COMMENT: Worcester City stadium saga has to be resolved now

So long, in fact, that activists on both sides are pleading with Worcester City Council to bring the episode to a swift conclusion.

It’s not an unreasonable request.

City are now in their third season at Kidderminster Harriers’ Aggborough ground and are still no closer to knowing if they will be able to return to Worcester in the future.

Officials from City’s supporters’ trust, who have worked for a couple of years at least putting the plans together, hope they will go before the council this side of Christmas.

The council won’t be drawn on a timescale and experience tells me that we will be nearer to the end of the current season by the time anything happens.

This only leaves the club in limbo.

It makes planning ahead extremely difficult and it puts ever-increasing pressure on what scarce finances City have.

Even if the council end up rejecting the proposal, which I personally hope is not the case, at least everyone could move on and decide what the next step was. As things stand, we are no further forward than we were 12 months ago.

Regardless of what is going on behind the scenes at the Guildhall, that is the public perception.

There is only so long most fans will remain interested.

There have been too many long-running sagas with the local authority down the years.

Eventually, people will switch off and stop caring.

Which is not what the club needs, nor deserves, particularly after the national headlines they enjoyed with last year’s FA Cup heroics when they won at Coventry City.

Chairman Anthony Hampson and his board have done a remarkable job keeping the blue and whites solvent in exile.

Management duo Carl Heeley and Matt Gardiner have continually defied the odds to keep City in the National League structure.

But they can’t do it indefinitely. At some point a decision on City’s long-term future will have to be made.

It is only fair on those who have worked tirelessly for the cause that this is sooner rather than later.