I'm in complete agreement with most of this post, I, personally posted a few times before the seasons start, that our full time status wouldn't be any guarantee of success, we, as a club, team, have to earn the right to win games, think most fans knew that, there was always going to be a bit of misplaced arrogance unfortunately.Shangull wrote: ↑02 Sep 2018, 16:31 Mellow Yellow and Forever TUFC...[dropshadow=blue]our current the point isn't whether you can attract the best part time talent but whether part time talent is better than full time talent or simply whether we could attract better part time talent than full time talent.[/dropshadow] Loan signings may be the way and to become some form of development club for Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol City, Bristol Rovers, Swindon but we are a low way down the football pyramid for league clubs to loan for anything beyond a short period. There's no easy answer but it's going to take some great leadership off the field by club and team management and that's something which is a concern. If anyone is still in the belief that as a full time team we should be beating part time teams with ease then we've all had a rude awakening. It's getting a bit tiring to hear fans talking of this and the constant poor support of our team on the pitch.
However when you say there's no easy answer, and your right, there isn't, that point is valid to the part I've highlighted. Any decision to stay full-time or go part-time, has been, and will be again in the future one of the most important decisions our club can make, a decision our club can't afford to get wrong, all I am saying, and I belief M/Y also, is for our club to go part-time would be a huge gamble, if it were to backfire, it would cost our club it's future as a potential NLP/EFL football club.
And this relevant also, to get a better standard of part-time player, than the current crop of full-time players, the club 'would' have to attract the best part-time players, which would mean, regardless of where we train, competing, with Woking, Dartford, Chelmsford, and a numbers London/Greater London based clubs in the NLP.
Training near London would help, but if your top goalscorer is say, an IT systems manager, would he be able to leave work at midday, or even get the day off to play for TUFC at home on Tuesday night, when he could work all day and still make the kick-off as a Dartford player.
The reason why we all agree about moving the training base every time this subject comes up, believe we all agree the jobs market around these parts would not support top class part-time football, and the pool of suitable part-time players is far, far too small.
Any switch to part-time football, in the my opinion, believe many would agree, will not be the quick and easy fix some think it would be ( not aimed at you )