Is it really a dereliction of duty to maintain the status quo?

...which is being a reasonably decent, financially stable, prudently managed club?

Or would it be a dereliction of this 'duty' to put all that at risk in the hope that a rich foreign benefactor will endlessly pump in money and maintain us at a level that can't be sustained organically (and hope that such benefactor doesn't buy the wrong players, appoint the wrong manager, get bored, run out of money, or die etc) - because what happens when the money runs out? Hope you can find another rich benefactor?

Is the aim of the game to win trophies/promotion 'at all costs', or is it to be the best club we can be 'within our means'?

I bet you'd get a myriad of very opposing views on what the greater good for this club would be. For instance being a well run, solvent big fish in a small pond is probably something that many, many clubs at our level and below us would aspire to.

Clubs don't (or at least don't primarily) get sold to foreign businessmen because the selling parties want to put the club and community first. They do it because they are offered a bucket load of cash (or an escape route from losing bucket loads of cash).

Posted By: CWC, Aug 5, 10:30:26