I remember saying a while back that I might tell the story of Weymouth's recent turbulant history on here one day and a few people seemed interested. So finally, here it is! I'll forewarn you that this does go on quite a bit but I have done my best to whittle it down

For those of you who don't know me so well, I was born in Nottingham and became a Notts County fan when we got given free tickets at school and my Dad took me down, even though he was a Forest fan. My Dad sadly passed away in 2005 and with most of my family having moved down to Weymouth, me and my Mum followed in 2007.

I didnt last long with no football though, and me and my Granddad first went to watch Weymouth in March of that year. I was instantly hooked. My Granddad can't come anymore but I've made a lot of good friends at Weymouth FC and now, unless I can get to a Notts match, I follow Weymouth home and away. If I don't go away I'll go watch the Reserves!

One way of describing Weymouth FC's recent history would be to say it's never dull! The club went from the Southern League to the brink of the Football League under the ownership of first Ian Ridley, then Martin Harrison. They enjoyed success in both the league and FA Cup - winning the Conference South title in 2005-06 and earning an FA Cup first round replay with Nottingham Forest that same season after a 1-1 draw at the City Ground. Weymouth also took Bury to a replay the following season with a 2-2 draw down here on the BBC.

But of course, the dream didn't last and midway through our first season back in the Conference, the enitre squad was placed up for sale after Martin Harrison ran out of money. Still, we managed to finish 11th in the 2006-07 Conference.

The following season was more of a struggle with the Terras not securing their Blue Square Premier status until the penultimate game of the season in a hard faught 0-0 draw at Champions Aldershot Town.

The 2008-09 season started well enough. In fact after a 2-0 win at Torquay United on 10th February we were 10th in the table, but then everything really began to unravel. The then chairman Malcolm Curtis had and still does want the land that our ground sits on. He walked out on the club that season, many would say in the hope that the club would die and he could then get hold of the land.

His departure left the club in a bit of a mess. Players had not been paid since before Christmas and were not even covered if they got injured. As a result of this, the entire first team walked out ahead of our now infamous home game with Rushden & Diamonds.

That day, we were forced to field the under 18s side and we were beaten 9-0. Nobody boo'd. Nodody left early. Everyone stayed till the bitter end supporting the lads, and those heroic boys got a standing ovation at the end of the game.

This video from YouTube shows some of the Weymouth highlights from that game, and the scenes at full time:

We had no choice but to continue to field the youngsters for the rest of the season. In our final 16 games after that win at Torquay we gained just 1 more point, scoring 4 goals and conceeding 48. We dropped from 10th place to 23rd - second bottom, with relegation being confirmed in the final home game of the season with a fighting 2-1 defeat to York City.

The club's future was still in dubt going into the 2009-10 season but somehow former player Matty Hale managed to assemble a squad made up mostly of local lads and Bath University students. We began the season with an encouraging 1-1 draw at Lewes but then came two heavy home defeats; 5-0 to Eastleigh and 6-2 to Bishops Stortford. The season was a bit of a shambles really.

Matty Hale resigned in October following a 5-0 drubbing at home to Maidenhead United and he was replaced by another former player in Ian Hutchinson.

In November 2009 Weymouth were drawn at home to local rivals Dorchester Town in the FA Trophy. There was a genuine possibility that this could be Weymouth's last ever game. The atmosphere was cranked up just before kick-off when the Dorchester fans unveiled a banner which read "Weymouth - a town with no history, a club with no future."

This seemed to inspire the Terras as they ran out 3-0 winners leaving their bitter rivals from 'over the hill' shellshocked.

The club did manage to soldier on to the end of the season but the league form never really improved despite a second win over Dorchester on New Year's Day, this time in the league.

We finished bottom of the Conference South, although at the end of the season our short-term future was at least secured thanks to controversial character George Rolls buying the club. He placed the club into a Company Voluntary Agreement (CVA) which meant that for every pound owed to creditors, they would get 10%.

It would however mean we would begin the 2010-11 season in the Southern League on -10 poins.

We began that season with 3 draws before defeat at Salisbury City. A 3-1 win at Evesham United followed but our early season form was quite poor, and included a 9-0 defeat at Hednesford and a 7-2 loss at Stourbridge in the same week.

We moved off the bottom of the table for the first time in January but at the time we were still 6 points adrift of safety and had played more games than anyone else. Things looked bleak but in early February we had a stroke of luck. Windsor & Eton were wound up and therefore all the teams in the league lost whatever points they had gained against them. Plus instead of 4, only 3 teams would now go down. Sure, staying up due to another club's demise isn't ideal but we took whatever came our way at that time.

