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I read with a smile on my face that some fans on here are linking our poor form on the field to the Council via the transfer embargo, the direction the wind was blowing, the price of eggs - you get the point.

 

Well, how much blame must we shoulder ourselves for the fact that, not withsdtanding the good vocal support on Saturday - the fact was that there were fewer than 200 of us when the club really really needs us. I don't mind telling you I was very slightlty embarresed!

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I suspect you are merely a troll, however, given the circumstances (years away from Thanet, terrible form on the pitch, widespread disillusionment with things off the field, playing an hour from our home town on a wideswept pitch in the middle of nowhere) that crowd wasn't too bad.

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I understand the frustration but it is no good blaming the council. The problem lay with the riduculous plans to open casions, hotels, theme parks and God knows what else. A modest plan to level the pitch and get the ground up to conference standard would have meant that Margate would now be in the same position as, say, Accrington.

And 195 is a pathetic crowd. Teams like Aldershot and Wimbledon overcame far greater difficulties and took thousands to "home" games. And Maidstone still get over 350 for "home" games in the Kent League.

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You cannot blame the plans for casinos etc either. As I understand it, the football club couldn't finance the deal themselves so needed private funding. Now, a company is hardly going to come along and offer to build a football stadium as a gesture of goodwill are they?! However, they consider such an option as a bolt on to something that they are interested in, i.e. Casino. Anyway, that aint gonna happen now due to the change in the legislation.

 

Going back to the original point, 195 is a very poor crowd under the circumstances.

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We have done a great deal courtesy of the business acumen of our chairman, Gravesham Council and John Prescott's office in aquiring a long lease on Beauwaters Sports and Social Club - a very viable and potentially profitable concern. Our youth teams will play there, our first team will train there, and it has a large clubhouse suitable for all types of shows, concerts. etc. We have even inherited a theatre group. This is taking football into the community.

Is there anything near Margate that you could work on to aquire, rather than over ambitious projects such as casinos and hotels?

Sensible replies, only please to a (hopefully) sensible question.

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That opportunity probably wont come our way like it has for gravesend.The fact is that the council own most of the pitches in the area and would not be interested in selling them on. They take money from the sunday games and dont put anything back into the re-laying of the pitches pre season.

Saying that in the plan for hp were all weather 5 a side pitches which are in demand in thanet and would generate much revenue. The council probably wont grant that because they take the profits from our only all weather floodlit 5 a side pitches in thanet that are bookes 7 days a week. Some of the commercial plan i must admit is too ambitious ie hotel, especially since we're likely to be in the ryman next season but getting the ground back in some state and creating good training facilities for the youth section when reinstated would be a first step to recovery.

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I understand the frustration but it is no good blaming the council. The problem lay with the riduculous plans to open casions, hotels, theme parks and God knows what else. A modest plan to level the pitch and get the ground up to conference standard would have meant that Margate would now be in the same position as, say, Accrington.
And 195 is a pathetic crowd. Teams like Aldershot and Wimbledon overcame far greater difficulties and took thousands to "home" games. And Maidstone still get over 350 for "home" games in the Kent League.



If the club didnt have the finance to get the stadium up to scratch without the casino it just proves the wrong people were in control.

A lot of things coming out of Thanet seem barmy. ideas to run down the 3 town centre as shopping areas and investing in Westward Cross, Manston Londons third airport ho ho ho Just seem surreal.
The club seems to be run by people who are also off with the fairies, who cant see the great potential and have made a hell of a mess in the last 3 years.
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But look at the population of Thanet. Same size as Ipswich or Blackburn. It was a sleeping giant not woken but stirring. It's only due to the way the club had been run previously that the Success? of competing in the conference looks good.

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Don't be talking out of your posterior with your snidey 'Success?' comment. It is very difficult to get into, and remain in, the Nationwide Conference, and it is to MFC's huge credit that they did it and were so successful in it. Any other teams in East Kent look anywhere near achieving what we did at the moment? And had the disaster that was the ground fiasco not happened we might have been looking at league football with all the advantages that would have held for the area as a whole.

And try and give a bit of credit to the club trying to get back to that position as hard as they can.

And if the funder, who is by no means unused to making large amounts of money, thinks that the commercial development is such a winner for both himself and the club that he pays just to have this confirmed, believes enough in the current club management to throw his hat into the ring with them, then I can believe it is in the realms of possibility that he might be right.

And I have not seen much evidence of this huge stirring groundswell of football support in the gates of the other teams. So you have to put that down to the success of MFC in the Conference era, and if that is so, wholeheartedly support the club's efforts to build again to that point.

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Margate fan. The whole strategy of the Club is a castle built on sand. As someone else said look at Accrington smaller population with lots of league clubs nearby.As you know Gillingham is 40 miles away.

How much longer are the clubs apologists going to use a couple of years of conference football as a catch all excuse.

The club has been incredibly badly run.

NO GROUND

NO LOCAL PLAYERS

NO RESERVE TEAM

Piper Dreams.

A Castle built on Sand.

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The fact is KP is the 'only game in town', I don't see people queuing up to run Margate FC (and certainly no millionaires). Therefore the best option is to get behind him and the rest of the club. He could have done a runner like JP, but didn't, and for that we have to be grateful. I think you are letting your personal dislike cloud your judgment.

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Its not personal dislike. I just hate to see whats happened at Margate. The fans loyalty is one way traffic. Margate and Thanet deserve a lot better than a couple of years of Conference football followed by ground fiasco and ground sharing at poxy Ashford and Dover.

The fans should run the club.

Fans of Enfield and Wimbledon had to start their own clubs again.

I think MFC fans should look seriously at their examples.

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Restarting in the Kent League would not be a problem, however let's hope it never comes to that.


Err No! Margate would have to restart in the Kent County League.

If things do became haywire and the club fold etc....
Why not consider linking with Ramsgate FC???
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