Home Form Has Been Appalling Admits Chairman Keyte

Hereford United chairman David Keyte has said that the home form has been so appalling this season that has led to less takings which in turn has put pressure on the club's budget.

"You can't expect to go through a season having lost 13 times at home and not be where we are," Keyte told BBC Hereford and Worcester.

"In the last ten days we've started to look at the financial impact of relegation. We haven't thought we needed to before, we haven't dared to, but realities surround us.

"On Football League funding alone we would start £400,000 down on this season.

"The local supporters have voted with their feet and told us what they thought which has left us about £130,000 short of our budget which has to be funded.

"As a board we're trying to take the club forward so we've also funded things like the new supporters club which has been well received with good takings. But that's cost £300,000.

"The board has put a lot of money in this year but we've been let down by the performances out on the pitch.

"It's not a tenable position.

"Like supporters who decide if they want to come and watch the football, directors look at whether it's the right thing to be in.

"I still think it was never going to be sorted in under four to five years in terms of the developments that would actually help the financial income streams.

"The fact is you have to link medium term, longer term plans with the fact that there is a game every Saturday.

"You have to hope because sadly like the spectators I can't get out on the pitch and do anything about it. You sit in the stand and watch it and believe that the management has got it right and believe the players are good enough, which I actually still do.

"But we are not turning it into results and that brings other pressures which deflects the longer term plans."

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