Quote Originally Posted by griff View Post
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And this just about sums up what you're up against


The cash position declined by a million while Curle was manager. Difficult to see what more evidence than that we would need.

If we earn from transfers £2m more than is required to pay Day's pals, Clibbins will stick it on deposit and release it at £400k pa, for 5 years. He is buying 5 years of stability. He has no faith that success on the field will result in increased income because it hasn't in the past. So after 5 years, with a little hope and a little luck, we'll end up right back where we started.

That's from Marko over in the other place.

And while we have people who think like that and encourage people like Clibbins to act like that the club will never go anywhere.

Spend the 500k and on the back of a successful season monetise the fans and attract new ones and you.ll find generating the extra million quid is a piece of piss. Why do we have people sat in the stand with season tickets which cost them well under 300 quid when they could afford to pay 3 times that and would if you gave them something extra for their cash.

Take a look at Morecambe yes they got all the publicity for cutting the price of basic season tickets but what isn't quite as well known is that ST.s in the executive area there cost nearly £500 and the executive area this season extends to nearly a third of the stand.

And while we.re talking about Morecambe, this season it's pretty certain that their income this season will overtake ours christ you couldn't have dreamt that in your worst nightmares even just 18 months ago.

And then look at Accy and their new hospitality areas its split in two one half aimed at your normal fans where the aim will be to get the fans to buy that extra pint and spend every last penny they have in their pockets that bar will still be rocking at 7pm after a match because Andy Holt will make sure that it is. But then look at the other 50% of the new building designed for fans who want a bit more and built with 40 metres of viewing platform ready for the change in the law that's coming. And to illuminate that they've just poached the sales and events manager from Burnley to run it.

And that's just two examples of how we're getting left behind and its no coincidence that there are two clubs not a fraction of our size or potential but who are leaving us behind and for whose visionary owners are being rewarded by playing at a level right now we can only dream of.

I believe if things arent done now to start to catch up it may well be too late as we.ll no longer be seen as Carlisle United a proper traditional well run club but as Carlisle United, a club that's run on a shoestring without an ounce of ambition beyond getting to the end of the season without going bust.