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bax
December 24, 2020, 5:40pm
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Quoted from MrFisherman
From day one the Trust hasn't been fit for purpose


I'd say operation promotion would disagree with you. For all its faults at the moment, it has done some good stuff over the years.
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December 24, 2020, 5:43pm
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Exactly. I bet half the people moaning haven’t bothered to join.


Or are ex members because they got fed up with the Trust cosying up to Fenty and in my case because they allowed a grubby opportunist to pose with a town shirt.
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Perhaps they should reflect on the composition of their membership very male pale and stale need to increase diversity of those on it.


Whats pale got to do with. Why is everything suddenly about colour. Pale as you call it  is the predominant colour of gtfc fans and so is representative. But perhaps more ladies would be more reflective
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I'd say operation promotion would disagree with you. For all its faults at the moment, it has done some good stuff over the years.


OP was great Bax, but, in truth, it took financial heat off JF and put the heat on Hursty.
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OP was great Bax, but, in truth, it took financial heat off JF and put the heat on Hursty.


JF did tell me it was the worst thing that happened to the club after all...
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December 24, 2020, 5:51pm
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JF did tell me it was the worst thing that happened to the club after all...


Very hard to take a 100k loan repayment out of the club when the fans have donated 100k to back the club.
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I'd say operation promotion would disagree with you. For all its faults at the moment, it has done some good stuff over the years.


It's like a chicken and egg situation. There's been zero contact with paid up new members, but need new members, zero database management or collation,  but need to digitally contact members across all forms of social media with the press of one button to improve communication. Need more people get involved in order to help out with deficiences by providing extra man hours and also join (shake up) the current trust board, but can't do that because there's no definitive database and basic administrative automated digital protocols aren't in place through lack of man hours and so back to square one we go.

It's alright sitting on the board of a football club, but if you can't get the fundamentals right with your members, do the elected directors really have a mandate and how can the Trust manage and contact its members in the present nevermind grow in the future?

Needs sorting..
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December 24, 2020, 6:17pm
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Don’t really understand the post above, but if it means that the Trust needs to join the 21st century for communication and IT systems I’m in total support
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December 24, 2020, 6:26pm

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Quoted from IlkleyMariner
Don’t really understand the post above, but if it means that the Trust needs to join the 21st century for communication and IT systems I’m in total support


Not sure it is just about technology. Looking from the outside it seems they have a mentality of having meetings and committees to do everything, yet rarely consult the members on anything. The dichotomy between being ultra democratic on one hand and a "politburo" structure on the other is not a great combination, because it means they are slow to react and then not particularly representative of the members.


'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.  
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Not sure it is just about technology. Looking from the outside it seems they have a mentality of having meetings and committees to do everything, yet rarely consult the members on anything. The dichotomy between being ultra democratic on one hand and a "politburo" structure on the other is not a great combination, because it means they are slow to react and then not particularly representative of the members.


Surely they would have a stronger hand at GTFC board level if they spoke with the authority of hundreds of town fans.
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