Quote: ball-in-hand "I don't believe in conspiracy theories but is very fortuitous that the announcement of the signing of Kevin Locke came at the same time as the news that this is likely to be our last season at Bellevue. The website proudly announces the new signing but no sign of the news that we are giving 6 months notice of leaving this historic ground. Unless this is just Brinkman ship ship on behalf of the club in order to get the BOI to reduce our rent and we definitely intend to sign a new lease I am afraid that MC will not go down in history as the man who signed Kevin Locke but the man who signed the death sentence of a once great club because whatever ground he might have lined up for next season very few of this year's 2000 season ticket holders willbe buying one to travel to another town every other week whatever league we are in'"
From what I've read, a fairer assessment is that he will go down as the man who ensured a financial agreement that preserved the club and made it sustainable. If what I've read is correct, if we'd stayed at Belle Vue under the current lease, we'd have died anyway.