[maccawozzagod]

I take the point Henry and having checked I stand corrected.

The relevance to being a member of the supporters club is that this season there hasn't been an awful lot of members. Firstly, there isn't a lot of people willing to help collate and organise things this season. So counting up mail votes was a definite no-no. Secondly, there hasn't been a lot of trust or belief in the OSC for sometime rightly or wrongly. As you know, I am trying my best to do things which help to re-endear the club to its own fans. We used to do the vote by handing out slips at the turnstile and there is no harm done in doing it again. It will help to make people feel part of what is going on at the club and that is more important than whether they are a member or not.

The OSC needs people to part with their membership money to increase funds but they shouldn't have to be 'forced' or chased for it - I believe that the fans should want to join. If we had 1000 local members then it would be far easier to say that the vote will be taken by members only. As the number of members is far outnumbered by the non-members, we as the minority need to use inclusion rather than exclusion. That is my opinion, I gave my opinion at the last meeting and the meeting agreed with me. Again, as you know, the democratic way wins out and this vote could quite easily have gone the other way.

As far as the OSC website is concerned Henry, the use of 'remnants' would suggest that it is now not a patch on what it was. The homepage has not been updated for five weeks (will do it tuesday after the next meeting) other than that nothing has changed on the site since you were administrating it. So .......?

You, as much as anybody, know what a battle it can be and how little time you seem to have when things have to be done. If you read the threads on the OSC Open day and the Rochdale Away thread you will plainly see that I have been busy recently, whilst also trying to fit in my job, my family, my home renovations, to buy a new business, diversity meetings, Open day meetings, OSC meetings, deleting new spam members from the website that link to porn sites. And sometimes I sleep as well.

If you would like to rebuild from the remnants then please feel free to offer your services and I will send you the information every month for you to extract from.

Rob