There has been a pandemic you know!
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Which weâre well-placed to take advantage of, just like after the ITV Digital collapse.
OhâŚ
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Thereâs a certain few on here who will still place the fans as the main reason for this absolute horror show. 
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Donât worry we are giving it ANOTHER go next year
Let hope the season after isnât us âgiving it a goâ to get out the National League!
We wouldnât get out of thereâŚ
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In terms of continuing that shameful run I think we might just halt the decline in terms of league position. However, I suspect we shanât get more points than last year. We need another three points to match last year so four more to beat last year. Which from the three games we have left would require an upturn. Our hope in that regard is that Swindon have well and truly blown it by the time they arrive on the last day.
And just on the board. I think they care and I think the ones who work day to day genuinely put a shift in. I think they really want the club to move forward. The problem is that they donât know how to do it. They have the will but not the skill. And one without the other doesnât work. In many ways when it is skill rather than will missing, making change is harder because you see people pulling their tripe out and your instinct is to back them. But to succeed you canât walk past continued failure. If you do, then you firstly become part of and ultimately completely the problem.
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This needs bringing up at the next WPM to see how what ideas Pomlett has to stop this decline. He needs to work harder at getting investors in.
Good post but if an organisation doesnât have the skills at the top it is incumbent on those at the top to bring in people with the skills which are lacking.
The programme contains a list of the various departments and their heads. It is these people who should be able to provide the missing skills. As far as the football side is concerned we now seem to have the right people in post in the Manager and the guy in charge of the Academy.
As far as other parts of the business are concerned we know the restaurant is in good shape and provides excellent meals.
As for the rest then I think we all agree that things could be much better and the Board should be looking at how to do that.
Back to the football the last 5 years have been awful but continuing decline is not inevitable and perhaps in Flynn we have a man who is capable of changing that.
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No need to panic, the last five seasons took place before the brand new, shiny Five Year Plan kicks in. As soon as Dame Omelette remembers what he did with the fag packet he scribbled it on, the plan can be implemented and everything in the garden will be rosy. Just watch us go!
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So 12 months after what was supposed to be the start of a root and branch sea change in the football side of the club, with the result that going forward we had a progressive philosophy that was successful from the academy through to the first team, with the stated aim of not simply pinning our hopes on an individual manager being the source of success/progress. Weâve arrived at âfingers crossed and Michael Flynnâ.
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I also wonder how longer Flynn will stay at the Landlords Stadium. Could see him doing a Darrel when he realises he isnât backed by the club & the old fashioned, unprofessional approach our club has to virtually everything.
Budget will be being cut as we speak, costs going up, rent going up, ST sales not as good, sponsors pulling out, etcâŚâŚ Appreciate I have no evidence of this other than history of our board btw.
Change needed in the boardroom. It really is that simple & how a failing âbusinessâ has not changed its board in decades, this would not happen in any other âbusinessâ.
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You reap what you sow, and while we still have the Grace brothers mentality within our boardroom, then we will never see any progression
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Weâve all done very well!!
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If only we could replicate their lift announcements of âgoing upâ!
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The 5 year plan is upside down!
Exactly as I feel. Flynn has a nice bit of reputational credit in the bank (as DC did) in respect of being a decent 4th division manager. That hasnât been eaten into by the fact that he took us over plummetting towards relegation and has lead us to safety quite comfortably.
I strongly suspect that over the summer and the early part of next season he will come to realise (as DC did) that an extended stay here isnât going to enhance his career prospects. I donât think we will be relegation fodder with Flynn at the helm, but if weâre mid-table or even top half his reputation will remain sufficiently intact to jump at any of the several jobs that will likely become available at this level next year, Mark Hughes at Bradford doesnât seem to be working for example, and the likes of Fleetwood and Salford could well be looking for someone if theyâre at this level and stagnated.
Hope to be proved completely wrong however. 
Well we always ask if our targets in the transfer market are freeđ
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This made me think about the longest current runs in the league without a promotion season (not counting Prem teams who donât know what a promotion season is). Weâre obviously now 15 years since our last in 2007, equal with Derby and Sunderland, with only Carlisle 2006, Colchester 2006, Ipswich 2000 and Oldham 1991(!!!) in longer dry spells.
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Someone mentioned on R5Live over the weekend that Oldham had only been promoted once since 1974, which didnât seem likely, but they were fairly static for a good while in Div 2 for the second half of the 70s and whole of the 80s and then in the third tier for 11 or 12 seasons until 2018.
They apparently havenât finished in the top half of a division since 2009. 
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