FOOTBALL: 'Please come back and support us' say Eagles
Club issues a heartfelt plea for fans to turn out in droves
Please come back and support us.
That is the heartfelt plea from the Eagles to all of their supporters ahead of Saturday's match with league leaders Farnborough at the Eyrie, kick-off 3pm.
Dwindling attendances have meant that the club had to release four first team players last week, while the rest of the squad have done their bit by taking a pay cut.
The club's management team, the board of directors, the Football Management Committee (FMC) and the 198 who turned out in support of the team in midweek are doing everything in their power to keep the proud club alive.
Now every other Eagles fan must do their bit by getting along to the Eyrie this weekend and the New Year's Day match with Cambridge City, to cheer the team on.
Doubling the current attendances would make a real difference to the club and allow the team to start challenging at the top end of the Southern League again.
Manager Lee Howarth echoed those sentiments and issued his own message to fans, saying: "I urge everyone with Bedford Town in their heart to please come and back Bedford Town.
"We're fighting for our lives, we are aware there is a recession on and we've had to make cuts, players who are playing for virtually nothing."
Boosting the numbers through the gate would avoid the Eagles getting anywhere near the heartbreaking reality that faced King's Lynn's supporters recently – they were left without a club to support after it was wound up.
And Howarth reckons the only way the Eagles can move forward as a club is by true fan power, as more fans attending games means the bigger the budget that can be spent on the team and moving up.
He explained: "You look at Halesowen who have got a very large budget having been in administration this season.
"But what do we do? Just spend beyond our means, not pay the bills, go into administration and start again as Bedford United or something daft? That's not really the way to go forward is it?"
Bedford's players turned in a gutsy display on Tuesday night, coming from behind to beat Hednesford 3-2 in an entertaining clash at the Eyrie.
Captain Eddie Lawley, Craig Daniel and Stacey Field got the Bedford goals.
And Howarth was proud of his players, saying: "Given the week that we've had, when we've had to release players, and with players taking wage cuts to help the club out, to come back with a performance like that when morale was understandably low, I thought was magnificent."
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