I'm wary of being too critical to a group of people I do get along with, or at least have done. Neither do I want to be two faced in that regard. However, I support the football club, not whoever happens to be in charge at the time. And believe it or not, a few who appear overly personal about it (Jamie for one) are actually on the level about it too.
I'd say that for a variety of reasons over the past 18 months which are now actually too many to list and it doesn't feel like it does any good listing them anyway that from a footballing, community (as in understanding and relating to fans, not the local community), financial and long term planning viewpoint I have little or no confidence that our current board are capable of leading us forward effectively.
And even taking away that you can't rewrite history or undo decisions etc I don't even see any honesty, accountability , apologies or understanding that could ease some of these fears, just a closing of ranks and a dismissive attitude - which I should say is in many respects an understandable natural reaction - for all that I'm typing here I couldn't promise you I'd be a big enough man to react as I've suggested if I was to get the flak Grahame Rowley has.
Re the above - the one bit I do acknowledge is the board not using the Anthony Griffith farce as an excuse, that was good.
But Grahame's response last year that the way ahead was to get more volunteers and looking back wistfully at when we did have lots, showed me that the time has come to move forward, times do change even though lots of good work has been done and I hope our board individually and collectively are honest enough to evaluate whether they should be part of taking the club forward.
It feels like I've been putting money in buckets for 15 years (75% of my adult life) and there needs to be coherent reasons for that.
I've got to agree with everything here.
I like my spare time to not include politics and personal comments and judgments. However it has got to a tipping point I'm afraid.
Football is a business and it would be great if the fans who choose not to get involved can be insulated from it however it has seeped through to all of us now.
I can't believe I would ever be saying I'm not coming again, in the past I have moved mountains to watch Alty even to the detriment of my marriage.
I can't continue with this, even up against the odds in the past with a 1% chance of a draw I would still go, this just feels more than that.