Are Crawley on the brink of waving the play offs goodbye?

It's all supposition, no-one knows what would have happened.

Virtually every player we have signed bar a few exceptions all get from supporters why have we signed him - look at his previous record, he is non-league a non league player, then you get the former club supporters saying he awful, glad we got rid - which also spells disaster even before the player has kicked a ball - why anyone would want to sign for us goes beyond belief.

Then you get the rumours and speculation - by so called scouts or non informed people - the only people who know what is going on are the management/director and the player involved with the club - until we see something official coming out as a club statement then is just not worth biting at these rumours - just ignore them - you are adding fuel to the fire and getting worked up by them.

I have been watching Crawley for more years than most on here (except Thad) we have always been a selling club that's how we have survived this long - especially in the last 10 years in the football league - if you want to stay in the League you have to generate income and our attendances just doesn't make up the difference - I wished it would - 4000 gates each week would certainly help to keep some of our young stars instead of having to sell them.

With John Yems, Lee Bradbury and Erdem Konyar - we will continue to find these diamonds - just give them the backing - we lose one we find one - as for not making the playoffs because of rumour and speculation is just nonsense.

We will never know whether our promotion run-in that season would have been easier had we kept them.  We clinched it in a last-day win at Accrington - a game where we could have been three down at half time were it not for Shearer's heroics.

Alain - we sold Eric to Folkestone for the princely sum of about £1500, although I'm sure I heard stories later that we never actually got all of that. Eric still ranks as one of my all time favourite players and I was gutted when he left. If I remember rightly from Supporters Club Committee meetings at the time, the Inland Revenue were lining up to put the boot in over unpaid taxes. Can't remember exactly now but it may also have been that time that Bass Charrington started complaining that they hadn't been paid for construction of the Bloodlight Club a number of years before.

We also went 7 games without a win and couldn’t score, until we brought Gary Alexander in on loan.

absolutely right??? No one knows the value of the deal. Loads of what ifs, what if it wasnt 1m what if its say 500k and remainder in appearances or something like that? Do the owners make money outside and/or indirectly c/o the club no one knows.

Great post Alain, that is exactly how it is & likely how it always will be.

Nice to be name-checked too - very generous - but I am a lightweight JCL in comparison to your time served.

However, I reckon we are not the only "old timers" who never thought we would see the day, that our fans are still complaining...
...about Crawley Town FC selling a player for a cool million...!

Ps. The transfer has ruined my plans for a limited edition T-shirt, emblazoned with:
"MAX LIVES WATTERS"