Incredible!!

[Number6]

Originally Posted By: michaelmichael

In life or business, you are either growing or dying.This club is dying.Other Kent clubs are growing.Personally, i do not like to see that-it hurts.

In a company, if the employees lose confidence in the management, you have a big big problem.
You need to show that you do know what you are doing.

There is a serious lack of confidence in the people running the club.
Again and again,promises of action seem to come and go.
The club obviously needs money. But new investors are unlikely to come in ( even if somebody did bother to ask them) while the present board remain in charge.
And the club seems intent on a slow lingering death,pissing off the few remaining people interested.

[michael]

To be fair, i suspect alot more is being done than we are aware of.

 

MFC is a plc.

Its the directors bat and ball to play with as they wish.

 

However, if you do not fulfill a minimum 'obligation' to keep your customers REGULARLY informed of your product, and things that may be happening, as you corrctly say, everyone just leaves.

 

 

 

The club needs money (one asumes) but not one half hearted attempt seems to be being made to get that money.

If a bank was to see a cashflow report of a steadily increasing income stream, then they may be more sympathetic to prolonging any borrowings.

Nothing seems to be even attempted however.

Its as though people are resigned to failure and it need not be that way, but time must be very quickly running out

[Guernsey Tom]

Got to agree with Michael I travelled from the Channel Islands twice last season £200 round trip each time suffice to say I have no plans to spend that sort of money again. This is no criticism of the players or the management and I am more than pleased that youth football is on the up at Margate but I cannot stand being treated like a moron which is how I feel about the so called people in charge at hartsdown road.

[michael]

I think its worthwhile stressing that no-one is 'getting above their station',and having put their money and time in; its entirely up to a B of D how they opt to run their company.

 

Its up to them to make decisions, and they have invested to earn that priviledge to do things as they see fit and i wish them well.

 

Again, i am sure they are working hard on many difficult issues.

 

However, you need to bring your staff/customers along with you if you are going to succeed medium to long term;and simply show them some respect.

 

Do that, and people may just be inclined to help more.

Help can be very simple-like one or two of the doubting customers still coming to matches;but you have to treat people with respect.

 

[wenger]

the football team has a disjointed nature about it especially as players are recruited regularly outside the area and the reserves are treated like minnions travellinglong distances to training, sitting on the bench when required, never mentioned on the website despite the majority being locally grown and then discarded at will.

If the team is like this how do you expect the rest of the club to be runfor the community with community involvement?

[P.W.]

Isn't the first team about selecting the best players available & for fringe & reserve players to try and get amongst them?

 

In the Kinnear era it was just the same, occasionally there'd be a local lad playing, but if Chris could sign someone better he'd do that. In our successful times CK would rather play an injured Phil Collins than a fully fit Mo Tako. Another local was Dean Yorath who was dropped in favour of a new signing & went into obscurity. In one season in the Conference Wes Hammond and Aaron Perry sat on the bench most weeks & didn't play 90 mins in a season. This kind of thing is not unique to Margate it happens all over the Country at every level.

 

I think you do a miscredit to Robin, we have Louis Smith & Nick Bagley who started out as Reserves & ended the season as first team squad players - both will start many games this season. He also gave first team run-outs to Aaron Robinson & Scott Holden (and there were others too).

 

He's also used the Reserves as a platform for himself and SCS and others to get some match fitness, which must be a positive bridge between the two levels.