Shoemaker
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I no longer post or attend matches due to ill health but felt compelled to jot down a few musings.
It is clear the current trust are not fit for purpose. They have acted undemocratically in pushing through decisions without allowing all paid members to vote and have actively and knowingly acted against the best interests of the football club they represent. There is no need to add anything else.
I was the first to point out many moons ago that there seemed to be a chance of the trust acting in tandom with cilldara which has now come to pass. Whoever thought it was a smart idea to involve outside interest in the sixfields site was very sadly misguided and has potentially placed the clubs entire future in serious doubt.
The fact that there is now a judicial review doesn’t surprise me one bit and again I pointed out long ago I believed things would go down this path.
To me the bidding process seemed very odd to say the least regards timings of bids and certain bids being allowed where others were not. This should have raised alarm bells at the time. However from memory a chap from the council posted at great length on here to tell the fanbase there was no cause for concern despite the bidding timelines so to speak. It’s worth noting that the individual hasn’t posted on here in many moons to ease supporters fears and we are now at the mercy of a judicial review to basically see if the council managed to operate the bidding process in the correct manner.
It will be interesting to see the outcome and in turn whether this council was more competent than their predecessors who gave away ten million pounds or so of public money without the necessary safeguards.
The cilldara legal team have stated they are very confident of victory in this matter….
IF cilldara are successful it remains to be seen if the bidding process is reopened which like it or not would seem to be the fairest option.
It seems clear to me that cilldara would win any future bidding war for the land on the previous bidding history. It would then remain to be seen whether the current owners would continue at the club without the redevelopment land.
I personally think they would leave and administration/liquidation wound follow if this was the case.
To turn the musings full circle, all of this would have been avoided if the trust had not got involved. The land deal would have gone through unopposed, there would have been no bidding process to scrutinise and things would be further down the road than they are now.
The only thing I do agree with concerning the trust is my belief that there should have been a cast iron guarantee to finish the redevelopment (and to a better standard and higher capacity than the ideas laid out a decade ago).
The fact the trust have put the clubs future in doubt in order to achieve ‘no stand , no land ‘ is a major step in the wrong direction and leaves all fans with a very real option of blank Saturday afternoons in the future.
There was imo no need to end up in this predicament and it was all of the football clubs supporters trusts own making. Perhaps if they had canvassed all members democratically and asked opinions on the best way to progress then other avenues may have been explored.
Alas a rushed/botched undemocratic view was formed and the rest is history..,.
Anyone thinking that a supporters trust that has acted against the best interests of the club it deems to represent and put its actual future in immediate peril is worthy of future support are at best misguided in my opinion.
I hope things turn out ok for the future so that the town still has a club and fans present and future have a team to support, but make no mistake it will be in no way down to the ‘help’ from its very own supporters trust !!!
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