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Originally Posted by Revived Red
(1). ASSF funds used for players = successful team = more fans through the turnstiles = increased income.
(2). ASSF funds used to generate more income = increased funds for players = successful team = more fans through the turnstiles = increased income.
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just to move this away from ASSF for a moment and to return it to ASFC, it could be argued that we (ASFC) have done point and it never really worked. For years EW diverted funds away from infrastructure and into the team. This ended with us being in League 2 which was a success, but without the funds or means to succesfully compete at the right end of the table.
From the Unibond through to the Conference the difference between a rich club and a poor club wasn't that great, financially, but there is a huge difference in League 2. You can't possibly keep going upwards without a period of consolidation with which to take stock and make the most of what you have.
My romantic vision of a football club is one where the Club is the centre piece of the community, and where people come from all parts of the community to join in. This doesn't necessarily have to mean football on a saturday afternoon as not all members of the community are football fans. But a modern football club has ways of taking the money off it's constituents regardless of football.
Why do our
own fans not really use the bar pre and post match? If we address this problem and work on making outsiders use it sunday to friday that could put up to an extra £1/2 million in the bank. My personal opinion would be that it is worth spending x thousand on sorting this out, so that next season, and the season after, and the season after we have that money in the budget. And then you start to look at other aspects of the business ...
Until we get the infrastructure right we are always going to be the poor relations. If you view the club from the point of view that as a business we are as low as we can go (but still competing) then it starts to look a better business prospect.