The Board, consultancy fees, Mercs and how to identify a duck

[Reg Smeeton]

Via transcript unless the groups agree unanimously otherwise.

So will that take the form of a live feed, like a match day thread, or a write up at a later date?

[wiggy]

Suppose Ferdi may give up some evidence to the press if the claims are true. Can he have a cool codename. Like deep throat but less porno sounding?

Not so much a smoking gun, as a smoking duck...

[Sam Morshead]

So will that take the form of a live feed, like a match day thread, or a write up at a later date?

A write-up. I can't really run a feed and be there to fully digest everything that's said.

[Saxondale]

Keep your eye out for ducks Sam.  Its all about the ducks.  They'll be in the corner smoking a cigar and quacking in a an evil fashion.

[Reg Smeeton]

A write-up. I can't really run a feed and be there to fully digest everything that's said.

I see...

[Sam Morshead]

I see...

Equally, a live feed is liable to misquoting and or misunderstanding which would only exacerbate the situation if taken the wrong way.

[BruceChatwin]

Presumably the easiest way for the board to deal with these accusations would be to privately show Morsehead the clubs accounts (proving there's been no £200,000 consultancy fees)/ the £1.2 million still sitting in a ring fenced account so Sam can relay that information to the fans (indirectly) as soon as possible and nip all this speculation in the bud.

Can you make a request of this nature Sam?

I doubt a general statement of denial from Murrall in tomorrows adver will hold much water with the fans. A point by point rebuttal though showing Fredi's accusations are untrue would instantly win them a lot of goodwill and many of the doubters over to their side in the event of more rumours being posted about them in future.

If they're all working honestly, then winning over the fans really isn't that hard, it just takes a little communication and transparency. In the absence of this, people will make up their own minds, and the lack of communication and transparency will not be kind to them.

[Sam Morshead]

Presumably the easiest way for the board to deal with these accusations would be to privately show Morsehead the clubs accounts (proving there's been no £200,000 consultancy fees)/ the £1.2 million still sitting in a ring fenced account so Sam can relay that information to the fans (indirectly) as soon as possible and nip all this speculation in the bud.

Can you make a request of this nature Sam?

I doubt a general statement of denial from Murrall in tomorrows adver will hold much water with the fans. A point by point rebuttal though showing Fredi's accusations are untrue would instantly win them a lot of goodwill and many of the doubters over to their side in the event of more rumours being posted about them in future.

If they're all working honestly, then winning over the fans really isn't that hard, it just takes a little communication and transparency. In the absence of this, people will make up their own minds, and the lack of communication and transparency will not be kind to them.

I can make the request, although opening books up on a whim to journalists is not often the done thing. Murrall has said if those points are brought up tomorrow, which they will be, he will address them point by point. Then it's a case of one word versus another - until there is hard evidence from either corner of course, which is why I have asked Fredi to get in touch.

[Batch]

Think it inevitable there'll be scepticism, when an unknown appears  lobbing hand grenades. He/she lacks the provenance of a long time known poster such as yourself.

This ^^^  . Plus pure hope we aren't being run by people whom it is alleged have not put a penny into the club, which would potentially mean piling up debt.

Problem is its easy to dismiss Ferdi. While I don't know TDoB personally, I know some that do and so trust his word. Which makes everything a bit concerning to say the least...

[Ardiles]

Presumably the easiest way for the board to deal with these accusations would be to privately show Morsehead the clubs accounts...

Why don't you just go the whole hog and call him Moosehead?  

[FreddySTFC!]

Anyone know who fredi is? Can I be the 1st to rule myself out

Seconded!!!

[RWB Robin]

I think it is important to be realistic about tomorrow's meeting.  I don't want to be dismissive, but I was surprised when i heard that Sam was chairing it, and that the BBC had also been invited.  The likelihood of complete openness in discussion with the media present is very small indeed, unless Sam gives a commitment to confidentiality, in which case, the fans will not get a full and frank description of the meeting.  The situation is extremely worrying, nerves are jangling inside the club as well as outside, and those who are passing this whole thing off as irrelevant to the business of the play-offs and the potential for next season are living in cloud cuckoo land.  I would rather trust the fans representatives (and Sam) to put the case tomorrow and to request complete honesty from the Directors, and then to pass on a message, either that we can relax a bit, or we need to gird up our loins for a fight, than for the meeting just to be a showpiece with no substance so that it can all be freely reported.

However little we like it and might wish it otherwise, the need for a degree of confidentiality is a fact of life in all begotiation.

[Sam Morshead]

Why don't you just go the whole hog and call him Moosehead?  

Been done, not original.

[tans]

Fred is jed and he wrote it for the bants

[Berniman]

So they don't have one each then?

He was with female cronies, not the other board members