Players leaving so it will be a new start in many ways I think...hope new manager is announced soon or we will miss transfer activity time!

YOU TO HOGMAN,as they say chin up fresh slate and away we go again ready for new season hope the new season fairs better for the wombles all the best chat again soon

moore131170.. i dont think any council these days can be seen to spend money on local football/sport before other more serious commitments. a club with CCFC's history there must be a reason why local companies have never adopted the club. ive watched the dons in non league football back in the 60s and CCFC were the top dogs even then. whatever happened, you must be sick of seeing clubs go past you into the league over the years. keep the faith my friend and have a great summer.

hogman,ust an update on my last message to you ,electronic score board has now been received by the club uite why its taken this long i dont know but at least thats now sorted!!!

orps, your right to a degree have not of anyone resigning etc but yes its alot more difficult as go down the ladder to non league and a lot of ex league clubs in conf prem are now finding this out shame but its a fact salisbury for instance will get approx 30K for gaining promotion to conf prem the league clubs coming down into conf prem i.e barnet&aldershot get approx 300K hows that fair everything should be based on a level playing ground at the moment the smaller clubs in conf prem dont stand a chance so i am so pleased for smaller clubs who are still part time and hold there own tahts what its all about true grit,passion,proud to be a surporter of non league football and credit go out to dartford 8th braintree 9th finish in conf prem and still part time

fair point hogman i do agree to some of your points i was of the understanding that the surporters club funded the undercover roro and the board were going to match it but it never happened and till today still aint plus a surporter who passed away sadly left a gift to the club and his wishes were for an electonic scoreboard which the board i believed said that they would sort this to be done still have not full of promises but full of very hot air like always when your at a surporters meetings and questions are put to the board most of the time they either dismiss the question or get flustered and change the subject,yes we have earnt alot of money with big cup runs i dont understand where its gone are we paying top doller wages for average players? are we paying top doller to the council for hire of ground? knowing the council yes and with that point as far as im concerned whilst the council are getting over the top rent from us ,easy income they will never be intrested in finding or helping us find some land for a new stadium just for football shame on you councilers funny how you always turn up only on the big occasions like fa cup or maybe playoffs etc none of em care about the biggest non league football club in essex, anyhow rambling theres always next season up the city wheel em in !!!

all the very best to salisbury city in there play off final vs dover on sunday up the claret army!!

All clubs under the Premier League have to face the facts of less support and less money...its called reality. So Clarets no different. Very large number of clubs in financial difficuty right now and the Leagues Committee receiving resignations and withdrawal of promotion rights as a consequence...

some valid points Moore, but i donr agree with you on some of your points, CCFC have earned a lot of money over the last couple of season on there Cup runs, surely this money was'nt in the budget set at the start of each season. Why would you say the players did'nt receive there wages on time as you quoted. i think folk are staying away because of the way the club is run. you do have a big fan base as you see on your away support which means your well down on home attendances if you work the ratios out.. you need better comuinications between club and fans like we have. to many skeletons in the cuboards i think. keep your faith my friend and i'm sure it will all come good one day.

as far as young p league players hogman we had a couple from ipswich ack ainsley good young talant hope we can keep hold of him and brad hamilton from colchester good young players leaning there trade so yea we have been doing i think as the last few seasons when players dont get paid im soory they aint going to give there all and like the last two season just after xmas they didnt get paid and there form went straiight out the window and then its hard to get it back and thats what happened im affaid glen pennyfarther was a good manager and worked hard with the budjet he had but his hands are tied plus when things like not gettin paid happens then thats the boards fault not glens so mansell and others need to look at themselfs big time as well!! and as what i read in local paper yes the crowds are down but if you look at all the crowds in BBS inc big clubs like dover etc there all down so its not just chelmsford glens not the reason for that its more like surporters have not got the money or being more carefull with it and when you get 2 games each week for the last 2 months of the season sorry people are going to choose the better game to watch if they cant afford it so sorry mansell dont agree with you and that shows that time is needed at the top !!

concord i think they would have to make some changes to stay in the BBS,Nice little ground though &good luck they will need it as billericay & hornchurch hhad found out

Is Concord ground ANYwhere near Conference South standard?

Well thats the first step in the right direction. your right orpewise with that "route to local talent" plus a manager who has connections at league clubs to get the right players, even if only on loan. you have a fan base as good as any non league club if managed well. Lookj forward to re-new our great encounters as in the past. The Wombles v Chelmsford City. it dont come much better.

wheel see orpewise just maybe incompetent the board are when it comes to bringing the right man in

Change underway....I hope the right change based on solid finances and good management....polayers attracted who have passion and ambition...plus a route for local talent.

truoble is if anyone wanted to come in to take over it proberly would happen due to the incompetence of the board and yes its my opinon glen has served us well true but he can only get us so far its up to the board to give a little more and that little more ambish'on may have got us over the finish line but hey lets go again next season see what happens as they say & wish glen pennyfather all the very best his a good bloke

Moores; your right its jus not good enough. how many more years are CCFC going to always be second best.Us, Aldershot, and now Newport have have past you while your board and manager play at running a massive non league club into the ground. we would'nt tolerate it and nor should you.

,yet again just not good enough, to be fair 2nd best for most of the game,good luck salisbury in final u better do dover!!

claret army,all ready for a full english around 8.30 on morn of 2nd leg of to melbourne to get the surporters coach for the long treck down to salisbury,half way there lads go out there and wheel em in !!! up the clarets

First legs suggest Clarets v Dover match might be on!

Fair enough. Hopefully we can win against Salisbury, and then have a go at Dover in the final! (Assuming they beat Eastleigh).

@Orpewise: We don't have a god given right to win any match. it's time people realised this. we have had good runs in both the fa cup and trophy this season which was always going to cause a fixture backlog. people need to realise we are non league not premier league and we can't go all guns blazing every single match we play in as the fitness is just not there. a lot of fans have only seen us since jeff king turned up who built a title winning squad of EXPENSIVE players. when the budget was cut it was always going to impact on the quality of players we could bring in. instead of moaning that its playoffs and of the poor records, get behind the team for once and you never know we just might pull it off. Negativity doesn't achieve anything

but you had the sqaud and means to have walked that league over the last 4 seasons. But we wish our friends at C.C.F.C. the best of luck in the play off's.

Lack of consistency. Having to rely on play offs again i8n which we have a rather poor record! The view is that we shouyld be Chapmionship contenders rather than fighting for 3rd/4th place.

How is it going wrong? last i checked we've qualified for the play offs already