Remote contact will hopefully steer Hatters in right direction... back to Football League!

I WROTE last week about the fact that the Club had reaffirmed a desire to establish regular contacts with the Supporters Cooperative, and as the representatives of Stockport County Supporters we were mightily pleased to hear that.

Whilst face to face meetings are out for now, virtual gatherings are not, and we are off and running with that idea.

One of the few positive things to emerge from the Covid-19 situation has been the emergence of multiple media platforms offering, usually free, video conferencing facilities.

Microsoft, Google, Zoom and Facebook are but a few and the availability of same has proved a boon to people cut off from one another without the comfort of contact.

For the Cooperative we have tried out one of the above mentioned and from that have arranged a full board meeting, which by the time you read this article, will have taken place.

The furloughing of Club staff, and the difficulties all our board members have had either working from home in isolation or negotiating the hazardous daily journey to and from work have tended, understandably, to take one’s eye of the ball of Stockport County business.

But life, and business goes on, and whilst there is an overwhelmingly supportive feeling towards Mark Stott and his team, to keep that situation in place we feel a pressing need to meet with the Club’s representatives at an early opportunity, to amicably make it so.

In this respect, following our board meeting this week, it is likely that we will invite the Club’s representatives to a virtual meeting, with the Supporters Cooperative Board, to start to build on the initial contact made in early March.

Everyone will gain from this: Club, the Supporters Cooperative, County Supporters a formidable team to see us back into the EFL!