not be doing now, nowt simpler than that.  |
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Originally Posted by deeayess
Now we are backed by Andy Holt so the threat of the wolf at the door has receded. In effect we will be just another League 2 club once all the work is finished.
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Originally Posted by Revived Red
No need to sponsor players, no need to sponsor match programmes, no need to pay £1 for the team sheet - all that has become unnecessary. The club no longer needs my money, nor anyone else's. The club now seems to be financially safe so no longer needs my help in that way - nor, of course, anyone else's help.
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I can't quite believe what I'm reading here, have I missed something and we've become an overnight highroller club?
Of course the club still needs our money, for a start every pound spent is another pound further away from Andy pulling out ...
The money currently being spent is the £600k that Andy put in at the start of his tenure, the other 600k being what was used to wipe out the debt if I remember rightly. He has probably put more in as well to ensure that jobs are done properly and in a timely fashion. This is all work that should have been done years ago but we never had enough money coming in to get it done and Eric had spent his lot getting us out of non-league.
Had the work been done ten years ago, we
may have been able to retain some of our increased crowds over the years, but leaking stands and boggy bogs ensured that the allure of our tinpottedness retained as few as possible. The work being done now gets us back onto an even keel and gives us only a fighting chance of increasing crowds. No more, no less. I don't think it would be unkind to suggest that Andy may be deluded if he believes in the 'build it and they will come' mantra.
When all is said and done, we will still be in the bottom two or three with regards to crowd size, budget and crappy small ground (only Morecambe can really challenge us on crowds and budget). Andy will not be putting half a million plus into the club every season, so the money needed to get us off the foot of those various tables will come from paying a pound for team sheets, 50/50 tickets and various other tinpotteries. JC also went on record as saying that he will not be seeing any money coming into the playing squad, and wouldn't want it as it spoils his ethos. So we're still tinpot there as well. The only difference is we have the stability to offer 2 year contracts now and may start to see some profit on player sales in future, instead of being grateful for £30k and a set of tracksuits for our best players.
The fact that the clubstore is utilising another webstore is neither here nor there. Fair do's if you don't like the pricing structure on there, it's not perfect - but 12 months ago nothing at all was perfect.
People spent half of last season (our greatest ever?) moaning about the fayre on offer at the pie stalls, well this year we'll be selling our own stuff and be in a position to correct anything. Let's take our small victories and roll with them.
I hardly read this forum anymore because some people seem to think if nothing has been posted for a day or two then they need to have a moan about something or nothing. You don't. Find something positive to say instead.
