If we fail to win in the next 4 games, Andrew Fitton will have a number of unenviable records as Chairman and it honestly wouldn't surprise me if he walked in the summer.
A good point, JTR. It worries me that Fitton will walk away from the Chairman's position if / when we go down.
Fitton, the board and the background investors like to give the impression of being a group of minted mates, who shoved a load of money in to save the football club and to run it sensibly as a business that will ultimately become self financing via the revenue form the redeveloped stadium.
The reality is probably more along the lines of it being a long-term investment that they planned to offload at some point, presumably making a healthy profit from it. Remember that the recession hadn't kicked in when they took control, so they will no doubt be falling well short of what they thought they'd do revenue/business wise, and the opportunity to make money out of it has been significantly diminished, if not dissapeared.
Relegation will be a financial disaster for the board. No amount of dressing it up will deny that fact.
Fitton is hurting big-style at the moment as everything is focussed on him now that Wilson has gone and he's appointed Hart on a shit-or-bust mission.
If Hart's mission fails, people are going to want answers. Many will use it as the excuse they needed not to buy a season ticket and the whole fucked-up situation will need even more funds thrown at it just as the plumetting revenue meltdown gets going as we fall through the L1 trap door and move into a tight summer period in revenue terms.
The crux of my point is that IF Fitton walks, will the other board members lose interest and also want away, or will one of them step into the limelight and take over from Fitton?
The fact that the club is a lot healthier in financial terms is more worrying than if it was debt-ridden, as it is a lot more attractive to another Diamandis-style raid, should Fitton and the board want out.
