3 Year expectations?

[StattoWrexham]

Us fans can't look 3 years ahead at the moment though because most of us are just desperate to get out of this league (the right way not the York way).

The board will hopefully be looking 3 years ahead and I would expect their plan is for us to win promotion in that time frame, they are all supporters and want the same things as we want on here.

[Alan Attack]

Originally Posted by crazywelsh

It's set up for a year by year basis like most are at this level with huge movement of players each season.

Christ on a bike. We agree on something!

Our greatest chance of success is the "crest of a wave" approach which worked for Cambridge, Cheltenham and Lincoln.

They didn't have years of steady success. They assembled a decent squad, won some games early on and went from there.

[DoomandGloom]

Sorry to chirp in with 'airy fairy' stuff but: the club needs to get itself a mission statement, a vision and some values. If it already has these then I'm sorry but I haven't seen anything of them.

e.g. found this example: Vision, Mission and Values | DIY Committee Guide

[StattoWrexham]

Originally Posted by DoomandGloom

Sorry to chirp in with 'airy fairy' stuff but: the club needs to get itself a mission statement, a vision and some values. If it already has these then I'm sorry but I haven't seen anything of them.

e.g. found this example: Vision, Mission and Values | DIY Committee Guide

We had the club for half a nation stuff a few years ago, interesting concept and well thought out.
A lot of work had gone into this from a branding perspective. Obviously most people will just see where we are in the league table though!

Then there is the My Racecourse stuff which again is off field but will hopefully help us going forward. I just thought of something that may be helpful to the club from the on field side but maybe they've already got someone doing this or in the process of doing it, as Carl Darlington has spoken about the Sports science aspect in one of his interviews.

[Alan Attack]

Originally Posted by DoomandGloom

Sorry to chirp in with 'airy fairy' stuff but: the club needs to get itself a mission statement, a vision and some values. If it already has these then I'm sorry but I haven't seen anything of them.

e.g. found this example: Vision, Mission and Values | DIY Committee Guide

Mission statement my arse. I'm sorry.

If it said to "promote from within" yet the money that's filtered to the youth set up is peanuts, it kind of makes a mockery.

Perhaps an "honesty" statement??

My honesty statement would be...

"We need at least 2k season ticket holders to make the club a sustainable professional football club".

How is this achieved?

By sacking a manager at some point in the season and creating good feeling during the closed season so fans renew their ST.

[pagl]

Originally Posted by Alan Attack

The club isn't set up for a 3 year plan. I don't know why people keep mentioning it.

I didn't say we had a 3 year plan I was just asking what was the expectation given that Keates now has 3 years on his contract.

I think the phrase 'hand to mouth' that I used in terms of the current operational model kind of says that its basically a 1 year plan from the board yet they give a 3 year contract to the manager.

According to Keates and Darlo in their media interviews then things are changing behind the scenes on the football front and with a longer term view.

This also has to translate into off the pitch activity and how we grow the club because for me this hasn't happened.

[Alan Attack]

Pagl, I know the thread is re 3 year expectations rather than plan. They are two different things, entirely.

[DoomandGloom]

Originally Posted by Alan Attack

Mission statement my arse. I'm sorry.

If it said to "promote from within" yet the money that's filtered to the youth set up is peanuts, it kind of makes a mockery.

Perhaps an "honesty" statement??

My honesty statement would be...

"We need at least 2k season ticket holders to make the club a sustainable professional football club".

How is this achieved?

By sacking a manager at some point in the season and creating good feeling during the closed season so fans renew their ST.

So, without these lines in the sand how do we judge the effectiveness of the achievements (or not) of the Trust?

[Hometown Unicorn]

Genuine question. For those who believe promotion in 3 years is the bottom line, how would you feel about Keates if we finished 3rd in that season and still didn't get promoted?