What If The Worse Happens? Part 4

Possible THE worse thing has happened today.  Worse even than relegation.  With immediate effect Chairman / Owner Ritchie Jeune has quit the Poppies.  No new owner or Chairman is in place.  He has simply walked away.

Online Poppies Numpties Get Their Way

The Club Statement makes one thing starkly clear -

Ritchie's leaving is in no small part down to the handful of mouthy pricks who shoot the odds on Poppies Chat.  He repeatedly mentions the "fan-base" looking for new ownership. And I'm damn sure he's not talking about the 99.5% who are fully behind him.  You know who he's referring to.  They know who they are.  They are the ones who lambast anyone for daring to recall how close and how often we have come to folding, and then accuse anyone who does recall of somehow holding the club back and living in the past.

It goes without saying that most of these dicks are keeping their heads down at the moment.  Hopefully even they must realise what a seismic loss this is?  At least I hope so.  Perhaps they are too busy blowing Carl Stairs to notice?

But what annoys me almost as much as what this small group of arseholes have contributed towards is the fact Ritchie could NEVER resist engaging with them.  Ritchie spent far too much time trying to deal rationally with, at most, a dozen part-time supporters, wallowing in their entitled discontent.  Loving the sound of their own voices as they stoked each other to a frenzy of self-righteous disgruntlement in their online echo-chamber.  They have NO idea of how football clubs work or are run.  They sit at home, watching Champions League games on Poppies matchdays, loudly wondering why Ritchie wasn't funding this or that.  Wondering why Frenchie's Field wasn't happening.  Wondering why numerous Hollywood stars aren't descending on NN16.

Why Ritchie couldn't stop himself from engaging with their repeated gripe-fests is a mystery to all.  He's a bright bloke.  A hard-nosed businessman.  And yet, he couldn't stop arguing with a literal handful of no-marks who's knowledge of running a football club begins and ends with playing FIFA '22 on their Playstations.  Over the years they seem to have worn down Ritchie's enthusiasm to such a level he probably associates all of us with these dickwads.  And now we are going to pay the price.

Undoubtedly the numerous volunteers at the club are busy dividing between them the necessary tasks to keep the club afloat.  But the optimistic hope of bouncing straight back to NLN are well and truly on hold.  Entirely reliant on our supporter-base to sustain us we are going to be lucky to still be playing at all in 12-months.

"First question Ritchie, does Imraan or George Rolls
have first dibs on the club now....?"