[maccawozzagod]

thanks for posting Lew, everything going alright with the Dingle doer's?

most of us realise the problems we have at the club with staffing etc but a lot of it has been avoidable over the past few years and we now reap what we have sewn in that time. For example we know that Lee does what he can, yet last week he spent hours out on the pitch dragging covers on and off, meanwhile the phone and emails aren't being answered or nobody is putting the opening hours on the website. It's not Lee's fault but he will get the flak for it. Too few people spreading themselves far too thin, yet in the past people have helped out gratis but got no recognition or thanks for it so consequently don't do it again. When the call comes for volunteers most people look the other way cos people have been bitten previously by trying to help.

Until such time as somebody picks up the mantle and tries to drag the club into the present century then we'll have these arguments time and again. Maybe a start would be to contact North Lancs Training Group and see how many youngsters we can take on, youngsters whose jobs would be subsidised by the government under schemes equivalent to YTS. Get a few more bodies around the place so that people employed to do specific jobs can do so to the best of their ability.

The frustrating thing is that we can see where money can be made but haven't the money to spare to make it! To say that there is no marketing budget at all is absolutely ludicrous - yet understandable - yet crazy!

We need a marketing gimmick to exploit locally and ensure that any profit from that goes into a marketing fund. Without pushing the name from other avenues we are left only with the team itself to try to get into the public - yet the manager won't talk to the paper?