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Originally Posted by maccawozzagod
I am led to believe by financial peers that for something to be a success in business it needs to viable, necessary and profitable.
The improvements to the corporate side were viable, necessary and have become profitable.
Mr Morton states that the roof is URGENT BUT NOT ESSENTIAL. I beg to differ. I think that it is viable and we assume the money is there, it is necessary to appease existing fans and welcome and keep new fans, therefore making it profitable. As I mentioned in an earlier post it would pay for itself anyway within a rapid timescale so even if it has to be ripped down at some future point it won't have been a waste of time.
Jeff posted "Are we all getting soft or is there a core of new supporters who are not used to braving the elements." Yes Jeff, there is. And we are hoping for more. And we would like to keep them please.
The club is top of the league, winning regularly and playing attractive football. We are playing League football next year. Does this deny us the opportunity to express our distaste for the lack of certain things? Are you only allowed to have opinion when things are going bad on the field, because when we are winning we are told by certain members of this forum that we are top of the league, what more do you want?
I'm one of the few fans that has braved the elements at crap holes such as Bootle, Frickley, Nelson, Winsford etc and I'll still be watching Stanley if we ever go back to them days. Unfortunatley the club cannot bank on too many fans remaining loyal if they continually ignore our wishes. I dont care which level of football we are playing next year, but I'd like to be behind the goal and under a roof. I would also, like Willie Miller, like a statement from the club that is not full of spin and carefully worded phrases, as to what the estimated schedule of works is in relation to this roof.
Few things stir up the ire at the IES, the roof is one of them, they shouldn't push it.
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You've spoken a lot of sense in this post Macca , and I can tell that you've delivered it from the heart.
Words like "viable" are, though, indicators of a long-term (or at least medium-term approach) , which is an option unavailable to ASFC at this time.
I've often said (and been given lots of criticism for my trouble) that the Clayton End Roof, the elimination of that awful mud , the improvements in toilet facilities have always been key factors in the success of our Club.
But you've got to remember that management is a dynamic ; one day you realise that a particular problem needs to be dealt with immediately , but in the afternoon another event impacts upon your earlier decision. It doesn't mean that your earlier decision was wrong (unless you work for Hearts, of course) , it just means that you have to accept the change which has taken place and to re-plan accordingly.
That's where I believe that ASFC are at the moment making the correct decisions, however unpalatable they may be.
You may not remember that I sold many hundreds of poundsworth of tickets to raise that Clayton Roof .
In my capacity in the Supporters' Club I helped to make a £1,200 donation to ASFC as result of the fantastically hard-working Members . . . for the toilets in the Clayton End development.
You and we have ALL invested so much of ourselves into this wonderful football club called Accrington Stanley.
It will be right soon , and when it is . . . you'll forget there was ever a problem.