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"the majority of fans"???
Around 30 turned up at the Wellington Arms tonight. Are they representative of all our fans? Of the 4000 regular fans how many spout their discontent? 100? 200?
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"the majority of fans"???
Around 30 turned up at the Wellington Arms tonight. Are they representative of all our fans? Of the 4000 regular fans how many spout their discontent? 100? 200?
4000? You not been looking at how attendances have fallen this season then? The 1000 that have disappeared have not voiced their discontent? Have they all found new hobbies or got jobs that means they can't go on a Saturday? You have really bought into this self-deluding idea of Fenty's that it's a few keyboard warriors on the internet. The fact that 30 people have bothered to go out to a pub in a dead part of town on a cold wet Thursday night in January speaks volumes for the depth of feeling. Small numbers maybe but what else gets more people out on a similar night merely because they feel negative about something? Getting 30 people at a meeting because they WANT to be there is an achievement. Getting 30 people there who really would much rather they didn't feel so strongly about something is much more impressive than you give credit for.
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You're lucky to get three men and a dog in the Welly most week nights.
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This thread shows the problem the Trust has.
Fans are split over the seat on the board as shown above. IF The Trust retains the seat it alienates half the fans, if it removes itself from the board it alienates half the fans! Can't win
How JF must be laughing
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I disagree. If and when discussions take place on control of the club being transferred we need to be at the heart of the conversation.
Any investor or consortium worth its salt will talk to the Trust whether the Trust member is on the board of GTFC or not. And maybe if there are boardroom takeover discussions in the future, the Trust will need to be on the ingoing side of the table rather than the outgoing. I also think a Trust led campaign to find investment while unrepresented in the boardroom and wanting to be part of the future, has far more provenance to any potential investor than being alongside the current board while doing so, unless JF publicly gives the Trust free reign to do so from within..
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Could the trust raise the money to run a for sale notice for the club in the national newspapers?
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Soon as the trust gifted Fenty the shares I’m afraid many lost confidence in the trust , also paying to be there just doesn’t sit right
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"the majority of fans"???
Around 30 turned up at the Wellington Arms tonight. Are they representative of all our fans? Of the 4000 regular fans how many spout their discontent? 100? 200?
Terrible WUM.
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Soon as the trust gifted Fenty the shares I’m afraid many lost confidence in the trust , also paying to be there just doesn’t sit right
The Trust didn’t gift it’s shares. The members gifted the shares.
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4000? You not been looking at how attendances have fallen this season then? The 1000 that have disappeared have not voiced their discontent? Have they all found new hobbies or got jobs that means they can't go on a Saturday?
You have really bought into this self-deluding idea of Fenty's that it's a few keyboard warriors on the internet.
The fact that 30 people have bothered to go out to a pub in a dead part of town on a cold wet Thursday night in January speaks volumes for the depth of feeling. Small numbers maybe but what else gets more people out on a similar night merely because they feel negative about something? Getting 30 people at a meeting because they WANT to be there is an achievement. Getting 30 people there who really would much rather they didn't feel so strongly about something is much more impressive than you give credit for.
Agree, considering the number of people that turned up to a Trust meeting right before a match, was it 10 people at the trust meeting?
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