THE fact that York City offered Chris Brass a three-year contract when all other players are offered meagre terms in comparison tells you all you need to know about the apparent 'financial planners' and aides at the club.

We now find ourselves in a position where we simply cannot relieve him of his duties.

This is not dissimilar to letting Terry Dolan go (while we were playing in the Football League) and paying him for the remainder of the season.

We have fundamentally regressed as a club ever since.

He may not have been the most charismatic of Yorkshire men but Dolan did a solid job and kept us afloat.

I cannot help but wonder what planet some of the people at the club are on.

We have a board who have shown little common-sense between them.

We have a manager that cannot hold his hands up and say: "yes, we were well beaten and I am not doing a great job as manager".

Brass then comes out and unsettles the few good players we have like David Stockdale and Andy Bishop by saying it won't be long before bigger clubs come in with bids for them. That is clearly bad management.

Until people in the right positions at the club start to make the right decisions off the pitch, we are not going to see a difference on it.

Adam Bilton

Great Eastern Street

London EC2

Updated: 10:51 Saturday, October 30, 2004