I agree completely with Dan on this.
A club is no more than the sum of it's members - if you can't get members, then your club doesn't succeed, and sometimes it doen't matter how much work is put into a club to keep the success of that club alive, things just don't work out.
But why is it that Southport are seemingly being blamed for not helping Bury out? We can't do anything more to help Bury out other than close our own club.
Southport appear to get dragged into everybody's "discussions".
It wasn't that long ago that when somebody decided the North East regions and the North West regions should merge, Southport were accused of trying to "steal" other clubs and members. Now it would appear to be suggested that we should "give-up" members to keep another club going! None of these "discussions" have been started by Southport Members, yet as a club we still somehow get dragged into them. It's bonkers.
Southport is a members club run for and by it's members - we have plenty to do doing that without trying to please everybody else, so please chaps, leave us out of it.
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