SO cash-strapped Kidderminster Harriers have no choice but to increase admission prices for next season?

The board would do well to remember that the fans they obviously have so little regard for also have a choice as to whether they pay the exorbitant increases or not.

We are all familiar with the monotonous refrain from the boardroom that we have achieved miracles by retaining Football League status.

But playing and non-playing staff have been leaving the club all season as part of the on-going cost cutting exercise, despite more money coming in from the Lee Hughes transfer.

We are now told that the budget for players will be reduced. But we will have a lovely new stand.

Now I appreciate the powers that be in football insist on ground improvements but with the biggest clubs in the land running up third-world size debts on new stadia that when Saturday comes remain half-empty, where is the logic in a club with an average attendance the wrong side of 3,000 adding over 2,000 brand new seats!

The hardcore of supporters that Harriers rely on for their income would be happy to watch in a park if necessary and I am sure they would not mind paying more if it meant an improvement in personnel on the pitch.

However, I think fans will feel rightly aggrieved if their hard-earnt cash goes into a new stand that will remain half-empty all season.

On the subject of a name for the new stand, how about the White Elephant or Albatross or perhaps we could just refer to it as a football folly like the new Wembley or Pride Park?

C JONES

Franchise Street

Kidderminster