What I can gather from asking around is, the situation isn't looking brilliant. There's an agreement to run one Riverside Rocket all season and two up to but not including Everton. The sticking point is who pays for the 2nd and or 3rd ones, the club wants it sponsored, Riverside don't want to sponsor it.
Unless the club finds someone to sponsor it, that's were we are. There's at least 6 regulars, plus a few that can only do a couple or the shorter ones, all scrapping for 3 spaces. The club's stuck if Riverside won't do it and Riverside don't see that they should pay for providing a service to the club. Ever hopeful, I'm hoping at least one of them blinks and we can continue putting ourselves through the endurance test that's an awayday on wheels. It's two business trying to do what's best for them, nothing really unusual in that, except for the wheelchair users caught in between.
I'm trying to put a "chin up, it's the way of the world" face on it but I know how much it means to me and I know full well, it means even more to the wheelchair users.
The Good Lady and I are from big families, all our siblings live within an hour of us but we can't visit them because they live in "regular" houses, steps in, ordinary doorways, upstairs or off the hall loos. That little anecdote isn't to garner sympathy, it's to highlight how much narrower the horizons are, To have a chance to go to football matches, spend the day as part of the "Boscombe massive" : ) when we win, lose or draw can't be over stated.
I can't believe how difficult this has been to write, especially because I can see the bigger picture that Bill Foley and Jim Frevola are trying to paint with the club. There's change and there's upheaval that has to happen, they're get somethings right, somethings wrong, they've never run an English football club before, let alone a club like Bournemouth. I still say give them every chance and have patience but by feck, when we miss our first match because of only one Rocket, it's going to sting.
