Dave,

As always, superb work.

It's great to have you on board with the communications group.

Cheers,

Alan.

Maybe, but didn't Trevor quote £20k?

Get in there Trevor

With all the community working together we have a great future, at last a fans/business partnership to make our club great again.

C'mon Leythers get on board and enjoy being part of something that will be very special

sorry alan i must have missed that bit.
that seems low to me,you'll get people/organisations not needing to work very hard and yet they'll have a say in how the club is run.
I can see it now Alan in another two/three years half a dozen people sat in comfy chairs round a big table,slapping each other on the back and saying not bad this for doing nowt.

£20k every year is how I understand it, thats a fair figure for an individual to lose every year.

then surely that individual should pool his resourses with others to form a group.

It would work for a year or two to keep us going , not sustainable long term , ultimately the club has to become a true business ( or as close to one as possible )

If we set the target to remain a charity , then a charity we will remain , and the same problems will come back to haunt us again

Throughout the interview Trevor stressed the phrase 'self sustaining'. That must be the way it has to be.

My post was in response to posts on here , not Trevors interview , I know he understands the long term situation

Realise that Steve. I was just re-inforcing what you said.

It is total stupidity to plan to have a successful club at this level and expect not to need income to be externally topped up.
If we simply want a bunch of not good enoughs playing in the strip on a Sunday afternoon in C1 then I agree with your post, if thats the case then let it die now.
We should be ambitious and plan to meet that ambition from generated revenues, we should also be prudent enough to have external income in place to cover shortfalls.
We should be able to run at the top of this tier losing no more than £100k pa, if we reach a GF or NRC then that is dramatically reduced.

Is that not where we are now? with a loss of c£100k but with no one to top it up?

That IS the current issue, probably will be again next year and therefore highlights the necessity to be totally self sustaining.

I understand AT's charity is in 7 figures over recent years, so the deficit was more like 300k pa .

The cuts made are getting it more like the 100k and that should be sustainable.

Does the £100k black hole include the players wages due on friday or were they paid and are not included now. If they were n't paid there must be some very angry and disillusioned players who may possibly be looking for legal redress. Lets hope they were paid.