[Devongone]

If DA finances Sheridan to add three or four decent players to our squad I'm guessing he will save us from relegation. But to be honest I reckon that if I was backed to recruit a few players I could save us (and on the cheap!) too. I don't think there is a vast gulf between the teams in this league, but a few strategic small-ish things can make the difference between winning and losing every week. One is full-time training, so a club like Braintree is playing catch-up from the start. Another is simply attitude. Because of DA the club has been presenting a losing face to the world. Players aren't daft, they know when they are on a loser. If suddenly everything is going to pretend to be hunky-dory that is a pretty big step forward.

My own disillusionment stems from DA having either deliberately, or accidentally, not only bound the club to himself, but also himself to the club. And I can't see a ready way out other than as SpireMatt says one of us winning Euromillions. My plan would be to buy out the club, clear all the debt Mr Allen created to himself, set the club on a sound financial and playing footing and turn it into a fan-owned enterprise which could never again fall into private hands. But dreams are fine. The reality is that whilst DA has the power of life and death over us, we are very heavy stones weighing down his pockets, a little too valuable simply to discard. As things are he can decide to make us succeed and we may well do it, but essentially nothing would have changed.