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Originally Posted by cashman
Thing is its about trying to make stanley self sufficient, far as i'm aware, surely a better chance of attaining that, wi a new ground wi other facilities, that cannot be incorporated at the crown?  |
quite right. Unfortunately football even at this level, can't be sustained by the saturday efforts alone - if we could then I'd fight tooth and nail to remain at The Crown. The Crown has been our home for over 40 years and carries many, many memories. The efforts of those early custodians who used to collect bent nails and rob timber from kids bonfires should never be forgotten, neither more should Peel Park. We could redevelop The Crown for 20% of the cost of a new ground and it would more than do for us, and no doubt we'd make it work to a fashion. But we move on.
The Community lads need to be able to offer more and better opportunities than they do. The matchday club is a reasonable success as it is I believe, and that involves walking the kids from Moorhead to the ground. How much better would that be if the coaching on offer was in the bowels of the stadium with matchday noise echoing through the halls. The kids would be walked out onto the stand in much the same way as Sunday school kids were at church.
Could the commercial team produce far better results if they had improved facilities (their own offices for a start) and maybe the ability to print their own material rather than outsourcing?
Could we make better use of our medical staff if they had their own surgery to work from? Could that be turned into a commercial operation by offering a Sports Injury Clinic open to the public? Could Stanley financial department offer an Insurance policy to all local sportsmen using our surgery as a base?
It sounds silly and by no means is this an offer of an idea, but we have Stanley taxi's in Accrington. Such a taxi firm
could be run by Stanley for Stanley from a poky little office at the side of the ground. Like I said its a silly idea and not particularly lucrative, but a few smaller ideas can soon blossom into something that snowballs. Offer the ideas forward and your reward could be to see it to fruition
