GIVEN some of Malcolm Lyus' comments in last week's Chippenham News I think it's just as well that he has decided to stand down as Chippen-ham Town chairman in order to concentrate on his business.

As a supporter of more than 20 years I want the club to be aiming to compete with the very best at the non-league level and not to just settle for mediocrity and I am quite certain that Lyus' complete lack of ambition is not shared by the rest of the committee, or for that matter by Steve White.

I simply can't agree with him when he says: "I think that most people at the club wouldn't disagree that there's not the same enjoyment in it any more."

When I first started attending games in 1980 the team was in the first division of the Western League playing against the likes of Radstock Town and Glastonbury.

To see us now at the same level as sides such as Bath City and Worcester City is absolutely marvellous and something that I could only have dreamed of all those years ago.

With the departure of Tommy Saunders and now Malcolm Lyus in the space of a few months it really does mark the end of a successful chapter in the club's recent history.

However, with people such as Chris Blake and the experienced Doug Webb still around, plus a manager of the calibre of Steve White, I see no reason why our success story can't continue.

Hopefully another entrepreneurial figure can emerge with the necessary ambition and enthusiasm which the departing chairman once appeared to have, but has evidently lost.

J D SHARPLES

Woodlands Road,

Chippenham