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Date Posted: 09:09:02 07/15/03 Tue
Author: Toby
Author Host/IP: 213.122.4.48
Subject: I told you so!

Date Posted: 15:21:44 01/05/03 Sun
Author: Toby
Author Host/IP: 62.6.73.115
Subject: Marksman

I'm sorry if I've come over as offensive, that's not the way I intended to do things.

As a non-league fan I often wonder whether amalgamtions with bigger clubs ever work, if indeed that is what your club did. If you have amalgamated, then how equal is the partnership? How equal can it ever be, when 'the saints' clearly have the bigger pulling power?

Are you happy with the set up as it stands? The club seems to be in limbo now that the new stadium deal has fallen through. Have you actually sold Houghton Rd? If so then did you put the proceeds into the pot, so to speak? Or have you spent a large chunk of it chasing for promotion, as rumours suggest? A quick rise to Conference level football level would seem to be the only way you could sustain a partnership with your bigger brother, but even so that would still have its strains.

Playing on a wonderful surface must be great, but in an empty stadium! Is that what the club really wants? More so, is that what the fans want? What future do you envisage for 'Town' in the next ten years. I'm sure you would sooner have your own stadium. I would prefer you to have your own stadium, part of the fun of visiting a non league stadium, is having the freedom to walk around it.

Leigh RMI are in a similar situation as yourselves, but even they can't pull a crowd, despite the fact that they are playing in the Conference. It will be interesting to see how they fare if they get relegated at the end of the season. What will happen if they go into free-fall? They sold their souls to the devil, when they moved from Grundy Hill, Horwich. Not exactly Horwich anymore...history gone.

I think it is time that the fans give serious thought to the future of 'Town' forget the committees and so called do-gooders, the players and the management, for once they've all gone the bog standard ordinary fan will always remain.

That is the most important thing surely?

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Re: I told you so! -- John McKiernan, 14:35:36 07/15/03 Tue