Quote Originally Posted by slack_pie View Post
Yeah, I know. The clubs we are competing with don't seem to have their best players and coaching staff nabbed repeatedly. But as we've said before, this is the strategy in action. And the fact we have so much interest in our personnel is because we have something special going on here.

I do think there comes a point when offering a star player/coach more money makes more sense than letting them go though. Say we get promoted this season and Jatta gets 20+ goals, I'd rather we offered him a big new deal than look to sell for a big profit. But then it's not my money.
The key fundamental is the club bring in people whether that be players, coaches, or back room staff who seem to be on their way up in their careers or are up and coming, ambitious and want to progress and develop. The club gives them a platform and the environment to be successful as has been proven over the past six years under the Reedz brothers. It doesn?t bother me that we may be a stepping stone to them reaching their peak because the club has it right in that it keeps moving forwards and going up at the same time.

I?d sooner the club operate in this way than in the twenty years previously where players, coaches, managers and back room staff came into the club who had done it elsewhere and had their most success elsewhere and were over their peak and on the way down in their careers. Or there would be those people came in who never were going to be.

Of course there have been exceptions in both scenarios but it?s the overall philosophy change that took the club off life support and brought it back from the brink.

The one constant in football is the fans. Players, coaches, back room staff and even owners come and go regardless of whether they are successful or not. I?d sooner people be leaving because they have been successful here than not.