On a Wednesday evening in March, an injury time goal from ace marksman Warren Byerly gave us a 1-0 win at Swindon Supermarine and lifted us out of the drop zone for the first time in the season. But that didn't last long, we were back in that bottom 3 followng a 4-1 loss at Bedford in what was out 5th of 6 straight away games.

Here's how the bottom of the table looked after the Bedford game (bottom 3 go down):

In our next game an emphatic 4-0 win at Tiverton moved us back up to 18th and all-but condemned Tiverton to the drop, leaving the final relegation spot to be decided between ourselves and Didcot Town who, crucially, still had a game in hand. That game in hand ended in a draw, so with 2 games to go we were both on 31 points but they had a marginally superior goal difference. In our final home game of the season we beat play-off chasing Chesham United 3-0 while Didcot only drew. This meant that going into the final day we had a 2 point cushion on Didcot.

We were beaten 3-2 at champions Truro City on the final day but Didcot's 3-0 defeat to Oxford City meant we were safe. We had completed the great escape!

The 2011-12 season looked like being another season of struggle. Local man Brendon King became the new manager. We had a very young, relatively inexperienced squad with a rookie manager and were tipped by most for the drop. However for the majority of the season we were OK in mid table. We even made it to the second round proper of the FA Trophy although we got hammered 6-0 at home by Alfreton Town.

The biggest event of the season took place in February. Director and life-long fan Nigel Biddlecome, along with a group of local businessman brought the club from George Rolls and by setting up a community trust, finally safeguarded the future for Weymouth FC, as no one person would ever be able to own the club again.

Celebrations however were a bit mild as the team were going through an alarming dip in form which now saw us looking over our shoulders yet again. Our third last game ended in a 3-0 defeat at Cambridge City, and left us 2 points above the drop zone with two games to go. The final home game of the season against Hitchin Town would be a nervy affair.

The first half was relatively quiet but just 3 minutes into the second half disaster struck as the Canneries took a 1-0 lead from a corner. The next 20 minutes were very scrappy with Weymouth struggling to really create anything but then on 69 minutes, a massive slice of luck came our way. Mark Ford raced through and was brought down in the area. The defender actually got the ball but we didnt complain. That penalty was so hard to watch, some turned away. Craig Duff stepped up, not our usual penalty taker; but he rolled the ball home to make it 1-1. Then 3 minutes later, that man Mark Ford again managed to beat the offside trap, and in what seemed like slow motion - he rounded the keeper before calmly slotting home to send the home fans wild.

The terras held out through a nervy final quarter of an hour to seal 3 points and our win, coupled with Swindon Supermarine losing at home to Barwell meant we were safe for another year.

Under new owners and a new board expectations rose slightly for the 2012-2013 season. Over the summer, Brendon King set about adding some much needed experience to the squad and brought in the likes of Ben Joyce, Kyle Critchell, Scott Walker and Barry McConnell.

Unfortunaly over the summer we lost our star striker Warren Byerley to Kettering Town, which was pretty controversial.

Weymouth had paid for Warren to undergo private surgery on a knee injury which would have saw him miss the beggining of the season had he gone down the NHS route.

Kettering had been demoted from the Conference to the Southern League and were skint. George Rolls had got involved up there and was offering players ridicuous sums of money to join the club. Sums of money which anyone with any sense knew would not be paid.

Still, Byerley moved north along with young defender Ben Gerring. I suppose it was inevitable really that the fixture computer would chuck out Weymouth v Kettering Town on the opening day!

That certainly gave me personally a dilemna as I had to decide whether to travel up to crewe for Notts' opening game, or stay home and watch Weymouth v Kettering. In the end I chose Crewe, and that proved the right decision with the much built up Weymouth v Kettering game ending in a boring 0-0 draw. Still, we were not done with Kettering this season yet.

The second game of Weymouth's season saw another draw as we fought back from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 at Chippenham Town. A 4-2 loss at newly promoted and big spending St Neots Town followed before we got our first win of the season against another newly promoted side in Bideford.

As I said, expectations had risen for this season, so when we found ourselves 18th in October, some fans - myself included, began to question the manager Brendon King. The hunger and desire of the team came under severe scrutiny when we crashed out of the FA Trophy in just the second qualifying round after a humiliating 2-1 loss at home to lower league club Shortwood United.

This was followed by a 5-1 defeat at home to Stourbridge in the league in a match we ended with 9 men.

This though would prove to be a bit of a turning point.

We won 3-2 at St Albans City next time out and despite a 1-0 defeat at home to Cambridge in a match we dominated, the signs were there that we could start to improve.

