Attendance was 8036 with 1455 from Boston – a new record for the National League North.
Paradoxically – being beaten in your own stadium in front of over 8,000 fans by a bunch of part-timers with a compact 24 man squad and a fraction of the budget is a ‘success’?
We should differentiate between the football and the ownership/administration of the club.
Football = Failure
Ownership = Success
It would appear that we don’t have the ‘moolah’ to buy our way out of this division and then out of the NL.
We don’t have an academy, so won’t be developing any of our own players.
We don’t have a reserve team or an U23s or an U19s/U18s – no development paths or succession plans.
So what will we be next season?
A nursery club for lower level EFL teams to send their untried youngsters to experience men’s football, get game time, to make mistakes, learn and develop?
The ‘quality’ of player that we are able to attract will diminish adding further to the challenge of constructing a cohesive competitive squad.
I’ve noted that player retention / turnover is very low & high at this level and we will possibly see more of that at our club in the coming seasons.
We probably all need to adjust our hopes & expectations.
We don’t have the tools in the toolbox to make it back to the EFL.
However – we do still have and own our own football club… which is a great success!
