If we are going to be relying on a strike force with a combined age of 80 we have problems later in the season!

I would imagine that the budget is not as big this year. In an ideal world your income would pay your bills and pay your playing budget. In the past I would presume that Dave Hilton supplemented the playing budget out of his own pocket. Dave has now got more pressing financial issues at Scunthorpe and ITFC are trying to run as a sustainable football club. Bottom line it probably means less money for wages. This does not always mean a drop in playing standards but it will make things more difficult for Jamie Ward. There is a risk that `the team might struggle but it could all work with players who are not stars but are hungrier to succeed!

Its a bit of a worry! Maybe it's because of the things that the older fans have been through at Ilkeston Town before. Hopefully our fears for the club are unfounded and when the real football starts things will look a lot more promising.
The club has basically shrunk the media team to the extent that it is difficult for it to function effectively. But like the football side the club may pull a rabbit out of the hat and ITFC will yet again have an award winning  media output.
Us cynical oldies do worry as we feel we have been here before on many occasions. I really really hope I am wrong!

I'm the older fan - also an expatriate one - but Ilkeston surely should be a sustainable model...? Average gates for one. But also a solid community base... I trust there's no money owed on the new pitch etc., but I have often felt there's been an ambition to do too much too soon. Clearly, that's partly because of past owner wider ambitions (some good and, arguably, too many not so good...). Throwing money in is not the best model. It digs you out a hole, and maybe there is some quick glory and success - but, surely, slowly, slowly catchy monkey.

Bigging-up the Millership expenditure and Alexander achievements arguably compromise my position - but, I feel that era could & should have potentially pump-primed. Instead there seems to have been decades of owner rescue and ego. 

Let's trust Ward and the current regime. Every chance that Basford might now be follwing the wrong model...

I'll start the season without Matchmaker's pessimism, and with Whiteball's underlying otimism... I also hope you get Nathan Tyson without breaking the bank (a great loan at Cheltenham Town a way back). A couple of quality 'veterans' never a bad thing, and often insprational to a younger motivated squad.