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But haven’t done enough for them to have a place on the fans team lol.
As I said yesterday, this comes across as a bit entitled when there is the potential for money to be made.
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Not only painting job has taken place, which is going all the way around the stadium. The guttering was cleaned out all the way round. The front path was professionally cleaned, which resulted in the SUFC coloured paving once again visible.
In the coming weeks solar panelling is being fitted free of charge which is going to cut the electric bill right down once installed.
Both the 1st team and training pitches are getting fully replaced, which Michelle paid a fee for, but comes with a partnership with said firm who is throwing in pitch maintenance for 2-3 years “can’t remember what she said in the interview”
The iron bar is getting a refurbishment too.
As the OP stated, all mostly being carried out for free. The paint job looks really nice and goes with the Attis Arena signage spot on. Starting to look quite smart now. I think I recall the new catering guy is smartening up the cooking points too and bringing new equipment.
The head of catering comes with a fantastic CV as he did a brilliant job at Hull KR. In my opinion everything is looking extremely promising. Not only do we have owners who love the club, the general public is pouring love into the club. As mentioned above, once all the work is carried out, I’m sure the ground will be looking fantastic by the start of this coming season.
I’ve never seen the ground looking so fresh.
Being saying for over a decade – ‘The fans want to be involved’. But Mr Swan actually said at a forum turn up, buy a pie and a pint watch the football and then go home’ !!
Now Michelle and the Board want the fans to really be a part of the club and look at the difference. The only thing the fans want is to see THEIR club fighting back and them being wanted. Perhaps money is short for some but they have spare time now and again. Offer them a paint brush or soapy water to wash the seats – they will be there.
And got any ideas then send them into the club you never know they may have overlooked something similar.
If small community style football clubs are to survive then more fan involvement is a must because the cost and pitfalls of keeping a club in business are colossal these days. Michelle and her board have done brilliantly but they have also had lots of personal and community input to help out along the way, long may it continue.
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Went down the other day and thought the volunteers have done a cracking job tbh.
It’s to Peter Swann’s embarrassment that he allowed to run it down to such a state after pumping X amount of millions in over the years and supposedly being a hospitality expert.
Paint job looks spot on. Wait until the solar panelling is on, Cliff. The stadium will be positively space age !. I can’t quite believe the stadium is going to look the best it’s looked since it was freshly built, after nearly going out of business.
Crazy really. The speed of progression is staggering.
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“And they will look after YOU” Rene.
Giving us a friendly on the 27th of July and then another chance to go to the open day on the 28th how benevolent of them.I’d say Michelle saving the club at a critical moment thereby ensuring you have one to support, buying the stadium back from a difficult former owner, putting the stadium into a CIC, harnessing the goodwill in a tangible way with stadium improvements, and repeatedly reassuring that the club belongs to the fans and the community is looking after you.
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Went down the other day and thought the volunteers have done a cracking job tbh.
It’s to Peter Swann’s embarrassment that he allowed to run it down to such a state after pumping X amount of millions in over the years and supposedly being a hospitality expert.
Paint job looks spot on. Wait until the solar panelling is on, Cliff. The stadium will be positively space age !. I can’t quite believe the stadium is going to look the best it’s looked since it was freshly built, after nearly going out of business.
Crazy really. The speed of progression is staggering.
And what a broom. The fans are buying into the project of club sustainability and looking forward to the fjuture.
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Went down the other day and thought the volunteers have done a cracking job tbh.
It’s to Peter Swann’s embarrassment that he allowed to run it down to such a state after pumping X amount of millions in over the years and supposedly being a hospitality expert.
I was against Swann from an early stage, chiefly because I could see that all he was doing was spending money on players. There was no “investment”. Buying players is not “investing” in a club. Building bricks & mortar, improving facilities, putting in place people & processes that can take the club forward: that’s investment. When Swann eventually left, there was NOTHING to show for all that spending. Worse, as a result of all those signings, we no longer owned our own ground.
Swann kept going on about building a new ground but at no point did he show any sign that he could get more out of the existing one. The Iron Bar remained the same, the toilets never improved, fans returning after Covid were told there were plenty of spare seats to choose from if their reserved one was filthy.
Now we have someone who knows what she’s doing but who is humble enough to draw on the skills & expertise of others: making sure you’ve got the right people in the right positions is one of the key jobs of someone running a company. It’s something we’ve not had for over a decade.
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Absolutely. She has managed to create a real link between the town and the club now which is something I’ve not seen since following us. The amount of fundraising and work going in from people is humbling, I honestly never thought the town was that bothered about maintaining a professional club, but that’s proven to be wrong.
The attitude seems to have shifted to ‘ what can I do for my club, rather than what can my club can do for me.
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