Thanks for explaining but personally I don't get it. My interest massively dipped over the previous two seasons, but this team and manager deserve the support.
They are a team of fighters and are giving their all each game.
I know this may sound completely random but if you compare the club to a friendship. Would you give up on your mate, being the son, if his dad made some bad decisions?
It is very sad to see only 500 supporters in the ground when we are playing some of the best football in years.
I respect your personal decision and I agree that some awful decisions have been made but I just can't give up on a team that actually deserves the support. The love and care just can't go away.
Graham Rowley should go but only when we have the correct investors/board, who have a genuine interest of progressing our football team. At present there is no interest from anyone.
At the end of the game I am only clapping the players and current manager.
How would we know? The available shares never get a mention, let alone pushed.
You’d be amazed what happens when you actually tell the outside world where there is a vacancy, rather than relying on your own limited existing relationships (the appointment of Phil Parkinson being a good example). Not advertising to the outside world lands you with Neil Tolson or Matt Doughty as manager instead, or Grahame Rowley as chairman, (and Neil Young to some extent as the managers job wasn’t advertised then either).
We appear determined to apply that same logic in the boardroom unfortunately.
I’m not suggesting people would suddenly be queuing up outside Moss Lane to buy the shares, and take over, if we advertised the shares. However, having created a great opportunity for someone new to come in with fresh ideas, to then remain silent and not give ourselves every possible chance of moving forward as a football club is negligent. Both by the board, and by those happy to stand back and let them carry on - by that I mean the larger shareholders at the club, rather than the supporters who do still turn up each week to get behind the team (in spite of the off-field issues).
And still no one has ever really answered the question of why we think we can sell the club in secret? Or why we aren’t shouting from the rooftops at every opportunity? Or what exactly are the Sports Business doing? And, more importantly, why haven’t the Sports Business been binned yet, rather than given new contracts on the commercial side?
I'm sure everyone who no longer goes to home games is different, but to me it’s not just an immediate change in chairman that would bring me back to home games. I’d be prepared to turn up and pay my entrance fee if I could see any sort of public/sustained effort being made to sell the shares, and get new people into the club to replace the deadwood on the board. I.e. if we could see light at the end of the tunnel for the club.
But, unfortunately, it’s abundantly clear that moving the football club forward and reuniting the fan base aren’t the main priorities here.