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When we won the NPL we had a tidy little ground and our zero or one full time staff was ample. All money was redirected to the playing squad. Three years later we exceeded expectation and won The Conference. TV monies aside there was no great increase in revenue but wages sky rocketed. Since then it was always the case that every spare penny went into the squad leaving us on a trail of increasing debt and rapid decline of facilities.

The next ten years saw us go from being the poorest club with the poorest facilities, to being far and away the poorest club with disgusting facilities. Andy came in, put his hand on the tiller and turned us into a profitable club. That said we still have the poorest facilities and are still the poorest club (with the possible exception of Morecambe). We have competed admirably during that period which is testament to Coleman.

If we doubled our playing budget we would still be in the bottom 3 or 4 clubs of League 2, but would be back to the cycle of having no money to pay bills or improve infrastructure.

It might be 'little Stanley' mentality but i am more than happy to see little progress on the pitch for the foreseeable future. If we drop back to L2 this year, or next year, then so what? We can be a force again in that league. If crowds drop again then so what? We've increased our ability to maximise away fan income with the new stand.

Some clubs spend success windfall money on gambling for more success, we're spending ours on cementing what we have as a club rather than a team



Certainly the best post I have read on here for a LONG time. Bravo :)
 
There will be a point where the building work is completed and the facilities are how Holty wants. That isn't a million miles away in my view. 2-3 years. Once that happens, I'd imagine alot more money will be going in to the playing budget.



Three years is a long time in football mate .......... but if the die hards are happy game on.

If you are in a rush to get somewhere, then please get going. If you've got another team you want to support, then please support them.

If you really think 3 years is a long time in anything, never mind football you would be better off supporting Manchester City now and then the next wealthy team to buy success when their owner stops spending on the team.
 
If you are in a rush to get somewhere, then please get going. If you've got another team you want to support, then please support them.

If you really think 3 years is a long time in anything, never mind football you would be better off supporting Manchester City now and then the next wealthy team to buy success when their owner stops spending on the team.
Thats gotta be the stupidest post ever.:rolleyes:
 
If we drop back to L2 this year, or next year, then so what? We can be a force again in that league. If crowds drop again then so what? We've increased our ability to maximise away fan income with the new stand.

if we did go down this season the newer fans we have got this season will in the main fall away again. season ticket sales will drop under the 1000 mark again and you,ll have a nice new stand for the 50 odd crawley fans again. there is no guarentee we would storm back either. ask yeovil fans about the benefits of relegation as they could have the benefit of a day out in dover next season.

The best contribution we all could make is to renew our season tickets. I have.
 
I see your point Josh (letting go of the past), but we have to be mjndful of 1893, 1912ish, 1962, 1966, and 2009. Its not just for the die hards, but tomorrows die hards.

its fine to remember the past but not to let it affect the present or the future. do think a lot of older fans {i mean time supporting stanley not their actual age** do seam to miss the good old non league days and not 100 per cent behind the modernisation of the club done by andy holt.

MH !... As you know, Not only am I one of the oldest fans agewise , but can,!Ike so many more of the 'older' fans you mention,remember the days of yore at Peel Park !, and well remember the night when soccer was first played under floodlights there, and feeling a measure of pride at this development at our little club.
I have the same emotions when I walk onto the Wham today, and wonder at the thought and skill behind transforming what was a poorly drained, sloping patch of meals surrounded by a single steel rail ( to prevent crowd invasions ? ) into the attractive Soccer stadium it has become , and silently thank Andy Holt and his team for this.
Although in my dotage, I can hope that I , like so many more ' die hards ' can hope for even more development of all that makes Accrington Stanley great, including the acquiring of players who will ensure that we remain in League 1 but go on to greater things !..

I for one am 100 percent behind all that is Accrington Stanley,as are most of my contemporaries .. our somnolent appearance may not always convince the watcher of this
but i I think t to be true... So there !.

On Stanley... On to greater things .
 
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