Tangerine Tractor
Well-known member
As fans, we're looking at the future of the club in terms of five, ten even fifteen years down the line. New training ground, new stand withing the next 5 years, and we've not realistically got the infrastructure to go much higher up the leagues sustainably until that's implemented.
But footballers are typically only at a club for two or three years, so selling the dream and ambition of new facilities and an improved infrastructure is somewhat irrelevant to them. That's why the club has spend significant cash on upgrading Squires Gate - players care about what's happening now, not in four years. So while the development plans are greeted with huge optimism and a sense of progress by the fans, it's really irrelevant to players, and being a club "on the up" is not necessarily the massive attraction to players that perhaps the rest of us think it is.
But footballers are typically only at a club for two or three years, so selling the dream and ambition of new facilities and an improved infrastructure is somewhat irrelevant to them. That's why the club has spend significant cash on upgrading Squires Gate - players care about what's happening now, not in four years. So while the development plans are greeted with huge optimism and a sense of progress by the fans, it's really irrelevant to players, and being a club "on the up" is not necessarily the massive attraction to players that perhaps the rest of us think it is.