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straight .-talking Clitheroe chairman Carl


Garner has admitted that he won’t let the darker financial side of , football cloud his


It;


i heights of the UniBond Premier League.


- The impressive manage­ ment team of Peter Smith


■and Kenny M a y e rs have helped launch the Shaw-


I M d g e side into a UniBond I : -hfet Division North super- I ?■ nova, ^ a free-flowing and , -.attacking approach to each jg am e has seen them climb


; to seventh in the table. B u t the recent winter ; b reak, .en fo rc ed b y the


. recent inclement weather conditions, has thwarted ^ the side’s momentum, as . .well as inflicting deeper


, financial implications on the |.j'football club.'


: : Garner, who stated that


- Smith and M a y e rs have ' done an incredible job given


■ , the club had only retained three players from last sea-


STRAIGHT-TALKING: Carl Garner


. son, following a mass sum- .: mer exodus, said: “It creates


problems for a small club


unquenchable desire to drive, the club to the


Stepping in the right direction


by Dan Bla^


like us in terms of cash flow so it l ^ n ’t been easy, and it certainly doesn’t look like ®*^ding at the moment.


“This long enforced break


has been very unfortunate' for us because we were fly­ ing and playing some fan­ tastic football. “Financially this break


has totally stopped all cash flow into the club. I expect every club in non-league is the same, but every club counteracts the situation


differently. Every player has been paid at Clitheroe Foot­


ball Club, but I know there’s


some clubs in the N o r th Wiest that haven’t been pay­


ing their players. However, if this contin­


ues, we’ll have to take a look a t things, sit the players down and address the situa­ tion in the appropriate man­ ner. It s just common sense — a football club is a busi­ ness, so if there isn’t any­ thing coming in, you have to reduce your outgoings.”


. Gamer became chairman of the nibble 'Valley outfit


four y ^ ago after the club


had hit rock bottom and closure looked a real possi­


.''Esr bility. However, their for­


tunes have changed during that tim& H e added: “W e have


managed everything at the moment. I f we don’t run this football club like a busi­ ness then we could find our­ selves in trouble again, like we were four years ago. You can’t keep paying out if tnsre’s no cash coming in.


“We have got to be really


prudent now because of this long winter break, but the


players have been paid so we have honoured our agree­


ment with them. Thin gs wi ll click back into place once we get going again.


“We have everything in


place to help us move in the right direction. :


“Peter Smith and Kenny


Mayers have been working re a l ly hard. T h e y have


brought so much enjo3rment -into the dressing room


nobody wants to leave and everybody is pulling in the same direction.


“V ic e-ch airman Anne


Barker has been an absolute Cod send for the club and h ^ been a huge help for me. bhe remembers everything' that I forget. Nothing has changed fo r me though


because my ambition is still the s ^ e ; I want to get the club into the UniBond Pre­ mier Division.


“I don’t want us to t ^ d water, I want us to kick on


now and try and get into the play-offs because we are def­


initely capable o f doing that. •


. * “Then we wi ll have-to


work even harder to drive the club forward even fur­ ther, and with this vibrant, young set of players, with one or two quaUty additions next season^ promotion is definitely our goal. “There is no po int in


being at a football club if there is no ambition.”


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