As a seperate entity I do think the CSH has been a great success....
I hope moving forward it begins to be a real asset to the first team rather than a distraction...maybe this season we saw the beginnings of the community side start to reap dividends on match days....although alty fans have been pushed aside more than once for far more important community projects....The ideology that the community side of the football club is more important than the 1st team is still unbalanced in my view.
But it is one more reason for a local wealthy businessperson to see an opportunity to be an investor a benefactor (amended to make it clear I am not thick enough to think putting money in alty or any other football club will see a year on year % yield)
Completely agree with you. The extra income from the CSH has been helping us ever since it opened, that was the plan
The extra income from the CSH didn’t help us stay in the conference. Or the conference north. It helped us on our way to the lowest league position our club has ever been in because the board completely forgot that we are a football club, not a Darby and Joan Club.
Which leads us succinctly back to the point that the Chairman, whilst clapping himself on the back for the success of having the CSH, saw that as the end goal. Instead of allowing growth we have stagnated and there are massive rifts that could easily be solved if one man didn’t let his ego run away with him. You said yourself that he wasn’t the right man for the job but “we have no alternative options” yet you are here advocating the fact he is actively blocking investment and a new chairman. Odd.
I sort of see what you are saying but it wasnt the CSH itself that caused those relegations, that was poor management/player recruitment/performance which may well have happended even if we hadnt build the CSH.
I know for a fact the board didnt see the CSH as an end goal, they made great efforts to keep funding for the playing side and CSH separate, that said it could sub-consciously have diluted energies away from the playing side, well never know will we?
I think you are misunderstanding what I have been saying about future leadership/investment,... what I am simply pointing out again, is until we have an alternative, if a better one can be found, then we can only accept and back the status quo.
The board have clearly tried to listen to fans and at least one new director has been found.
As Ballers has said, which I agree with, is it remains a puzzle why, under successive regimes over at least the last 23 yrs, that no really wealthy individual has come forward to invest.