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Infrastructure 19:49 - Apr 12 with 2801 viewsdilleydaler

Given our league position, there is a possibility, no more than that, but it is POSSIBLE for us to get promoted to the Championship. A league where we would have clubs bringing circa 3,000 to Spotland for nearly every home game. Together with increased floating and local interest we would average 6,000 home gates, with the odd game pushing capacity. Imagine Wolves or Leeds on Boxing Day!!

Listening to Chris Dunphy on the radio the other day, on the topic - the prospect of promotion - it suggests to me that the logistics side of promotion would be too much for him, and I guess to much for the present board and the non footballing part of the club.

Unless, unless - we have a plan for what infrastructure and personnel, investment we would implement. I am not saying we would implement a plan unless we get promotion, but it would be wise to have a plan for how we would deal with more than trebling our footfall, before it happens and we wake up in early June wondering, sh!t what now.

I'm talking about ticketing, allocation of seats, stewarding, policing, catering, pricing, security, media facilities, ground improvements, maybe improving segregation arrangement to allow max capacity. The list would be long. In fact a lot of the things on the list would be good ideas for pushing up our commercial activity in L1. Fix the broken seats for a start!!

If we don't go up, fine, the plan exists and can be kept updated for if it ever happens.

Do we think we have a plan? Maybe a question at the next Trust Meeting?

If the answer is to shrug the question off, with a chuckle and "we'll worry about it when it happens" then we know for sure there is a problem. The board need to up their game now, that might mean introducing new board members who have the skills required, the footballing side have done so and, in my view, the commercial side has some catching up to do.

To fail to plan is to plan.......
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Infrastructure on 20:36 - Apr 12 with 2695 views442Dale

Interesting post and some points a few supporters have wondered over the years. Maybe send the question into the Trust? mailbox@daletrust.com or fill in the form at this link http://daletrust.com/news/?page_id=779
They can put it to the club and see what infrastructure is already in place and what plans there are going forward. Ask for the answer to be stuck on their website, this has worked well in the past.

There's also the Shareholders AGM in a couple of weeks where we may learn more.
[Post edited 12 Apr 2015 20:40]

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Infrastructure on 20:47 - Apr 12 with 2646 views49thseason

I sometimes wonder if some of the problem is that our Directors are "part time" in as much as they either have their own businesses to run or have retired from business and the the Club is largely a hobby. The result must be the the Chief Executive gets to deal with lots of day to day stuff but the bigger picture is only looked at occasionally. Adding more board level leadership (ie paid Directors) costs money and may never be actually needed consequently not much changes.
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