Mr Fawcett stated that it was a cash flow issue that has been cleared. We have to take his comments at face value until proved otherwise.

This steamed from a listing in the courts for a winding up order against us. Like you the chairman responded and advised that it did relate to late PAYE payments and that the petition was thrown out of court as the matter had been settled.

This is a difficult one for all clubs but when you look around at a lot of other clubs in this league and the league below at least they are trying when it comes to commercial/marketing. Please don't read this as though I know it all because I don't but we are a million miles away from a lot of other clubs when it comes to things off the field. During my time at the club and I don't want to go in to all the details but I feel I have to say this just to try and clear up a few questions. I was pretty successful in bringing in sponsorship for the club which with all the deals I had sealed totalled 48k and I still have proof of what I achieved, now this amount was more than enough to cover my salary for the year and this wasn't including what I brought in regarding matchday hospitality and matchday through entertainment. For some strange reason the club have cut back that much and got rid of that much staff which a lot of it I do agree with because there was a lot of money just been paid out to every tom, dick and harry. The one thing you can't get rid of is the commercial/marketing role of a business wether its me or who ever, there comes a point when you have to speculate to accumulate and unfortunately the club is just living on and has been living on since I left matchdays which I don't care what anyone says this is not viable.

In my opinion things have gone great on the pitch for us, ok we have lost a few games that we should have won but not even the teams at the top can go unbeaten, we really need to sort out the stuff of the field and quickly. I don't think we will ever get back the cougarmania era and to be honest I don't think that would be good for us, yes them days were great and everything about it was fantastic. My first game was the wet good friday that was packed out and I will never forget that night as long as I live along with the wembley trips we went on as kids with Mary Calvert but I do believe we can create something new for 2013 and I have to say a massive chance has been missed in doing this with JD. It has been said on here that the likes of JD and korki won't be missed but honestly without JD last season we would have not won promotion, yes its team work but he won a lot of them games for us and to be honest as one of the players said in the last Q&A he has brought a lot of discipline and proffessionalism to the club that as actually laid a marker down for us.

The directors have done a lot of work of the last few years which ok a lot of it I might not agree with but at the same time with regards to the ground and some of the facilities they have revamped what was looking tired and dated. I just think they are missing a trick with getting the cougar namebrand out there and that is never going to happen until you have someone working on the commercial/marketing side of the club along with merchandise and matchday entertainment. This can't be done by the directors as they all have there own companies and I don't think volunteers for this position is the way forward because one of my biggest hurdles on meeting new or old sponsors was the continuity that they wanted and the amount of times someone said "how long are you here for".

It is all about cutting corners, doing things on the cheap because towards the end I even put a proposal in to have my salary nearly halved for a year but they still chose someone else on commission only that lasted a matter of weeks.

Sometimes when you look through out sport in general some clubs just come to a stand still and don't seem to be moving forward, then you have to ask the question is it time for a change, have the current board/management taken the club as far as they can. It is only the same as a coach, you might get a coach that can be excellent in championship 1 but is out of his depth in the championship.

That read's like a hostile takeover speech?

I have just had to read my post again and I would be happy for you to point out what part of it sounds like an hostile takeover????? Like many on here and across the town if I had just won the lottery I would be the first at the clubs doors but unfortunately until that day comes I would never have the money for an hostile takeover. If it reads bad then I am sorry to have affended anyone but I don't paint pretty little pictures of things that aren't pretty, I have praise for gary and the guys but at the same time I don't agree with everything that goes on.

All I tried to do in the last post was to answer some questions that keeps getting asked like why are we not marketing, who works at the club, where is the merchandise and so on. All I am saying is I worked there and brought enough in to cover the salary and more and over the season would have only acheived more for the club but at the end of the day it is all about cut backs all the time and I don't think its needed especially now we are in a better position than last year according to all the press that gary has been putting out over the last couple of weeks.

But please feel free to correct me on anything that I have said wrong or that is making it feel like a takeover speech,

Chill your boots Rob it was only tongue and cheek, albeit, the above quotes did make me think you were suggesting a takeover was needed. Maybe I misread it.