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McCrory's take on Power's past
           
           


  JED McCrory has given his take on Lee Power’s chequered recent history in business, backing Swindon Town’s new investor to make an impact at the County Ground.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/10362175.McCrory_s_take_on_Power_s_past/?ref=rss
           
           
           

 This is a bit better...communication has got to be good.

 Is this meeting going to be an open forum (which it should be), or more a case of lets sit down and have tea and cake with Nigel from the SC and a couple of lads from the Trust?

 I'd like to think Town fans, would prefer to hear the truth, even if unpalatable, than some BS crap.

As reported, representatives of the Supporters Trust - as well as the Supporters Club - should be meeting Jed next week.

As I understand it this meeting won't be open to all, but if people have questions they'd like to see asked, they should tweet @TrustSTFC or visit www.truststfc.com and use the 'contact us' tab to drop the Trust a line.

The Trust believes in fan representation and wants to speak for as many Town fans as possible. I'd also encourage people to join (it's only a fiver) as the more fans the Trust represents, the stronger and louder its voice.

In which case, I'd say it undermines any attempt to defuse matters....even the Holt/Gray axis used to face the fans at occasional open meetings (admittedly they kept Diamandis in a dark cupboard).

It's a start, and as a democratic organisation the Trust will only be there to air the most pressing concerns communicated to it by its members and the wider supporter base. Get in touch with your concerns, Reg, I guarantee they will be very similar to the concerns of others both within and without the Trust.

In the long term it is probably unrealistic for McCrory to hold regular meetings with the entire supporter base, but if we build the Trust we can press him for open, minuted dialogue on a regular basis at which the concerns of the fans can be expressed through the Trust and the opinions of the board be delivered openly to the fans…

The Trust is not a secret society. No one person in the Trust has a louder voice than any other. One member, one vote and all that. It's your voice, use it.

www.truststfc.com

I can understand the attendance being limited. It's unrealistic to have hundreds/thousands present.

But will we be told that certain discussions will not be made public à la Jeremy Wray?

I can understand the frustration that this isn't an open public forum with all fans invited, and I'd hope the board will do just that in the summer once the POs are over (and we are hopefully in the Championship)

But in the short term this is a positive step, apart from the Adver and Jeds occasional tweets we've had very little in terms of info from the new lot. I'e submitted a question to the Trust this morning and would encourage others to do like wise. I'm sure they'll be open and honest about what is discussed.

Wray was attending that meeting as a private individual, this is a meeting with the current owners, slightly different circumstances.

I'm in no way trying to denigrate the Trust here.

Neither am I expecting Jed to hold regular meetings with the entire fan base, but you'd have thought the first thing they'd want to do is have an open meeting....let's face it most Town fans are pretty apathetic, so you'd probably get 50 or so tops.

I recall the previous Board...holding one, not long after taking over....after Fitton had disengaged himself from the lurching drunken welcome from Gazzza Stanley...he laid down the basic points that his Board, wouldn't be throwing money at it, but there would be funds for buying the odd young player identified as worth an investment....and they would start on the "low hanging fruit", in other words a lick of paint here and there and similar simple initiatives, all of which came to give the place a better feel.

The avoidance of having such a meeting just makes me think they have something to hide...

Sam will be reporting on the meeting for the Adver, so I believe.

And did they not do an open Q&A in the Legend's before the Walsall game? Think it was Murrall and Hooper iirc.

I hear you, Reg, and perhaps the Trust could call for just such a meeting at these discussions if this proves to be a concern of more supporters…

I still haven't received anything from the Trust regarding the last meeting, has anyone?

Anyway

It seems to me as though we have a collection of individuals, most of whom has been branded guilty by association in the past without actually having done anything wrong themselves.

I don't know at which point it all becomes a bit too much of a coincidence.

Minutes and documentation from the recent AGM can be found here:

http://www.truststfc.com/2013/04/trust-stfc-agm-minutes-and-accounts/

Problem is, if the legal wranglings of the past few months are anything to go by, 'the truth' is a legal minefield. Nobody wants to share information they are later going to get sued for releasing, or that could then be used against the club in a lawsuit. Trust/Supporters Club are all volunteers after all, they don't get paid for what they do, so whilst I'm sure all involved in them have the best interests of the supporters at heart, they're not going to stick their necks out too far, just in case.

Some things can be openly said, some things can't. It's stupid, and feels like a conspiracy sometimes, but that, unfortunately, is the world of law. 'BS crap' is sometimes the only way anyone can say anything about what's going on whilst covering themselves from the threat of lawsuits. If they released nothing people would moan that they didn't give a shit about the supporters, that they're ignoring them blah blah blah.

How many people were able to make that, they need a proper organised meeting with chairman and board in attendance to be able to answer questions from supporters that wish to go along, not a limited time frame before a game.

Jesus fucking wept do you want Jed to come round your mum's for tea?! They organised a public appearance where any fan could ask questions of members of the new board. If you didn't go, that's your lookout but it gets my goat a bit that people imply the board are hidden in some lair away from the fans only coming out to get pissed with Tans down the pub and send a few tweets.

