16-12-2020, 18:16
If you haven't read it on our website then do. It is worth it.
Naturally I have criticisms. I believe in always adopting a critical standpoint. If stuff doesn't stand up to scrutiny it isn't worth much.
They could for instance have found a worse title had they trawled uninspiring Ph.D thesis titles throughout world history, but they'd have had their work cut out.
They might have produced a worse illustration of how it might work than the their blue triangle with supporters at the bottom beside a two headed arrow, but it would have taken several badly-blurred focus groups.
They might have engaged supporters more before producing the document to set the agenda themselves.
BUT these initiatives, which are rare as hen's teeth in professional sport in this country, have to come from somewhere. They are unlikely to emerge via a revolutionary tranche of working-class supporters developing their own manifesto. So the simple fact of the document's existence and the desire behind it to take that first step has to be applauded.
The great thing about it is that it has the power to become. It could become a sop for supporter dissatisfaction, a pretence at involvement in which supporters raise their voices and the club ploughs an entirely different furrow. We've consulted can be indistinguishable from copping a deaf ear. But here we are at the start of something. It isn't fully formed. It is words nicely joined together, nothing more. It does, however, have the potential, if those involved are really people of good faith to make Chesterfield Football Club very different from all its rivals.
So, yes I applaud it, but it is that phrase I've never understood, an envelope ....... that needs pushing. After long years in which every door to change has been closed and every decision, good or bad, has simply been foisted upon us, we see things opening up. Whether the authors realise the potential of their words doesn't really matter. Supporters simply need to keep following the logic of the idea. After all what follows engagement but marriage?
Naturally I have criticisms. I believe in always adopting a critical standpoint. If stuff doesn't stand up to scrutiny it isn't worth much.
They could for instance have found a worse title had they trawled uninspiring Ph.D thesis titles throughout world history, but they'd have had their work cut out.
They might have produced a worse illustration of how it might work than the their blue triangle with supporters at the bottom beside a two headed arrow, but it would have taken several badly-blurred focus groups.
They might have engaged supporters more before producing the document to set the agenda themselves.
BUT these initiatives, which are rare as hen's teeth in professional sport in this country, have to come from somewhere. They are unlikely to emerge via a revolutionary tranche of working-class supporters developing their own manifesto. So the simple fact of the document's existence and the desire behind it to take that first step has to be applauded.
The great thing about it is that it has the power to become. It could become a sop for supporter dissatisfaction, a pretence at involvement in which supporters raise their voices and the club ploughs an entirely different furrow. We've consulted can be indistinguishable from copping a deaf ear. But here we are at the start of something. It isn't fully formed. It is words nicely joined together, nothing more. It does, however, have the potential, if those involved are really people of good faith to make Chesterfield Football Club very different from all its rivals.
So, yes I applaud it, but it is that phrase I've never understood, an envelope ....... that needs pushing. After long years in which every door to change has been closed and every decision, good or bad, has simply been foisted upon us, we see things opening up. Whether the authors realise the potential of their words doesn't really matter. Supporters simply need to keep following the logic of the idea. After all what follows engagement but marriage?
