The footnote of course here is that these latest numbers are in respect of the 2017 season. I suspect the numbers look even better for 2018 with a number of players/staff off our books.

I made a point of thanking David personally after the Halifax game and I am sure others have done the same. The sport owes him a huge debt of gratitude and in the sweep of history he will be recognised as a key figure in the game's southern development.

In the present climate, it feels right that we should bring one or two, or a consortium of additional private equity investors on board to take the club where it needs to be. Despite all the hard work, it now feels like we have another huge mountain to climb to sustain the success - that will require great investment. It's no criticism of people working as hard as they can, bit the current quality of the marketing and match day experience are nowhere near good enough to compete with the other attractions available in London.

Nothing antagonistic at all. Stating a fact, without mr Hughes we would not be in SL next year, last year without Mr Hughes we would not have been playing in a wedding venue in front of 800 fans.
Without Mr Hughes we would be a name in the history books playing nowhere with no fans.

I think CMG might be getting at, that without Hughes we may well have already been in SL, at a quality stadium, playing in front of a few thousand.

Those are your opinions not facts.

If David Hughes had not chosen the only first season in years that we could get relegated in, to throw his toys out of the pram. Then with decent recruitment we would not have been relegated in the first place.

My point exactly.......I regard Mr Hughes as a patron of the club and do not doubt that our existence so much as it is, is down to his "largesse" but he is as much the cause of the problem as he is a half solution......
If he spends £1,250,000 a year on us.....give me half of that and inside 5 years, I'll reduce his "required" income by 50%.......inside 15 years we'd be self sustaining.....he doesn't want the club to be self sustaining though....IMHO!