Maybe the coffers really are bare. All seem things a bit of finance ought to sort.

As many have said before me, we really are tin pot. Love the club but we are the poor relations of the league. Dump of a ground, awful match day experience. Complete imbalance in the playing squad. Massively leveraged ourselves with the wage bill just to get players to join us. Just cannot see any of this changing. I hope there’s something going on behind the scenes. We need a rescue plan.

Having said I’ll be in the same seat I’ve had for the last 16 years on Saturday. Nothing will change that. Ptid.

Everything around the club at the moment screams half arsed and unambitious

Lower Holmesdale. Always get in early, most games last season, no chips were available until about 10-15 minutes after gates opened. Maybe you can also explain why, the early bird offer was only available from 45 minutes before KO! Isn't that a contradiction in terms, we have never been able to take advantage of it. It should be renamed late bird offer!!

Years ago I once had a really bad experience on a Saturday evening after a dodgy sausage outside Stamford Bridge. True! Lucky it wasn’t up the Arsenal.

COYP

There is one reason for this. The club is running out of cash.

The ownership structure which is now in place where a series of service companies including lots owned by Parish and the Yanks needs feeding and with no money coming in over the summer the cash to fund basic maintenance etc, simply was not there.

From what I gather the huge sums we get in are needed simply now to tread water which is why we are not signing anyone and our usually vocal chairman is somewhat quiet.

We will aa ever aim for survival as if we fail in that endeavour I suspect we will have severe cashflow problems.