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Trust STFC set up new website
           
           


  TRUST STFC are launching a new website in a bid to enhance communication with fans and underline the key objectives of the organisation.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/10572982.Trust_STFC_set_up_new_website/?ref=rss
           
           
           

Good to see the Trust have taken in board feedback and got a decent website up and running.  I've also just realised that one of the Project Managers I work with is the new chairman.  I'm looking forward to our meetings when I get back  :)

Riveting stuff from the Adver.

No wonder SM was crying about not being allowed on the trip to Portugal, about time he follows the efforts of his colleagues at the BBC and starts doing some digging to report on some real news.

Have you joined the Trust yet Chang?

it's so nice to have you back.

I plan on continuing my self imposed exile untill our new manager is appointed as I don't want to give anything away.

I will return when the meltdown begins.

Regards

Dr Pierre Chang
The Townends Premier ITK

So when the identity of the new Manager is announced, you'll claim to have known all along who it was going to be?

Cunning.

*The Townends Premier Cunt

I'd half-believed you most of them time but you've just proved you know absolutely jack shit.

Well done sir.

It would appear to be his raison d'être.

If you do know anything then why not PM one or more of the moderators with your information as they will tell nobody but will indeed confirm your ITK™ status.

Can I ban him yet? I've been itching to do it for months.

Sounds like a great Avatar strap line for Dr C ! :-)

Right up until 30 seconds ago, I was firmly of the opinion we need a new manager appointed asap as the season looms. Now I can see the merits of perhaps taking the time over the decision, maybe until the end of the season

:D

Ta Mr Chang. Glad you enjoyed it.

Yeah look at that Sam, publicising a fans initiative, what a rotter.

I think it was a necessary article. Raises awareness of the trust a bit more to Town fans who perhaps weren't sure what they were doing. It's certainly a much improved website than before (and I'm pretty sure my father created the previous website as well!) and it's nice to see some goals.

Shame to think we missed an opportunity in January to have fan ownership. I think we were all guilty of becoming complacent.

Who is our new Manager Sam?

Will he be playing football the Luton way?

Are we likely to hear of new players coming in before the start of the new season?

Are you and Jed best buddies now?

Maybe Sam can investigate which school Chang goes to and how long his summer holiday is.

I think January took everyone (well perhaps not Mr Patey) by surprise, hopefully in the future the Trust will be better prepared should a similar situation arise. So everyone should join, it's only a fiver, and you can't even get a Big Summer Session ticket for that (yet)

This  :suicide:

Ah are you still sore after Sam directlt humiliated you in the paper, his decsription of you was very accurate to all who know your internet persona.

Sweet

So six months later, if the board were to leave tomorrow what has been done in the meantime to take that opportunity this time?

secret meetings with Jezza Wray?

There has been a substantial amount of moaning being practiced.

I would actually fear that some form of fan ownership may lead to out and out civil war in the town, happy clappers versus doom mongers!

I understand now, I believe he has been advising on the termination of player contracts!

The Trust have about as much clout as a flat fucking tyre.

"Missed an opportunity in January to have fan ownership." Oh yes, with all your funds and business acumen.

I've read some twaddle on this forum but that's bang up there.

That's Dr Chang to you Morshead

But the fans would actually own the club and have to appoint their own board, etc. The happy clappers will always happy clap even if Hitler was chairman so they're not really a problem, the doom mongers would have to take up the option of joining The Trust and voting not to re-elect the board they're unhappy with or shut up as they'd have no right to moan.

Why is it, exactly?

All I was saying that if the Trust, and the rest of the fanbase, had remained diligent during the period of Fitton / Wray / Black's ownership, they may have had some form of plan in place to at least try and take a hold of the club. It's hypothetical and I can't prove whether or not it would have happened, but there's no need to be a cunt. I know it's your MO and what not but it's a little tedious.

As for the 'Your funds and business acumen' I don't work or have any sort of role within the trust.

No, this is...

I mean the Trust, not you individually.

Running a football club is a full tiem job and you need money behind you. Not a bunch of eggs with replica shirts and shit hair styles.

