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To use the words of Otis it’s been a long time coming but is our beloved club about to move out of the dark post-Charterhouse gloom and into a bright new future?
November 2007 saw Uncle Dave return to his night-time
pursuits and now the man who was both Crabb and Goyle to Mr Bear’s Malfoy has
left by “mutual consent”.
According to the club’s press release Kaven Walker will be replaced by a combination of existing staff and business and finance expert Nick Parker. It is not without irony that Wednesday appear to be clawing their way out of a ten year financial mire just as the general economy nosedives.
Exit stage left; Uncle Dave and the two Kevins
The second newcomer, Lee Strafford, genuinely looks like someone who has creative and entrepreneurial drive. This is the man behind current Owls shirt sponsors, PlusNet, a Sheffield based firm that literally came from nowhere to be taken over by BT just as they were starting to penetrate the wider and bigger market. This is also the man who cites a belief in karma as number 10 on his website. Surely a good sign for Owls Alive – the only message board with built in karma and perhaps what went around came around for Kaven.
The REAL Saviour?
Shock, horror then as Wednesday’s board make two inspired signings: the first someone who will surely augment Bob Grierson’s skills in finance and the second a local man who took his first firm from 7 to 200+ staff and turnover from zero to over £100 million whilst maintaining a belief in things being done from the bottom up.
Parker - driving the club forward?
Add to this the fact that the post-Allen era has seen a rapprochement of almost startling proportion with directors finding the time to meet with ordinary fans and discuss how the club could be taken forward. Even the most hardened of cynics surely has to begin to think that a corner is about to be turned.
Here's a simple list of stuff that could be sorted easily:
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How about getting sufficient stock into the food
outlets?
- Or exploiting the online potential properly.
- · Or suggesting that lining up beer ready for
rapid purchase might be a good idea?
- Staffing the tills flexibly and retaining the
most experienced staff
- Resurrecting three or five year season tickets?
- · Working with SWSS to fully join up community
schemes.
- Establishing loyalty cards and schemes that pump
money into the club rather than
profiteering partner organisations. - Sort out the club shop and give the fans the stuff they want to buy, not what you think they
SHOULD buy. Having kids kits in at Christmas time will be a good start.
- · Give the beleaguered staff at S6 more scope and more help, to do their jobs properly
And all that’s before you get down to the serious business of discussing ways of re-structuring and/or reducing the debt with the Co-Op or working out what rights issues could/would be good for the club as a whole.
But above all this and something that wouldn't cost money but could make it...
SORT OUT THE CLUBS PR
Get the fans back on side....the lifeblood of the club....
They have a million and one reasons for not coming to Hillsborough at the moment, it wouldn't take a lot to change their minds, to get them back, to make the turnstiles click again...
The fans WANT to watch, the fans WANT to buy, they WANT TO BE A PART OF THEIR CLUB and not APART from their club.
After the false promise of Sheard, Wednesday stand on the verge of a new era.
So to return to Otis it could just be that it’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and (we’ll soon all be) feeling fine.
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