The club would have to be founded by those currently dissatisfied with Chesterfield ....... It would take a lot of hard work and fund raising. Ideally they'd find one or two generous backers to help the club launch, but a new club would find itself at a pretty low level ....... so the original outlay might be less wearing than the effort required to keep raising money as the club began to climb the pyramid. It is very much a long-term commitment and that's where the rightly upset Bob's Boarders would probably be found wanting IMO.
Why do I think a new club would not necessarily be bad for the old one? Personal experience. When Polytechnics existed in this country I worked for their central application system - PCAS, which was located (a ground share?) in the same building as the much bigger UCCA - the university application system. UCCA was big, slow, with the turning circle of a Queen Mary and very bureaucratic. Little PCAS had a flatter organisational structure, was young, thrusting and open to change. Eventually the two combined and it was assumed UCAS was just UCCA taking over. In fact PCAS radically changed the old UCCA approaches to everything, pointless rules disappeared over night, the organisation became faster, friendlier more responsive and customer focused. Video kills the radio star ..........
Yes I have The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo on the shelves behind me SGB. And I don't think we are much more than chimps in suits, EXCEPT we have an awareness of ourselves that they lack - otherwise you would not be able to cite Desmond Morris, you'd have been looking round for a large stick to throw. We don't NEED to be prey to our baser instincts. We can make great acts of self-sacrifice as well as punch a Stags fans outside the Winding Wheel. And for years the new club wouldn't be a rival to Chesterfield, so by the time it reached that status its identity and the way the town viewed it would be fully formed in any case.
The new club might eventually submerge itself into Chesterfield and be lost. It might simply stay small scale and win the East Midlands League and become a feeder for Chesterfield. It might watch Chesterfield implode and whilst the town is mourning the loss of its club, expand to take its place in everyone's heart. OR the two clubs might come together and to everyone's surprise the good things about the newer, smaller former rival might change its dire, bigger partner forever.
Desmond Morris is still alive, still working into his nineties and producing surrealist paintings when we are tucked up in bed at night. A hero!
Why do I think a new club would not necessarily be bad for the old one? Personal experience. When Polytechnics existed in this country I worked for their central application system - PCAS, which was located (a ground share?) in the same building as the much bigger UCCA - the university application system. UCCA was big, slow, with the turning circle of a Queen Mary and very bureaucratic. Little PCAS had a flatter organisational structure, was young, thrusting and open to change. Eventually the two combined and it was assumed UCAS was just UCCA taking over. In fact PCAS radically changed the old UCCA approaches to everything, pointless rules disappeared over night, the organisation became faster, friendlier more responsive and customer focused. Video kills the radio star ..........
Yes I have The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo on the shelves behind me SGB. And I don't think we are much more than chimps in suits, EXCEPT we have an awareness of ourselves that they lack - otherwise you would not be able to cite Desmond Morris, you'd have been looking round for a large stick to throw. We don't NEED to be prey to our baser instincts. We can make great acts of self-sacrifice as well as punch a Stags fans outside the Winding Wheel. And for years the new club wouldn't be a rival to Chesterfield, so by the time it reached that status its identity and the way the town viewed it would be fully formed in any case.
The new club might eventually submerge itself into Chesterfield and be lost. It might simply stay small scale and win the East Midlands League and become a feeder for Chesterfield. It might watch Chesterfield implode and whilst the town is mourning the loss of its club, expand to take its place in everyone's heart. OR the two clubs might come together and to everyone's surprise the good things about the newer, smaller former rival might change its dire, bigger partner forever.
Desmond Morris is still alive, still working into his nineties and producing surrealist paintings when we are tucked up in bed at night. A hero!