My god, who put that mess together?!?! Are you sure you want to share that to further your cause?
I hadn't seen it before so thanks, but come on, it's ridiculously negative, one-sided and contradictory.
Slide 3 - Virtually unreadable, presumably they've never heard of bullet points and the title case throughout is unnecessary. Pedantry aside, vague, subjective and negative throughout. "7 managers and 2 relegations in 6 years". You can't say that while totally ignoring the 2 promotions and still be taken seriously.
Slide 4 - Tom Reedisms throughout. "Build WOW not basic". Wow.
Slide 7 - lots of talk of capacities, no talk of attendances. That's kind of the important part.
Slide 10 - another whinge about no written response, no mention of the proffered but refused open Zoom call.
Slide 11 - 14 - expectation of details to be provided from commercially sensitive negotiations with third parties. Which is why no written response was given to begin with, but hey, why not rake over those 25 questions again for old times' sake.
Slide 15 - Aha! I was waiting for that - more vague insinuations of wrongdoing from the failed Chinese deal.
Slide 18-20 - comparisons to two arbitrary clubs at opposite ends of the country. I'd suggest for this to have any meaning you'd need to see all 72 clubs side by side, otherwise it looks cherry picked.
Slide 21 - more cherry-picked stats.
Slide 22 - a picture of some fan zones with no text. We have a fan zone too, don't we?
Slide 23 - Some attendance figures comparing us to local rivals! It doesn't say what period the average attendance represents so is rendered pretty worthless. Let's assume it's this season, in which case all 5 clubs it compares us to are currently in a higher division than us and thus not a great comparison. Looking at the numbers in relation to each other though:
Club Ave Attendance Capacity % of capacityLeicester 31851 32312 99%
Luton 7863 10356 76%
Northampton 5100 7798 65%
Cambridge 4366 8127 54%
Peterborough 7365 15314 48%
MK Dons 8224 30500 27%
I'd look at that and say MK Dons ground is clearly too big and Leicester's is too small. Everyone in the middle? Probably about right. This certainly isn't an argument for blowing large amounts of money on a significantly bigger ground!
Slide 25 - Here we go!! Supporter involvement in running football clubs! It had to come didn't it? But we're not interested in running the club ourselves. No. Agenda? What agenda?
Slide 27 - T.E.A.M.
(I take it Tom's back on slide deck duty)
Slide 28 - get the council onside by telling them what
they should be doing. Scope creep, anyone?
Slide 31 - It's today's latest buzzword - Infrastructure Foundation! Fan ownership wasn't that popular so lets go for a finger in the pie instead.
Slide 33 - blow the Trust's own trumpet a bit, probably undermined by this presentation being the best they could come up with.
On top of those individual points, there's an ongoing theme about needing more executive boxes (because not having them is "Embarrassing!") and yet there's a complaint that the proposed redevelopment focusses too much on them while only providing minimal seating. Just an unfocussed mess.