Can you believe this, this guy needs some tuition from Ken. I really feel for the Orient fans with this guy in charge. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19842112 "The owner believes the east London club, which had average attendances of 4,298 at Brisbane Road last season, could attract crowds of up to 27,000 at the Olympic Stadium through a series of ticket offers. "I think we have got to look at changing the face of Leyton Orient. The first thing is to change the name to London Orient, the second thing is to look at giving free season tickets to the under-18s in London and members of the armed forces," said Hearn. "Any new family that moves in to the area should get a free introductory season ticket for the whole family. "The lower tier capacity would be 27,000 and we are quite confident we can sell that out with our ticket incentive schemes and hopefully by then, a more successful team. "We need to appeal to a wider audience, we need to put a lot of money in to strengthen the squad which hopefully we will do to move up at least one division. "We need a new atmosphere about the place. We are little Leyton Orient, we don't want to miss out on our community service and renaming the club is the beginning of changing the whole attitude." ................................................... Terrible how a chairman fails to understand what is needed for a football club to be successful. Even I, mo-ron though I am, can spot some obvious ommissions and errors: - no mention of premiership prices being charged as a quid pro quo - complete absence of hotel building plans - ludicrous focus on under 18's - everyone knows they have no cash, so why bother? - free tickets to squaddies - what have they ever done to deserve that? - i had to look up "strengthen the squad" in a dictionary, its not a term I have come across before. Apparently this means something about paying out money to obtain better players than you currently have. Again, talk about cart before horse - surely you do that AFTER you have been promoted? I could go on, but really...... just makes me realise how much valuable it is to have KB as our chairman
