New beginnings - 25% Truth, 80% Bollocks

[RobertT]

Like Hollie and Bethany had the money...............

[RobertT]

The official interview was horrific.  Anyone listening to that for the first time would presume some homeless chap off the street had been called in to cover for the owner of a football club.

Basically the interview Hall did, we should just disregard that one because he didn't mean any of it the way everyone heard it, but we should remember the bit about 20 adults getting in as kids, because they are basically stealing money from the club in such high numbers it makes us unsustainable.

Will take another 2-3 years to sort out the costs - there are some people working in Procurement departments in Swindon and the football industry slapping themselves on the backs if we tied ourselves into six year contracts without break clauses - OR - it's just more bullshit without details.  I am not sure which would be worse, this all being a scam or the other option, he really does know this little about running a business.  "I make mistakes", fuck me, mistakes are when you get someones name wrong, not when you, allegedly, believe the debt is only 800k when you agree to takeover the business, or decide (decide) not to inform people of a share transfer, or say out loud that the season ticket holders are getting free games and that is the issue on Revenue.  800k debt FFS, Power may have been dodgy, but even a school kid could read the accounts and work out there were liabilities and we had just gone through Covid, of course there were Govt Grants and loans.  Is he an imbecile?  He was a bloody Exec Director and significant shareholder.

Anyway, we learned nothing new, because he won't answer anything with specifics that he won't later walk back anyway.  Oh, and our Academy has come on leaps and bounds - well, the playing talent may have done so a little but we still do not have anything invested in.  People come and go, physical infrastructure, processes and systems create a legacy of change.

[Arch Stanton]

It was an awful interview, I'm really not sure what he wanted achieve from it. He certainly hadn't prepped a charm offensive, or prepped a rebuttle aimed towards his detractors, it seemed like he hadn't prepped anything, it was just a bumbling mess. Those that still want him out, still want him out. Those that love him, are still completely blinded.

[Legends-Lounge]

Anthony Hall didn’t mean what he meant to say

Many a true word said in jest.

[Batch]

I can see if you listened to that interview and only that interview in complete isolation you might think - fair enough.

As ever, actions not words.

[Outletred]

Just listened- my good that was terrible

[Steak supper]

 i was distracted by how many times 'look' was said

[BambooToTheFuture]

And more

Listened to the Hawes interview. Great job from Hawes with very little bouncing back.

Just watching the OSTFC interview and I'll deduce that Clem hasn't:

Got a strategy
Got a plan
Got a clue

He also blinks an awful lot when answering. Just an observation that no body language expert would ever be interested in - at all 

Constantly saying 'I'll tell ya now' - as if what followed was unretractable truth isn't going to convince me that what he's saying is truthful.

#BareFacedLiar

[4D]

How would we lose a million a year, a normal year? Show us some detailed accounts, I'm scratching my head on that one.

[BambooToTheFuture]

How would we lose a million a year, a normal year? Show us some detailed accounts, I'm scratching my head on that one.

It's ok, the clabb are signed up to FairGame {as they like to keep fucking telling us} so that will make everything clear and of course, paint the owner{s} as saints 

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

You can tell Clems done an interview, the bootlicking fuckwits are out in force on socials. Even seen one on twitter.

[Posh Red]

Anyone else have the feeling that Clem & Co are throwing the Trust under the bus in an attempt to make us all believe that the Trust are being critical of the club.

[RobertT]

How would we lose a million a year, a normal year? Show us some detailed accounts, I'm scratching my head on that one.

I can absolutely believe a football club can run with such an operating loss - I struggle to believe we are given the information we know though.  Nothing about the operation of the football club supports such an operating position.  Highest average attendances in a generation with the lowest aged group of players in L2, with barely enough to fill out a squad in any given week.

I know attendances are not everything, but the situation on paper looks better than anything any previous owner would have had since the 1995/96 promotion season in Division Three, and during that period we retained a heavy wage bill.

[Trashbat?]

It’s interesting that most of those that are blindly backing Clem through everything are a certain demographic. Nearly all that I have seen are those slightly older Arkells stand types, who most likely fall for email scams and bring home new husbands from a holiday to Mauritius.

[Bob1978]

Anyone else have the feeling that Clem & Co are throwing the Trust under the bus in an attempt to make us all believe that the Trust are being critical of the club.

To be fair The Trust have thrown themselves under a bus - at least twice.