I HAVE been a York City fan for many years and am a current season ticket holder and member of the Supporters Trust.

Now at age 26 I can honestly say that I have never felt in such a position of hopelessness with the team.

Having just returned from the Carlisle United game I think we are as close to a lost cause as we ever have been, we are sinking without a trace.

I honestly believe that we have one of the most loyal fan bases around but there is only so much we can reasonably take.

Something has got to be done and that has to start with the removal of our manager Chris Brass.

He has had more than enough chances, we are rapidly becoming the laughing stock of the Football League pyramid, and there is a great need to appoint a manager who is experienced at this level.

In my eyes the club's board appear to be happy to let the decline continue.

I greatly appreciate all the hard work that the board has undertaken over recent years, securing our home ground Bootham Crescent for the foreseeable future and stabilising our financial situation, but we the fans have worked so hard for our club and do not deserve what we are expected to put up with.

This team week-in, week-out, is killing both my passion for the club and the game in general.

I want to see players on the pitch that play with the same passion that the fans on the terraces possess.

The management of the squad has been very poor for long over a season now and senior professionals have let the club down badly.

I'm fed up of hearing we can't afford to sack Brass, because before you know it, crowds of 2,000 will be a pipedream.

Once the club starts to alienate its hardcore support with the continuous denial that all is well with the team, then it is a club in decline.

I am pleading to you the board of York City Football Club who can do something; please act before it's too late.

Steve Parker

Foster Walk

Sherburn-In-Elmet

Leeds

Updated: 10:36 Saturday, November 06, 2004