This has turned into a very healthy thread. For me, we will be doing well if we are in the conference and OK if we are in the conference north.
I know we could have been in the football league if the voting had gone right in the seventies but these days 80% of the premier league and 20% of the championship is made up of foreign imports. By my reckoning the majority of the home grown players have all been pushed down a division so if we can get back to the conference we would be watching what previously would have been division 4 anyway.
A bit of a stretch I know but you can see where I'm coming from.
A serious and hopefully non-inflammatory question for those who want change? Who are you expecting to do due diligence on any new majority shareholder? Are we going to hand over the reigns to the first individual who turns up with a barrow load of cash? Presumably not so who will make the decision?
I don’t recall anyone being up in arms when the only firm offer we have received, so far, for the football club was halted at the due diligence stage by the current board? I think that answers your question Cat. Despite understandable reservations over their collective judgement, I think most people would accept (and did accept) there were no other options.
Either way, I think you are stepping way ahead of yourself there by worrying about that just now. We first need to concentrate on generating wider interest and getting the right people talking about it, before we worry about the next stage. And we are well off that at the present moment in time.
Then, after that, the main stumbling block is the “vision” that any new incomer must apparently share with the board. To find someone who wants to run a football club in the same archaic way that our current board do, is going to be near enough impossible.
As for where we should be (or aim to be) as a football club, then you only have to take a glance at the top half of the current GMVC table and look at the other teams there. However, looking at the respective clubs involved, I think the reality is that we will now find it much harder to pass through the Conf North than we would to survive as a Conf National club these days.
I fear that decision to promote Neil Tolson to manager (for what?) in March 2016, rather than aim for survival, is going to continue haunting this football club for many years yet.