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Off piste but.The Sheff wed owner is giving an opportunity to keep their club afloat he wants £2 million in donations in the next few days or more sanctions will come,
In cash? ;-)
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How can it be a missed opportunity if the smoking goat have bought the tickets at full price to almost give away (small donation required) for key workers and service personnel with the donations going to Scunny.
This sums it up perfectly. How this gesture can even begin to be questioned is beyond me ?. People are questioning if it has any long term benefit but I suggest you just take it for what it is.
You have a local business “catering company” who happens to cater for us and they’re looking to get involved by buying 500 tickets out of their own pockets to give to people who wouldn’t necessarily come otherwise with the proceeds/donations coming the clubs way.
Swann and Hilton needed to be questioned but this doesn’t.
I thought this would have been celebrated instead of questioned. Baffles me at times this forum !
I don’t think anyone is questioning the gesture, more the nuts and bolts of how it will work out there in the real world.
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We all know what encourages people to come along regularly, and playing at National League North level doesn’t!
Winning 6-0 & 6-1 may be a lever but that’s not going to happen every game.
Classic Catch 22. We need to be higher up the FL Pyramid to get the crowds but to get there we need better attendance now!
I think the home crowd is probably about maxed out (ie. about as much as it’s ever going to be in League One, League Two, National League or National League North). The issue is actually the away attendances. This season we can’t yet have had 1,000 through the turnstile in total?
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I would argue that this is more likely to replace people who would normal pay full price anyway, not sure it’s going to grow the crowd much. I look forward to being proven wrong on that score.
You may be right, but they need to try every idea they can think of and see how it goes.
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Hopefully the share capital that all the directors should have put in should cover it,that’s how it normally works unless there’s a sole owner, then if one drops out and wants their investment back it’s not such a hard blow to a club, if being sustainable means us having to get 3/4 thousand crowds week in week out then it’s not for me, well until we’re a league team at least.
We’re in a period where absolutely everyone needs to put their money where their mouth is, and the Directors are being honest about it. There is a serious underlying message of “use it or lose it”.
They mean absolutely everyone needs to put their money where their mouth is. From the casually interested, to those who never go but claim the town needs a football club, to the businesses that ‘might’ sponsor a game or the matchball… and right up to those who haven’t put in but want to operate at Boardroom level and enjoy the glory reflected from that…
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Prediction for tonight:
A poor performance. Decent but increasingly frustrating tippy tappy and no engine room.
Scunthorpe United 0 Spennymoor Town 2
Very happy to be wrong, of course… but it should have been 10-0 last night.
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very interesting and hopefully positive news in the coming days .. how do members feel about the possibility GP being renamed THE NEW SHOWGROUND ??
The ground should have been called this in the first place, when we moved.
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Thanks for sharing. Slightly uncomfortable with the thread title. Sorry if it appears sycophantic but I’d rather Swann didn’t see content on Bru that might get his back up during this crucial negotiation period.
I take your point, to be fair to you. Caution and kid gloves are almost certainly the order of the day. However, the title wasn’t intended to indicate any smart-arse thought of ‘getting one over on him’, it was merely a comment on the need for a ‘steady away’ approach. I think if Peter Swann’s back is going to be gotten up, it will actually be because of the posts calling him a liar and a thief.
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Nearly every word I’ve heard about Michelle Harness is positive- the word integrity keeps cropping up. This will buy her time with local businesses owed their money and give some wiggle room for repayment plans to be put in place.
The real challenge will be getting the ground off Swann- which is no mean feat. Additionally, good will will only take her so far and the consortium will need to be pumping in hundreds of thousands to get us out this mess for the short term.
We aren’t out of the woods by any stretch, but hopefully we are now finally heading in the right direction.
Agree with this. Michelle’s attitude and demeanour, her professionalism, is what should buy us time and patience and see us through some choppy financial waters. I expect businesses outside of SUFC which have been used to dealing with Clown 1 and then Clown 2 in recent years will now be a little more confident in the club playing nicely. I also suspect some of the board will be able to assist financially.
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