by SenorDingDong » 18 Dec 2015, 14:31
1. Give enough money to stabilise the club's current financial status, as in pay off all the debts we know are there but the directors won't/can't mention and won't pay off with their initial investment.
2. Invest heavily in the club to try and retain the team's Conference status this season - saving a season or two stuck in the CS would be an absolute godsend for the club. If not then take the pain and bankroll the club back into the Conference, taking necessary heavy loss.
3. Immediately begin planning to move the stadium out to somewhere in the Willows or near the new South Devon Link Road. Send out a large scale mailshot to people in Torbay asking what sporting and entertainment facilities they want in the Bay but it's lacking. Use the results of this to build those facilities alongside the stadium and make them directly owned by the club. This will help create substantial non attendance related income streams for the club and help fund it in the future.
4. Set aside something like £5m and put it into a trust where the money can only be used to fund youth development in the Bay via Torquay United. 5% interest on this sum is £250k a year - people with large bank accounts on this level get much more preferential interest rates than the crap us mugs get. All the interest gets used on an annual basis to fund the youth system, the original amount is never touched. More than a decent sum to help form the core of youth development on a long term basis with no extra funding required in the future.
5. Kind of a vanity thing here but switch the away kit back to a permanent black and white to respect the club's history and have the club's badge redesigned, the crap Motorola Gull needs to go, it doesn't say anything about the club and looks awful. Contract a decent kit maker for the club such as Adidas - even if it loses money.
6. Try to get fans to invest into the club in small amounts and let them vote on certain minor subjects - Spanish clubs do this, even Seattle Sounders in the MLS does to a lesser extent.
7. Attempt to set up kind of link with Southampton FC regarding youth development and the loaning of players. If they don't want to loan players, then a deal (paid for if necessary) where some of their youth development team works on training our youth staff and it's systems.
8. With some kind of youth system in place and new stadium complex in place, run the club entirely within it's means (aside from the odd transfer to help push for promotion in Jan or escape relegation). With the above changes, the club should be able to sustain L2 football, if it grows over them then maybe L1 as Yeovil managed for half a decade or so. However sustainability is the key word, I wouldn't throw cash at the club to get the team promoted, only for it to fall away a couple season down the line.
9. Commission a new club history book to update the one made in 1999 but of a higher quality print...and with less use of comic sans (who on earth thought different fonts for different chapters was a good idea?)
10. Beat Exeter City. Repeatedly.
1. Give enough money to stabilise the club's current financial status, as in pay off all the debts we know are there but the directors won't/can't mention and won't pay off with their initial investment.
2. Invest heavily in the club to try and retain the team's Conference status this season - saving a season or two stuck in the CS would be an absolute godsend for the club. If not then take the pain and bankroll the club back into the Conference, taking necessary heavy loss.
3. Immediately begin planning to move the stadium out to somewhere in the Willows or near the new South Devon Link Road. Send out a large scale mailshot to people in Torbay asking what sporting and entertainment facilities they want in the Bay but it's lacking. Use the results of this to build those facilities alongside the stadium and make them directly owned by the club. This will help create substantial non attendance related income streams for the club and help fund it in the future.
4. Set aside something like £5m and put it into a trust where the money can only be used to fund youth development in the Bay via Torquay United. 5% interest on this sum is £250k a year - people with large bank accounts on this level get much more preferential interest rates than the crap us mugs get. All the interest gets used on an annual basis to fund the youth system, the original amount is never touched. More than a decent sum to help form the core of youth development on a long term basis with no extra funding required in the future.
5. Kind of a vanity thing here but switch the away kit back to a permanent black and white to respect the club's history and have the club's badge redesigned, the crap Motorola Gull needs to go, it doesn't say anything about the club and looks awful. Contract a decent kit maker for the club such as Adidas - even if it loses money.
6. Try to get fans to invest into the club in small amounts and let them vote on certain minor subjects - Spanish clubs do this, even Seattle Sounders in the MLS does to a lesser extent.
7. Attempt to set up kind of link with Southampton FC regarding youth development and the loaning of players. If they don't want to loan players, then a deal (paid for if necessary) where some of their youth development team works on training our youth staff and it's systems.
8. With some kind of youth system in place and new stadium complex in place, run the club entirely within it's means (aside from the odd transfer to help push for promotion in Jan or escape relegation). With the above changes, the club should be able to sustain L2 football, if it grows over them then maybe L1 as Yeovil managed for half a decade or so. However sustainability is the key word, I wouldn't throw cash at the club to get the team promoted, only for it to fall away a couple season down the line.
9. Commission a new club history book to update the one made in 1999 but of a higher quality print...and with less use of comic sans (who on earth thought different fonts for different chapters was a good idea?)
10. Beat Exeter City. Repeatedly.
