That is the forecast from Finley Bowling Club manager Fred Braybon despite a strong showing of members at a crisis meeting last week.
Mr Braybon said about 90 people attended the general meeting, called after the club was forced to close temporarily.
While able to re-open for now, Mr Braybon said the long term future of the club is still in doubt.
What that future looks like will be dependent on the amount of support shown at the upcoming AGM.
“The meeting started out negatively, but after some discussion every is going away with some ideas to further explore before our AGM,” he said.
“A resounding topic of discussion was getting a caterer in the club, which is something we have been working on for 18 months already.
“The use of volunteer staff during the week is also one to explore further.
“There was some talk of getting rid of the pokie machines, but I am not sure people realise just how much revenue that can bring in for the club.
“Overall, the general feeling was that we need to keep the bowling club in town.”
Prompting the temporary closure of the club and the subsequent meeting was the resignation of one board member and two others walking out of a meeting, creating what is known as a dysfunctional board.
Advice was sought from Liquor and Gaming New South Wales, Clubs New South Wales and Club Auditor Mogg Osborne, and the difficult but necessary decision was made to close the club until after the general meeting.
Andrew Hill contacted the Southern Riverina News to clarify he resigned because of concerns about governance at the club.
He said as a result, he could not do his job as treasurer.
Mr Braybon said while the purpose of last week’s meeting was not to fill those board positions, he did say there was interest from at least two people to come on the board.
But whether there will be enough nominations to fill the other seven board seats remains to be seen.
“There is still two weeks until the close of nominations, and active recruitment is taking place,” he said.
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