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Chairman New Year message
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Given we didn’t get a Christmas message - not even a Merry Christmas, odds on a new year message after the rollercoaster year.
First half more Ls than seen countdown & second half multiple wins especially away from home to celebrate.
If not HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all
See you tomorrow (weather permitting of course)
Edited by KsOllie at 22:48:25 on 31st December 2024
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The Chairman gave a message to Ks fans at Hayes & Yeading FC back in October, when he told them “It’s my club, not yours. If you don’t like it, fuck off and start your own club.”
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Lest we forget the former Board's message 10 years ago:
"After much long and careful thought Ks Board have come to the conclusion that the best long-term interests of our club would be served by us taking this opportunity to leave Kingsmeadow.
"It is important for all to know that our search for a new facility is well underway and progress has been made. Otherwise the process could be lengthy and frustrating as clubs such as Horsham and Cray have discovered."
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such a terrible mistake and a betrayal
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The fact is they didn’t just leave Kingsmeadow, they left the Borough of Kingston. We’ve got no plans to return to the Borough currently and so we’ve constantly been lied to by current and previous boards.
They made this disgraceful decision due to the money the club received from AFC Wimbledon which we were led to believe for years that this was ring-fenced to get a ground of our own.
Then the admission last year that pretty much half the money had been spent in just 7 years on rent, players wages, running costs-you name it they spent it.
Finally a recent admission on here from a board member that they are still using that money to pay the rent. Many of us also questioning whether that money is also being used on playing budgets etc.
I really like Scott and this team, despite the lies about toxic fan behaviour spouted by this shambles of a board, the fans have really got behind this team with great fondness. But we also worry whether this is a false sense of security given the money which was meant to secure our long term future is being quickly eroded for completely the wrong purpose!
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I sympathise with the feelings that have been expressed about leaving Kingsmeadow and I understand why many feel it was a terrible decision as I felt similarly at the time. However part of me also struggles to see how clinging on at Kingsmeadow would have gone any way towards solving the fundamental problem that Kingstonian FC has of having no home ground to call its own. It needs to be remembered that the club at the time of leaving Kingsmeadow were only tenants. There was never any realistic prospect of getting ownership of Kingsmeadow back and staying would have just delayed the inevitable day whereby the club had to leave.
I agree with the criticisms expressed of how the AFCW money has been spent. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that leaving Kingsmeadow could not in some circumstances have been the correct decision. If something along the lines of the approach advocated by Mr Dormer in his interview with the Supporters Club recently of concentrating on obtaining a new ground and preserving the AFCW money solely for this reason rather than using it to supplement the playing budget and other expenses (and cutting the cloth accordingly) had been implemented then it may just have been possible that Kingstonian FC by now could have been playing in its own ground.
Edited by Nick Garland at 07:53:01 on 3rd January 2025
Edited by Nick Garland at 07:54:12 on 3rd January 2025
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I still believe ground ownership is a huge red herring
I don’t own the building my shop runs from, but I have a profitable sustainable business right in the middle of Kingston.
a long term tennancy at a stadium in the middle of Kingston is the only sensible option but still we pretend owning a purpose built ground is in anyway possible
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Strictly speaking we didn’t own Kingsmeadow - wasn’t it council owned? And West Ham only have a 99 year lease (runs out 2112)
I think it’s a traditional thing with any fan of any club.
Think this is a fair point and can’t see why it can’t be explored- ideally a multi-use stadium with community access too
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RBK should be ashamed of themselves for poor sport facilities in the Borough.
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yes and no
I could tell you a thing or two about a certain leisure provision, but on the football club it’d be a considerably poorer Council if they gave time and money to a private company which had squandered ownership and stated its best interest is away from Kingston
fact is there’s about 200 RBK taxpayers who would benefit from it
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All of which neatly sums up why we need new ownership. If our Directors (past and present) are unable to come up with a strategy better than "I've sent an email" or "I've fucked up our chances with the YMCA", perhaps we need to try harder.
