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What is going on behind the scenes? We are concerned

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oh dear..

The club is in turmoil, i have heard several things today that i think might be true.

Apparently Bill Power wants full control of the club and obviously Devlin is siding with Power, however the Wills family and a couple of others are against this hence the falling out and split between the board, it looks like it could end up with Power and Devlin leaving the club and our club will be in turmoil as we will have no investment and we will be back to square one with Willie Carson and Sandy Gray running the show.

I have also heard something else today that worries me greatly, the players are unhappy because of Paul Ince, they are unhappy because he has come in on a £4,000-£5,000 a week wage and he basically walks straight into the team even though he is clearly very unfit.

Alot of people feel that someone who is almost 39 and has missed pre-season training will not be able to reach the required fitness level.

I think that signing Ince was a bad mistake, Lambert would have been a better signing Ince is a waste of money, he's too old and past his best now, and their seems to be problems within the squar because of him as well.

Things do not look good at all, the club could fall apart and to make things worse maybe Wise will go as well, all this would damage our club severely and we will probably fall further down the league.

All of our optimism for this season could soon disappear, we could end up back in the bad times with no money and a crap board and crap manager.

Except Power isn't on the board so it couldn't be split in the way you assume  8)

Well its obvious SSW cannot do it on his own- he has drip fed us for years. He needs help.

Put it this way it will be absolute disaster if Power and Devlin go- i think with them so will Wise and the extra 4000 fans.

This current board(except Power and Devlin) are no hopers. We wont really go forward until the Wills family sell up once and for all. Yes they have helped us a olot inthe past, but the time has come to hand the club over to take us forwards, it is obvious that they are unable to do this so let someone else.

If we go back to the days of last season, with Gray as CE and us as a laughing stock again, this club will die

They will probably bring back Andy King as well

Power isn't on the board...

Think that is immaterial tbh

Agree if it goes back to Willie Carson and Sandy Gray will be TOTAL disaster for this club. No money again, drifting along and going nowhere.

It will never progress until we get he Wills family to sell up i am afraid. They are happy with Carson/Gray/a crap manager but we aint

Well put it this way. Power isn't on the board. You said he was. He has already put money into the club. He hasn't and isn't putting more in at the present moment.

But other than that you're right. Let's get Parkin back too,

The wills family should sell up or come to some agreement otherwise Bill power will do what Terry Brady did when he couldn't get the new stadium approved (walkaway).
The Ince thing really concerns me as well, it is crystal clear that he is very unfit and i'm not sure whether he will ever get fit this season, he should not have been brought in, because he is wise's best pal he more or less walks straight into the team and now apparently there is alot of discontent within the squad because of Ince, should have left it alone, too old, past his best and a total waste of money, should have let someone else have him, we would do better without him, i'm sure alot of people will agree, since he has come in we have not been as good, maybe something to do with the discontent within the camp right now.

Yes agree we have lost 2 out of 3 games since Ince came here, we dont appear to have  the same team spirit either

Yes he's played for ages this season.

ffs Wise wasn't afraid to take him off today  :D

I have heard all of this from several people today and i can believe that the players are annoyed with Ince, wouldn't you be?

I just really hope that things get sorted with the board members and hope that they sort out their disagreements and start seeing eye to eye otherwise this football club will cease to exsist or we will drop into the conference within 2-3 seasons.

We will def drop into the conference with the Wills family in control...

No money- want o have it all their own way..... and when they do get investors piss them off!!!!

Ince is no good, if he had done a pre-season then yes fair enough but he is well behind on fitness and it could take him months to get fully fit, should ditch him now or leave him on the bench most games, i would make him play loads of reserve games to help him get fit.

I agree with you STFC Bart the team spirit is not the same since Ince came here, the players have been clearly affected by the arrival of Ince, i thought the presence of Ince would improve team spirit and help the club but it looks like i am very wrong and it is causing alot of problems, i wouldnt play him next week otherwise it will be another defeat.

All of our players are better than Ince. We should sack him.

of course, ince has only been here a week and it happens to coincide with a run of suspensions and injuries which culminated in two disappointing defeats.

if ince was only in the team because he's wisey's best mate - why isn't gus? he's no more or no less fit than ince.

all of this seems to be heresay and conjecture from somebody who registered only this evening and a renowned scaremonger.

oh and i don't think devlin is likely to pop on the forums and tell us all just because you asked.

I have been registered on the other forum for ages, i only decided to register on here today because the other one is sometimes dull, i am no scaremonger, i am informing people of what i have heard from a few people today, i am not saying that it is 100% true or anything, i am only passing on what i have heard but i think some of it is true if not all of it, there is obviously a big problem with the board there is no doubt about that as for the ince thing i dont know, it could be true it could be rubbish.

why is there obviously a big problem with the board? how is it abundantly clear?

i don't understand how there could be such a massive coup d'état when most of the board members are still at home recovering from a fucking plane crash!

Even the radio apparently said something about there being rumblings and a split within the board, something major is going on, i cannot see it being some little minor problem, maybe the Wills family will leave or maybe Power will leave i don't know, we will just have to wait for the announcement that is happening sometime this week, hopefully they wont keep us waiting too long as alot of people are very anxious to know what exactly is going on.

Lets hope for the clubs sake it is the Wills family. We have not exactly progressed nder their stewardship have we?

no, they've just managed to keep the club afloat.

it's remarkable what short memories some people have.

Yes kep us afloat but they have drip fed us for years.

Lets be honest- they cannot take us any further

I like the way you put that. I mean all they've done is kept us a football club down the years. Its not as if they've done anything worthwhile is it?  :-))(

Yes but they cannot take us any futher- thats why Devlin brought Power in

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ANY SENTENCE THAT BEGINS IN TURMOIL DESERVES A SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!

I hope rockincockingrobin and Bart aren't for real cos if they are, what are spazzers like this doing out on the streets/internet

I concur

There are also changes in the day to day running behind the scenes in the Office.

I understand that Linda (i believe it is Burrell, apologises if its wrong) who has been the Managers Secretary for a number of years, has been made redundant!

She worked tirelessly for years under all of the crap that we have had to put up with. She was the one constant in an ever changing situation.

What is going on!! :x

Ever thought that perhaps Wise wants his own staff? Not some old cast offs?

that wasnt nice

Business is business at the end of the day.  Robin and Bart need to shut the fuck up.  I think you must both be young supporters who so not remember teh bad old days, administration etc.

Please just go away

Theres good business and bad business bushey. I take it you want the recent upturn to become longterm. For those who do it seems right that fans should take an interest and voice their opinions on how the club is run.


Perhaps it is because they have been around to witness the shambles of the past few years that they are now wary.

Yeah but what is wrong with the club? its not like power has come out and issued an ultinatum.  People should also stop getting on the back of the wills family, without them there wouldnt be a club.

Business is business unless it's a bus in Ess, if there is a place called Ess, and if coaches are allowed there.

Why are we making mountains out of this?

The only people making anything out of it are 3 new users who have all registered recently. Ignore them, they will go away.

yeah exactly. you can't take STFC Bart seriously (not many people do) and RockinCockinRobin i know nothing about

We don't have a board so it can't be in turmoil