I don't want to start a new thread about this World record attempt at the Carol service concert, so i'll just bung it here.
all for a good cause , so don't want to be be too much a of Scrooge in critique-ing it, but think a word does need to be said about wild optimism and
planning and realistic expectations.
nothing wrong with some big talk but back it up. Muhammed Ali.. i am the greatest. big talk. backed it up.
talk big but fail badly comes across like a deluded X Factor contestant, and shades of the manager, with his hype talk...best team in lge etc.
don't get me wrong. well done on the concert. good for the charities. but delivery matters. the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
i'm sure when Leeds ( or us, any other club ) got into financial difficulties, they we'ren't aiming to do so. all aiming to do good things.
over-stretch and problems hit. you need to be able to trust the owners to have their heads screwed on, and know how to deliver.
it's been hyped so much on facebook. even on BBC local news NWT, yesterday .
www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/23184722.bolton-wanderers-guinness-world-record-christmas-carol/www.bwfc.co.uk/news/2022/december/10000-signed-up-to-sing/they normally hold it in the Premier suite, which holds approx 2000. i've been several times.
was planning to go to this but a late pull-out by a friend scuppered it for me.
the
world record attempt would have needed 25k+, so virtually full stadium.
the event was totally free, apart from parking charges.
me and my partner have been discussing it for weeks. I've thought we'd struggle to break it, whereas my partner presumed
as they'd hyped it so much, they must be confident to give it a real good go , even if they fail narrowly, getting various schools
involved from across the NW.
yet all the pics i've seen the top tiers aren't even open. in the Mcginlay v T Kelly legends charity game a few years ago,
that same set up with
all lower tiers full only got approx 10k. that's quite a margin to fail by considering it's been flogged
as "be part of history" . cold weather might have put a few off, but i don't think they had walk ups it was ticket only I think.
imagine getting the Guinness adjudicator down to officiate on that !? .
still bit early, but the reporting of the actual crowd has been a bit Pravda so far. talk about embarassing climb down.
seen some comments saying would have been better on the day on a family fun day match , either before or after , so you take a 18k to 20k crowd
and boost it up with school kids & groups etc, & you stand a chance of getting close to the target.