Bad news for the town

[db]

i'm not a football fan in the slightest, but i would be sorry to see SRFC go

 

[tekkers]

Yeah, short, but a good plug.
Noticed that Jason Roberts was interviewed, he seems to be one of the most proactive fans that the Rangers have, trying very successfully I believe to reorganise the new Club Strip, the Legends Evening and Club Shop. A new brush sweeps clean as they say.
That short promotion may indeed be successful in going someway into hopefully reaching the target. Then all the Rangers need is some players good enough and keen enough to enable the fans to support another season.

Haha, Jase is a top bloke, become involved with us recently, he's working with the club now which is great, go back to December though and he was anti board and not involved at all with the club, so shows how quickly things can change for the better. Hopefully the three things mentioned will all be successes, only time will tell but I trust his judgement 100%, he did a great job with a fellow fan bringing in some cheap club shop stock at Christmas and flogging it.

 

[John Marwood]

I am always happy to see young people involved in community projects and I too would be sad to see the local football club go under

However, as Stafford Rangers is a limited company it is also a business. If the business has not been managed as well as it could have been then perhaps it is time for those at the helm to relinquish their positions

I realise that running a football club is problematic and relies heavily on dedicated fans putting in many unpaid hours of work and fund raising. It does, seem odd, however, that if the club/limited company has been losing money for a number of years in succession that the same people are still sat in the boardroom

I have heard that any proposals to have a couple of fans on the board have always been ignored ( i do also realise that a board member is likely to be a fan ) that the existing board members have for many years been reluctant to see any new outiders enter the boardroom, that the board, until recent months have been backward in communicating the plight of finances to the fans, that the board have never quite grasped the value of good PR, that the board never managed a long term financial plan,and that the board have no long term plan for,perhaps, the only serious revenue earner outside of the football season ( the social club) .

Given all this, I can only see similar problems re occouring each and every year if the same team are in place at the club

 

[My Name is URL]

Top post John Marwood.... they could do with you on the board!

 

[tekkers]

Ian Seddon, son of a Rangers legend, Ben Seddon, from the 1970s has today officially joined the board of directors, he runs a number of companies including IPS Costs Law (Liverpool). Fans are delighted he has joined and hopefully this is the start of a positive future.

 

[Gramaisc]

I understand that the £50,000 has now been raised, and so the immediate crisis may be resolved - but the long-term problems remain.

 

[John Marwood]

I understand that the new name for the Stafford Rangers ground is the same as the old one

Les Shamboles de la Rue de Marston Moor , unless I have been ill advised by my village brethren