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After giving us permission to hand out the Fans' Consortium leaflets yesterday, Martyn Starnes appears to have had a change of heart. This evening we received an email from him, sent at 6:40 pm, withdrawing permission for us to hand out the leaflets at the CG tomorrow.

Anyway, we'll be leafletting the perimeter of the CG as per last week, so if you want to see what the fuss is about (but don't get too excited, they're not worth the fuss caused), look out for dodgy looking geezers with "dangerous" leaflets.

Oh, and we'll be attempting to sign up new members for the Trust again tomorrow as well, again as per last week. Any help gratefully received - meet at the Trust office at 1.30 pm.

hahah what a joke.

I despair of this club I really do.

For those of us who don't live in the country, can we se whats in the leaflet ?

NMH

Yeah, the text is on the Trust site at:

http://www.truststfc.co.uk/fans_consortium.php

Real hot stuff, as you can see

 :?

Did they give you a reason paul?

Millom

They seem to have given up on the Health and Safety angle and he's basically said he doesn't like the content of the leaflet as he feels it is detrimental to the club and the great progress that has been made over the last five years. In a nutshell.

two relegations and constant financial problems is great progress?

In a world where that leaflet merits this kind of fuss, it probably is.

do the club own the car park?

in fact do the club have the right to stop you handing things out on Council property?

I wonder who dreamt that gem up then! I bet it wasn'nt Mr Starnes! I bet he's a bit embarassed tonite. :oops:

Anyway, they dont own the ground, so how can they be dictatatorial about handing out leaflets?  Surely that should be down to the Council?

Just a thought.

Millom

Ya beat me to it Yoevil Red!

Millom

Thanks for the link Paul.

Must be because of the potential cost of clean up or the fines that the club could get for littering I suppose.

NMH

Nope, he's quite explicit that it's down to the content of the leaflet. Apparently, in a week when the Red Army Fund has yet again committed to spending several grand to bring in a player the club couldn't otherwise afford (without, as yet, any public acknowledgement of that from the club), Mr Starnes feels we don't want to help the club.

Another PR coup for the club. You couldn't make this up!!

Have you done a press release (to the adver) stating the situation? surely you must have? First thing I'd do anyway.

They do santini!

fucking bollocks, i will give out stuff and get new members outside the arkells if you want, im starting to fucking despise the board, it feels like shit teacher naughty schoolboy scenario.

i would like to see them try and move me on :twisted:

Martin Staymes says its OK.

Then someone else says it isnt. Wonder who? If Martin actually thought he was a real chief executive hes going to find out otherwise pretty soon.

As for the progress in the last 5 years, progress in the first 2. Complete recession and wasting away in the last 3.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

The club does not own the car park yeovil, but evidently they have total jurisdiction over it on matchdays only.

All this starnes-esque lets cosy up to the fans attitude of the last few days has just been undone in one manouver.

What a complete utter load of fucking horses shit !!!!!

 :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:

fred ive been off work for 2 days so out of loop, whats gone on?

Ill call ya a little later ash

you calling me little? Cunt

ha ha

yes you fucking midget

dead man walking!

bring it on !!!!

No, sorry, spence, I don't think there is a hidden hand here - this is all Martyn's pwn work.


Now, you want to be careful - they're very proud of their cuts over in Newbury.

Haven't you got that on DVD?  :shock:

Paul, couldnt you have a few stalls with leaflets on the a table or something...you arent handing them out you just accidently 'left' them there...if the public want to pick them up and read them thats there own fault...

...or get sonic to publish it on the scoreboard

I think you should distrabute them from the m iddle of the magic roundabout

That would actually be an ace PR stunt.

You should sign people up late night though. They'll be too drunk to realise what they're signing up to.

Pathetic, that is all.

Utter utter utter utter fuckwits.

Presumably rank has been pulled. Noone is stupid enough to lift the ban without reading the leaflet before doing so. Although a more minor than an overspend point it clearly demonstrtes the lack of communiction at our club.

 :nod:

Thanks to everyone who helped out or signed up today - we signed up over 150 new members today and distrubuted several thousand leaflets, despite (or maybe because of) the ban. So thanks to you all - if Mr Starnes et al think they can silence the fans with these kind of silly tricks, it really doesn't seem to be working very well, does it?

Absoloutly

interseting point though was that the club let in a group of Churchfield students who play for a football team that trains on the County Ground Extension who are opposed to any historic redevelopment plans as it would mean that they lost their training facility.

They were canvassing opinions the the Winners before the game with video camera's the works !

Needless to say Mr D bought them some sweets and did a very nice interview with them.

And we are not allowed to hand out leaflets with defamatory remarks !?!?!?!

SHAMBLES............................ABSOLOUTE FUCKING SHAMBLES !

it would actually mean they got better training facilites surely?

We think they were basing their assumptions on the old proposals mate

We stated that far from excluding the community the new plans would enhance the exsisting facilities and that we were equally keen to promote grass roots sport to find another Micheal Pook etc

but the old proposals were the ones the club put together themselves, which lost the extension to houses.

The other plans have always had astro turf training pitches included?!?

Exactly !!!!!!!

My main point was DV the sheer hypocrysy (sp?) of letting them in to spout negativity about redevelopment plans and banning us !

so...the club put together some crap proposals that get rid of the cricket pitch and extension for houses.

Then the trust and co put together plans that have extra training pitches etc...

Then the club bring in some kids, to get some sort of proof that the re-development needs to include training facilites, despite the fact it was THEIR plans that got rid of it, not OUR plans

have I got this right, because that seems fucking stupid even for our board!?

In part DV

I just think it was the school/club reading too much into the original proposals mate

Like I said, what galls me was the fact they were allowed to carry this video interview in on in the Winners !!

Erm I don't think you mean defamatory - there's certainly nothing defamatory in there! In fact there's barely any mild criticism which makes the Stasi-style ban seem all the more bizarre.

To be fair, I think the kids were just going on the basis of what's been published (ie the club's old proposals) which would have got rid of the green space and it was a project with the Study Centre to find out more. The Study Centre do some great work and more power to their elbow. The contrast was a bit odd, though.

OK I stand corrected


"damaging and detrimantal"

to use Mr Starnes exact words

Where the fuck were you today. I had my coins all counted and bagged up!

Mex and Sonic were covering the Winners - honestly, you just can't get the staff :D

I saw ya but walked the other way cos you looked well dodgy  :wink:

Did he have the coins in a sock as a kind of makeshift cudgel?

thought he was going to twat me so I did a runner


not worth a quid getting the side of your head caved in mate

no commitment to the cause fred :shake:

Im soft as shite !

Well done on the sign up's fella's.

I was amomg the number.

i saw simon and the thing is the cunt is so fucking ugly he doesnt desrve to be online let alone in the trust.

i saw simon and the thing is the cunt is so fucking ugly he doesnt desrve to be online let alone in the trust.

If Mexico Red's head gets any bigger they'll have to extend the roof of the Arkells upwards

Real shame that Mr Starnes has gone down this route - he's been top class so far.

It is pathetic.

I hate this accusation that we beginning to hear that people have 'their own agenda' - in a nutshell, we, as fans, do have our own agenda - to be the best football club we can! That is it!