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STFC Press Release

We have read with interest Bill Power's article in yesterday's Swindon Advertiser and we have heard his comments on BBC Radio Swindon this morning. Contrary to the impression that may have been given, the Wills family have not received any offer for the Club from Bill and his colleagues. Sir Seton has written to Phil Emmel requesting a detailed proposal but so far there has been no response. We have recently received approaches from two further groups of potential investors and should Bill decide to make a firm offer for the Club, it will be considered on its merits, alongside the other bids which are at a more advanced stage. We are disappointed that, unlike the other interested parties, Bill has chosen to express his interest through the media when he already has a substantial stake in the Club and could have discussed his thoughts with Sir Seton at anytime. Dealing with these matters in the public eye is distracting and potentially damaging to the well being of the Club.

It should be recognised that the Club has received interest from various investment groups over the years but none of these have developed into firm acceptable bids that the Wills family have regarded as being in the best interests of the Club. The current Board will therefore not relax but continue to develop and deliver its 5-year plan, which already incorporates Bill Power's philosophies of teamwork and inclusivity.

The objective is to bring Championship football and financial stability to The County Ground within the life of the plan. An excellent relationship has already been established between the Board and the first team manager, Paul Sturrock, with everyone involved at the Club absolutely determined to work together and deliver success on and off the field.

The Club is also able to announce the following appointments:

Mike Bowden, a former Director at NPower is to join the Board with immediate effect. He will have special responsibility for the new stadium development and associated commercial relationships. He will also undertake the role of Joint Chairman Designate.

Boyd Butler, former Sales and Marketing Manager at Reading Football Club for over 8 years is to work at The County Ground on a consultancy basis with the brief to improve off field revenues.

Bob Holt has rejoined the Board to contribute his wealth of media and general management experience to the planned progression of the Club.

Current Chairman Willie Carson said: "These appointments represent powerful additions to the management team and underline the Board's determination to take the Club forward in a positive manner."

http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10341~940577,00.html

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Who on earth could that be or is it just Bob “Iraqi Information Minister” Holt marking his return to power?

Five-year plan? Is this building on the stagnation and decline of the past 5 years then?

Certainly looks like they don't intend to accept Bill with open arms does it?

Still, at least we've had another statement - that's good, I don't think we've had enough statements recently

Salt

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pinch

Rearrange these 3 words into a well known saying Dazza

Could I just also remind everyone of the statement of no more than 8 days ago

It should be emphasised that the Wills family are not actively looking to sell the Club - STFC Board

They have been busy havn't they !!!

 :D

Erm, bear in mind this is coming from the same people who brought you "More money than you can shake a stick at", "No problem with the VAT payment" and "Of course we've paid the CVA"- my guess would be Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

Shows they're not going to go quietly fellas.....think the time approaches to notch up the pressure.....which I feel may include some sort of direct action......2 other bids...  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

So how far are they along with their '5 year plan'?

Championship football?

So far they've assisted us into League 2!!!

Stadium development? When was the last time anyone heard the club give any positive news on that front?

Bob Holt's back? Fucking hell, sounding more and more like the Government: Do nothing, spout shit and if you fuck up, we'll sack you, then reinstate you within a few weeks.

If this is supposed to appease fans in anyway, it doesn't (Well, not me anyway).

Another two 'firm' offers?


Do me a fucking favour.....................

FUCKING YANKS TRYING TO MUSCLE IN  :wink:

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Probably just trying to push the price up.

You're interested in my car??  Funny two other people have just come to view it, they seemed very interested by the way.

And what about the return of Bob Holt eh?

The cynicism of fans on here is frankly shocking - don't you know the board have only the best interests of the club at heart and have never been anything other than open and transparent with fans at all times? I'm appalled by you all

Bob made it clear in an "off the record" chat with Gazza after the AGM that he would be back.

The sheer presence of him sat at the top table at the AGM depicts that fact

we need to oust this lot asap.i dont think a few people wearing orange t-shirts is gonna have much effect to be honest,not everyone will wear one. i like the idea but you need huge numbers to have an effect.

  Don't include the fans in this Newbury, as far as the fans go you're on borrowed time.

  Very few if any believe anything you have to say and have no confidence in your actions..... Bob Holt back  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

presumably the non-payment of the CVA this coming summer is the arse-end of this 5 year plan...

Pure lies and I dont believe a word.

I find it very odd that for years and years we cant find ANY investors, then when it goes public there is a fans consortium suddenly there are a couple of other interested parties. This coming days after we were told Wills doesnt want to sell, but hes talking to 3 or more sets of investors.

Just like after Power left and before the AGM James Wills was in advanced talks with a potential investor. He got re-elected and we didnt here anything more about it.

I hope these other investors arent American  :roll:

Dont believe a word our board says and the sooner they fuck off the better....

Arriba, I know what your saying re: you can't see everyone joining etc.

However, I'm quite prepared to be the only one in the stadium wearing orange, because I'll know that my feelings for the current state of play will be know by everyone that passes me by.

