[Revived Red]

Originally Posted by maccawozzagod

One example that can be drawn was brought up by you Revived Red. You refer to the fact that we can't afford to keep hold of players, most notably I assume you mean Kenny Arthur, and that it would appear that funding is there to do that. Well for what its worth my opinion is that money should not be poured into the team itself. Once that money is gone there is no real mechanism in place for gaining more large sums other than the genorosity of benefactors. Money should be poured into finding ways of generating our own money. As I said thats my opinion and people may vote me down on it. If so then ASSF blows all its money on signing Kenny, Mullers, Jimmy etc to large contracts and next year we find ourselves back in the same boat.

I can see both points of view, macca. At the back of my mind (and sometimes near the front), I have the oft-repeated thoughts of Kipax that a successful team will bring the fans in. So there are certainly at least two ways of looking at this.
(1). ASSF funds used for players = successful team = more fans through the turnstiles = increased income.
(2). ASSF funds used to generate more income = increased funds for players = successful team = more fans through the turnstiles = increased income.

I worry that (2) will take longer than (1), and as I commented before, time is not really on our side.

Maybe there are other ways also. (3), (4), etc etc.