Quote ="MonkeyLover"Who is paying for this game that is certain to make a loss? Because as it stands people are slagging the club off for not spending money on marketing and not spending money on players, are you now saying they should also be losing money on holding pointless fixtures?
It's unreal, it really is. Where do you think this magic money comes from?'"
Whilst I 100% agree with you in regards of home friendlies, the associated loss that will be made and there being no point in hosting them, I will say that it's a tad unfair to bundle that viewpoint along with the clubs attitude to marketing.
There can be no defense for the abject failure in this area of the club since the birth of Superleague (if not before then) and as far as I can see and having often communicated with old friends who live in Hanwell/West Ealing, it would appear that there's been little effort made to engage with the clubs neighbours.
As for people whining about no money for players. If Ward believes he has the right squad, then so be it. I think the average age of the starting 17 is 23, so no matter what else, if we can keep this lot together for a couple of years, you'd fancy them to go up and stay up.