If ever Lincoln City needed their supporters, it’s now.

Supporter: A person who supports, promotes, advocates or champions a cause or movement; an adherent. A person who provides moral or physical support to another; an attendant.

I suppose if you’re reading this you’ve probably never left a game early without good reason, booed your team, barracked a City player or wanted a squad member to fail. There are people who would, they’re called the paying public, not supporters or fans.

I’ll freely admit though, it’s difficult at the moment. The Imps are actually playing well but cannot score, it’s as simple as that. We’re all now looking forward to the January transfer window and the signing of the player who can put us out our misery, the twenty goals a season man. What’s the likelihood of that would you say? Top strikers cost top money, the sort of money that some teams seem to have but we don’t. We can pay the wages, make some stadium improvements, put on a good show on a match day, fan zone, the state of the pitch, pick up the litter.

I’m quite sure though that we will see additions to the squad. There well may be departures, in fact that’s almost assured, but adding to the squad will be gradual and organic I’d say. Presumably most of the budget is accounted for although hopefully the club will see the necessity for some spending. It won’t be a million though and even then what does that buy you?

In the meantime what can we do? What are doing already would be my assessment, what else can we do, have a whip round? This is league one and that doesn’t come cheap. This is what we wanted so it’s no use complaining about it. When the going gets tough and all that. If you want continued success, watch Sky and “support” Manchester City.

You won’t enjoy it nearly so much as following your own local team though, honest, you won’t