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Old 8th June 2018, 15.07:16   #24-0 (permalink)
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Default Re: Sugar Daddies mean security for the Club and its fans. Correct?

All we have to do to see people being swayed by "bollox" is to watch the political parties broadcasts in the run up to elections. If there was no hope of swaying opinions, the various parties wouldn't bother with those broadcasts.

It's a bit like the tobacco companies' arguments a few years ago that advertising didn't affect the sales of cigarettes. Of course it did! Why else would any company spend millions on advertising their products? Granted, it was important for company A to make sure it didn't lose sales to company B if company B was advertising more than company A... It's a well known quote that "half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but the trouble is that I don't know which half!"

If one group of fans (large or small) keeps on saying that we need more external investment - even if it carries the ultimate risk of the club's failure, more and more will start believing them unless a counter-argument is presented to redress the balance.


In football, the cross-section of fans involved will include experienced business people who may be outnumbered by other fans who are only interested in seeing their team win. It's a familiar criticism of the Trust Board by the latter many of whom assume that because the Board have day-jobs that they are "inferior" in the task of running the club than someone who has made a fortune out of selling giant dildos for example. There's no correlation there. Some of us soon saw through the bulls**t that Guterman peddled, while others were still thinking he was going to be our saviour. Fortunately, the repeated warnings from the DJs eventually got through to pretty much every fan, and the rest is history.

Debate is healthy. It tends to reveal problems and to stimulate good ideas, but it will only do this when adversaries recognise that theirs is a common cause and start pulling together to find solutions instead of back-biting. The sickener is when some folk fail to consider both sides of the argument, or ignore everyone else's viewpoint except their own. on RP we see posts that ask the same questions again and again despite them having been answered earlier in that thread or in others. That's when banging your own head against a brick wall becomes too painful, which can cost the club input from valuable sources as they give up in despair.
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