Mariners Trust AGM

Quoted from forza ivano

just as a matter of interest how many members do the Trust have?

Around 720 (based on the OP saying that a third of the membership is around 240)

Quoted from KingstonMariner

We’re you a member at the time and did you vote against?

I was and did.

I find it amazing that everyone says they were one of the 13% who voted against. Sorry for picking on you as an example KM, I'm not saying you didn't but others have said the same elsewhere in the thread, nobody admits to voting for giving the shares to JF. When supposedly 87% voted for, it doesn't add up to me.

Quoted from pizzzza

I find it amazing that everyone says they were one of the 13% who voted against. Sorry for picking on you as an example KM, I'm not saying you didn't but others have said the same elsewhere in the thread, nobody admits to voting for giving the shares to JF. When supposedly 87% voted for, it doesn't add up to me.

Spike island syndrome/pistols at the gardens.

I’d be inclined to believe the folk on here who have said they didn’t vote to give him the shares, their views have remained pretty consistent throughout.

I have met people who voted to hand them over, sadly, these folk were the ones who swallowed the whole ‘kept the club afloat’ Fenty the saviour nonsense and thus voted accordingly.

I remember one saying “I voted to hand them over because the trust don’t know how to run a football club but he does” - I haven’t seen this person to speak to since we’ve been banished from BP. I’m intrigued to see if they maintain that opinion...

240 is 1/3 of the membership eligible to vote.  So on top of that you have the U16's, which brings the total to about 775.

Quoted from pizzzza

Around 720 (based on the OP saying that a third of the membership is around 240)

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Hate to point it out mate, but we live in a hierarchical society. It’s a case of hang together or hang separately. If you think a supporters trust is the wrong kind of organisation let me introduce you to the people that run the country.

Who says I take part in society.

Quoted from pizzzza

I find it amazing that everyone says they were one of the 13% who voted against. Sorry for picking on you as an example KM, I'm not saying you didn't but others have said the same elsewhere in the thread, nobody admits to voting for giving the shares to JF. When supposedly 87% voted for, it doesn't add up to me.

I did not vote because I was not convinced either way.

As far as I remember scrooge  said to the Trust he would put 200,000k into the budget of they donated 250,000 k of shares to him.

I could be wrong as my memory is starting to play tricks with me.

Quoted from grimsby pete

I did not vote because I was not convinced either way.

As far as I remember scrooge  said to the Trust he would put 200,000k into the budget of they donated 250,000 k of shares to him.

I could be wrong as my memory is starting to play tricks with me.

No Pete you are right. The agreement was that JF would buy £200K worth of "new" money shares.

You would have to very naive indeed to imagine someone whose greatest achievement was to provide a sink for the ladies would in any way be a good chap to work with.

Even a cursory chat to the business community would give you, shall we say a less than glowing report so quite how the hierarchy of the Trust did not disassociate themselves from the boardroom years ago is anybody's guess.

I thought, also naively as it turns out, that a fans Trust would be for the fans; to tell their membership straight what the situation was like in the boardroom and start and support a campaign for change.

It got worse as the years went by; why didn't the trust act after the infamous fans forum, for example. One example of many.

It is good that Fenty has brought about his own downfall, as I doubt anyone close to the club was going to do it. Somebody may have tipped the press off about Mr May, but it was about 10 years too late.

Things happen for a reason I guess, and although it would have been better not to go through all these miserable years we should be in a much better place soon, especially if we stay up.

These are serious questions I'm not getting at anyone.
1 Why does the Trust even exist
2 What does it do.

Quoted from aldi_01

Spike island syndrome/pistols at the gardens.

I’d be inclined to believe the folk on here who have said they didn’t vote to give him the shares, their views have remained pretty consistent throughout.

I have met people who voted to hand them over, sadly, these folk were the ones who swallowed the whole ‘kept the club afloat’ Fenty the saviour nonsense and thus voted accordingly.

I remember one saying “I voted to hand them over because the trust don’t know how to run a football club but he does” - I haven’t seen this person to speak to since we’ve been banished from BP. I’m intrigued to see if they maintain that opinion...

That was the first thing that came to my mind...." Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester" ..and just about every Manc musician over the last 40 yrs being there