04-12-2020, 14:23
Yes, I know we are spending small ........ but like you Dancing I'd understood we really had no cash to spare. Apparently Carson is across social media telling all and sundry we're going broke, if that's so social media isn't all he should be put across.
The problem with competitive professional sport is that you can't just pull up the drawbridge and wait for an economic upturn. You have to find ways of moving forward. All I can see for us is recruiting players like Kane Drummond as soon as they come to light. If we don't take that small gamble someone else will. And if we can't afford that kind of gamble then I can't see what the future can hold for us. There has to be a level of player we can afford to recruit, between school leaver and fully-fledged player. Schoolboy into pro' is an expensive, long-winded and failure-laden process, which in terms of the club's development has always been insufficient. Similarly it is very expensive to recruit only fully-fledged players from other clubs, in competition with all our rivals. We do need to pitch some
recruitment between those two levels, but even that is not cost-free, and if you find those players you have to have something to do with them. We can't rely on sign them and loan them out, and whatever answer you come up with it isn't going to be cost-free.
What I've always wanted to see is openness in our dealings - transparency - so that we are not left to speculate whether we can really afford to sign an ex-public schoolboy from Weymouth, whether the Trust can survive, whether the club has a real future or whether the last few weeks have simply been a chimera. I realise it is very difficult for them, income is almost zero, but literally thousands of fans have raised their voices to express their anger at the way the club has been allowed to decline in the last few years. Surely one way forward in these straitened times is to open up to those who love the club and seek their help with even greater urgency. Sponsoring Asante's strip is fine and people will respond, but fans will also happily contribute if they can see EXACTLY where their money is going. The problem in the past is we all believed transfer money and any other money raised didn't go towards improving the club and team, but was being trousered by men we certainly didn't trust. If the Trust can build trust then maybe we can survive as a community club. Do you think?
The problem with competitive professional sport is that you can't just pull up the drawbridge and wait for an economic upturn. You have to find ways of moving forward. All I can see for us is recruiting players like Kane Drummond as soon as they come to light. If we don't take that small gamble someone else will. And if we can't afford that kind of gamble then I can't see what the future can hold for us. There has to be a level of player we can afford to recruit, between school leaver and fully-fledged player. Schoolboy into pro' is an expensive, long-winded and failure-laden process, which in terms of the club's development has always been insufficient. Similarly it is very expensive to recruit only fully-fledged players from other clubs, in competition with all our rivals. We do need to pitch some
recruitment between those two levels, but even that is not cost-free, and if you find those players you have to have something to do with them. We can't rely on sign them and loan them out, and whatever answer you come up with it isn't going to be cost-free.
What I've always wanted to see is openness in our dealings - transparency - so that we are not left to speculate whether we can really afford to sign an ex-public schoolboy from Weymouth, whether the Trust can survive, whether the club has a real future or whether the last few weeks have simply been a chimera. I realise it is very difficult for them, income is almost zero, but literally thousands of fans have raised their voices to express their anger at the way the club has been allowed to decline in the last few years. Surely one way forward in these straitened times is to open up to those who love the club and seek their help with even greater urgency. Sponsoring Asante's strip is fine and people will respond, but fans will also happily contribute if they can see EXACTLY where their money is going. The problem in the past is we all believed transfer money and any other money raised didn't go towards improving the club and team, but was being trousered by men we certainly didn't trust. If the Trust can build trust then maybe we can survive as a community club. Do you think?