Had a feeling this may be the case, unfortunately it seems that you cannot move up from the conference without having substantial investment with no sight of return.
Who was the last team to go up without having a benefactor of some kind?
When will these clubs realise that they just aren't big enough. 250k is outrageous, but hardly suprising in this day and age. Its so sad to see what is happening to all these clubs like boston, crawley, halifax, oxford (soon), scarborough, cambridge, leeds...... the list is endless.
ok they all have different circumstances but it all connects to clubs living beyond their means, does nobody think of the fans who love the club and suffer the most when it all collapses. Typically the FA will do nothing to regulate it, so as not to upset the apple cart.