The way it seems from a Trinity fan looking into Boston is as follows:
Boston are now no more than an average BSN club playing in a ground which they do not own, pay extortionate rent on and are struggling to maintain. I believe youhave 5 years left on the lease and are then looking to move to a ground you would ultimately own.
So what will the new ground be like? Well unless you suddenly get an investor with 10 times the spending power of Peter Swann I dont forsee your new ground being much more than the one he anticipated building for Trinity. So we are therefor talking a 4000-5000 capacity with only the required number of seats to make the ground grading criteria installed.
The ground will be out of town and you will therefore lose the "nothing else to do crowd" that may attend on a Saturday.
The ground will need to be financed and whilst your chairman istrying to source funding and partnerships some of the costs will have to come from the football club. Some of your operating revenue will therefore be taken up in paying off this debt.
Your team is withering away and your manager appears to be signing unknowns in desperation of trying to get results and as a result you are sliding further and further down the league table.
So what does all this mean?
In 5 years time (hopefully if you manage to build it) you will be playing in a smaller, more suitable ground not much bigger tahn the Northolme. Your attendances will have dwindelled due to lack of squad investment and a move out of town leaving you with less income yet still huge amounts to pay out in finance. The road to the big time begins to look more and more bleak and you begin to feed on every scrap of success you can get.
It hurts I know, as a trinity fan looking at clubs around us getting success isnt nice but in the end you have to take stock and realise its not where you have come from that is important but where you are going.
Boston need to ditch the "big club" attitude and realise that the sooner they start thinking "Tinpot" the sooner they WILL begin to make the climb back to where you feel you belong
Thanks for taking the time talk about our club, AGAIN. Starting to think Trinity are obsessed with us. In fact most of your baseless claims were a cynical attempt to justify your own ill thought out business plan.
The way it seems to a Boston fan looking in on your club is that you are spending well beyond your means, have had Little to no success despite it, but still spend the majority of your time bragging to Boston and Lincoln fans that you are the future of the county. When your big spending finally yields some success with an achievement of note, your fans come out "in their masses" and swell the home support to 1100.... Wow! All that investment has really paid off, you are making giant strides!!
Gainsborough is a small town which will never be able to support a club much higher than where you are now. If Anything proves that poiny it was the attendance yesterday, which was a golden opportunity for the people of Gainsborough to step up and show their support. They failed miserably. Ask yourselves this, had the roles been reversed, what kind of support do you think Boston would of had? The minute Mr Swann withdraws his financial backing you will freefall back to where you are now. you are the equivent of an economic bubble, your value has been falsely inflated and will eventually burst and find its true value.
What ever you say about the Evans era is fine. In my opinion it's below the belt though as you won't find many, if any pilgrims fans who are not ashamed of it. One thing you can't deny though is the way the Boston public supported their club during that period and in the years following. When you look at what this club has been through over the last few years the fact we still regularly get double your crowds and exceed some of those in the Conference Prem must "hurt" you and tells me we are still a massive club at this level. This club still has bags of potential, much more than yours, and when the correct formula is found we will be back on track.