Thoroughly enjoyed the manager/fans meeting last night. Was good to hear of the plans, and how the club are very much on the up, as Ecky so eloquently put. Lee was asked last night about the clubs original ambition to become a league side. I liked Lee's philosophy of saying we will not write the idea off. But the club must be built on in tier level stages. The CSH is tantamount to the clubs growth and Lee gave credit to the club for seeing this through. He talked about growing the club like building blocks at stages at a time.
He did not say the club would get promoted, but I honestly think that as the club would take this in gradual stages, long-term wise it is quite feasible. Here are the stages the club could take, bearing in mind we have the management structure to see this through.
Make small changes but keep the nucleus of the squad we currently have. This is a good squad with some great players, and we have the management structure in Lee and Neil to see this through. This team only needs tweaking a little.
Challenge for at least a play-off spot over the next couple of years. We now have the CSH to help build the club during the close season.
Try for decent cup runs during the next couple of seasons to build up club revenue.
The fans are already coming through the turnstiles in increasing numbers as the averages over the last few years have already shown, especially with the Averages over the years in the Conference.
Will we get the fan-base for 2nd division football? How about the attendance for last year's play-off final.
We are already getting good results, especially in the latter stages of the season, build on those on-going against the bigger clubs. and get ourselves into the top half of the league on a regular basis.
We have a good youth/reserve team system in place now, plus a link with junior football, and a great junior coach in Chris Bullock overseeing things. I have worked with Chris on many occasions from when we were both at Unicorn.
Going full time could become an option over the next couple of years as the club continues to grown while watching it's finances.
Ecky, I know were you were coming from last night at the meeting, we have the board, players, management and fans to come together and see this through, and social activities and infrastructure.
I have my belief back, and I think the club should go for, it over the next couple of years providing it happens in stages, with a little luck it could become our dream again.
Lee and Neil are more than capable of seeing this through, I have believed in both of them from the first time I chatted to Lee at Harrogate. They both said they are not going anywhere also, which I was pleased about!!
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