Have we all forgotten that we made back-to-back (either side of the abandoned season) play-off finals before last season’s dud campaign? People speak as though we’re a million miles away but over the last 13 years we’ve repeatedly made the play-offs and multiple managers have proven that can be achieved on the resources provided by the club.
Those resources are only growing thanks to the new ground so I find it hard to accuse the board of allowing the club to drift. David Newton didn’t commit the goalkeeping howler against Altrincham, Chris Cook didn’t throw away the first leg lead at North Ferriby and Neil Kempster didn’t miss a penalty against Guiseley. Only two teams can be promoted and eventually we’ll have our day. The board can’t guarantee we’ll win any given game. They can give a manager the means to build a team capable of winning promotion, and I think they do, given we’ve twice been 90 minutes away from going up.
I’d have preferred a bigger end terrace but as has been pointed out, we had to move anyway and could well have ended up with a tinpot ground given the club didn’t have any assets or money. The main stand, the pitch, the floodlights, the concourses with the nods to our history, the 5G facility… the club’s got a brilliant new ground all things considered, and after 2007 I am still thankful just to have a Boston United who I can watch lose 3-1 to Bamble Warriors on a nippy Saturday in February.
