I'm sorry, what?

Are these the self-same repairs that have been ongoing all close season? The ones that meant that all those glamorous Pre Season Friendlies we were promised never came off (bigger names than a Scunthorpe XI, I should add) The ones that have been talked about as being needed for months?

The world and his wife knew the pitch needed repairing, so why wasn't it attended to the moment the ref blew the whistle on last season? Why were supporters games played there?

Why were junior teams still training there? And why on earth were the Police given access for some nonsense carnival?

Retford United play their football at a semi-professional level of the game, against not insignificant teams or players.

Yet for some reason those charged with running the operation seem intent to focus on the "semi" section of that.

No amount of bluff and bluster, and promises of state of the art facilities can cover up the fact that as things stand the people behind the scenes are either not good enough, or do not have the correct tools.

Can anyone tell me who is in charge of the Club on a day to day basis? And if not, why on earth not? Surely to be run effectively, there need to be structures in place to try to ensure things happen correctly, and when they don't to find out why.

Not, as appears to happen at the moment, two or three people making decisions on a whim, and then not following through on those decisions.

The whys and the wherefores will all come too late. All we can hope for for, all we can expect, is that people are big enough to admit that they need help.

Fans support as best they can. It'd be quite useful if the Club saw fit to recognise what they have, rather than alienate them and mess them around.

The club is now on a National level, with Unibond Premier League news scrolling across the bottom of Sky Sports News.

Embarrassments like this can no longer be kept hush hush, and no longer draw the minimum of attention.

People have had it all too easy for far too long now. Their actions, or lack of, have been left unquestioned.

And as a result, they have fallen into a comfort zone. Perhaps a farce such as this is needed to tell people that the problems with RUFC are more than structural. They are infrastructural.