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TheRonRaffertyFanClub
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Quoted from rancido


No, there are 3 sides - yours, theres and the truth! To use a statement once used in politics "they (the Board) couldn't run a whelk stall".


To paraphrase a well known truthful Duchess - it’s their truth!



“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty."
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Now that the ballot for the General Meeting to be held on 5th May has been closed, the Board are able to make the following statement. For legal reasons it was not appropriate to do so whilst the ballot was open.

I don't understand which part of this statement would have been illegal if published prior to the ballot closing?


"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." (Jimi Hendrix)
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Now that the ballot for the General Meeting to be held on 5th May has been closed, the Board are able to make the following statement. For legal reasons it was not appropriate to do so whilst the ballot was open.

I don't understand which part of this statement would have been illegal if published prior to the ballot closing?


More waffle and nonsense...I mean the part where they blame literally everyone and everything else except themselves certainly isn’t or wouldn’t be illegal...

In all seriousness I guess the consortium probably asked them to hold off may be..


'the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy'...well done Mozza
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I opened up social media at work and the first thing I saw was the official account linking to the statement. I don’t know about anyone else but my immediate response was to worry that something had happened to scupper the takeover. I don’t know if that’s my naturally pessimistic view or if I’ve just been conditioned to expect the worst after following town for so long.

Once I’d got over the relief that the takeover hadn’t been hijacked by any last minute demands from the current principal funder or Stockwood and Petit haven’t come to their senses and realised owning and running a football club is a road to ruin I was shocked by the statement.

I appreciate that the board should make some sort of comment about what’s happened, a club can’t go into non-league without some sort of statement from the board. It’s a absolutely right that they have come out and said something. Especially since this is their last days in charge. But the statement should have contained some humility.

Paragraph 2 starts: “We deeply regret that the Club has been relegated from the EFL and unreservedly apologise for our part in that.”

The rest of the statement is full of excuses and finger pointing. COVID clauses, player recruitment, no pre-season, the furlough/release/sacking? Of Limbrick, they accept the blame for absolutely none of it. They’re quick to point out the bills they’ve paid but neglect to mention Alex May or effectively holding the club hostage over Christmas.

This attitude is exactly the attitude which a seen us relegated to non-league again and perfectly exposes what is wrong with the current board and primary funder. The egotistical nature and the absolute inability to accept when they’re responsible for failings is typical of the last 15 years.

I just hope that there’s no issues tomorrow and we can start to get our club back and have open dialogue with those in charge of at club.


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You're a disgrace Phil.  

I hope you're told tomorrow that you're never welcome in the ground again.


I’ll tell him now and if that other Town fan mate of his turns up he better not come with a flag
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Absolutely over the moon that the books are once again balanced and all the tax and national insurance is up to date; it will be a great comfort when we are away to Boreham Wood. Best run club ever.

Meanwhile, in the real world, all the other clubs did what it takes to get through the covid pandemic with their EFL status intact. So they may have borrowed some money or spent money they didn't really have, but the extra income they get from their league status will cushion the blow.

We, on the other hand, jumped all over any reason or excuse to cut corners and embraced the covid clause and salary caps like the short sighted charlatans they clearly are.

How many times have we heard the same sentiments in previous statements? Lessons never learned.
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I've not read every post on this thread so apologies if this has been replicated elsewhere but this is just another attempt to defend the indefensible.

So are now supposed to believe that they did what they could? Do they think we're that shallow?

They go on about not challenging Holloway, well that in my mind is an admission of guilt and dereliction of their duty as "custodians". Lets face it the appointment of Holloway wasn't their first rodeo was it, as we all know this lot don't learn from their mistakes.

I also like the way that they insinuate that paying mandatory bills to the government illustrates their due diligence, well it does to a degree but it also keeps them out of jail as directors of the company and is essential for the take over.

As patronising as ever, luckily it feels like we won't need to put up with it for much longer.


"Crombie you would have got to that if you weren't such a fat ba%$@rd" - George Kerr, inspiration from the dug out 70s style  
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Quoted from malkamalka
Now that the ballot for the General Meeting to be held on 5th May has been closed, the Board are able to make the following statement. For legal reasons it was not appropriate to do so whilst the ballot was open.

I don't understand which part of this statement would have been illegal if published prior to the ballot closing?


I’m probably wrong, but imagine there may have been an agreement between the two parties that no statements would be made during the balloting period so as to not influence the votes.
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JF -  Right gents, I have called this emergency board meeting so we can get our ducks in a row when it comes to releasing a statement before the takeover happens.

PD - we are deep in the sh1t here John, there is no way we can walk away from this without some serious sh1t sticking to our blanket

SM - Shut up Phillip

JF - listen....we just need a scapegoat, it's easy this , right who was here at the start of the season but isnt here now ?

PD- well about 15 loan players for a start John

SM - shut up Phillip

PD - Ian Holloway ?

JF- yes perfect,  we will shift all blame to the mad hatter, we can say he had the final say in everything and we just remained hands off and regards the other stuff we can say we just followed rules. Just for measure we can add we pay our bills and havnt taken out any loans (other than adding to my benign pile of course) and make out the other clubs arent as morally high as ourselves by breaking rules to remain in the EFL.
Actually to save time we could probably just cut and paste quite a bit from the Newell, Slade, Bignot, Slade, Jolley statements we used previously.

PD - moral high ground? You did set up a company with a convicted fraudster, invite him into our club and we were going to take his dirty money ...

SM - shut up Phillip

JF - that's sorted then ....sweet.


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You’ll get done for unauthorised use of bugging devices Moosey 😆


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For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
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