Hopefully it will start the ball rolling on something.
I know I don't speak for all fans, but I'm ****ed off about the situation we are currently in and what you said above it true and probably makes it even more frustrating. I have no idea what we as fans can do to help us get out of this and for so long the answer has seemed to be "once we get the new stadium", but that has been a pipe dream for several decades. It seems we are stuck in this downward spiral of doom and despair waiting for either someone to come and save us or the club to disappear.
For me, the issue seems to be that we are crap. And have been crap for a long time. Worse than crap. There's no confidence, no unity, no togetherness. Even among the fan base. We've all had a go at blaming people left right and centre for our demise, and of course there is only one man who is a constant throughout the last three miserable years (well, two if you count Ricky Duncan).
I've seen people demanding JW and JD get released immediately, there's obviously a lot of calls for Brown to be sacked, young players have been abused in car parks over the past few years. Even going back to Dover in 2019, it has been poisonous for a long while. People are having a pop at the Trust for not being persuasive enough to make someone about to earn millions and millions of pounds from a once-in-a-lifetime property deal that will set his family up for life walk away before he does so. It's horrendous. Apparently, the Trust should be doing more and they should be giving Ron even more of a hard time, like yesterday or in that protest about 10 years ago where everyone demanded he came out to speak, and when he did, they just abused him so he went back in again - these incidents obviously achieved so much.
There are some positives. Pressure from the Trust and other supporter groups led to a CEO being appointed this summer (I've even seen people moan that he's not doing anything, when in reality he's down in the boiler room mopping up the **** from two years of total neglect), the manager was backed this summer and there weren't too many people who were unhappy with our summer recruitment.
But we can't seem to shake this losing mentality and for me the heart of it all has been the recruitment over the past few years. Chairman Ron is a complete **** and I have given him a big vote of no confidence, but there are others who have a lot to answer for. Is Ricky Duncan really the jewel in the crown that we thought he was? His views on players seem to align with Brown's, and it's clear with hindsight the recruitment strategy in the summer did not take into account the division we are going into.
We also have five or six players that are clearly capable and in some cases, even more so, of thriving in this division. Unfortunately, no player can thrive in an atmosphere like the one hanging around the club at the moment. The issue is the balance of the squad, the lack of pace, creativity and dynamism, and that is something you put only limited blame on Ron Martin for (you can certainly argue our reputation in football circles has been seriously damaged due to his actions). The recruitment side of the football club is an abject failure and has been for years. However, it's also a horrible place to play football, and there's really very little that can be done about that - how do you tell a set of fans that have put up with so much **** for so long to get behind the team?
A nice little side addition is Covid, which hasn't gone away and continues to cause businesses massive headaches with recruitment and supply chains. Fans demand the same standards in customer service as when we were a football league club, pre-pandemic. It's not going to happen. We've lost staff, there are massive headaches with stock issues, staffing etc and that is the case for all clubs. While it may seem we have returned to normal, we really haven't.
Not sure what I'm trying to achieve by this post. But personally, I'm checking the council meeting calendar every day, because the sooner this development gets to committee and passed, the sooner we can realistically be rid of the chairman. We're too far down the road of Ron hating to really focus our energies on the council, but it might not be a bad idea to start putting the heat on them too.