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 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.