Re: How sad

By Arthur14/6/2023 10:46Wed Jun 14 10:46:01 2023In response to Re: How sad

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I will agree that Joe Dixon was bad for the club. The promises he made crumbled to dust. His investments were ill advised. Before anyone says what investment - just remember his first appointee as manage (30k salary, company car etc) had no knowledge of managing any team, let alone a team at our (then) level. However, Joe is NOT the only one responsible for our demise. The history books show that Staines Town football Club owned the freehold of Wheatsheaf park.

I am sad because we were promised one team in Staines. There will be none. If you had an interest in football, or your children had an interest, and you live in Staines, where would you go for your football? would you choose to go to Addlestone Moor to watch Surrey Premier League football because a team there has Staines in its name. You could go the Spelthorne Sports for Combined Counties .... or if you want to travel a few miles, would you go to Walton, Hampton, Bedfont, Hanworth, Ogham etc? I can only see the team folding as the existing fan base ages.

Lets not leave in a complete gloom:

A Yorkshireman's dog dies and as it was a favourite pet he decides to have a gold statue made by a jeweller to remember the dog by.

Yorkshireman: "Can tha mek us a gold statue of yon dog?"

Jeweller: "Do you want it 18 carat?"

Yorkshireman: "No I want it chewin' a bone, yer daft bugger!"