Thanks Cult, my point made in a more eloquent way.
I'm at a loss to understand much of this, especially the blinkered approach many have that the club can do no wrong, we should just sit back and accept etc, etc.
I think I'll take a break from here for a while as my opinions on the club and it wasting potential revenue are so worthless.
Its not that your opnions are worthless, and in no way should we just accept that everything the club does is right.
I and others said many times that the club is lax at putting up posters for games and been told many times to put them up myself. Thats not really the point. I see that as lost revenue.
The club channels every penny it can into the playing budget and relies on volunteers to fill the gaps.
I wouldn't mind betting that the going rate for a Conference football secretary is £25,000 pa. Ours is free and he pays his own petrol.
A matchday secretary would cost maybe £10-£15 an hour..ours is free and he buys his own chips.
Safety officer - free
Chief steward - free
All stewards free - they don't even get a brew
Club accountant - free
PA announcer - free
I think the balboys are the top earners on 50p a match the lucky b**tards. And it was 50p in 1986!
There are many more people that I've missed.
If we want to get more professional, and from what I know of these people they are pretty damn professional, and start paying people then so be it. However every penny spent on this would be a penny off the playing budget.
It really hurts when you are doing your best and people with no information (granted we could maybe have been more pro active about getting info out) talk like experts on what you have done.
I was talking to Neil the groundsman about the York game was off on facebook. He blistered his hands clearing snow from the lines and marking the pitch in the hope that it would be on. Then he read on the forum that it was a disgrace it was off and had we even bothered to get it on. Imagine reading that with blistered hands?
Too much criticsm can lead people to jack stuff in and say "I don't need this". We don't have a supply of volunteers that I am aware of.
If you think the teams sh*t and they should have played a different way say it. No worries.
If you think the managers is a clueless after a game then say it and give your reasons.
However its not fair to make assumptions about things we don't have the full facts on like how many times the groundsman has been down to the ground.
Its not perfect but we should be grateful that people do what they do to give us a game to watch.
In my opinion...