Quote: hally's hot air "If you think being in championship 1 will attract the new wave of young supporters your delusional, '"
I started supporting the club when I was a teenager in the 1970s. We weren't very good then but it didn't stop me from becoming addicted to the game. Being part of the event is far more important to the kids than winning. If a kid is a Dons fan by the age of 8, they'll probably not defect to other clubs when they grow older. That's why you have to get them interested early.
Quote: hally's hot air " We had the resources and the 'great people at the club' a few years ago when this 5 year plan was put in place so can you personally tell me how you think that's going?'"
I thought the five year plan was a good idea. It emphasized that we do have ambitions to get to the top league. The plan was fundamentally undermined by our relegation from the Championship. After finishing fourth in the Championship, the season before our relegation, things seemed to be going quite well under Paul Cooke and the ambitions of the five year plan seemed realistic. Once we got relegated and lost Paul Cooke things looked considerably different.
We then made a mistake employing Gary Thornton. That set us back at least a couple of years. Had he been able to bounce us straight back up again, we might have got back on track.
That's all history and with hindsight I'm sure the club would have done quite a few things differently. The ambition to move the Dons forward still remains but we're not going to zoom out of this league and then zoom through the Championship and get into Super League just like that.
From a solid sustainable base, as we have presently got, as I described earlier, we're in a decent position to move forwards again. My personal targets for the club would be to get out of this league no later than the end of 2019, consolidate in the Championship in the first season after promotion, and then aim to be in the top six the season after.
