Do we just need a completely clean slate?

[flangejackrabbit]

Outlay can be surprisingly large. Pboro have paid six figure sums for conference players on a number of occasions.

If they are not at full time clubs already you also have to pay them a pretty big wage to leave what in some cases would be quite a successful main job outside football.

 

[Jai]

In answer to the original question, no we don't. For the first time in years we have shown some very small but clear improvements in the past few months. We haven't got the balance right and there's clearly going to be lots of players leaving in the summer. However, I think we need to have a degree of stability going into next season.

Mainly that means trying not to be a total basket case for the summer this year, so the manager (whoever it may be) has a fair chance to bring in his own players, and we do all the preparations of a normal football club like starting pre-season on time, with the majority of the squad assembled, so the manager has plenty of time to work with what he has.

We may have brought in 16 players this year but we've mainly had to bring in people that other clubs didn't want and try and get a tune out of them. It's telling that the majority are on short deals. Being under an embargo for so long killed us, and we never got a summer to bring in the players the manager wanted. January is not a window to be doing your main business and it was always going to be a losing battle.

Despite that, we're still somehow in the hunt to stay up and for that reason even if we go down, we need to be very careful not to throw the baby out of the bathwater.

 

[Barry.C]

So that I can prepare early Im trying to think of the positives for when We get relegated from the National League

First off Im looking forward to very cheap away travel to Dartford ( if they dont go up ) Ebbsfleet, Maidstone, Billericay, Concord Rangers, Chelmsford and Braintree, Ron and I are gonna save a fortune on travel. and Ron can build just a tea hut on the new ground in the short term and provide a couple of plastic chairs marked East Stand


We can also play mostly our Under 18s and pay them with , well next to nothing, better not hand over a games console or they will be at it all day, unless they have been scrapped along with the Under 23s and Academy, Always look on the bright side, how much does that save ?

Reduce MMs staff team to one ( M. M ) Remove burgers and sausages from rolls and replace with rocket. Scrap recruiting team and employ local dog walkers with free poop bags? Us entrepreneurs could really save the club from extinction !!?

 

[Mr Browns Ghost]

Like the clean slate and 51 players later that we had at the start of this season?? Like that clean slate

 

[Jai]

Looks like the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater then.