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Can someone save me a copy to pick up when I come up next weekend for the Formby game? Thanks
Thanks ToddyThe books will not sell out ,we can always get more from Mark.
There will be one there for you Diane.
About half way through. Interesting!
If I knew then, what I know now............
Whilst I was aware of much what has gone on over the past 20 years - either at the time or after the date - to have it all chronicled in one document really brings it home to me how appalling badly run the club was in the years leading up to and after the sale of TDF.
One wonders how differently things might have turned out if John Stitch had been around to oversee the move to Wincham? He was by far and away the best thing that had happened to NVFC at Board level for many, many years and I very much doubt that the debacle that followed would have occurred on his watch.
Whilst the majority of the blame re the position that NVFC find themselves in today must lie with Messers Stone, Rafferty and Nuttall and to a similar degree Connett and Rushe, as a former shareholder I would suggest that as a body we didn't do enough at the time to challenge the Board about the possible alternatives than selling TDF and moving to such a remote location.
Some - like Clive and Toddy - did so, but maybe their approach and tactics lead to many fans who might have sympathised with their approach being unwilling to support them. I was always uneasy about the 'trust us, we know what we are doing and everything will be all-right' attitude of the Board but we never, ever given the information that we - as shareholders - ought to have been provided with (and should have demanded) so that we could have taken a considered view and decision re what was the best way forward for NVFC.
Despite the heartache that we have suffered over the past decade, in some respects the great thing is that Stone, Rafferty, Nuttall, Connett and Rushe have done us a huge favour.
Because we now have a club that the fans run, the fans control and the fans mangage and each and every one of us feels part of.
OK, we have a long, long journey ahead of us before we can realise our aim of getting back to Northwich and playing at the sort of level we know we are capable of.
But we have so many examples of clubs who many 1874 fans will fondly recall playing but have fallen only to rise again to inspire us!
Maidstone, Dartford, Runcorn, Rushden and Diamonds, Enfield, Scarborough, Merthyr, Wealdstone.
Now our destiny lies in our hands as opposed to those who may have sought to profit from NVFC.
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