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I've said I'll stand for the board - but nothing is ever going to change through the will of one person, a collective effort is required.

Well, taking that into account. I would have thought a rallying call would have been a more appropriate course of action. Rather than an attack on those that agree in principle with your thoughts. Are you trying to generate cooperation, or trying alienate those that seem to be looking for a lead on this? 

Not that I would throw myself into that mix. I'm sure you've got the gist of my thoughts on committees. 

Realistically though what is the point of a supporters trust nowadays?

The last two owners haven’t wanted to engage with them and who’s to say the next two won’t also feel this way?

I can’t see that things would have been any worse if there wasn’t a supporters trust , in fact things have been made worse by their actions.

Football has changed a lot in the last twenty years and I’m sure most football club owners see them as an inconvenience to pay lip service to at best….

The owners have the money
The owners own the club
The owners pay the bills.

All supporters trust do are tell them what they’re doing wrong with regards to their own money !!!

Supporters trusts are often full of people who would love to play football club chairman but haven’t been successful enough in life to be able to , this won’t stop them from telling those more successful where they are going wrong though.

Twenty odd  years ago football trusts were the big thing , organising buses and jumble sales but nowadays most are an irrelevance.

In our clubs case the trust has managed against all odds to make itself irrelevant!!!

It may seem an awful thing to say but money men own clubs now to make money but trusts hark back to local businessmen wanting to own their local clubs….

Look at the most successful clubs in the prem , none are owned by local businessmen and Man Utd apart you never hear a peep regards supporters trusts….

Talking of Man Utd they’ve been glazers out , glazers out for years now.
Guess what?
They’re still there…..
They don’t need to worry about supporters trusts banging a drum in the same way DB and KT don’t give two figs.

When they took over part of the deal was that the supporters trust had no say , they agreed to this demand and haven’t shut up since !!!


I’m sorry but the whole concept of supporters trusts is outdated.
The fact is you can bang your drum as loud as you like but can always be totally ignored , especially when that is what you agreed to in the first place …..

Not as long as you think... JJOT in January 2018 when he scored 4 in 4 as we went unbeaten....we later got relegated.

That was the first since the change of the renaming of the leagues in 2004.

Blimey. Yer, I would never have associated that season with any of our players winning that award  

It was that low key that you've probably missed it or forgotten about it. I'm sure it'll pop up in the accounts:

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/sport/football/thomas-confirms-cobblers-will-benefit-from-chukwuemekas-move-from-aston-villa-to-chelsea-3857637

Good old undisclosed amount.

Wow. Very clumsy of you. Im fuming even more now. Over and out.

Sorry, just to clarify r.e this point on the record. Never got a vote about Cilldara, I was referring to the ACV vote.

It's not documented as it was said to myself and another former Trust board member when we met him before he bought the club. We weren't happy about the situation but he said he was going to finish the stand so we did what we thought was best for NTFC. He said they never held "formal" board meetings just zoom calls.

A sliding doors moment. I reckon the current board (and advisors) wouldn't have and we may have had different owners and the chance to be moaning about someone else. 

Chelsea money? Youve lost me mate.

It was that low key that you've probably missed it or forgotten about it. I'm sure it'll pop up in the accounts:

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/sport/football/thomas-confirms-cobblers-will-benefit-from-chukwuemekas-move-from-aston-villa-to-chelsea-3857637

We have a lovely souvenir Michael Harriman framed shirt up for grabs in our online charity auction. The item includes an official inscription/plaque at the bottom.

The shirt is framed with the back on display showing the player name and number and sponsor for the 2021/22 season.

You'll find it on the auction site here: https://auctionofpromises.com/AuctionOfPromisesForTeamSebastian. Lots are listed in alphabetical order so look under N for Northampton or search by keyword - or just browse over 100 other fantastic items.

Thank you

I don't just think it's the supporters Trust. There is hardly any appetite for committees across the board. I have worked for two charities, neither of which can fill vacancies they have at the moment.

So in answer to my question. Are you going to lead the charge on this?

I've said I'll stand for the board - but nothing is ever going to change through the will of one person, a collective effort is required.

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Listen, if you think the Trust model is outdated and are happy for it to be consigned to history, then fair enough - that's an entirely different argument to what we're talking about here.

My original post was aimed at people who do want an improved supporters' trust board. And I'm simply making the point that we are way past the point of expecting a change in direction that so many people seem to want from it, without a change in personnel. Nothing more, nothing less.

I do believe there's an appetite within the fanbase for a healthy supporters' trust, but I'm not blinkered enough to rule out that I could be wrong. I think that would be a crying shame.

I don't just think it's the supporters Trust. There is hardly any appetite for committees across the board. I have worked for two charities, neither of which can fill vacancies they have at the moment.

So in answer to my question. Are you going to lead the charge on this?