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Agreed but it’s really expensive and you have to keep doing. One ad in the Metro won’t work. In fairness to DH et Al they gave it a spin for the start of the Coleman era, but to my untrained eye, got it all wrong and then, of course, those that turned up were treated to a very, very poor side so opportunity missed. Lots of those avenues to promote things, like local newspapers or indeed the Metro either don’t exist or have much less significance. I think they have to find a way to engage locally, wherever it’s decided local is. Tooting/Merton/Wimbledon. To me they all seem to be different have different make ups and thus different challenges. One bright note is AFC do seem to have tapped into the local area. I see no evidence of it as I walk to ground from Tooting but they do seem to get decent numbers for a L1 side. May of course be that football is much more dominant now but my recollection was they were minnows back in the day so they’ve done something right. Maybe we could learn.
AFC do so much good charity work with their food bank etc, it does give them a higher profile. While not being an expert on all things AFC, I'd be surprised if many of their fans come from Tooting or Wimbledon. Maybe outer parts of Merton & Sutton. But of course as a club they were galvanised by the MK situation & with their ownership model has seen their support grow. I'm not convinced their ownership model will take them higher than League 1 as they would need to generate funds to extend the ground as they appear to be almost at capacity now. They have already had some issues with Bond repayment & we are to believe borrowed some dosh from Hughes.
None of that though takes anything away from how magnificent their phoenix from the ashes route to where they now are has been. I'm sure our friendly AFC man who used to post (can't remember his name) could put me right on some of that.
I would say leaflet drops & social media might be where we start. However, the big issue for us will always be that for the weeks in the summer we need to be at PL, we are in Ebbsfleet or other pointless areas. You can't square that circle I don't think.
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