After the dust has settled I am sure there will be an inquest as to what we did both on and off the field this season.
We had a fantastic opportunity to kick on this year with funding there but spending £100k on the reserves leaves another £650k to invest in infrastrucutre and quality rather than quantity. Where did it go as the likes of Batley finished above us on way less than that for example?

Rent! College facilities. Silly Matchday costs. Directors loans maybe?

our previous four seasons we came 3/3/4/4 in the league. This year with substantial more funding we look like finishing lower.

Would someone at the club please explain what foundations have been laid and where the Club is going, there has been a shameful silence from the BOD on this issue. (We even have a management committee that appear to be even more anonymous)

I appreciate things don't work out as you wish but I resent being constantly told it will come good in the future, turning up and paying what I work a whole day for to get in to the game for me and my sons, with no details explained to me.

Have the directors said that they spent all the funding from last season??

They don't say nothing, that's my point.

I think that you've maybe hit the nail on the head that others are talking about. They haven't really said very much at all.

We all know it's a business, and the directors have the right to have a certain degree of privacy in the way they manage the club. If everything was always in the open, then it would be very difficult to broker deals and make progress.

However... I've supported Fax for 40 years, and some have done so for longer than that. Directors come and go, as do players, but it's not just director funding that's needed to keep clubs alive and kicking. Without fans, there is no club.

We seem to be investing in "infrastructure", but we do feel to be making it up as we go along. For instance, the big screen. Pretty pointless from a fans perspective (actually, totally pointless), and although speedy house sales are sometimes a necessity (hence companies that provide that "service"icon_wink.gif, generally of very poor value to the seller (the "advert" today). The reserve team was a brave move, but possibly a tad misplaced? Fax TV Pro again, a decent idea but needs proper investment to make it a quality product - around £10k or maybe a bit more and you could have 4 cameras in place with live streaming to the internet and replays of tries etc. on the big screen (Ok, only for home games maybe, unless deals could be brokered with other clubs).

I'll always follow Fax, but it would be good to understand just where the BoD are trying to take us. What the end game is, and what the journey to get us there is likely to look like.

Dave guys like you are the lifeblood of RL teams, supporting your team whatever the result, I know I have watched Leigh in many darker times,I think I understand what you are trying to point out,before a ball was kicked this season I said Fax should go full time , however in his defence I think RM has remarked how it wouldn't suit a few Fax players to do this.
To me, Faxes failure to put away teams like Haven and to some extent Swinton has been your undoing,it's just one of those things, knowing you as a true Fax fan I know you won't give up on them and admire you for this , keep in touch,we may see each other again this season.Ian.

So what do they say ?

The bottom line though is that the issues with the council need to be sorted as they just hang over the whole club, get that sorted and then we can start to move the club forward. We do need to up the quality of players we are singing though to do that takes money, just look at how much Leigh have spent this year, we cannot match that and now the Canadians are chucking big money around the pot of available quality players just got smaller.

I agree the council issue needs to be solved but it can't be the be all and end all of our Stratergy.

On players your spot on, but it should be the BOD telling us this rather than letting fans guess our aims. If we can't afford to compete then fine, but be explicit not silent.

Please don't let a petty squabble with the council smokescreen this season's failures.