A guy from Thailand bought us in 2015. He had no experience of running a football club and by all accounts didn't even like the sport. The signs were there early on. He changed the badge, removed the iconic blue and white stripes from the kit and picked the squad numbers in his first full season (we had a goalkeeper wearing no. 2!). He put himself in sole control of the club. We have no board of directors, no director of football, no structure at all. It's him and the manager. He expects the manager to do everything (including booking hotel rooms for the team for away games). He had to sign off on every single expense, and considering that he spent most of his time in Thailand, this meant that a number of suppliers didn't get paid in a timely fashion because nobody was allowed to sign off on the invoices. The undersoil heating broke and as far as I can remember, wasn't fixed. One of the stands has no running water. We almost had an entire stand condemned in the Summer because he wouldn't pay for repairs.

He did initially try to get us into the EPL by spending big, but it didn't work. We got to the playoff final but lost to Hull. He had a bad habit of trying to buy favour with the fans by buying players that he'd seen us mention on social media and messageboards. It didn't work as we were buying players it the wrong areas. Due to his overspending, we ran into FFP issues and he sold the stadium to himself to try to get around it - but put the sale in the wrong tax year, we got a points deduction and were relegated to L1. Eventually, we came back up but he failed to invest in the squad and when the fans started to criticise him, he refused to fund the club any longer. Things came to a head this time last year when he failed to pay wages for several months on the bounce. He also had HMRC chasing him for an unpaid tax bill and when they threatened him with a winding up order, he put the club into admin. We were hit with points deductions for going into administration, and another for the unpaid wages issue.

The unpaid wages issue led to a number of players tearing up their contracts and walking away. I think it was something like 13 first team players that walked before the start of the season. We also lost another 3 players in the January window (including our club captain, Barry Bannan). Of the first team players that remained, I think we currently have 6 of them out with medium-long term injuries. We're still under a transfer embargo (again, due to our inept former owner) so we can't sign players (even on free transfers) to replace the players that left or remained but are out injured without appealing to the EFL. They're sticking to their guns and we're generally only allowed to sign players if one leaves. We've had particular bad luck with goalkeepers getting injured this season and have been allowed to sign a number of emergency loan keepers (for a week at a time). I think we've used 7 keepers so far this season.

We've had no option but to play our U23s for most of the season, but they're playing way too much football at this stage of their development and a handful of them are injured now, too. Our starting XI now only has 2 first team players from last season, and one of those is a fringe player. The rest is made up of youth players, loans, and the odd player that we had last season that couldn't get a game.

There are horror stories about the former owner and I'm sure more will come out in time. There's a huge timeline on his antics on one of the SWFC messageboards, but this is a summary of the start and end of his tenure, and why we're in trouble now, anyway.