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Also, I feel I should elaborate on my rant a bit, because it looks like I'm sh!t-stirring and I'm honestly not.

Also bear in mind I have been out of Croydon for well over a year, so may not have all of the facts at hand, so humblest apologies if any of what I say is incorrect.

What I've observed...

Take a look round the Farley. Banners. Pictures. Framed CDPL Interleague Shirts. Big old scoreboard. Names of players and teams up on plaques.

All paid for out of Farleys pocket I assume.

I saw the increasing gripes about having to pay for practise before games, but as I understand it that was policy dictated to Dave by the brewery and there was little he could do about it.

This isn't a club, with a salaried Manager in place, it's a pub, where Dave earns his own keep, or gets shipped out.

From what I saw, he was as supportive as he was allowed to be, and then some.

Yet was deserted by players who had their own best interests at heart.

Bottom line: decisions made by players have a direct impact on Daves pocket to a degree that just isn't true of a club like Rileys.

And he is owe CDPL something?

His treatment wasn't far short of disgusting.

What price loyalty in Croydon? A few free frames of pool apparently.

End.

As said, If I've got any of this wrong, and there were other factors that I don't know about, then I'll unreservedly retract any and all of the above that is inaccurate or not a fair protrayal of events.

But it's seems to be a fair summary of what I saw from afar.

There, I've said it.