[Doug]

Originally Posted by Revived Red

Look at macca's post at 13.26. The public appeal was NEVER going to raise over £300,000 in 8 weeks. But what a morale booster it would have been if the powers-that-be could have been seen to be a driving force behind the appeal from the very start, and got the whole thing underway with a substantial initial contribution. You only have to look at so many posts as the weeks have gone by to see the increasing cynicism. In fact, by not even providing regular updates, the club is giving the appearance of hardly bothering at all. The DON could well have been saying "Please can you all help to save my business", thus relying on the emotional commitment to the club that so many of us have, but even that lacked any sort of conviction or commitment to a cause. All that we've had, in effect, is "Don't worry; we'll be ok."

As macca said, the policy is losing us a lot of friends and will continue to do so.

I don’t wholly disagree; the way I’ve always looked at it is that they (the Club) where always going to make up the difference anyway due to the fact that they where never going to get the full amount via the public, that is without a major contributor/sponsor stepping up to the plate. In any respect their lack of contribution as not influenced my giving in any shape or form and I think for the majority of contributors the outcome will be the same; mainly because the bulk of donations have come from people who don’t read/partake in accyweb or are embroiled in the politicking that’s gone on since this particular bit of pup hit the fan.