This thread and so many others seem to go the same way.
So there are not any facts. There is second hand information abound. The club signed a deal with Barnet at the back end of 2013. No one on here has provided any evidence that they have actually read the agreement between the two clubs. Or if they have perhaps they will print the evidence. The club has a deal as reported in the press which included a second year, the exact terms of which I really cannot be bothered to try to re-read what the press and others have stated.
One person claimed we were homeless and has now back tracked a bit. It certainly is a scenario but not the likely one.
Both clubs are now claimed to be re-negotiating the deal. Was the deal for two years or one year with an option anyone read the legal agreement (not the press, the legal agreement)? So it's being renegotiated and the club have not announced it. So the club have learnt not to make a statement about location and find no wriggle room. That should be seen as an improvement on Gus.
We only had a second year on the deal, so a new deal is being negotiated now. It is hopefully a medium term (3-4 year) or even better a longer term deal. So is that what people want, a long term and hopefully sustainable base?
Any deal will be a commercial deal and we might be paying sums of money that may or may not be similar to at the Stoop. This might suit both clubs, one on a long term stable base and the other on securing a long term tenant. The finances in the championship and the new league structure are different. Both clubs are businesses and both will try to strike a deal, in negotiating you seek to get a position that both parties are happy with. They did at the back end of 2013 and they will come to agreement this year. Whether people on here not privy to the full agreement will or won't like. It really doesn't matter as it's probably not your pension at stake.
The club has nowhere else to go? Well that assumes we have to. The club haven't announced looking anywhere else. Well even if they are then they have learnt from the Gus era and that should be welcomed?
Given fans (And these have been described as "unimportant fans", also and I paraphrase here, as fools for giving their money to AK by a poster) will then be giving their money to the club rather than Barnet, a major criticism apparently ought to be welcomed. Growing the fan base and reconnecting with RL across London will be within the clubs interest and benefit. So that will be a positive as well won't it?
We should never have been in this position and never left the Stoop. I agree, but we have and that can not be changed. It's history just as discussion about the start of the first WW is.
The club haven't announced they are staying at the Hive. Wigan and Hull have not made any press announcements that they are staying at their rented homes. So there is evidence that this approach is apparently a market norm.
Attendances are in decline. Well they have been for at least 10 years. No one will turn out for the Championship. Well no one turns up for a whipping (some Sunday press front pages excepted) but if you have a competitive team then you have something to market. Atmosphere improves and you get a better vibe. Reconnect with the RL community and you have a chance to develop.
The owner has to go? Well he almost did in 2013. I am sure he doesn't want to keep ploughing his pension into the club. However if he creates a now potentially sustainable club, winning or competitive on the field he has something to at least try to attract others into. You couldn't with the 2013 basket case, by 2015 you just might.
The club will fold if DH leaves? Well it might, but also when Branson left, and quite a few times through the eighties and nineties. Have a more sustainable and competitive team see above.
Will we get a chance at promotion? Well Joey is building a team. Come next year we'll find out if it's good enough to compete and also find out how good/bad the new system is. Isn't that why people watch this sport?
We can't change how we got here, we can be an influence on the future though.
