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I cannot deny that Andy Holt's arrival has gained financial security - but something has been lost. I am quite happy to support Plastic Box; in fact, I bought 12 of their storage boxes at The Range only last week. But if I were to buy a Stanley shirt, I would want to buy it from Accrington Stanley, not Plastic Box. Sorry - that's just me. |
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Of course the club need our/your money, We can't just rely on a shareholder to bank roll us forever.
We're just now fortunate that we have Andy is putting things in place like our own catering facilities, toilet facilities etc so we can hopefully become a sustainable football club that won't need money pumping in! If people want to sponsor a player or a matchday programme then why would you stop them? The last thing we want to be doing is being reliant on Andy Holt putting money in because one day we may not have that money being put in, then what happens? |
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Chances are I'll use my season ticket at ibrox more and take in some Stanley away fixtures especially at grounds I've not been to yet and home games against clubs I've not seen. Just my opinion but the magic just doesn't seem to be there now compared to the early days in the league. Hopefully it's onwards and upwards for Stanley but nothing can be taken for granted these days |
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Stanley has been constantly changing, if we hadn't we would just have stayed in the NWCL. No one dreamed we would ever get out of the NPL, it seemed an impossibility for 2 decades, never mind league football. Lots of money was pumped in to achieve the two promotions, and even turning pro which had an initial setback.
Someone comes in to try and improve the club and fans moan and give up at at time very little has changed, only we are not the bookies relegation favourites. The ground is a **** hole and needs improvement, crowds were getting smaller by the season before Holt came in, and the club can't even provide water in the toilets and 'Mr T' thought that was an okay way to treat fans. The improvement are more than welcome and Stanley still need every penny from any source possible. I assume the plastic industry could be hit thanks to the pound/dollar fall after the brexit :) |
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Of course the club still needs our money, for a start every pound spent is another pound further away from Andy pulling out ... The money currently being spent is the £600k that Andy put in at the start of his tenure, the other 600k being what was used to wipe out the debt if I remember rightly. He has probably put more in as well to ensure that jobs are done properly and in a timely fashion. This is all work that should have been done years ago but we never had enough money coming in to get it done and Eric had spent his lot getting us out of non-league. Had the work been done ten years ago, we may have been able to retain some of our increased crowds over the years, but leaking stands and boggy bogs ensured that the allure of our tinpottedness retained as few as possible. The work being done now gets us back onto an even keel and gives us only a fighting chance of increasing crowds. No more, no less. I don't think it would be unkind to suggest that Andy may be deluded if he believes in the 'build it and they will come' mantra. When all is said and done, we will still be in the bottom two or three with regards to crowd size, budget and crappy small ground (only Morecambe can really challenge us on crowds and budget). Andy will not be putting half a million plus into the club every season, so the money needed to get us off the foot of those various tables will come from paying a pound for team sheets, 50/50 tickets and various other tinpotteries. JC also went on record as saying that he will not be seeing any money coming into the playing squad, and wouldn't want it as it spoils his ethos. So we're still tinpot there as well. The only difference is we have the stability to offer 2 year contracts now and may start to see some profit on player sales in future, instead of being grateful for £30k and a set of tracksuits for our best players. The fact that the clubstore is utilising another webstore is neither here nor there. Fair do's if you don't like the pricing structure on there, it's not perfect - but 12 months ago nothing at all was perfect. People spent half of last season (our greatest ever?) moaning about the fayre on offer at the pie stalls, well this year we'll be selling our own stuff and be in a position to correct anything. Let's take our small victories and roll with them. I hardly read this forum anymore because some people seem to think if nothing has been posted for a day or two then they need to have a moan about something or nothing. You don't. Find something positive to say instead. :hidewall: |
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So yeh aint to comment about summat yeh dont happen to like then, may suit you, but sure as hell dont suit me, ive never been an arse kisser and too owd to start now.:rolleyes:
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what a surprise that you're the first to comment :rolleyes:
who mentioned arse kissing. I really think that you, above all else, are one who should think that it's sometimes better to say nowt. |
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Nowt to say so you say summat
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