The K's In Point

Re: NEW GROUND NEXT SEASON

By Yioryos Out18/3 15:46Wed Mar 18 15:46:27 2026In response to Re: NEW GROUND NEXT SEASON

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Agreed, the death knell and the inevitable result of a process of managed decline.

The sad thing is the apparent lack of dissent. A few forum posts here, half-a-dozen social media replies. People have basically given up.

I’d suggest there is just simply little to give up on at this point.

It's been nearly a decade since we left Kingston with only a brief return to play in the borough. A club that bear the name and claim the history of Kingstonian but really have nothing to do with the town of Kingston and little appeal for its residents. What really is the entity that is left? The club admit that the distance to Ashford isn't ideal. But that's not the whole issue, it's something more fundamental than that. Is a Kingstonian that exist touring the grounds of South West London and the home counties really that much more desirable at this point, with no end in sight to that nomadic existence than no Kingstonian at all?

Even if we somehow went on a stunning run of form and got promoted to the National League South, and assuming we could find a ground of that standard to play at, what would be the point? Winning the league in Middlesex to me at least would mean very little. It’s just not why I follow this level of football and I’d wager it’s true of many others.

Add into that for some of this period, awful communication/fan engagement from the club, and outright insults from the chairman and his supporters and you're left with a sense that your support is neither desired nor especially required. I would maintain that in a sense Ks gave up on me not the other way round.

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