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« Reply #320 on: March 10, 2019, 15:37:24 pm »

I see from the leaflet posted on Twitter that they would want to dictate the tactics the club used? Also, the attributes they want in the players the club signs, well, every club in the world wants them don't they?

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« Reply #321 on: March 10, 2019, 15:44:01 pm »

there will  be a lot more than the 12 that turned up to listen to Thomas and Whiting last week 😂😂

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« Reply #322 on: March 10, 2019, 15:49:37 pm »

Looking on Twitter bits of the presentation seem to have gone viral - and not in a good way.
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« Reply #323 on: March 10, 2019, 15:54:31 pm »

What on earth are you on about? With an 'administrator' making comments like that, no wonder this board attracts a lot of rude folk.

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« Reply #324 on: March 10, 2019, 16:03:19 pm »

I see from the leaflet posted on Twitter that they would want to dictate the tactics the club used? Also, the attributes they want in the players the club signs, well, every club in the world wants them don't they?



Who posted that load of tosh. Somebody is taking the Mackey. That cannot be from the Trust.
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« Reply #325 on: March 10, 2019, 16:09:08 pm »

It’s got meccano’s fingerprints all over it - you’d like to think the trust had some kind of a say and didn’t just regurgitate it.
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« Reply #326 on: March 10, 2019, 16:26:40 pm »

It's a spoof from someone against the idea........ isn't it?
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« Reply #327 on: March 10, 2019, 16:38:57 pm »

Honestly I like the ambition, but it does come across as naive and idealistic in the extreme.

There's too much volatility in the lower leagues to be able to implement any overriding philosophy. If you manage to play anything resembling attractive successful football, all momentum is lost as the players/manager quickly get poached by bigger clubs.

Would definitely like to see investment in the facilities though. If you have a solid infrastructure, it at least sets the club up to get the very best of whoever we have at the time. Unfortunately also requires millions of pounds so is equally unlikely.

The only significant factor that drives sustained progression up the pyramid is the size of the playing budget. So without a wealthy benefactor, the club will intermittent spells of good and bad period, but will ultimately largely stay around the level we always have. Same every other club of out stature, and I don't think any long term vision without investment can change that.

What I'd most want from fan ownership is a commitment to off the field matters. Anything that could improve the matchday experience, or engage the wider community with the club.
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« Reply #328 on: March 10, 2019, 16:53:29 pm »

It's a spoof from someone against the idea........ isn't it?

To be fair I think it is. Someone us playing games and that doesn't do us any good at all
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« Reply #329 on: March 10, 2019, 17:19:21 pm »

To be fair I think it is. Someone us playing games and that doesn't do us any good at all

That is the document that was handed out to all attendees today.
It was posted on Twitter by Neil from the podcast who went to the meeting.
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« Reply #330 on: March 10, 2019, 17:53:05 pm »

Well, aside from that flyer being a farcical load of old toss, what actually happened at the meeting earlier? Did anyone go? I just came on here after a busy afternoon fixing the rabbit hutch expecting it to be abuzz with the exciting takeover plans but there's next to nothing?!?!
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« Reply #331 on: March 10, 2019, 18:52:02 pm »

There was alot of fans at the game that only heard about the project yesterday, let alone the meeting today. This could lead to an apathy of 'why is it me that's always the last to know anything'.
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« Reply #332 on: March 10, 2019, 19:02:45 pm »

Having just read the leaflet, I am even more convinced that fan ownership is not to be pursued.
 Quite disturbing that some people think that is the way forward, frightening really.
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« Reply #333 on: March 10, 2019, 19:03:25 pm »

Don’t be too hard on yourself.. Uninformed..yes. Rude... no..   Cool

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« Reply #334 on: March 10, 2019, 19:41:33 pm »

Having just read the leaflet, I am even more convinced that fan ownership is not to be pursued.
 Quite disturbing that some people think that is the way forward, frightening really.

I've been fairly vociferous in my objection to the whole fan ownership idea. In truth, I think it's good to have fan representation on the board, but that seat should be bought and paid for in the same way as any other investor's seat at the table, otherwise it's nothing more than a token gesture of appeasement from the majority shareholders that can be ignored at will.

If that was what was being proposed, I'd have a bit more time for it. I know the official line was "we don't know what this will look like, the meeting is to figure that out", but reading the rhetoric from certain individuals I think they knew exactly what they thought it should/would look like and that seemed to be based on an almost child-like, simplistic view of how everything ought to work, that neglects to take into account how things do actually work (a bit like Corbyn's social policy  Grin)

My hope for today was that the grand designs of a few hopeless romantics would be laid bare for all to see in an emperor's new clothes style and we can go back to having a more pragmatic take on fan involvement. I'll be genuinely interested to hear how the meeting panned out, but if that toe-curlingly embarrassing paperwork that was given out is anything to go by I think I can guess....
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« Reply #335 on: March 10, 2019, 19:45:36 pm »

Having just read the leaflet, I am even more convinced that fan ownership is not to be pursued.
 Quite disturbing that some people think that is the way forward, frightening really.

I agree, frightening. How can you tell someone how to manager a football team and what the players attributes need to be, any manager in their right minds would run a mile including KC I would suggest.
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« Reply #336 on: March 10, 2019, 20:12:58 pm »

It looks like that leaflet may be genuine. If so, for all their good intentions, that effectively kills off any involvement by the trust in the future. Any suggestion that they can be involved in the running of a professional football club is simply  laughable.

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« Reply #337 on: March 10, 2019, 20:26:51 pm »

That leaflet is scaring me, and counts me out of any support for the project/dictatorship.
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« Reply #338 on: March 10, 2019, 20:30:53 pm »

"Technical innovation in the art of hitting the net" Who wrote that load of crap?
In the nature of my work, I have seen a lot of mission statements, but this one truly made me cringe. I am a member of the trust, but sorry lads, you have just shot yourselves in the foot.
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« Reply #339 on: March 10, 2019, 20:44:00 pm »

"Player DNA"  Huh? "Gentlemen"  Tongue

 "How many of our current players fit this criteria." I wonder what the players at the club think to that question. Complete and utter tosh I'm afraid to say.
 
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