The fans consortium headed by Power (not that one) was probably more along the lines of a fan takeover would consist of and not pauld going bald again trying to ensure there is a sufficient supply of chips in the Town End at half-time.

The problem is finding someone wealthy enough who is open to fan cooperation.

Firstly, a bit far fetched to suggest there is NO ONE among the fan base with any business acumen, how do you think other trusts (Pompey, Exeter etc) get by?

Secondly, and this isn't a criticism of the man merely an observation as I see it; I'm not sure Jed had much in the way of 'funds' before Power came along either.

Bogus Dave for CEO

Someone excellent posts in this thread. Made me laugh anyway.

Agree with that totally, and that's my biggest concern. I'm not totally for a fan takeover personally, but if there ever was to be one, January was certainly the biggest opportunity.

It's all ifs ands or buts, but who knows what the Trust may have achieved had they set out the goals they're setting out now a few years earlier.

I fully endorse this sentiment

Business acumen is about things like running a business that makes money, keeping customers happy and not having to deal with corrupt bastards and their dog's bank account in Monaco. Therefore anyone with a shred of business acumen wouldn't touch a football club with yours.

You need business acumen and an insane passion for the club, for which you are likely to get no thanks and make no money. Nigel Doughty (Forest fan and multi-millionaire) used to say that being chairman of Forest was like paying millions of pounds year for his season ticket, and having every other fan hate him for not paying enough. There aren't exactly people queuing round the block for the chance.

True...with Morshead seemingly in the naughty corner, some of us rely on Chang to know what is happening at the CG.

You would employ someone to run the club who would be on the clubs wage bill? Like a Nick Watkins perhaps.

Good luck to the trust....every club should have one in my opinion.

"A bunch of eggs"? Did I miss the bit where the vernacular of Billy Bunter and his Greyfriars chums came back into vogue? How very topping!

It never went out of vogue, amongst public schoolboys.

eventually they will be running the club so need to get their act together. it might come sooner than we may think. All in my opinion of course.

I wish the football season would hurry up and start, will be nice to read a match day thread again instead of some of the pre menstrual posts on here.  And the tedious ones from Chang, no wonder Sam publicly bitch slapped him...

Could somebody please provide a link to the article in which Dr Chang is "bitch-slapped"? 

Ta muchly.

My fear is that the will for a fan based Trust takover just isn't there....times change things that were once cherished become neglected and perish....in Swindon you can see it in things like the Works, the neglect of little bits of remaining architecture like Mechanics and Locarno...previously sound local pubs, like the Welly and George. Changes are forced by the relentless march of global capitalism...and football is very much to the forefront of this process...we may be getting a glimpse of the future, with our Spurs link.

The good news is that despite the shit, we're much better off, than we were a few years ago under the Diamond Mike regime, so don't see us heading out of business just yet.

Agree with this, I think if this lot had taken over from Diamond Mike there would have been a lot less criticism. 

Agree with almost all of that.  All I would add is that some change is natural.  For example, pubs like the Welly and the George would, at one time, have been seen as upsetting the natural order of things (and Reg's great great grandfather would have been lamenting that change as much as Reg regrets this one!)  The growth of Swindon and the coalescence of Old Swindon and New Swindon about 150 years ago (?) would have been greeted with horror by some back then...and the George, as it happens, is slap bang in the middle of the area that was developed to cause the two to join up.

But I know that wasn't the point of your post.  Regarding the Trust, John Ward freely accepted that he wasn't able to dedicate the time to the Trust that he would have liked and had been angling for someone based in Swindon to take over his role for some time.  That has happened now and the new chap (who I don't know) seems to have the bit between his teeth.  Next time the club comes up for sale, it could be a different story.

This. So much money to be made in all sorts of areas now if you get it even half right and that will always attract those who are good at being top business people and others who attempt to be good, and then there are the charlatans out to make a quick profit. It has always been the same, but in football terms alone the money to be made now if it is done right far eclipses what was around only ten/fifteen years ago. I do wonder if many trusts would have the necessary blend of people to run multi-million pound business's on a full-time basis as that is what it now requires?


   

I am sure that there are plenty of people with those talents not currently involved with the Trust, who would gravitate there if there was a real prospect of a Trust-based takeover happening.