The summer is the time for lengthier dicussions and dialogue with them about long term plans, they've taken over in a a turbulent time for the club in a lot of ways, not to mention in the middle of a promotion battle. Understandably imho, they have said they are prioritising that - hence Power not being due to be officially announced until post-Stevenage so as not to intefere with two hugely important home games.

I don't want to appear like a devil's advocate or Jed apologist all the time but do think the comments get a bit one sided and just think a bit of balance is in order sometimes.

Reading the full article in the Adver, I see Jed stated that we didn't want it to come out in the media when it did!!  Is this a case of that cunt Chris Wise abusing his position again to get one over the Adver?  Wiltshire Sound may just find themselves left out in the cold another time!! :banthem:

This had crossed my mind

Although Chris Wise was on holiday last time it happened.

Plus you couldn't pick a more ideal time than before a game.

Guessing everyone that cares enough to go to a meeting with the board will be at the game anyway. 2 birds, 1 stone and all that

Game day and meeting day are two completely different things...the last thing on my mind on a game day, is a fucking meeting.

Conversely,  the best day to attend a meeting for the 1000's of out of town fans is a matchday. I managed to get to the Q&A in the legends. Wouldn't have made it if it hadn't been before a game.

If they did come round for tea, some of the moaners on here would bleat they'd bought hobnobs, instead of gingernuts with them.

Jed was drinking a pint of coke when he was chatting to us.

Rock and roll

And you kept asking questions, nosy cunt

A fair point....should be 2 meetings then.

Of course we'd moan, gingernuts are the fucking pinnacle of tea-accompanying biscuits. Bringing anything else is just insulting.

I am a Malted Milk fiend...regularly eat a packet of em.

You really hate Chris Wise.

Chris Wise's own mother hates him.

True story.

Yeah, that Journalist doing his job. Fuck him

If there is no information coming out someone has to do the digging. And Morshead seemingly  doesn't want to.

Sam Morshead ‏@SamMorshead_SA 29s
That is not to say McCrory is putting £7million into the club. It is an accountant's letter which appears to be his proof of funds.

Sounds like good news. Though I have absolutely no idea what an accountant can declare to be funds...

Neither do I

But there's lots of beans being spilt on twitter right now.

Yeah, I take it back about Morshead not digging. Though I'm assuming Jed is his source.

Does sound as though he's getting it all from Jed.

The 7 mill is just 'proof' of Jed's funds. Doesn't mean Jed is putting in 7 mil. 

That Greg Hall chap was supposed to be putting in the 1.2 mil but they decided against it.

Of course it could be a similar letter that said Munto Finance of Notts County infamy, had millions of Middle Eastern money behind them.

This.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't. There may well be reason to be cautious but no one really knows. Moaning about the timing of a meeting is just pathetic. If you're that bothered you'd go.

Not sure if serious, but I had a chuckle

Sam Morshead ‏@SamMorshead_SA 1h
Seen mention around the place of current board "taking huge consultancy fees" out of club. Can find no evidence of this as yet...
 
FootballFan#1 ‏@GregoryMannion 1h
@SamMorshead_SA what do u mean?
 
Sam Morshead ‏@SamMorshead_SA 1h
@GregoryMannion there has been claims on public forums of board taking huge fees out of club, just following it up
 
FootballFan#1 ‏@GregoryMannion 1h
@SamMorshead_SA omg, seems like the board have been really bad lately #getgood
 
Sam Morshead ‏@SamMorshead_SA 1h
@GregoryMannion I cannot find evidence that it is true

FootballFan#1 ‏@GregoryMannion 1h
@SamMorshead_SA oh okay, how did you find this out in the first place?:)

Doh!

See where you are coming from Batch, but I got the impression from Sam that they did know about it but were respecting confidentiality until after Power had got FL approval.

Andrew Black in 2012, net worth £125 million the facts are how can jeds broad of no marks and a letter saying there is 7m floating about be anygood for swindon but  what is more worrying is  they are still looking for investment look @ the state of Bristol shitty and there wage bill just to try and stay in the championship but unlike them we no longer have a broad or chairman to keep bailing out the club to the tune of 10m which black did and that figure is the one in the pubic domain I worry for the future of swindon with this broad dishonest and no money but we should all be very very worried how even when the last broad put the club up for sale with minimal debt no one apart from the consortium want to buy the club .

 :sherlock:

*board

Wish I'd taken a bigger breath when I started reading that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_English_sentence

punctuation is nice, you should try it

...and who is this broad?

Is she pretty?

As an occupational habit I tried to edit it to make it make sense.

I failed.

That she is

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Could be Gemma

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Bit horsey, for my taste, but DMR would probably put a bridle on her and take a crop to the buttocks. Tally ho.

bopard>broad

Interpreter needed!!

That just made my fucking eyes bleed

Take the p out of bopard and you get board.

There's probably not many on here who can remember Lillian Board....proper sad  :(

This is boredom you can afford by Cyril Bord.

He should be thinking of the greater good.

He's reporting on STFC, not UNICEF

Wheres NMH when you need him, although I don't think he could make head nor tale of that.

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