Quote ="ste_ody"i agree, the billboard seems like a great idea! but who's going to pay the bill? No doubt a bill board will get damaged if its not placed high up.
Maybe we should ask the town hall if we can hang a Leigh Flag up there! Theres loads of things we could do and loads of ideas we can post but actually going ahead with them is another thing
what do you suggest we do?'"
What I suggest is that instead of bleating that we haven't enough fans, and begging for more people to turn up on a website and in emails that only the converted see, that the club works to harness the energies of all those people prepared to do a bit.
This might mean more money. It might mean a printing firm willing to print stuff for free. It might mean foot soldiers willing to distribute leaflets. It might mean people who are good on the phone calling businesses to drum up promotions or sponsorships. It might mean people expert in web marketing and social media to raise profiles.......
Whatever it is, it won't be executed without a plan and direction of that plan and that has to come from the club.
I know they have a lot on their plates at the moment, but frankly, if more of this type of stuff had been coordinated while we still had a backer then maybe we would have already achieved crowd growth above and beyond that which has occurred by pure word of mouth and then maybe we still would have had that backer.
Just get on with doing something to convert apathy into enthusiasm instead of taking the easy option and blaming failure on fans' apathy
