We ARE bigger than Accrington on almost every measure, but they have got themselves two divisions higher than us. And if the purpose of running a football club is to win games of football then they are currently a massively more successful club than us. They are clearly cleverer and more effective than us as well as more ambitious. Our perception of ourselves as bigger than them should simply act as an incentive, but it probably won't
We have lots of fat around our club that is urgent need of butchery. Both our ground and our owner come into that category. Our gates only matter if their income is used effectively. When the organisation is a football club then income has to be reflected on the field of play. Our income is dissipated both by poor decision-making AND a business model which seems fatally flawed. We don't generate sufficient income either to sustain ourselves, or to pay off our debt (which some might argue is why the debt was created ....... to centralise power in one pair of hands).
Bigger or smaller can be relevant - Blackburn and Wigan were good bets for promotion, Shrewsbury weren't - but equally size can be misleading. Burton can't possibly have reached the Championship, and surviving a season was impossible ............. Leicester City couldn't win the Premiership, but now they they are way up the world rich list. Things change rapidly financially when new owners appear and some teams achieve great feats, which on paper look impossible. How COULD Cardiff go up with THAT team?
In the end it is how you use what you've got. Macclesfield have got back to the EFL in a season in which they were struggling financially throughout. Chester were also struggling financially but they lost their Conference place in the other direction.
We've spent three seasons in total chaos and not really wanting to go anywhere. Accrington spent that time trying to improve. Thinking we're bigger won't get us back in the league any more than Wednesday will get back to the Premiership because from the outside they look like a top club.
Unfortunately because of our ownership and our dodgy administration our revenue streams are permanently in doubt. We don't trust how much money there is, or where it goes. Conspiracy theories abound. Gates, transfers or Uncle Lionel .......... it's smoke and mirrors. There's how big we look, and how big we might really be. Now Dougal these are small, but those are really far away .........
We have lots of fat around our club that is urgent need of butchery. Both our ground and our owner come into that category. Our gates only matter if their income is used effectively. When the organisation is a football club then income has to be reflected on the field of play. Our income is dissipated both by poor decision-making AND a business model which seems fatally flawed. We don't generate sufficient income either to sustain ourselves, or to pay off our debt (which some might argue is why the debt was created ....... to centralise power in one pair of hands).
Bigger or smaller can be relevant - Blackburn and Wigan were good bets for promotion, Shrewsbury weren't - but equally size can be misleading. Burton can't possibly have reached the Championship, and surviving a season was impossible ............. Leicester City couldn't win the Premiership, but now they they are way up the world rich list. Things change rapidly financially when new owners appear and some teams achieve great feats, which on paper look impossible. How COULD Cardiff go up with THAT team?
In the end it is how you use what you've got. Macclesfield have got back to the EFL in a season in which they were struggling financially throughout. Chester were also struggling financially but they lost their Conference place in the other direction.
We've spent three seasons in total chaos and not really wanting to go anywhere. Accrington spent that time trying to improve. Thinking we're bigger won't get us back in the league any more than Wednesday will get back to the Premiership because from the outside they look like a top club.
Unfortunately because of our ownership and our dodgy administration our revenue streams are permanently in doubt. We don't trust how much money there is, or where it goes. Conspiracy theories abound. Gates, transfers or Uncle Lionel .......... it's smoke and mirrors. There's how big we look, and how big we might really be. Now Dougal these are small, but those are really far away .........