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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
Maybe Eric Whalley has taken the club as far as he can? Maybe it's time he put the club up for sale at a reasonable price, in the hope that someone with new ideas for taking the club forward will step in.
Because, in my view, we cannot carry on forever as we are. Clubs that "punch above their weight" cannot do so indefinitely. You cannot run a football league club on 1,400-1,500 gates. And don't forget, the last two home matches were against well-supported northern clubs. If our home form continues as it is, will we suffer the humiliation of the first three-figure football league gate of the 21st century when the Daggers come? And supposing the scales finally drop from Coley's eyes and he realises that Branch and Miles are bone-idle timeservers and Williams is never going to be a football league standard defender? Will our gates rise sufficiently to stave off the inevitable? Don't forget that in the wake of our greatest ever triumph - the restoration of league football to the town - our second ever home match drew around 1,500 souls to the FES. Supposing we go on a winning run and gates rise to 2,000? Will that be enough to pay for the permanent police control room that we will have to build next year and the 1,000-seater stand that has to be in place by the end of next season and a football league playing budget too?
No, Eric has kept his promise to take us into the league. Now's the time for him to retire gracefully and let someone with a new approach take over.
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What an excellent and well written post this is.
To add my twopeneth to the debate... the communication from the club is shocking that aside we dont measure on the the communication scale.
When was the last accounts published and when was the last AGM recorded ???