Dont worry girls, you wont face us next year.
You still haven't answered a very simple question: how did Alty cheat?
You finished in the relegation zone 3 years on the trot yet didnt get relegated, the club is living a lie and you are cheating yourselves by thinking you are good enough when you clearly are not.
This whole thread was created by an Alty fan who wants Halifax to go out of business because we have been ran by crooks, the money has not been spent on players, staff or the ground, it is in the back pockets of several shiesters who are no longer around.
I applaud you for the way your club is ran but I as a Town fan for 30 years hate to see other fans wanting teams / clubs to go under, if we are demoted that is what would happen and the only people who would suffer would be the fans, not the crooks with the fat wallets.
Ok, one more time...
The first year was a farce, with the points deduction putting us in the relegation zone after we had stayed up. This was a clerical error, and other clubs have subsequently been dealt with more favourably by the authorities. Last year we benefited from Boston's problems, of course their financial mismanagement didn't affect our performance that season. However, if other clubs (Crawley being the main one) had spent what they could afford then we may well have stayed out of the relegation zone.
I doubt very much that directors have taken £2m out of your club, compare the budgets of the two clubs- vastly different, but i don't think there is such a big difference in revenue. Alty had its dodgy characters too- Gerry Berman is not looked upon too kindly. It is regrettable the laws on club owners may need modifying, but we paid the debts we had been saddled with anyway.
My view is that clubs should be made to repay their debts, if they can't then they should be demoted. It is tough on the fans, but there needs to be some real deterrence (the 10 point deduction is laughable). Also please note there is a difference between hoping for demotion and hoping a club goes bust.
Interesting to see the (lack of) response to Jezza's post on your forum. Tough to argue with the points made i feel.