CHAIRMAN John Ryan has revealed to Echosport that the Seasiders will hold an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to discuss Weymouth’s “immediate and long-term future”.

The EGM will take place at the club’s Redlands home on Friday, June 24 (7pm).

Weymouth have had to contend with a vast amount of unavailability this season and have lost all seven of their Dorset Premier League first-team fixtures so far this term.

The Seasiders’ second XI were forced to scratch their scheduled clash with Stalbridge Seconds on Saturday, with Ryan admitting the first team has also been left severely under strength.

“We have an EGM on Friday June 24, at Redlands, where we will be making future decisions about the way forward for the club,” he told Echosport.

“The immediate and long-term future of the club will be discussed.

“We are going to discuss the continuation of this season’s playing teams. We need to ascertain the availability of players so we can see where we are going.

“The emphasis is that a lot of stalwart players who have been with us down the years have had to shade away from playing regularly, hence you end up fielding very under-strength sides.

“On Saturday, we used our 30th continued from back page player in the first team in seven games.

“A lot of us just aren’t up to the standard. A lot of the players that would have played in the seconds have ended up playing in the firsts. We can’t go on at this level with that type of unavailability.

“It’s very depressing to go to a selection meeting and fear people pulling out that can’t make it, you just cannot sustain things at that level. When it comes to the EGM, we have to make some tough choices for the future.”

However, Ryan did state that this is by no means the end for the club as a whole.

He added: “The club is in no danger at all. It’s not like we are a club that can’t get one team out, one way or the other we will continue.

We have a lot of young players between the ages of nine and about 14 and the attendances of those groups are great.

“But there is a massive difference when they get to 14 or 15 and have to come up to the first team.

“That’s why you end up with a bunch of 50-year-olds playing in the first team because we want to protect the youngsters from being exposed to that higher level.”

Ryan also confirmed that the Seasiders had been in contact with the Dorset League with regards to their status moving forward.