JgFc, I think you are wrong to start pointing fingers at other people (like Bexley Council), before we start pointing fingers at the, what seems to be, recent mismanagement of this club.

I don't like Bexley council, but we have got to stop all this "help us we are in trouble" attitude you seem to have! Should bexley council have helped us out instead of building LEISURE facilities like Crook Log or Lamorbey, I think not. We get 500-600 people every fortnight, I don't think that constitutes spending a lot of money on us!

Now we have a deadline, let's start sorting this club out, for thr better and for the future, and that has got to start at the very top of the club.....it's their fault after all!

(By the way I have been a loyal wings fan for the past 21 years)

Dear Sue please could you inform the forum of your company,so we could avoid giving you any business.

Bit late...

Bexley have got to cut somthing like £25 million pounds. They have also had staff writing out their daily tasks to prove their jobs. Due to 2 of the big secondary schools going into 'special measures' a while back, Bexley are now to the tune of £40 million in debt to whoever. Any school that is not an academy is expected to help contribute to this debt...

...The link with Charlton is a shambles as well. It exists from the 'leisure link'-era and seemingly, they seem to get the green light to most things community focused...

As I'm not up to speed with these things, if Dartford council paid for their ground, do their leisure company run it? Because if so and it happened here, Parkwood would kill the facilities. They can't even run sports centres properly...

All in all, I sit with the majority here, but warn you that if ANYTHING comes out of Bexley Council within the next couple of years, start looking for the 'second coming'. The 'comprehensive spending review' in October should (he says) give some light on the country's finance's. But I have been told on good authority Bexley are 'brassic'...

Here we have a quote from another council keen on "securing the future" of one of their clubs.

"Yes, Chairman, I'm grateful to Eleanor for clarification on page 15 about the Panfield Lane Growth Location and Braintree Town Football Club, because I know there has been, er, some confusion in the press about this. And when it reads that it's not considered this is essential infrastructure, I think you've made the distinction between that and the fact that the Council is still very keen to work with the Football Club to secure its long term future and that there is still, in our proposals, a site for a community stadium working with Braintree Town Football Club."


Come on Bexley its not too late to give a shot in the arm and even discuss a community use leisure facility and stadium with pitches, tennis? driving range? etc etc.