i dont think you can have a two year project with part time players unless you are succesfull, all im saying is if we dont get promoted this season then we mayl have to wait a long time, are best players will leave and we are at risk of being swamped by higher rollers fc united, chester etc
Just a couple of points to make here;
1. The two year project, as I understood it was for the Club on the basis of the first year being a consolidation season paying back the overspend of last year and staying in the black whilst trying to remain competitive - hence the signing of Sinnott, a manager with lots of BSN experience
2. It seems an accurate assessment that if we don't get promoted this year it may be a long time but we shouldn't throw money at it because of (1)
3. If we won promotion this year (which aint going to happen, realistically, although I still fervently hope it does) we would undoubtedly be in the same position as the last few years i.e. fight rearguard actions every week.
3. The only way to go up and stay up is to have a strikeforce which has tons of goals in it - i.e. when Colin was here and Senior, Denham etc were chipping in. Look at Hyde this year with Spencer. Look at recent examples like like Southport and Fleetwood. I know the money situation is totally different between these two but the one who got the strikers did well (obviously!). Even FGR have realised this with over the years a series of prolific strikers such as MacDonald and Mangan - the latest of which is Styche, to score them the goals to keep them up. Bath was another example from last year I think.
4. FCUM and Chester ARE looming but there's nothing we can do about that and, as other posters have noted, just having bigger support doesn't necessarily mean success (otherwise we'd be in the top six now!)
5. Yes, it IS sh*t watching the Supers come unstuck more often than we all expected but we've got to believe that the team and management don't like what's happening as much (if not more) than us. That being the case, they will be trying to change things for the better as soon as they can.
6. I think we've got to accept that the phrase "two year plan" is a euphemism for "as soon as we can build a team that is good enough" and try not to get obsessed by timescales.