Terras Nearly Dead

A very sad day in the history Of Weymouth football club and I deeply feel for the true fans of the club, while playing kids and the result has made a joke of the league, as a team who has only scored 16 goals away all season, not find they have the number 24 in the column, as a fan I would have hated to have been in my teams home ground and watch all those goals go in.

If Weymouth can only put a team of kids out for the rest of the season, I feel as sad as it is, it would be better for them just to fold now and let all the results be wiped from the tables. I have not looked to see who they have to play in the games that are left, but the final tables may end up a farce as the clubs still left to play Weymouth would all be on near guaranteed wins.

I can only recall resignation from the league being forced upon Aldershot (and the susequent expunging of their record that season) in the last 25 years, although maybe Newport County did in the 88/89 season in the Conference as well?

You can't really blame heir players for not playing today - they haven't got insurance to play and to put their careers at risk in that way would be foolish.

I suppose that there is a possibility that the prospectve owners have forced the current owners to not pay the team so that they come-in with a clean slate to work with - perhaps that is a bit of a long-shot...... Doesn't look good for them.

If their record was expunged, the following is of note:-

Burton would lose 1 point. Crawley and Oxford 1 point. Stevenage and Cambridge 4. Kidderminster, Histon, Wrexham and TUFC 3. Kettering 0 points.

TUFC, Oxford, Stevenage, Cambridge and Kidderminster have played Weymouth twice already. Burton, Crawley, Kettering, Histon and Wrexham have played them only once.

The NLP today suggests certain Weymouth players may be moving to other BSP clubs: Williams and Sandwith to Oxford; Gaia to Crawley. Speculation, of course, and quite possibly lazy reporting if this business about players being unable to move to clubs in the same league is correct.

And, apparently, there's been another merger meeting with Dorchester followed by talk about Malcolm Curtis buying the club back on the cheap.

What is the thinking/reasoning behind the Weymouth players NOT being able to play for other BSP Clubs?

Maybe something to do with the transfer window?

If players registrations belonged to the BSP then could you not then "loan" players from them in the same way as you would from another club?

Well my words in Weymouth this morning were not well received and I got a somewhat angry response, but that was to be expected.

I made the point that while it was my wish and hope that Weymouth could be saved, it must drop out of the BSP it it plans to use youth players to fulfill its remaining fixtures.

I was told that an announcement was being made today or tomorrow and the club was being saved, he would not give up any more details at all( I tried hard to pump him ;D) He was not sure about the players that have not been paid and what part if any they would play in the rest of the season.

It seems some people who have paid for shares in the club and I could not find out if they were ones bought before or ones bought in the new shares offer, that has fell flat on its face anyway, but some want to know where the money has gone.

I was also told that a local business man went to the club and wanted to give it a four figure sum, this was only to be shared between the players, the club said it would have to go into the share fund only. It is claimed the man then told them to stuff it then and he would get the money to the players himself, I do not know if he did do that in the end.

So its watch this space, I have heard before such claims that it was going to be saved, but its at a knock down price now, so someone might have bought it.