fancy owning part of weymouth for 50p!

I don't really want to be saying "I told you so", but...................when we played there on Boxing Day they had the cheek to wax lyrical about their "wonderful fans" and how they had "flooded back in numbers" to give them a crowd of some 2,300....................what bollocks, we had around a thousand there that afternoon so the reality was that on the traditionally highest attended game of the season they had but 1,200. All I seemed to encounter from speaking to locals that day was negativity and self pity - not the sort of attitude needed in the trench warfare of their situation.

When they came down for the return local derby last Tuesday they brought a laughable 150 and that when they were in a relatively good run of results...................pathetic, absolutely pathetic.

The Weymouth people moan that the only people who have shown interest in "their" football club are property people like Mr Curtis, but the FACT is that if Curtis hadn't come forward when he did they would have been dead by now.

They knew he was a property man when he came in, they sat back and failed to provide any other alternative; what do they bloody expect - that he'll suddenly change his business ethos and become a philanthropist?

Hasn't it filtered through to their thick heads that Lee Power and Colin Hill are also property people? Do they seriously think if messrs Power and Hill were in it for altruistic or even football business reasons they would be looking at a dead in the water club like them when there are plenty of clubs with potential and half lively populations surrounding them to get stuck into if they were that way inclined.

Weymouth FC hardly covered themselves in glory with that unprofessional and myopic approach to their date at Plainmoor the other week...................how do they think THAT looks to genuine football people?

Weymouth is no different than Morecombe, Torquay or Eastbourne for that matter in that they are sleepy coastal resorts with an unhealthy balance of retirees and self orientated small businesses who are as much use to a local professional football club as an ashtray on a motorbike.

Yes, SOME small businessmen do and WILL come forward in towns like these, but it is hardly ever enough to compete with population centres where there is at least a decent spread of medium to large industry to provide a corporate and demographic bed of support.

Fortunately for Eastbourne, Morecombe and Torquay (these days) there are some quality small businessmen who DO put their money where their mouths are, unfortunately for Weymouth there are no longer any of any significant number and the apathy of the local public is hardly likely to prise any more out of the woodwork.