If I am the lone orange "soldier" (ok ok I'm taking this revolution theme too far now) then fine, I'll carry on on my lonesome.  However if some other fans join in and we can get that us together might just have an effect on the outcome then even better.  If a majority got involved them I'd be absolutely over the effin moon!!!

Come on mate, just give it a go and see what happens.

So what's wrong with the public eye?

What's the problem with a bit of openness and transparency?

Anyone would thing they had something(s) to hide.....................

Could be true, on the other hand I think it is a complete load of rubbish.

The club have release lie after fucking lie and this fits in with this strategy.

If investors were that easy to come by they would have sold already.

The games have commenced.

i'm with you all the way.i just think the board will ignore it unless large numbers get involved

Total and utter BS.

Mike W offered to speak to SSW twice last month, and was turned down.

Investors...they've found none in five years...and suddenly when BP is on the scene, they've suddenly found two.

The sooner these gits are out the better.

According to the poll I did earlier in the week, most of you are in favour of the orange protest as opposed to a full scale demo. Which I understand and support.

But if this type of shit is all the board has to offer, it's not gonna be long before we all get vocal.

I'm losing patience with these arseholes...............

what is it with these clowns, fuck sake, big game tomorrow lets try and fuck it up again, cunts.

Wish I was in oz with spencer white as at elast he doesnt have to go through this shit

its blatantly obvious they are going to make things difficult for the trust and power.

That's right he said....

Top Man, Spoke to him at the game yesterday, Was very polite and forthcoming. Here is some of the stuff he said after I interrogated him Wink

- Glenn Hoddle wont be coming back as he is too expensive

- When i asked if any "big" names had applied for the managers job he said, yes many and one rhymes with weetabix which is obviously Graham Rix. I told him I dont want him anywhere near the club especially the youth team, he laughed. I also noted I did not see Rix as a "big" name.

- I mentioned Teddy Sherringham and his eyes lit up and said "Wow, now that would be a sexy option"... IMO Wont happen though and West Ham wont give us permission either to talk to him.

- Holt wouldn't answer if Lou Macari had applied but smiled when I tried to get it out of him....

- I asked him if he was coming back as a director now Wise was gone he said "thats a good possibility"

- Bob made it clear him and Wise did not get along with him and went as far as to say he disliked the guy for the way he left the club after a couple of months and made it clear he disliked him. I'd imagine the first part of this relates to the "un-named party" as he claimed he was that person Wise couldn't work with in the AGM.

- Said he has a passion for Swindon Town but not a football fan.

- He spent £25.00 on 50/50 tickets etc and said if he won he would put the money back into the club.

Then he went back upstairs!

If someone said on BBC Swindon to Shaun Hodgetts that people wearing orange are protesting I reckon it could get a lot of publicity. Plus it would annoy Spacey.

As I was on Tuesday....I mentioned this to Paul Davis yesterday and he pointed out that no-one else was wearing orange because it hasn't been launched yet, and I had therefore started the premature revolution, d'oh!

Well I didn't care, in fact if I'm the first I'm delighted! :winking:

Viva la orange revolution

Donkey

About the only smidgen of truth in that statement it seems

There, that's better Si Pi

How ironic a bunch of liers would tell the truth

Call me cynical, this press release came out just before the phone in on RS tonight.

Ed, this is total bollocks.

It's a Greek conspiracy.

What time's the phone in?

starnes is on the radio... amazingly he's talking about credibility!

Starnes has just said on RS that these people have got credentials.

Who did the checking...the same person who gave them information about the Fans Consortium ?

Starnes...you are a joke.

This is a delaying tactic, and to drive the price up.

Obviously, they've now got more consortiums 'than you can shake a stick at!!'

Listening to it now.

What a load of wank.

'He couldn't make it live'

Said fuck all, mumbling cunt.

They've got a five year plan.

Considering that we will be out of business in 6 months unless we pay the £1m CVA payment, that is a joke.

Hopefully this 'plan' has not been done by the person who does the budgets !!!

Hang on a fucking minute.

Starnes just said on the RS they couldn't say who the 'other offers' are from for blah blah blah reasons, but didn't the club say that without knowing who was backing the consortium it was a non-starter, so Mike Wilkes told them it was Bill Power.

Or am I being thick  :?

EDIT: I've just read that back, and my point got a bit lost. It was something along the lines of the club asking about the consortium backing in a public statement etc... It's been a long day.

Want to hear bollocks.

Just listen to Martyn Starnes !!!

I believe they just make it up as they go along.

I'm sure Bob Holt will be coming out with another quote sooner rather than later.

I think that might be a typo - they meant "We've got a five-year old's plan", the same five-year old who did their stadium plans

This is beginning to do my brain in.  Honesty, Integrity, Transparency all i ask.  No more lies.

TWO OTHER BIDS?????????????????????????

They really do think we are bunch of fucking retards don't they?

As Jim Royle would say, "Two other bids my arse!"

Just fuck off now.

