Hitchin Town Fans Forum

Some excellent points, Chris. Yes, the club may well have to change attitudes to survive - even at Level 3.

Despite the difficulties of being a Level 2 clubs, other clubs do make the jump successfully. Yes, it would require a complete change of attitude within the club, but even Hitchin are not beyond that possibility.

I would suggest that the same attitudes have been ingrained in the club for the last 50 years. Many fans consider that is what loyalty truly is; to think otherwise is to be disloyal. Mark Burke is the epitome of loyalty, which in itself produces the same loyalty to him from others. Is this loyalty b...

Good luck to any club trying to climb up the leagues. Good luck to other clubs battling to stay where they are.

It is a forum people express opinions.

What is this obsession with just waiting for successful clubs to go bust? Hitchin will never go bust nor, more importantly, never experience real success because they are scared to leave their comfort zone. The claim of 90% of boom clubs going bust is laughable. Often these clubs do not reach their ...

I suggest those targets are already in place, even if informally. Last season was a 'successful" season using your criteria.

The problem for Hitchin is if you set the team and manager specific targets then there has to be consequences if the targets are not met. If the manager cannot genuinely recruit sufficient experienced players, partly because of not being able to pay enough in wages, the first target will always be t...

Seriously, how can the good name of the club be tainted by one or two supporters asking some questions. These are often questions that the management committee should be asking themselves on a regular basis. In a constantly changing world, many supporters probably gain comfort from the club being es...

What would real accountability from the board entail?