It would seem that the club's insistence on maintaining full control of it's website and on-line interaction with it's fan-base is about to fall victim to the ongoing financial squeeze. The costs of maintaining our current independence looks like it's a premium of "£50,000 pa. Rick Everitt is canvassing for support and I would like to think we have enough about us to defy the gravity of the Football League and avoid succumbing to the sheep-dip website of all the other football league sides bar Leeds United.
Unfortunately, money's tight and my view is that we could probably find a number of other priorities to spend £50,000 on. If the Football League Interactive website is good enough for the overwhelming majority, I have to think it should be good enough for us. Beggars can't be choosers and all that. Faced with that or laying more staff off, I would like to think we would get more return on keeping more employees.
I kind of agree but to play devils advocate, does the distinctive feel of the site and the independent control allow us to emphasise distinctive aspects of our club ?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't this increase our chances of attracting investment / interest in takeover ?
Or is that such a distant prospect given the money owing and the current economic climate as to make that unlikely ?
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