:arsekisser:

Martyn Smarmes is a cunt! FACT!

Millom

Starnes didn't do it 'live' because after getting slammed on last weeks phone-in last week.

C'mon Millom

Don't hold back...tell us what you really think !!!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Last week, they were going to do a share issue to raise funds....and then suddenly they've got investors all over the place.

Do they think we are stupid ?

The only stupid tossers are this board thinking we'd believe it.

I liked the bit where Starmes kept on about they had signed NDA's so couldn't  reveal who investors where.....didn't the consortium try to get Wills to sign one of these and he didn't ??!!

They are trying to say that Power is a liar and they have not contacted anyone at the club, seems to me that stfc have a lack of communication going on

Bob Holt has had a chat with Mark D today about returning, nothing decided they will chat next week, it wouldn't surprise me if they brought Mark back with the intention of doing their dirty work for them and humiliate the guy

Oh and Bob Holt back....that's why we not have more investors than you can shake a stick at - they have been waiting for Uncle Bob to return  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I feel a bit sorry for Ed, because he must know Smarmes is telling outrageous porkies, but has to play along with his little game, because of the need for "balance".

  This is getting beyond a joke....... :angry:

 To be fair there are a few on thisis who think the Board are kosher.  :roll:

That would explain a lot. Never trust a Jew.

We must get this board out .. I await the consortiums view on what we should do next as this is obviously gonna be a hard slog ..

Gas chambers are the only way

Just wanted to add my 2p's worth on the latest club statement.

What a load of bollocks.  Each statement they come out with is more laughable than the last.

So we can suddenly afford consultants can we?  I would have preferred a decent striker myself.

Right. In the short term the 2 new appointees to the board are good news as they seem to have some business and football credentials.

but the rest of it? it reeks of desperation to me. They see that the fans are getting better organised and more againts them almost every day.

They should have written this in pre-end-of-the-Cold-War Russian.

Pravda at its best.

What a bunch of fucking wankers.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

The board could do with a bit of glasnost and perestroika...

I don't see the new appointments as making any difference.  They are a token jesture to placate the fans and make it seem as if the board are acting to progress the club.  Recent history of the current board tells us otherwise.  If they wanted to move the club forward they should have done it before now.  Give it up Carson and co.!

Fuck me Reg....when has the Beeb EVER worried about balanced journalism?
Ed Hadwin needs to grow a set of dangler's ffs.
If it was me interviewing that butt fucker smarmes, i'd have had the thumb screws out and had his balls wired up to the national grid!!!

Rant over for now.
 :soap:

Millom

Other interested parties my arse.

What a total load of BOLLOCKS!

You've got no one board. You've got no money and no future. You've got no other investors and no other potential buyers.

Why dont you just fuck off!?

And by the way, Sharky, you're still a fuckwit!  :mooney:

I'm so bloody angry I can't even put it into words. This board are an absolute embarassment to themselves and the club.

Can't they see that they will NEVER regain any trust. Sadly, its time to up the ante - i'll wear my orange t-shirt, but other routes need to be taken too. this is getting out of hand

The overspend obviously is not a problem as we can afford 2 new directors (Ok, Holt may not take a salary) and a new marketing guy, and of course still pay Mark D while he is "suspended"

Probably ramping up the debts as they know their time is nearly up so leave a big gaping hole for the consortium to fill

They will probably bar Sturrock from operating in Jan as they will probably blame uncertaintly on the club ownership

I don't think there is any other club at the moment who's board are so hated and still in power

Anyone that sits near the directors enclosure next Sat needs to wear Orange, imagine the whole area covered in Orange....

Luggy will love the orange!  :D on a more serious note i would like to say that the statement is a complete joke. do they honestly know what they are talking about. so now they are looking to sell just a week after saying they were not. WTF? the 2 offers must be complete bollocks. the only good thing about it is that it might make the fans consortium get a move on and tie up the deal. as for Bob Fucking Holt coming back, what a complete and utter shambles!

Late friday afternoon, what a time to make an official statement, they are a joke!!!!

Let fan power commence!

I had my orange ribbon on last Saturday, but like Paul D says we are "launching" the revolution next Saturday.

We'll be handing out the leaflets later!!

So, Linda gets the boot as a backroom cost cutting exercise, but we can now afford to take on Mike Bowden and Boyd Butler, as well as bringing Bob Holt back. Maybe they're doing it for free out of the goodness of their hearts?

She must have been on some serious wedge! :roll:

Cunts.

EDIT: Missed out a comma, so edited 4 times now :)

holt will be on dunwoody's books and the other guy might have been employed by dunwoody instead of swindon, you never know.

So now we're creating more related parties?
Maybe this is one of the reasons the accounts haven't been drawn up, nobody can determine the level of related party transactions. And I'm not talking about skimming money from the club.

two questions
a) who be the other Joint Chairman Designate (maybe Oor Wullie?)
b) is it ok if I wear me orange mac next week - as I get a bit cold before the beer jacket kicks in!