Balham_Green":zrjzipi3 said:
Knibbsworth":zrjzipi3 said:
PL2 3DQ":zrjzipi3 said:
The refurb of the grandstand is needed and the money generated from the corporate and function areas is welcome and will drive the club forward but the core business of any football club is ..... err football!
We are about to enter a critical stage of the season with several games in a short space of time and the opening of the transfer window.
I hope the directors recognise we are a football club first and foremost and financially back Derek Adams in the transfer window.
The average attendance from the first 11 home games this season is higher than at the same stage last season and our highest since the Championship days, at the 11 game stage, so the fans have backed the club despite a struggling season so far.
The refurbished grandstand is for the future, in the here and now our football team needs help.
We just need to stay up this season while we adjust to the changing off-field environment.
In five years time we will have settled to the new training facilities and a fully redeveloped Mayflower making increased off-pitch revenue. The manager's budget by then might be a lot more competitive than it currently is. Maybe then Adams, Brent and Hallett might receive some credit for the juggling act they have taken on, building and developing the club over their tenure and not just the first eleven.
No problem boys and girls then. 8 years of struggle after administration but Knibsworth reckons in 5 years time everything will be fine and dandy!
It says a lot about yourself if you consider a Wembley final, home and away sellouts against Liverpool and a promotion season as continuous 'years of struggle', while the club was balancing the books, making profits and reducing debt to boot while investing in facilities and infrastructure.
A bit dramatic to lump Adams tenure in with Reid and Fletcher, and disrespectful to those managers and the challenges they faced at the same time. That was real struggle, playing out of their depth youth teamers and hands tied by transfer embargo. Last season showed we are only two loan signings away from swapping a relegation scrap for promotion form. January will be important, we could quite conceivably finish midtable yet, but no doubt you will still insist these are the worst years the club has ever faced.