club statement on official website

[janaage]

As posted in reply to statement elsewhere

"So in summary

Can you lot please stop picking on us and calling us and our friends names or we'll take our ball home.

Many thanks

James (aged 5 and 3/4's) and his Daddy.

PS - That Mark Devlin's a nasty man, he stole my sweeties."

[Frigby Daser]

Where was the public statement slagging off Sandy Gray when she missed x thousands of pounds off the VAT?

Mr Wills, so long as you continue to be a member of a board that fail so miserably to manage this football club, we reserve the right as paying fans to criticise you.

you've done a bloody awful job - stop blaming everybody else and accept some blame rather than passing the buck continually. Maybe, just maybe, then some people will have a tiny slice of respect for the board.

[Spencer_White]

Give us some more love or else?

Im affraid the inability of this current board to take any criticism whatsoever is bringing things to a head. Wills and Dunwoody clearly are inseparable and we are therefore tied to both. I dont want to see Dunwoody running this club anymore. I think their management has strangled this club.

Whether Wills likes it or not. The club did constant asset stripping from June 04 until late 05. The first quality pro we signed was Lee Peacock who came on board just after Bill Power joined us. A lot of fans (myself included) were predicting non league football within 18 months at christmas last year. That is the misery that they piled on us. That was the burden of their management. I dont want them back.

Wills may be dismayed at how the club has been run since april, but I and most fans certainly are not. In fact its been our most hopeful period for 10 years.

[cib]

another interesting read, especially the final paragraphs on the Trust. things are going to come to head soon (again)

[Bushey Boy]

spot on again spencer

[Rich Pullen]

So if the Wills family severed links with Swindon Town, where would this leave us?

I am not supporting the Wills statement nor am I slating it. I'm not a businessman and admittedly I'm not really bright when it comes to the ins and outs of all this!  

Even though activities on the pitch is okay at the moment I'm already fearing the unwanted repeat of years gone by where we don't know whether we'll be in operation in the future and have to tune into the radio for the dreaded news.

[janaage]

In a WWF style, high pitched american accent

I don't believe it Macho Man, Civil War is underway at the County Ground Arena.  The Battle of the Magic Roundabout is underway, this will be the bloodiest, most violent fight seen in sports entertainment since the battle of Santiago!!  Only one side can survive Vince!!  But who???  Who will win this handicap match?  Will it be the father and son tag team champions "last Wills and Testament" with their manager The devil Diamandis, or will it be The Smooth Criminal Mark Devlin?  

The Smooth Criminal has already lost his partner in crime Power Bill surely he can't survive this latest attack???

[Frigby Daser]

Thats the problem - the attitude of Wills and Diamandis makes me so angry - they threaten to pull out and they refuse to take criticism. But if they went w truly would be buggered and they know it - which is why they can afford to treat us with such utter contempt.

Whether they like it or not, they cannot for a moment suggest they've run the club soundly. So we criticise. So they run off. What a mess.

[Northern Red]

I don't get this.

The only reason we still have a club is the money from the Wills.
The only source of significant income to the club in from the Wills.
If they ever left and took their wallet with them, this club would fold in a matter of hours.
For example at the end of the season the club will need a cheque for 750k from somewhere. that'll be the Wills, without them we're screwed.

And does everyone keep missing the point - When a new suitable investor is found, the Wills board will resign and let the new people run the club. But until that happens they have to keep running this club anyway they can.

Is no-one even slightly scared that if the Wills leave with no new investor coming in, we won't have a football club next season?

[janaage]

So what you're saying NR is...

where there's a "Will" there's a way?

[Northern Red]

For now - it should've been we've got the Power, but we forgot to top up the meter.

[Bushey Boy]

its all so confusing! Northern red makes sense so do the other posts.  Fuck it im off to watch reading.

[DV]

When a new suitable investor is found, the Wills board will resign and let the new people run the club.

bill power??!?!?!?!?

[Rich Pullen]

I don't get this.
Is no-one even slightly scared that if the Wills leave with no new investor coming in, we won't have a football club next season?

I believe my above comment shows this fear!

[mattboyslim]

The whole affair really is a shambles from start to finish.  Regrettably we need to find suitable replacements for Wills et al before anything can happen, and I for one find it hard to accept criticisms levelled at the trust etc primarily because they bear little relation to what actually occurred at last weeks meeting, and so many of the criticisms seem to be applicable to the board themselves, ie personal interests etc.