Not one to pour scorn on the business plans of those currently at the helm, but you really should google the names of our General Manager and our Commercial Manager........
One is an accountant who stepped up when Gus left and has no experience of running a sports club, let alone a professional one and the other owns 2 companies, one of which I know has the club as a"client" and the other that builds web-sites suspiciously like ours....so definitely no conflict of interest there!

I'll leave it to you to dig as far as you feel necessary, but needless to say I wouldn't be too surprised if it doesn't get any better in 2016!

Nic Cartwright was an accountant who stepped up. I thought he was OK. Certainly better than the professionals hired subsequently.

OK as in minutes from going out of business?

So promotion is ruled out in your brave new world? or is it just ruled out for accountants. Although given most of the accountants i have met that might not be such a bad thing!

I think GF presents a reasonable argument. Accountants are generally smart individuals but rarely do you see them run a business.

Alas, in the world we live in Accountants seem to run everything.

Speaking of people previously at the Club back at Brentford and at the Stoop (or had he gone by then) we had another director named Gerry Bouman. As I remember he used to fund the Under 19`s / Academy type level. I believe he was involved in the Oil industry aswell.
IIRC we didnt used to see him about much but remember him once or twice on the pitch back then on the day of the last home game of the season when the departing players received the acknowledgement from the faithful. Anybody know what happened to him ?

I remember him, he was Dutch if I remember correctly. He was a mate of David Hughes, he has not been around since we left The Stoop.

We need a dynamic CEO who knows how to SELL the club to an audience, not count Hughes' cash as it gets flushed down the pan.

To recap, his contribution to the forum was:


Sorry, but that's not a business plan, it's a wish list. The Mechanics/Strategy need to be sport on, but I suspect "network" events will be the long and the short of it....and Ealing's is awash with BNI/Network groups already....that and the new Sales and Marketing (sic) person cold calling local businesses trying to sell 300 fans as an audience!

Meneer Bouman left the club last February, according to Companies House

Thanks for that BroncOnion and Bostwick.

"The club is determined to reach out to former supporters,"

I await some communication from the club with bated breath

Not Catalan fans, you're getting nothing

Sacre blu...

Paddock, they said reach out. If your not within an arms distance I doubt they'll catch you.

So we know where we are playing next year, ok we all have our thoughts about that move, but at least we know, which if you listened to gutters is better than l this time last year.
season tickets for next year are available, that's before the end of this season, which is an improvement on the way it was done last year
we have a new kit provider sorted, no doubt with better logistics and a bigger company which is an improvement on last year.
We are still to see if the 2016 kit will be available for Xmas.
Next year we will get our gate receipts, yes they will be small but they will be ours.
Some ok only some fans have received literature in regards to the future, (I haven't either paddock) but again is it not more than last year?
We have a core squad and new squad members identified as coming in.
So lots of things have improved, yes there is still lots to do, so hope that will stop the doom mongers accuse me of blowing smoke.

So by the looks who ever is running the club seems to be doing a fair bit more than who ever was running it last year

Small steps eh?

Or basics as other companies call them.

Small steps they may be, but they are in the right direction. Still a very long way to go but as Lao Tzu said " A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step "

Lazarus is probably a better analogy where Broncos are concerned.

Marginal gains as Brailsford calls it at Sky cycling. Cant believe I've used sky cycling as an example on a Broncos thread. 2 sporting teams that have gone north and south in the last 4 years. Maybe a good example

It cant be hard to manage 200 fans expectations...can it! That's a 20K interns job

Especially as they expect so little.

A set of posts & 13 blokes on a field about covers it.

Drone

Indeed, but with Broncos they all seem to be steps backwards - sorry, couldn't resist!

Careful.

Gallows humour is worthy of a drone alert.