Reply To: Ilkeston

[Patrick0811]

Very interesting attachment you have put on here .
Our club is a sustainable model for any football club to take note and follow, we have very recently spent several thousands of pounds installing new toilets and and a dance floor, in order to enhance our hospitality options, we have in the past paid big wages to ex pro’s with limited success and possibly not concentrating so much on the non football side of running a club, which of course it is very important to not rely on turnover takings, many chairman of clubs at our level are voicing opinions of low than average attendances this year in pre -season friendlies, this of course is almost certainly due to the current financial crisis, so in my opinion my son, the chairman here, is concentrating on expanding our hospitality income, pitch rental, tournaments, weddings, wakes, presentations. etc, in order to make the club not reliant on turnstile takings, and it seems to be working.
As I have stated previously, I was very impressed at the set up and standard at Rushall when we played there last year, all young lads, played us off the park, and few, if any, on big money, they surprised a few (but not me) when they won the play offs, I personally think it is worth trying their system of neutering a young team for a season or two, and hopefully do a “Rushall” and spend more constantly uprating our already superb facilities, as witnessed by Scunny fans when they visited here recently.
My son runs our club to the best of his ability, and makes the decisions with very little or any criticism from our fans, they know that since Himself and Dave Hilton took over the club it has prospered beyond their expectations, so they don’t take much notice of other people’s opinion, but more of what they see with their own eyes…. and certainly not what People put on social media.
Our fans are brilliant, and create a great atmosphere for such a small club…. win ,lose, or draw.