aye, Barrow soon found '2 new directors'.......
Not us, we need DONATIONS.

We can't expect anything of the players other than to do whatever they feel is best for themselves

John Kidd is the Chairman of Swinton , he's one of the nicest blokes you could care to meet , he isn't massively rich , and he only has Swinton and returning Swinton to Swinton as an aim , he has no interest in any other club , how he does it , well I don't know , but I hope he is successful

hardly 'New' directors though are they?

Just remember that although things may not be coming from the club it doesn't mean nothing is happening, rather these things take time. Players are not the only ones affected.

There are Championship briefings involving board members of each club currently taking place and there is set to be an announcement on the future of the Championships next week too.. A press briefing on that is out in due course.

Couple of things

Hopefully the new championship will guarantee more than 13 fixtures at home in 2012. Which business only opens 13 weeks a year ?? What are you supposed to do the other 39 weeks?

Secondly have the club really knocked on every businessmans door to seek investment or are we hell bent on running the club as a business with fans investment. If it's the latter welcome to the world of Rochdale, no ambition to mix it with the elite.

1st thing is out of our control

2 nd thing , which businesses are these ?

Quote Budgiezilla="Budgiezilla"See Swinton have signed Gorski & Meekin, and have 15 other players for next season. www.cbsport.org/2011/10/watson-g ... r-swinton/'" 9 of our ex players already I see, Swinleigh

Quote Budgiezilla="Budgiezilla"See Swinton have signed Gorski & Meekin, and have 15 other players for next season. www.cbsport.org/2011/10/watson-g ... r-swinton/'" 9 of our ex players already I see, Swinleigh

Despite all these players leaving, look on the bright side we could be Barrow. Hopefully we get some of there better players with a couple of Widnes rejects and form a competitive squad for next season?

We love you Swinleigh we do as quite a ring to it

Well my point is that prior to AT coming on board, there was an open fans meeting held in the MM Bar during October 2006, discussing a financial deficit and the clubs sorry state of affairs. We had no coach, no team, no CEO. We were all encouraged to help the club out by buying a season ticket, joining the lottery and increasing our LISA contributions as otherwise the future was looking very bleak, simply put.

The meeting was chaired from the clubs perspective by Mr Coffey and Mr Freer.

Roll on to October 2011, and what have the club achieved under the present incumbernts? We all know the answer....

So what are the barriers to finding new 'investment'?

I do wonder why Mr Ainscough was interested enough to come along to 'a few meetings' as Mr Freer informed us at the fans forum he did, but then ultimately decided that 'investing' into Leigh RL is not suitable for his circumstances right now.

So where has been proven Adam s a Swinton player|

will result in an increase in support

It doesn't , we are a ' luxury item ' , people dont ' Have ' to buy us , we are not a loaf of bread or a tin of beans

So why do people spend stupid amounts of money buying things they dont need ? they are convinced by advertising/marketing/sampling that they want it

We havent done any ' marketing/advertising/sampling for years , and until we do we will continue to struggle , as I put on this or another thread , Castleford are the model we need to emulate , they are a town of similar size to ourselves with a history of similar industry , they have built up a ' Brand ' that their population have bought in to , thats why they are where they are , and why we are where we are