Went to school with them and sat next to Toby! Both were always head and shoulders above everyone else. A crime we never picked them up. Although, off the top of my head they were fartown fans when I was a kid (actually, nobody was. I think it was just me and one other girl in my year in the whole school...)

Would say it probably does make a differences, 5000 extra fans wont cost that much more in terms of match day stewarding. (Wishy may be able to shed some light here) 5000 extra fans paying say an average of £10 each is £50,000 multiply that by the number of games...... It's well over 1/2 a million - that's a lot of extra cash that could go towards the academy.
£10 is probably an underestimation as as well as gate money there will be extra merchandise sales from those supporters too.

So you are critisising the club for not releasing a player from his contract-Weren't you critical about Thewlis releasing LOD from his contract?????

We didn't force him or his parents to sign the original contract. He signed a contract to play for the Giants u19s with no promises of a full time contract - are you saying players shouldn't be made to honour contracts? If Thewlis had just said yeah go on, off you go, what precedent does that set? Would that put the club in a good light? Pointless having contracts in that case. if his father did have to spend 10k buying out his contract then it's not as if the lad was getting nothing is it- so hardly a slave.
why make out that not giving a player a contract is something that only has happened at the Giants. Lots of U19 players don't make it at one club- may make it at another. We've signed a few of those ourselves.....

So it looks like the financial burden won't be taken away from Sir Ken any time soon.

Yet he seems to be okay to continue being a philanthropist to this town year after year,despite not getting the backing from enough of the people.

Should we mess up these M8's (which I don't think we will) reckon Sir Ken will walk away, just going by the fact that he nearly quit after the relegation under Tony Smith all them years back.

Personally I buy an ST early just to give my support to Sir Ken,then think about my holiday dates and any other things that might clash.