UP or DOWN?

Up

Staying in this league is not an achievement. It never will be.

Going down again would be a disaster - but it's quite possibly a disaster that some on the Board would want to see...

I don't think we will go down though - only because some teams such as Kings Langley will fail ground quality control checks..

Sean

Tom,

Ask some of the them - I'm not being insane at all. The travelling in the league we're in costs a fortune. Travelling in the league below will cost a lot less. We'd still be able to sign the same sort of player that we're signing now. It costs a whole lot more to successfully run a club in our current league than it will do the league below.

The game on Saturday was in very real danger of being called off because of the fog. At 3-1 down, some on the board said that they'd rather lose than have to pay to travel to Kings Lynn again (the cost of the coach and drivers etc was £1300). In many ways, I get what they're saying. 

Sean

Tom just got in from work and trawling through the recent posts so maybe others also cant access the forum yet. I get your point about if the club show's no ambition then whats the point of turning up and paying. I have no idea why the crowds are dropping away by so much, It would appear most of our home gates have been under 300ish apart from a few when probably the away team have brought a few too swell the numbers. Whenever i talk to people about the club and they say they are not going anymore when i ask why.
Most reply that (there seems to be one of a number of reasons some are). no ambition or the club just seems to be bumbling along ,also another ( one of the biggest reasons) is the team is not strong enough and are fed up with the lack of more experienced players as it's good to have some younger players in the squad, ours seem to be  alot and playing them altogether is just too much for them and its a results business and the league shows where we are. 

My reply is if you don't have people paying through the gate then there is less into the pot for expenses not just Players wages but Officials expenses, Floodlights,Maintenance, insurance etc i could go on, of course you have to have other income streams to get the pot of money up. The supporters do raise money on various events Kate does her Bingo's etc bringing in funds then there is the Patrons draw, Perimeter Fence advertising etc there are lots of people doing things around the club unpaid to help the club put the games on in the first place. But the strange thing is i cant seem to figure out why we have not got a commercial manager working for the club as other clubs around here not just Football do.
The changes with Mark coming in as general manager seems to have freshened up things around the office/bar, 

Surely the Commercial manager should go out around march time to approach the local businesses for the Patrons draw so for the first game of the pre-season the players are wearing the new sponsors kit for maximum exposure although with Jem going and pictures of him/Critts appearing in the local paper and on line showing kits from the last few years not this year shirts sponsor then you can see why perhaps it is harder to attract sponsors as when there is a picture attached to a match report (week in week out) or major story concerning the club it is old shirt sponsors getting the free publicity not the current sponsor who paid good money to have their name shown on the shirts thinking their company name will be seen. No doubt there are people at the club working on it just that there does not seem any visible evidence so i stand to be corrected.  
The ground is known as the Green King Community Stadium but why not have we got sponsors for both ends and even the main stand other clubs in our league and below do have. I know Terry Spracklen did a great job in the summer before anyone jumps on me. 
I believe there are teams like Burnham,Cirencester, who have low attendances but have good social clubs bringing in lots of money 
Sorry not meaning to have ago at anyone but getting frustrated when i see a club legend walking because of problems we dont know all of yet instead of staying and fighting for the club he loves dearly. 
I feel if we can keep the rest of the players together we should stay up as we have 30 points so another 15 or so should do if i got my maths right

          

I take your point about the community Scheme but we all know there is not anyone coming forwards with money to bankroll the club in the old Owner-Chairman way and without a person putting in a constant amount of money surely the club would fold in weeks.  
I think we can all see the Co-owners membership is far below what was expected in terms of numbers and we all know the town do not support the Football Club or many other sports clubs in the town.  So the big question is what is the way forwards, what/how changes do you suggest take place to keep the club going as many times on here people have run down the club/board members saying they are to blame for the downward spiral but have not put any suggestions forwards in their opinion as to what/how to do to push the club forwards. In my last post i did say speaking to people who i know have supported the club for maybe 25-30 years at least now wont go to watch and when asked why typical answers among many. Teams not worth watching no investment in players, club in a downward spiral etc so when i say if you go along thats more gate money but then its not going whilst its rubbish so going round in circles as no gate money no budget etc or i ask about being a Co-owner then you have a voice and you could put yourself forwards to be elected to  the board  then its, have not got time/money to put into the club etc  My point is we can all moan but unless we all do our part no matter how small even if it is just going and not spending any other money on programmes/food etc it will all mount up.

So what do you suggest in your opinion needs to change and why perhaps the current board may look at your idea's and be able to implement them. Again people seem to criticize members of the board but are not prepared to put the time/commitment  to join the board themselves or even put cash in. I have no skills or cash i can use myself to help the club other than what i do now  i am not or will ever be a businessman so am no use whatsoever to the board apart from trying to come up with ideas and putting them forwards. 

As i said in my last post starting to feel like many others do and getting frustrated that we would seem to have a good management team and squad but just not doing enough on the pitch as been said somewhere else we could easily have another 7-8 points if we had a bit of luck.