This whole thing saddens me.
There are so many reasons why not to renew, and despite what I said in a post earlier on this thread my gut is churning at the thought of not renewing after all these years and I really do want to renew - despite the financial issues I would find the money from somewhere if it came down to it.
But I just can't get over the fact that after a sustained period of utter boll ocks from Unc Ron and with the 99% prospect of much worse to come I just cannot justify renewing either ruled by heart or head. We are not unused to behind the scenes mistrust at Roots - but Ron takes the pi ss, drinks it and asks for more.
Further, and this is the really sad part, there is just no way that a 10% hike makes any financial sense whatsoever. Never, and how the Shrimpers Trust thought that any such uninventive approach would lead to anything else but more financial ruin is beyond belief. It is like we are on a downward spiral that won't stop, less ST sales means less income means poorer players means lower league position means lower income means ,,,,,,,,,,, It would not take a genius to stop this self perpetuating destructive spiral - just reach out Ron, confess, stop the rot, take actions that show the supporters you care (and who without you face financial ruin), and from there watch the Club take-off on a renewed wave of optimism that is just waiting to burst out if only you had the sense to see it.
Like a player who fails to put effort in for a game they only have to play once or twice a week I fail to see why the SUFC powers that be, with only SUFC to focus on, cannot see common sense. What world are they living in? All the bankers support London premiershite - I suspect the number of SUFC fans who have seen a 10% increase in earnings over the last year is negligible, instead I suspect that most like me have seen a take home pay drop in real if not in hard cash terms over a sustained longer two/three year period. BBC's Panorama programme can be a bit sensationalist at times, but what it spouted out last night was real, I work with all sorts of companies from all sorts of areas, and if anything the economic financial downturn is greater than what they portrayed. Has someone taken away all access to media so that they all think they are living in the relative boom times of 2006? Unreal.
My decision not to renew is not one which shows dis-loyalty, it is a gut-wrenching decision that I and many others have been left with little other option but to make. We will still support the Club come what may and go when we can, but staying away without the pull of the ST taking us there out of habit if nothing else in such times means that it is more difficult to go when there are other family commitments and you no longer have the ST card to play.
God this is awful. Ron, Tara, you are complete clueless XXXXXXX.
UTB, always
