Maverick what's your take on these events?
Do you regret spending hours slagging off the fans consortium and stubbornly defending the board of this football club?
With hindsight would you have done things differently (on a personal level)?
Not meaning to pick you out, just that you're probably the one poster who spent so much time analysing Bill Powers motives, picking holes in most protests that were planned.
I would have posted this on Thisis but to be honest I can't be bothered with that board this evening.
janaage - if you had posted on Thisis I probably would not have seen it - I hardly go on there ever these days as since it was revamped it seems to have degenerated into something close to 95% bollocks and on a good day 10% football.
Equally, I am not on here often either, partly because of lack of time at the minute, partly because it is all so fucking depressing, and partly because it has felt to me for a long time that our views are irrelevant and have made and will mkae no diiference to whatever the outcome turns out to be.
The only notice the club takes of the forums seems to be whether or not there is something that needs to be removed, or ammunition to store up for "match day intelligence".
In fact I spent a lot of time questioning the fans consortium rather than slagging them off (except at Stockport away which Reg has reminded me of more than once
- for which I publicly apologised and retracted my view - and in my defence, for those that were there, it was the worst performance on the pitch of the whole season, so I was understandably pissed off and lashed out as a result!).
Equally I lost track of the number of times that I posted the fact that I was not pro-Board, and have always felt that the time for them to move on was overdue.
With regard to protests, I was at the meeting at the GWR a few weeks back and aired my thoughts there as I have since on here.
Thinking about it now, I think that this has all had very little to do with the Board. They have no power over the shareholders. Some, I am sure have/had their own agendas, but for others they are employees who at times have served to be the butt/buffer between the fanbase and the shareholders. However, the big decisions will have come down to the majority shareholder, and it seems he will continue to be influenced by the advice he chooses to listen to rather than what may or may not be the right thing to do.
If I had had the time, I certainly would have been more challenging of the BEST approaches - especially as it seemed they were hell-bent on dismantling/upsetting the one area that was going well within the club at the time - the playing side.
I really really hope that it is not now all over, and still harbour the hope that somewhere in the next few hours SSW will grasp the fact that SBC will probably never ever agree to redevlopment whilst any of the present incumbents remain. Because of that, if he manages to raise yet more money and chooses to remain, it will be increasing the debts, and so increasing the annual losses due to increased interest payments. This would raise still higher the price for any potential purchaser, or increase still more the potential losses to SSW.
To sell now, as I see it, is the cheapest option for SSW. If he has indeed any choices, then surely they are to lose all if the club goes under, lose some if the sale happens now, or lose even more if it is left until later for either winding up or a later sale.
To end on a positive - despite following Town for many years as a season ticket holder and away traveller - in the last 15 months or so I have met a lot of people on both sides of that fence (
)as a result of my big mouth! Fred and Paul D are good examples of people that I have not always been in agreement with - but I like to think we have got on fine regardless. I must admit though that being a wimp - I was a tad wary when Yeovil introduced himself to me in the Gents in the Arkells a few weeks back!! :shock:
Hopefully if the impossible (as it seems today) happens, and we do survive - I will get the chance to put even more names to faces, in particular you janaage and Reg (I have an image which I desperately need to dispel :twisted: ).
Reading back over this it seems like I have slipped back into the long rambling shit that I used to post on Thisis .. so I will stop now.
