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Post by plainmoorpete on Sept 11, 2018 12:23:11 GMT
I know a lot of people are going to hammer me for this, but should we really have stayed full time when Thea left? We lose around £300k a year at the moment, when we lost our Football League status we lost around £600k in funding per season. We maintained full time status because that was seen as the only way to get back, but all it lead to was the recruitment of very poor squads of players and the employment of under qualified managers whose only asset was that they were cheap. A lot people say that if we go part time then the club will die, but that is precisely what is happening at the moment.
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Post by Rob on Sept 11, 2018 12:40:58 GMT
I know a lot of people are going to hammer me for this, but should we really have stayed full time when Thea left? We lose around £300k a year at the moment, when we lost our Football League status we lost around £600k in funding per season. We maintained full time status because that was seen as the only way to get back, but all it lead to was the recruitment of very poor squads of players and the employment of under qualified managers whose only asset was that they were cheap. A lot people say that if we go part time then the club will die, but that is precisely what is happening at the moment. It is ultimately something we’d have to do as a newly formed club lower down the pyramid when Osborne pulls the plug leaving us with crippling debts and Nightingale Park with some more houses. Our problem is that we have no history recruiting that pool of talent and geography yet again being a key factor in attracting the best amateur/semi-pro talent. I’ve seen it discussed before and having a training set-up closer to an urban conurbation such as Bristol and its environs seemed to be the compromise that middle of the road thinking went for. Going part time with our existing disinterested and/or lacklustre management and ownership set up would no doubt lead to poor assembly of a squad fit for purpose and see us in the Southern League not long after in any event.
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