After the Cambridge match on 17th November we won every game between then and New Year. Six straight wins which saw us climb from 15th to 5th. The run came to an end on New Year's Day when a goalkeeping error gave Bideford a 2-1 victory.

A frustrating 0-0 draw at home to Chippenham followed before eventual champions Leamington came to the Bob Lucas Stadium on an icy Tuesday evening. In the first half we managed to hold our own but in the second half, Leamington showed their class - blowing us away with 4 goals in the final half hour. One of those nights where we just had to admit we were beaten by a better side.

Another 0-0 draw at Gosport Borough followed before another heavy defeat, this time 5-2 at AFC Totton. We had lead 2-1 at half time and were playing very well, but somehow we just collapsed in the final half hour again. Their first goal was offside; the second was a free-kick that somehow just rolled along the floor into the bottom corner; and the third was a cross that sailed over the keeper's head into the net!

We recovered with back-to-back 2-1 wins on home soil before our annual defeat at Cambridge City. Then it was the re-match with Kettering.

Now Kettering's season had turned into a nightmare. All of the players that had lined up against us on the opening day, including Warren Byerley had left the club by now having not been paid, as had George Rolls following a betting scandel. Kettering had been locked out of their Nene Park ground and at one point had to start a game with just 10 men, including the substitute goalkeeper in midfield against Bashley! They were now groundsharing with Corby Town.

On a bitterly cold Wednesday evening Kettering took an early lead but Weymouth eventually ran out 6-1 winners.

Our next game saw us beat St Albans City 2-0 at home. Kyle Critchell scored and it would turn out to be his last act of the season for us as he suffered a very nasty leg fracture the following Wednesday night in a Dorset Senior Cup semi-final.

Three more wins on the trot saw us move up to 4th, and by now a lot of fans really were beggining to dream. That didn't last too long though. We were brought crashing back down to earth with a 5-0 defeat at Stourbridge and a 3-0 defeat at home to Chesham. Another home defeat to struggling Redditch saw us drop out of the play-offs.

On Easter Monday we made the short hop over to the New Forest village of Bashley, who themselves were chasing points to confirm their safety. Chance after chance after chance was spurned by Weymouth in an unbeleavably frustrating afternoon before inevitably, Bashley scored the decisive goal ten minutes from time.

That game gave me the impression it just wasn't meant to be for us. I gave up on our play-off hopes that day.

The next game brought another heavy home defeat, this time 4-0 to Bedford Town. But the result was overshadowed by a horrific injury to midfielder Jamie Skinner, barely a minute after he came on as a sub. The challenge left him with several ruptured ligaments and muscles in his knee and leg, as well as damage to nerves, vasculature and joint structure. His career is very much in doubt at the munute.

After 5 straight defeats without scoring Leamington were heardly the ideal opponents for our third-last game of the season. But the Terras battled hard and earned a creditable 1-1 draw, delaying Leamington's title party in the process.

The final home game of the season saw a 2-1 win over Barwell, which did leave many of us wondering what might have been, with Barwell at the time occupying the final play-off spot.

We lost 3-0 at Arlesey Town on the final day.

We finished the 2012-13 season in 9th place, our first top half finish since 2007. Magnifficent progess has been made on and off the field this season. Some great football has been played - fair play to Brendon King, he's won me and a lot of fans over. Also attendances are slowly creeping up again.

Here's the final table:

The hope is that we can make a more sustained play-off challenge next season and work to achieve this has already begun with numerous players signing contract extensions and three new faces already joining the club.

But we know we must do this in a sustainable way. We know from the past that having a rich benefactor dosn't always have a happy ending.

The importat thing is the club is moving in the right direction. There's a fantastic group of volunteers who help out with all sorts like cleaning the kit, cleaning the stadium, working the bar, selling programmes, raffle tickets, working the turnstiles etc. I'm proud to say I am one of them.

That's a brief summary of the past few seasons at Weymouth Football Club.

I don't know a great deal about the politics or the finances which is why I didn't go into that too much. You could probably write a fairly long book on all of that.

In fact former chairman Ian Ridley did just that. His book Floodlit Dreams tells the story of his takeover back in 2003, how he went about rebuilding his hometown club and the events that lead to his resignation. It's a fascinating story and if you like a good book I cannot reccommend it enough. I think there are plenty of copies for sale on EBay and on Amazon.

If you have read this blog I thank you very much. I know this has been incredibly long but I hope I've managed to keep your interest till the end lol. If you are interested you can see highlights of all Weymouth's home games on our YouTube channel here - http://www.youtube.com/user/terrascouk

Think I appear celebrating behind the goal in a few of these

Once again, thanks for reading