I would rather be a well off part-time team than a poor full-time.
You could hardly class us as a well-off part-time team though. Certainly, considering how close we came to extinction, we should be greatful for our current financial state, but the coffers are hardly overflowing.
There are far too many clubs in this league living beyond their means. In my view this is unsustainable over a number of years and I can't see how it can continue given some of the meagre attendances that some of these clubs attract.
I think we'd all like to see some sort of plan in place for us to go forward and actually compete in this league, but not at the expense of financial security. Bit of a catch 22 situation really as I don't think we'll ever see crowds like those we received in the first couple of years of the APL without us actually challenging for the title and we are currently unable to compete at that sort of level due to the full-time nature of the league.
It's all too easy for us to sit at our keyboards and blather on about what should or should not be done (and I'm as guilty as anybody of that), but it is an incredibly complex problem. I feel, given the current composition of the league, that we are a BSN team attempting to compete in the BSP and as such we are going to struggle each year. My hope is that other teams start to realise the folly of living beyond their means and then we can start to compete again on a more level playing field as they revert to a part-time setup. There are obviously always going to be a few of the bigger teams who will remain full-time, but I fail to see how many of the other clubs can continue to do so.
I fail to see how we could even contemplate going full-time as things stand.