Jim Brown's first tenure left the club relegated to the non-league and £700,000 In debt.This debt was eventually turned around under the chairmanship of John Stockwell and the club was promoted as Conference Champions back into the league.For some mysterious reason Brown was allowed to return and after his second tenure we were left with the East Stand fiasco and found ourselves on the slippery slope to non-league foorball again.Although he left before the drop he definately will remain known as the curse of Halifax Town.

I believe Wilder was a fan of Jim Brown when he was a player, apparently the players always got paid on time etc under his chairmanship, but that's probably because Brown had all the Horsfield transfer money. Brown is a curse, and I think we all regret the day he set foot in Halifax again after the promotion, but that doesn't excuse the inept management since. Halifax Town in a nutshell is bad management, in-fighting, pettiness, unprofessionalism. What we need and have always needed is a competent person in charge, someone like Ryan at Doncaster. Backwards thinking councils and low crowds haven't helped, but the time has come to stop blaming everyone else and start sorting our own house out. Dagenham got promoted and sustained their league status on very similar crowds and resources to us, again, it's all about good management. It's time Halifax Town grew up and started learning from past mistakes, instead of falling into the same old mess over and over again, because as a die hard fan since the age of 4, even my patience is wearing thin. Last chance saloon is an understatement.

We seemed to turn a seven-figure profit into seven-figure deficit on Bob Walker/Paul Bracewell's watch.

Walker was a Brown Stooge.I'm starting to think Bosomworth and Ham might be too.