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We where only told yesterday that we had the fanbase.
Championship 2010-11 ave Att: 5,548
NLN 2024-25 ave Att: 4,117
We have a limited fan base.We had a bigger average attendance than all but 3 clubs in the NL last season.
We did
We had the income from said attendance.
Directors subsidising to the tune of £65k a month?
We have a squad that is now deemed big enough to compete in another cup that we didn’t have to enter.
A ‘competition’ to give game time to the ‘B’ players who aren’t featuring weekly in NL games.
Those games will be better than drop of the hat behind closed doors friendlies for the ‘stiffs’
We have a wage cap that allowed us to keep Whitehall and Roberts.
the same that allows the majority of ‘supporters’ to flail our keepers and as the season progresses, a few more players, in public stocks.
The two keepers are experiencing all the fun of the fair – but only as Aunt Sally!
Can’t really remember ever having ‘our’ club.
True – but there appears to be issues with allowing the Trust to purchase shares.
In house ‘fighting’ (directors), FC1M, Trust etc
It looks as if we will never become a community owned self sufficient entity?
We are in the NL and no one should expect world beaters
Yet people berate the ‘budgetary’ players that we have on the books.
I will give is forgiveness when the team go out and put in and give 100% but end up not getting a result
Blood, sweat & tears and everyone is ‘happy’ – you can’t give more than your best.
We can forever carry that boulder up the mountain it’s what most football clubs do.
And yet we were possibly hours away from being a non-entity.
We can’t allow that to happen againOn surviving relegation you’ve set the bar to low, that will affect the attendance and the income, mid table would be ok but let’s push on.
I’m only saying that it’s job done if we escape relegation to the NLN – hopefully we have a solid mid table consolidating season. Something to build on for the following season.