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Telford have put their remaining shares back on sale and have expressed a hope to sell most of the remaining £344,000 worth.

A club statement says that 137 supporters bought shares in the last round, having had just 123 vote in the original decision to scrap supporter ownership of the reborn club. The statement came a few days after a statement on the club's Early Bird Season Tickets, noting that just 111 had been sold compared to 425 in the same period last year.

There seems to be a very committed ten percent of supporters still at the club but the majority seem to have lost a certain level of interest. They still come to games, over 1,100 last week for their win over Worcester, but the successive seasons of dismal results that has seen them fall out of the National Premier and have two seasons at the wrong end of National North have worn the bulk of supporters down in their levels of support.

A 3-0 loss to fellow strugglers Boston yesterday further cemented their bottom six place and, although they are highly unlikely to go down, a third season of struggle will not be tolerated for a club once considered to be a rising star.

Elsewhere, Darlington have had their name change ratified by the FA. The club recently moved back to the town and will now drop the 1883 suffix to their name that they were forced to adopt to differentiate themselves from the failed club when they reformed five years ago.

With echoes of activities closer to home, the club are currently under investigation by the FA for crowd disorder at a recent game where smoke bombs and alcohol were thrown onto a pitch. The club has already banned a number of people from attending further matches.