Winning the Trophy or gaining promotion?
9 out of 10 times I would go for promotion but this year I'm not so sure.
I think that winning the trophy and all that goes with it could be more benificial to us at this stage of our rebuilding process than gaining promotion.
If we gain promotion we have a lot of big changes to consider, larger playing budget with not much more income and whether to go full time or not is one of the big ones. We don't yet have firm plans for relocation, I think we need this, and the extra revenue it will generate before we could compete in the top tier of non league football week in week out, if promotion came this season I would take it but I think it could be too quick.
Winning the trophy, or reaching the final would give the club a much needed financial boost and really put us back on the map of non league football. This would lift the town and raise the profile of the club in the community, it would help swing public opininon in our favour when some of these hard planning decisions have to be made for relocation, (remember cuckoo land or whatever they were called).
Reading our managers comments on not having a budget to compete for promotion I'm wondering how many more rounds we will go before the trophy becomes more important than the league.
After saying that I don't see why we can't do both promotion and trophy
What would you prefer?