If the majority of this is true lets hope that the gamble AG may be taking works out how he wants it, as soon as Newmarket gets the go ahead the better.

Not just fozzard and tt but the new lottery manager to run the 1873 even though we still have no idea if the money from the lottery scheme is being used for junior development because the club does not seem to want to tell us.

Having read through this thread its hard to know if most of it is a load of rubbish or there should be genuine cause for concern. The supporters trust was set up to represent us at times like this and I would hope they would be meeting the club ASAP. Awkward questions need to be asked and hopefully answereed so people can get to the truth.

What we dont want is threads like this to run and run.

Very much so. Such a shame they don't have a seat on the board.

Indeed

Unfortunately as with the tax fiasco, I am not sure we can rely on getting a truthful answer

Perhaps a fans forum could Sort this out?

The Supporters Trust were asking a few weeks ago what format/guests fans wanted for a supporters evening. Since then silence, so meeting organised or more information given.

This^^^^^

The more things change, the more things stay the same. Still got a culture of jobs for friends and family, still spending what we haven't got.

Of course, we can't compete without a sugar daddy, no-one but the very best run business in a larger area than us could do, but as long as everyone is aware of that, and we work within those parameters, it's fine. Not ideal, not perfect, but we haven't challenged the top table for decades, I doubt we'd get upset if that didn't change until the medium-long term.

Marketing only works with substance, "Together we are stronger" was always just words on a page.

They only seem to happen when everything is looking good and positive.

Do we know the actual details of the sponsorship deal with Eric France? How much money were we owed from him? How long was it not getting paid for? This would have been factored in to the budget and could be responsible for a few of these rumors.

Good point, we need someone from the club to be honest with us, we do not want the dark days to return

But as has already been said, we knew about the shortfall before we hired fozzard, tt and the new lottery manager and offered contract extensions on more money to existing players. So whilst the shortfall in sponsorship has undoubtedly left a hole, the club seem to be making it larger which is rank bad management

We really needed the lotto manager, cas have near on 3k members and we have 779 paid up members. That's one heck of a difference in income already.