Fans Forum in Kenilworth (1 Viewer)

[ashbyjan]

Andy Thorn and Clouting are attending a fans forum on 11th August at the Kenilworth Wardens - there are 150 places available and to apply for a tickets you have to register, state your question if you have one. So all questions will be censored and thereby answers sanitised - freedom of speech is alive and well.

Have applied for a ticket and my question to Clouting is "With losses running at an alleged 500k a month the stated aim of the board is to get us to break even - how? There cannot be many more cuts to be made on the playing staff (being generous maybe £100k a month) or behind the scenes and with no investment in the team no success will mean crowds will dwindle further cutting revenue - how are you going to achieve this seemingly impossible book balancing act? If there is a plan why not be open and let the supporters in on it."

Seems a fair question - wonder if I will get a ticket and an answer?

 

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[brinner]

Have applied for a ticket and my question to Clouting is "With losses running at an alleged 500k a month the stated aim of the board is to get us to break even - how? There cannot be many more cuts to be made on the playing staff (being generous maybe £100k a month) or behind the scenes and with no investment in the team no success will mean crowds will dwindle further cutting revenue - how are you going to achieve this seemingly impossible book balancing act? If there is a plan why not be open and let the supporters in on it."

by selling the players! wage bill been cut by 30k a week over the summer so thats £120k a month slashed off the £500k we were meant to be losing.

they mortgaged the training ground and took out a few loans so i guess the repayments on them has swallwed that up and more now.

they are just digging a bigger hole for themselves and making the football club a less saleable asset as we dont own anything now other than the pleyers and there aint many decent 1s left.

 

[Otis]

Well we are going to be left with no assets at all in terms of potential income from sales at this rate. Once you have sold all the family silver then what is left?

If it is hundreds of thousands of pounds a month we are losing we could indeed sell Turner and Clingan, Jukebox and Cranie. That would sort us out for a few months but after that we would continue to lose money and at the same time it would be like digging our own grave because the playing side would have to suffer as a result and then surely we would be cast iron certainties to be relegated. Next season we would then lose more money and ticket sales would go down as a result.

 

[les_miserables]

I am going, have a ticket and will not be asking the question they think. This is the start of my protest and will ask Clouting a very searching question and will probably get thrown out, don't give a shite and hate Kenilworth anyway

 

[ashbyjan]

Brinner and Otis - I realise selling players would give us some money but Clouting and Doolaly have stated that we will be breaking even not just finding new ways of covering the monthly losses. These geniuses seem to think they can turn us around and run at a break even level - I just want to know how on earth they plan to achieve this or perchance are they being economical with the truth and are just treading water and selling the silver whilst they scramble about trying to palm the club off to anyone they can find and minimise their masters losses.

 

[Otis]

Maybe they have a magic wand they borrowed from Hogwarts! I just don't see how they can turn things around. The bottom line is that this club needs investment!

 

[Monkeyface]

On a side note, does anybody know why it's in kenilworth and not the Ricoh?
Trying to keep the riff raff away maybe?

 

[ashbyjan]

Probably haven't paid ACL for the last one they had at the Ricoh and their account is now on stop.

 

[SydneySkyBlue]

So all questions will be censored and thereby answers sanitised - freedom of speech is alive and well.

Yeah, I thought that. But then they disguised it as a "survey". Either way, it looks like they'll be preparing some answers in advance.

 

[les_miserables]

Fans, the real fans who care should turn up without tickets and make their voices heard. Time to get tough or watch our cliub die. Who's going to stop us !

 

[ccfc1973]

Waste of time going , AT will be told what to say like "limited funds are available for the right player" etc and Paul clowning will just waffle on about getting us ready for next years rules and say Shit like "we are talking to potential investors" total waste of time

 

[gary_ccfcforever]

when apllying for a forum place it now asks. 'do you have a question that you would like to ask?' when you check yes it asks you for your question what a surprise!!

if i get there i shall be asking a completely different question!!
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SISU OUT!!!!

 

[sw88]

If they're asking for questions, will this mean the fans are there just to listen and the questions will be read out for the fans rather than 'open the floor'??

 

[gary_ccfcforever]

wouldnt surprise me one bit! i reckon it will get nasty if it is! almost lying not allowing us to ask anything we really want to know