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Wynonie Harris said:
Anybody any ideas about possible investors?
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If anybody invests they will probably want a say in the running of the Club, will Eric allow this ?
Eric said that he would retire and sell the Club if we got into the Football League, well this is our second season in the Football League and there are no signs of this happening. I am sure that if he put the Club up for sale there would be a few interested parties.
 
The selling of League club would have to be easier and more attractive than selling a non-league club.

However, I have no idea how attractive the club is to investors, to be honest. As a business it makes little sense, as there are very few customers.
 
Well it looks as though we could be on the way to solving one problem with the signing of Sean Webb. Welcome to Accrington, Sean.
 
Eric in the Observer:-
“We made it free against Torquay last year and people came. It was an exciting game with a last- minute winner and seven days later, against Hereford, we only get 1,800. It is absolutely ridiculous. It means the people of Hyndburn will only come if it’s free and we can’t live like that."

What he is forgetting is that it was a bad weather day, if I remember correctly, and loads of the waverers were even leaving at half time, never mind missing the last-minute excitement. No wonder they didn't come back to actually pay to stand in the rain. I am as chuffed as anyone to finally get the roof but think it was a massive missed opportunity not to have it in place whilst the interest was still high and we were getting reasonable gates, even if it would have involved borrowing some cash. Now we have to build gates upwards from the bottom again. I personally know of 3 regulars who are just back from holiday and if only all our hardcore can say the same maybe we'll have a halfway decent turn out tomorrow?
 
the next big thing will be to have the 'bars' behind the both goal ends.

I'm not having a go but it was mentioned pre-season and we were told that they would be along the lines of the burger bars and would serve into plastic bottles and glasses (?)

The roof will most definitely help to keep people coming after a first visit and the bars would help to win back a lot of the fans who have stopped coming. We've gotta get onto it because we are losing money hand over fist every week through stop-aways or missed revenue.

I'm hoping that the recent articles are more of a moan in general than a definitve statement of affairs but providing we can see out the season in this league I reckon things will be a lot rosier in twelve months. Home crowds will average 2000 + away fans.
 
Things are once again moving in a positive direction
Setting up of the Centre of Excellence
The football development Centre
The long awaited roof over the Terrace
The setting up of the Stanley Legends
If we need a cash injection and can't find a willing taker what about a shares issue!
I don't know what the rules govern towards shares issues but if the club were too release 2,000 shares at £50 a pop that would raise £100k straight away and give the fans even more chance to be involved!
The gates are worrying!! no two way's about it:confused:
 
How much publicity has been given to the new roof? Living over 200 miles away, I do not see the local media. I hope that it has featured prominently in newspaper, radio and television reports.
 
maccawozzagod said:
the next big thing will be to have the 'bars' behind the both goal ends.

I'm not having a go but it was mentioned pre-season and we were told that they would be along the lines of the burger bars and would serve into plastic bottles and glasses (?)

The roof will most definitely help to keep people coming after a first visit and the bars would help to win back a lot of the fans who have stopped coming. We've gotta get onto it because we are losing money hand over fist every week through stop-aways or missed revenue.

I'm hoping that the recent articles are more of a moan in general than a definitve statement of affairs but providing we can see out the season in this league I reckon things will be a lot rosier in twelve months. Home crowds will average 2000 + away fans.
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I would have thought this would have been done well before now, all they have to do is pour cans directly into a plastic cup and charge between £2 - £2.50, thats all they did at rochdale last season, what a money maker, can of carling 40 pence,5 pence on a cup, sell to public for £2.50 (rochdale price) and thats a profit of £2.05. Eric is complaining about not getting enough money into the club yet they haven't set this up!!!
 
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