Meeting before the Macc game

[yeo]

Pure speculation..you do yourself no favours saying stuff like that because when you say other stuff that you have proof for people wonder if its fact or just your view.

Take a deep breath.

[Luci]

I've been scouring the sports pages for any possible clues towards transfer targets but I honestly have no idea who it could be. Sturrock seems good at keeping tight lipped to avoid speculation. Sure he will bring someone/2 people in soon.

[millom red]

Bowden should not have Just turned up..Plain wrong imo.

[Fred Elliot]

Pure speculation..you do yourself no favours saying stuff like that because when you say other stuff that you have proof for people wonder if its fact or just your view.

Take a deep breath.

Sturrock admitted in the Adver that choices 1,2 and 3 were "dead in the water"

I am not speculating YR

[yeo]

You are specualting that its about money Sturrock said its because clubs dont want to lose players at this time.

[Fred Elliot]

Bowden should not have Just turned up..Plain wrong imo.

Trust meetings have always been "open meetings" Millom, as I have posted I was approached by Mr Bowden in the car park where he asked my permission to attend which I agreed to.

I think the sugestion is to write to the club to thank him on his attendance but specify that if STFC wanted to be represented in the future then prior acceptance must be sought and the said representative would be allocated a slot on the agenda.

[Fred Elliot]

You are specualting that its about money Sturrock said its because clubs dont want to lose players at this time.

And yet other League 2 clubs can entice good quality players from higher divisions during this transfer window ?

Did you see the new striker that walsall got to play alongside Butler last night ?

[yeo]

doesnt matter Fred its speculation not fact stop trying to push it as fact.

[Fred Elliot]

doesnt matter Fred its speculation not fact stop trying to push it as fact.

Then it should not have been published as a quote in the Adver Yeovil.

should it really ?, otherwise we should just take everything the Adver reports as pure speculation

[yeo]

It hasnt hes been quoted as saying option 2-3-4-5  are non starters but hasnt given the reason for this as being money.

[Fred Elliot]

It has been quoted as option 1,2 and 3 Yeovil

and I concede that he has not come out in the media by saying that it is based on money, but there was a press release stating that he was allowed to spend the 30k from the Monkhouse deal.

So tell me, why would an agreement be reached with a club for a player, the player travels down here to discuss personal terms, a weekend of speculation develops, only for the deal to fall through ?

He must have been interested to join us to make the trip down here to see what we had to say

[yeo]

who?

Oh Fred whatever you say mate I can't be arsed anymore

[Fred Elliot]

ok

[pauld]

Have to say Fred I tend to agree with Yeovil on this - there's a myriad of reasons why players change their minds. Rodgers for example clearly just got delusions of grandeur about dropping a League or more likely just preferred Port Vale because it's closer to Brum where he's based, given that we're likely to go up with some momentum (and so will hopefully kick on in  L1 next season), whereas Port Vale will continue to arse about mid-table in League One like they have done for the last 8 millenia.

[pauld]

On the topic of boycotting the pre-Macc meeting, not sure what this would achieve, other than allowing the half dozen pro-board posters on thisis to engage in some "ha! Bottlers!" stuff. Surely would be better if people attend in numbers and ask them the questions that need asking? Like all the ones they refused to answer at the AGM about the financial situation for one thing.

Have to agree about Sturrock being there tho - that's a disgrace dragging the manager into this on the morning of a game. But if we all keep saying we won't attend if he is there, I think that's all the more likely to make them insist he attends. Because then they'll get a nice easy ride and can say "See? What was all the fuss about?"

And this is purely my own late-night musings, not an official Trust position or anything, although obviously I suspect this may arise as a topic in conversations between Trust board members over the next couple of days. Possibly. Ah well, back to the code.