Repeating his mantra that the football club must change or die, he added: “Cynicism would be understandable because we’ve talked about change in the past and nothing’s happened. We’ll have another meeting in six months’ time, and if nothing’s changed by then you can lambast me or throw me out of the window. You can lay the blame at my feet.”
Gorski, who said that if Celtic were to survive they had to change from being a hobby club into a professional concern, based his confidence in the future on his new off-field team of chief executive Wendy Mackie and commercial manager Chris Horrocks.
Wendy, who described herself as a Ridge Hill girl with a love of building things and a love of children, has a company called Working for You which helps young people get into work.
She expressed her determination to build a whole new bottom end at Bower Fold complete with social club, toilets and changing rooms. And she plans to have the social club open next season.
When one fan posed the question “which would the club rather have, a 3G pitch or a new social club?” she called back: “Both. There’s no point in having one without the other.”
Horrocks, a retired police officer and media pundit who has been a European business development director in the oil and gas industry, emphasised his skills and experience in finding and generating money.
He outlined his plans to get into the Stalybridge community to rekindle awareness of Celtic and forge new partnerships to end a long decline in which attendances have fallen from 800 to 300.
Explaining his pitch vision, Gorski said: “A 3G pitch would be an absolute game-changer for Stalybridge Celtic. I know it’s my hobby horse but it would mean we could hire it out and the team could train at Bower Fold instead of paying for facilities elsewhere. We’d also get a competitive advantage.
“I believe we are closer than ever before to having a plastic pitch, and it’s something we’ll achieve without the involvement of Tameside Council. I’m negotiating with a company to get a realistic price and then it’ll be a case of the directors putting together a viable business plan.
“A plastic pitch is something we have to have, come hell or high water. If we get one, and we don’t win promotion, then Simon Haworth isn’t the manager I think he is, and I think he’s a great manager.”
Gorski added: “This football club has to change or die — it really is that simple. If we don’t push forwards, we’ll go backwards.
“In our new chief executive and commercial director we have two thoroughly professional people. That’s not being negative against the board, who are all volunteers who work hard and would bleed royal-blue blood if you cut them, but we’ve reached a point where we have to turn left and not right.
“I’ve told Wendy and Chris that within five years and I want our turnover doubled from £250,000 and I expect us to be in Conference North at least. We have to make sure we can supply our manager, Simon Haworth, with a top-five budget and we won’t achieve that unless we get things right off the pitch.
“For the first time in a long time I’ve got my mojo back. The entire club is pulling in the same direction and we’ve got two people who are going to bring in the money to give to our manager.