English please..

And that is the most important part. No club winning trophies regular would ever be denied a franchise, and success on the pitch generally creates success of it (if it isn't there already), generally though, they go hand in hand. Which is why it's so baffling, you have everything going off the field but continually medicore on it.

I can understand your frustrations. Your board need to show more ambition, sign a top aussie coach and try and sign some top english talent.

and I get the impression they're happy with that.

Crowds are good, you're profitable, you're a grade, top facilties etc.

When you think about it, why wouldn't the board be happy?

Seems the peasants ain't.

Well, financial stability and infrastructure is key, hence the turnover, solvency and stadium criteria being 3 points vs 1 for contribution to competition. If it were a choice, I'd rather the board secured the future of the club's existence rather than a short term spend-a-thon at the expense of ramping up debt.

But

We are allegedly spending up to the cap, so can't really say the board/coach are scrimping on the squad, rather they are making the wrong choices and not getting the balance right. Seemingly our reserves set-up is better than average by SL standards. Our community programme is very good. The fundamental unanswered question is why we don't spend another £100k pa over and above what Agar's on on a top class coach. We're already profitable and the fans respond in putting more money into the club through attendances and merchandise when we get a bit of success as evidenced in 2006 and 2008 CC. The role of the coach is absolutely key, and in the salary cap era the key differentiator between clubs. Why only the fans can see this and the board can't/won't is absolutely unbelievable.

The reality is we are A Grade in every aspect apart from our coach!