Trust Board Meeting Tomorrow

Quoted from HertsGTFC

The Trust will never be what it could be until people get behind it with their small donations, personal time and a belief that things can be made better, look at OP.

I’m amazed when I read on here that the Trust should do this and the Trust should do that in regards to ousting JF but in reality their hands are tied and they have limited resources.

If people want the Trust to be more effective they need to join, a Trust could become a “movement” then who knows? I personally believe that a stronger Trust would mean a stronger club.

Chicken & egg though isn't it? If there was a prospect of the Trust influencing the future of GTFC then many would join, but the current situation doesn't suggest that happening any time soon.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Chicken & egg though isn't it? If there was a prospect of the Trust influencing the future of GTFC then many would join, but the current situation doesn't suggest that happening any time soon.

Maybe think more of what you could do for the Trust rather than what the Trust could do for you?

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Chicken & egg though isn't it? If there was a prospect of the Trust influencing the future of GTFC then many would join, but the current situation doesn't suggest that happening any time soon.

If they had strength in numbers who knows what they can do? It’s very easy to be critical but until people join them in the trenches you never know.

Makes entire sense to me.

I don't really know a lot about the Trust, apart from what I read on here, and to be perfectly honest I am not bothered.

The only thing that matters is the removal of Fenty, and to start afresh. If that was the Trust's stated aim,  would join and throw my weight behind it but anything else is a waste of time.

From what I have read on here the Trust seem more in cahoots with Fenty rather than trying to oust him so I have no idea what they are trying to achieve.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

If they had strength in numbers who knows what they can do? It’s very easy to be critical but until people join them in the trenches you never know.

The strength in numbers needs to be in votable shares though. Anything else is insignificant, although I get your point.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

I don't really know a lot about the Trust, apart from what I read on here, and to be perfectly honest I am not bothered.

The only thing that matters is the removal of Fenty, and to start afresh. If that was the Trust's stated aim,  would join and throw my weight behind it but anything else is a waste of time.

From what I have read on here the Trust seem more in cahoots with Fenty rather than trying to oust him so I have no idea what they are trying to achieve.

I’m not 100% but I guess he Trust see a place on the current board as a better way to influence the future of the club, looking at the way the boys club that is “the gang of 4” behave I get the change from within strategy.

If they had a public mandate of removing Fenty there is no way they’d be involved in any dialogue with the directors.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

The strength in numbers needs to be in votable shares though. Anything else is insignificant, although I get your point.

I’m not sure I get yours TBH, not having a pop I just don’t see what you mean.

Maybe it’s unique to football clubs but If you’re  on a company board and have more equity than another director it does not necessarily mean you have more voting rights. Then again as we have a “non chairman” who can tell?

Quoted from MuddyWaters

The strength in numbers needs to be in votable shares though. Anything else is insignificant, although I get your point.

Not necessarily. First things first. Need to get the membership up. Min 1000 to have credibility as the true voice of the fans. As many members as ST holders and you have a real force to be reckoned with.

More members means more money as well as a credible claim to represent fans. You also have, simply as a by-product of having more members, more people ready and willing to be active. And greater diversity of skills

You build up a 'warchest' and credibility. If and when the balloon goes up you are ready to step in. But you don't just simply buy shares as it might just disappear if the excrement hits the fan (no pun intended).

When that happens, having more people available to share the burden means you have more chance of success too. Many people have more expertise that the club could use but simply cannot afford (and in some cases has remarkably, actually turned down). An expansion on the rationale for Marley and Day being on the board. But they'd have the justification of being the biggest, on-going financial supporters of the club.

Also, with a really big membership you'd have more chance of Fenty taking you seriously so revolution might be replaced with reform and evolution.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Thanks for the reminder about flasks, but to be honest, the real issues are much deeper than can be resolved by a new policy on flasks.

Maybe someone from the Cayman Islands could sponsor new eco friendly flasks?

Yeh there’s more than one town fan in the Cayman Islands....what’s your point?