A new team in charge of Kingstonian could present the Council with a compelling business case, built on community ownership of community assets, returning a clear benefit to the area. We could leverage what remains of the AFCW money to invest in facilities that would support youth, women's and men's football.
Who knows, perhaps we could even provide a new venue for live music in the Borough??
SACK THE BOARD
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But how would we be able to
SACK the BOARD as you quite
rightly say.
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Storm the boardroom and frog-march them (whoever is in attendance) onto the pitch and publicly humiliate them. I leave it to others to devise a suitable punishment.
Keith.
Why worry, be happy.
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Basically "SACK THE BOARD" is shorthand for "we're sick of the way the Club is being run and we want change". Yioryos (and those who prop up his failing regime) are alienating supporters, sponsors and investors. Many are staying away from home games, many refusing to buy season tickets or shirt sponsorship.
The Club is dying. Propped up by what little remains of AFCW's blood money, it can probably limp on in this way for another 5 years. The alternative is either a breakaway club (many already advocate this) or waiting until it inevitably dies, and rebuilding from the ashes as a phoenix club.
We had this same discussion last year. Nothing has changed.
SACK THE BOARD
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The club has been the master of its own downfall. The mess it's in is an inglorious line back to the mismanagement of the club long before the current board who have continued ( and maybe hastened) the decline.
Ksuals
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I think the club has been well managed to near oblivion, the board since Jim Cochrane have expertly dismantled the club and bleeding it dry of what little there was,supporters club funds,with expensive travel,and then the playing arrangement back to AFCW for 150000 pounds, well managed.
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It's not their place to provide a ltd company with a football ground, plenty of grounds for grassroot clubs .
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Totally agree about Scott and the team. It has been a joy watching good football again. However, success on the pitch provides no security whatsoever, let alone a false one. Promotion would only result in increased running costs while any increased income from larger attendances /sponsorship is debatable at best. Such security can only come from having our own ground. In my humble opinion, it matters not one jot whether or not RPV is acceptable for step 3, we need our own home on which to secure our future.
I love non-league football and hate to see any club fold, not least my local club, but in the 6 years or so that I have been following Ks I have witnessed the team fall from a decent position in the Premier division, a dwindling fanbase, low supporter morale and a shrinking pot of Womble gold. It feels like the club is slowly fading like the flames of a fire with nothing to burn.
While the club, like any other business, may be the property of its owners and shareholders, the supporters are the club’s customers, and with no customers the business cannot survive. So come on Board, let’s hear from you. What developments, if any, have there been since the Hawker announcement all those months ago?
Anyway, Happy New Year to one and all and bring on Farnham Town (pitch/weather permitting)
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It is the classic “boiling frog” scenario. As the Wombles money is depleted each season the heat slowly gets turned up. In about ten years I fully expect the Ks to finally die. In some ways I don’t want promotion because that will just lead to bigger losses (the higher up the pyramid you go the more money Club’s lose) which brings forward the date the Wombles money pot dries up. In any case I have severe doubts that RPVs ground will pass the step 3 grading unless Ks throw away more money upgrading it to the necessary standard.
Things may look rosey on the pitch, or at least they do when the team is actually allowed to step onto the pitch, but I agree with Filipo that this just gives us a false sense of security. A long, slow death for the Ks suits the Directors. If there was an obvious, immediate and more severe crisis fans and interested local parties may urgently rally to help. Instead we just limp on until our inevitable demise. Happy New Year!
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"Boiling frogs"? Yes and no.
Plenty of Ks fans have been saying for the last 10 years that the Club's very existence is in doubt, after Mark Anderson made the calamitous decision to leave Kingsmeadow voluntarily, without a new home in the Borough secured.
Yiorg's takeover last year has merely made a bad situation worse. And sadly, the Board continue to draw down what little remains of the Wombles money.
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Accrington, Bedford and Leamington all reformed playing on park pitches to start with. This is what any reformed Ks team should do. The new club would a) be playing in Kingston, b) not be blowing money on expensive groundshares and c) establishing a regular base that would build support and aid any future stadium plans, I'm sure Leamington could offer sound advice on this.
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