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Trust chief hopes Watkins stays after Town takeover
           
           


  TRUST STFC chairman John Ward has called on any potential new owner to keep chief executive Nick Watkins at the County Ground as and when they take control of the club.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/10186037.Trust_chief_hopes_Watkins_stays_after_Town_takeover/?ref=rss
           
           
           

The Advertiser understands a deal is close to being agreed which could see a British-based consortium buy up a large chunk of Andrew Black’s 98 per cent shareholding in Swindon Town, with an initial agreement potentially being reached before the end of the month.

Excellent. I know it doesn't actually make much difference but domestic owners sounds more reassuring.

As long as it's not Ridsdale, that is.

Risdale and Ken Bates dream team.

With Terry Venables as Director of Football.

Stop tempting fate you bastards.

It all could have been so different last time around.  Shudder.

Adver: Swindon Town Investors are Banking on Brevett (http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/1534736.swindon_town_town_investors_are_banking_on_brevett/)

Keep your fingers crossed, people.

I'd add on Berlusconi for some of the funding, giving us the dream team of;

- Manager : Paolo
- Director of football : Venables
- Chief Exec : Ridsdale
- Chairman : Bates
- Owner : Berlusconi

That would be one cluster fuck of a football club. We'd never be out of the news.

i saw the link before reading your post and my heart sank

But think of the bunga bunga parties :)

Sorry!  Not my intention to cause any alarm.   :D

Apologies to anyone who choked on their lunch.  Mercifully, the Adver link is 5½ years old.

I like Watkins, hope he stays!

100% agree with JW on this (oooh, just noticed that - John Ward/Jeremy Wray, spooky. Anyone ever seen them in the same room together?)

And after a period of dormance, nice to see the Trust coming back out of the closet a bit more recently, and doing so with considerable aplomb IMO. Well done Mr Ward.

Yes, I believe when Jezza Wray came to a Trust meeting around the time the consortium took over the club.

Yes actually! London_red and I had a pint with the two of them in the Gluey before last weeks' game along with a couple of other London Reds.  :-[

The plot thickens.

Has anyone ever seen John Ward without Jeremy Wray or vice versa?

On that one, emphatically, yes.   :D

Jezza Wray drinks in the Gluey? This is a welcome development.

Oh oh! Next week's headline in the FLP ... "Ex chairman in glue sniffing shock"

Dont think so,J wray drinks wine, and J ward drinks barley wine..

I think it was his first visit...

I thought they also sold wine in the gluepot ???

Gluhwein?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulled_wine#German_and_Austrian_Gl.C3.BChwein

Ooh, nice.  With some of those German ginger biscuits, too.

Clearly a dream team, but there doesn't appear to be any room for Sam Hammam?

Sorry to interrupt....to go back to the original theme!  NW is an employee of the club, so could not be required to resign (as is being suggested by some on 'This is').  As he is extremely professional and also sensitive to the needs of the club and its staff, I have no doubt that if new owners suggested they wanted to put their own person in, then I have little doubt that he would step away rather than put the club through yet another showdown.  But I am certainly in no doubt that, through a collection of very rocky moments over the past eighteen months (and beyond), he HAS been extremely professional and has held the staff together; and he remains extremely popular as a result.  It would be a very unwise move to try to unseat him.

He was there when wray was chairman no definite that he would be replaced. He knows the club well and would be an asset to any new owners.

Watkins is great. End of thread!