Lewes are f**ked

[zoogull]

I thought there was a buy-out headed by the Supporters Club chairman, or at least some money being offered? Or are the current board resisting all overtures? Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

I don't know the full story, can someone enlighten me please?

 

[Gully]

Interesting comment about Crawley, they seem to have been making some decent additions to their squad so far, expect them to surprise a few people next season...think they may just make the play-offs.

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

The player signed from worthing is goalkeeper Rikki Banks, who with a competent team (not lewes) is easily conference material.

Dont knock players just because they're from worthing. Nowt wrong with them, we have talent

 

[severnside gull]

The player signed from worthing is goalkeeper Rikki Banks, who with a competent team (not lewes) is easily conference material.

Dont knock players just because they're from worthing. Nowt wrong with them, we have talent

well said


with a combination of players from lowewr leagues with a bit to prove and some older and more experienced heads, Lewes could surprise people and keep afloat in football terms.

The key issue is not to spend so much money that you don't have that you end up going out of business completely.....a much worse option than simply being relegated.

 

[eastie]

thing is that whats the point of Lewes spending vast amounts of money on the playing budget when they are going to get relegated anyway due to them not being able to get an A grading on their ground by the end of the season

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

thing is that whats the point of Lewes spending vast amounts of money on the playing budget when they are going to get relegated anyway due to them not being able to get an A grading on their ground by the end of the season

Quite. Might as well run the club into the ground so a property developer can say nobody goes to the games anymore so I might as well build some flats there.

Hard to get angry on behalf of Lewes fans anymore. They've had the stark truth pointed out to them. They prefer to ignore it, hope it'll go away. They're just rolling over, not believing it will ever happen to them.

Oh well, can't save all of the people, all of the time

 

[Lord Bracknell]

A letter in today's Sussex Express has it right:-

In rejecting a takeover bid which would have restored the fortunes of Lewes Football Club, Martin Elliott has revealed his motives with an astonishing frankness.

He is, he revealed, 'currently negotiating with Lewes District Council about the possibility of taking over the trust which owns the football ground and surrounding area.'

Mr Elliott's co-director at the club, Kevin Powell, has been equally open about why the club is important to them.

'The football club was a catalyst for us,' he told the press. 'Active Lewes and the sporting hub – that's where our interests and our passions lay.'

Active Lewes is an exciting vision of a 'sporting village' for the south east, with an indoor athletics track and cricket pitches, a pavilion, a restaurant and so on, all to be built on land behind the Dripping Pan. There are lucrative building contracts at stake.

Martin Elliott is a partner of Rees Elliott which (legitimately) is busy developing any spare pockets of dead land it can find in the town. It should not be allowed to muscle-in on land given in perpetuity to the people of Lewes.

If the club were a charity owned and run by its supporters there might be an arguable case for conflating its interests with those of the local residents for whom the trust was established. In reality, however, the club is effectively Rees Elliott FC – as the events of the past weeks have put into stark relief.

Mr Elliott has admitted that the club's success has taken him by surprise. He and his co-directors didn't need a Conference National team as a launch-pad for Active Lewes. They would rather run the club down financially, with immediate relegation almost a certainty, than sell to a consortium which promised substantial funding and the return of the most successful manager in its history.

It's his train set unfortunately – but the hundreds of devastated supporters who have followed the Rooks these past few years (and some for a lifetime) feel as if they have been shunted into a remote siding and been forced to walk home in the rain.

They will never forgive councillors who forget their duty and fail to protect the town's recreational facilities from the clutch of opportunistic developers.

David Arscott, Lewes

 

[mattyk]

Not all Lewes fans are rolling over and letting the board f*** them! The problem is we just don't have enough passionate fans who are willing to fight the bad, were no way near having enough power to do what you guys did to archer and bellotti, although having just read build a bonfire it has given me ideas. Sack the board!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Not all Lewes fans are rolling over and letting the board f*** them! The problem is we just don't have enough passionate fans who are willing to fight the bad, were no way near having enough power to do what you guys did to archer and bellotti, although having just read build a bonfire it has given me ideas. Sack the board!

Jeez! How many TIMES? Form a damn Supporters Trust! Probably only takes about three of you or something. For a town that manages to arrange seamless bonfire society stuff year in year out, shouldn't pose THAT much of a challenge. Stop the property developer spivs taking control of The Dripping Pan freehold, and their pathetic Active Lewes trojan horse with the long term vision of building rabbit hutches for commuters on the ground where the Pan currently stands will all fall apart. Can't make it any clearer really

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

thing is that whats the point of Lewes spending vast amounts of money on the playing budget when they are going to get relegated anyway due to them not being able to get an A grading on their ground by the end of the season