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Competitions? You mean you would expect the club to give something away for nothing?! There would be uproar in the boardroom.

Proactive instead reactive. Oh the irony. Once again, there is a token tweet this evening because someone has booted off about it on here. What a truly, truly embarrassing state of affairs.

We seem to be not so slowly dying due to death by committee. Probably too many of our elected reps, either individually or collectively are afraid to take decisive actions in the fear of upsetting one faction or another of the fan base. The community side appears to be progressing better under its own management and separate board so the footballing side, our core business, really needs to get its act together rapidly both on and off the pitch. If not we are in danger of doing a Telford Southport or an Altrincham. If core membership continues to drift away then there will become a point where the current model is unsustainable both financially and ethically. Would it really be right to continue in the same way with say 500 members and the first team back in the Evostik league playing before crowds of a few hundred? Personally I think not although no doubt there will be a hard core who will think otherwise and soldier on. So come on board members get your collective fingers out, don't be afraid to make decisions, none of which will please all, but you are empowered to act. If you need specific task based help ask for it, and I am sure it will be forthcoming. As for marketing of matches it can't be that difficult, plenty of options both digital and traditional, why oh why after 7 years have we still not grasped this.

Yet again another thread where you could cut and paste comments and views from months and years previously because it seems that we are treading water when it comes to marketing etc etc

I think this, more than anything, is what gets the average fan's back up.

Thing is, whilst we stall and prevaricate, other comparable and/or lesser clubs WILL be getting their act together so that, over time, we'll gradually slip down the hierarchy as the others progress both on and off the field as their commercial/marketing initiatives come to fruition.

Sometimes you just have to "have a go", make a decision even if there is an element of risk because, otherwise, we truly become a "reactive" club which would eventually lead to our demise.

How it's done should be the major priority for those in charge but, please, don't hide behind "decision by committee" if, indeed, that option is on the table because inertia WILL ensue.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry I really don't.

Launched with a hashtag. Lets see how thats gone...

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I have emailed the club a few times with various ideas I have for trying to increase the attendances and improve the match day experience at the ground. But I feel as if these ideas just get put to one side.

I work full time but still would be more than happy to put in extra hours to try and improve things at the club ?

How do you even become a volunteer at the club anymore ?

Seriously, why and how has it got like that?

It makes me wonder at what point we should've intervened and asked questions. We've let this happen, at the end of the day, and we're continuing to let it happen.

Being supporter owned is great, but one of the hardest things about it is that when things are going wrong, we can't really blame anyone but ourselves. And seeing how well the club just up the road seems to have cracked fan ownership this season makes it even harder to take.

I think the elitist issue has probably been with us since the first few seasons.

I know people hate hearing this but the best way to make ourselves heard and hold the club to account is by joining CFU and attending meetings, or at least emailing your questions ahead of the meetings. I've noticed the majority of questions at the meetings are not probing or pressing enough, they cover very minor topics in the grand scheme of things and the audience have tended to take everything the board and MM have said at these meetings as gospel. All very happy clappy and thats the reason people get re-elected year on year without ever doing anything during their previous tenures - because the fan base are not challenging enough in how they think and the questions they ask. I'm sure a mildly critical question last time was hounded down by the other fans in the room. I know I'm complicit in barely being able to attend meetings due to time constraints - perhaps future meetings should take place from 11am/12pm on home machdays.

Agree with Sychdyn Blue on this. Started attending meetings regularly about 18 months ago and it does give a different insight into what is going on. Sometimes the meetings are very informative on either the business side or the football side especially if presentations are from MM or whoever is the current football manager. Presentations from board members have often however been poor either through an obvious lack in presentation skills, not aided by persistent poor audio visual provision, or just plain woolly and lacking in substance. Q and A sessions are hit and miss and often dominated by trivial questions or evasive answers. There does seem to be a reluctance to initiate discussion and address difficult issues, both by the audience and the board members at these meetings. I would still encourage more people to attend as it does give fans the opportunity to interact with the board and management on a one to one basis, they are very approachable and in general do not come across as elitist. The current chairman is obviously very passionate about our club, and perhaps he was the only current board member prepared to do that role, but I feel there is a need for a more dynamic personality to head up the CFU.

Everything hear is exactly right. Go to CFU meetings and whilst MM talks well and so did marcus, only Lawrence, brian burns (use to) and the younger David(at the anchor anyway) actually talk any sense on the board. Don't believe anyone has anything but the best intentions for the club whilst on the board, but realistically most don't know what there doing. Lets be honest.  Good to see David Williams on the board, hopefully he'll finally get the club to do something about the disabled viewing.

No. I applied for co-option and had to withdraw my application

How did the "GAME MAKERS" get on today?