Are we bad enough to actually go DOWN next season??

7 on that list have returned and most stronger for it, especially Luton, Chesterfield soon to join that list.
All clubs are slightly different.
We do need a re set, how we achieve that, who knows.

 

It may well be we have to go back a step or two to go forward. It's taken the likes of Stockport, Notts County and Chesterfield years in the wilderness and the pain that comes with it but they are now on an upward curve. We haven't bottomed out yet. That might come in the national league.

 

I think it would help if we got a statement from the club.
Saying what their intentions are.
Example
We are in discussions to purchase the stadium
We are in discussions around a change of ownership
We are looking at alternative funding options.
They do not have to go into great detail and these thing might not come off, but at least it would show they are fully awre of the situation and are not sleepwalking towards relegation.

 

I really hope not and that this is our bottom, so to speak, even though it is a bloody ugly bottom.

 

Really not sure. I'd say recruitment will be the key, but we've got so much dross still on the books next season. There's never been a togetherness this season. I said the same at the start of the season after watching pre-season and the videos around the lads in Spain, there was something off. There didn't seem that level of comradery, there didn't seem to be anything fluid on the pitch, there was nothing off the pitch being shown either for fans to get some facetime with the new squad. We had nothing to go on other than if you popped down to a pre-season game. Fans these days consume content at the touch of their finger. They record training constantly, it's so easy to make a quick few minute video, here's the new signing, here's a bit of training, here's the lads having a laugh. Just show some humanity rather than loading wikipedia on the first game of the season. It's just a very little thing but adding even a thread of relationship between players and fans is key, as I don't feel like many have been invested at all in our lot this season.

I think he needs to drop the 5 at the back too, it just doesn't work with the players we have. He wants to play a high line with 3 CBs, but all our defence turn like a cruise ship and how many times has one ball over the top done us in over the last month? We don't have the talent out wide or any option with a relationship with Cook to threaten teams either. We've never built a partner, and the wide players are dropped and rotated every game because none have consistency. If it was me, I'd set the defence 5 or 10 yards further back when we attack, and play 433 with McDonald/Smallwood sitting, always being within 10 yards of the CBs and properly sitting. Mainly McDonald as I think were done with Richie and he is too but McD cant play 90 every few days. Have Gilly and Walker in CM, let Halliday and Richards/Ridehalgh play a more natural full back role as to wing backs. Then play your deep front 3 and get pace around Cook. We seem to play hoof ball anyway under GA and look for knock downs, seems really brainless to play hoof, then march all the defence to the half way line as we rarely win the hoof, which gives the opposition an easy lump over us and they are in.

 

Ticketmaster says 'NO' .....

 

The ground costs us a little over £400k in rent. Thats probably the equivalent of wasters such as Smallwood and Chapman. Take them out of this/next seasons squad and we dont miss either. The ground is paid for.

 

A better idea is to let people who don’t renew pay on the gate to help any new owners with finance

 

See you’ve looked at that at length and come up with the bleeding obvious . If they don’t buy a season ticket but return when new owners take over how else are they getting in

 

Only once the deal had been signed and sealed
Not a penny from me till then

 

I see you want to encourage them to come back to VP by saying we understand why you left but we would now like to charge you full price in order to help with the finance after years of us blowing the budget on players who are too old or don’t have the skills to compete at this level………yea that will do it. I tell you now, if it goes past the 7th April I will not return until this club is financed and run in a proper manner and even then I might have found other more entertaining activity.

 

Knitting club ?

 

It’s a park thing.

 

Too much sea air or sniffing kippers

 

That’s your choice but despite what you say if the club vastly exceeds your expectations I bet you and others will be paying on the gate despite your protestations

 

I realise your reality is seriously different from mine, but you have no idea about me as a person so please do not presume my actions based on your reality.

 

Take that asa yes then

 

'Vastly exceeds' lol. We're sustainable, what more do you people want? Success? Pfft, overrated.