We have a very competitive budget made possible by the continuous hard work of a very small group of volunteers to supplement gate money, golden goals etc. We wouldn't pay the two best ( and I would guess most expensive bar Jarman ) strikers in the league if we didn't want to win games and thus win the league.
This gets more and more lost each week and I think it's very sad.
Who remembers the days of public meetings being called every 6 weeks to find £10,000 or face winding up orders?
Ecky I don't think anything gets lost, but as a club we need to look forward instead back in the past
This is where the mindset of the club is all wrong, keeps thinking back to those days, can't move on. And for this reason I can never see the club moving forward or back to where it was in the past. There isn't enough ambition about the place, to many people just happy to tread water because at least we got a club
I find the whole thing very sad, heartbreaking
Can't move on? We are a million miles away from those days, we had nothing then other than a debt laden football club lurching from crisis to crisis didn't we?
I don't see people treading water. I see 37 junior teams, ladies teams, youth education programmes, plans for a new community hall to provide the non matchday income the club has never had and to allow it to grow with solid foundations in place and decent facilities.
I see a club that has never been stronger off the field, in fact the only place it has been found wanting is on the big occasion on the pitch. That needs addressing at the end of the season as the most important of all of this is the first team.
Maybe some fans are happy in the Conference North and that is there right. I'm not one of them and I think the easiest decision the board could make for the sake of their own families and lives would be to halve the budget, accept crowds of 350-400 and potter along.
I don't see any signs of that at all so I don't think they should be criticised for something they are essentially not doing.