Questions for the Advisory Board

[Bennett]

We need to see the accounts, open and transparent as the buzz words went.

I've just emailed them about the overview Scott was undertaking. The Trust committed to it, they need to deliver

[Bob's Orange]

Part of me wonders if the Trust have played a blinder here, knowing full well Clem is doing the media rounds today.
Drop that little nugget in the night before and see how he deals with it .

You do wonder why else they would have done it right?

It is starting to feel like things are coming to a head. Perhaps people at the Trust have been threatened before and haven't been able to be as open, honest and communicative as they would have liked? It's a fucking tricky situation potentially.

[DV]

I’m genuinely lost for words.

Can’t help but think it really is time to burn it down to the ground, kill off everything inside it & start the club again from scratch.

[Costanza]

You do wonder why else they would have done it right?

It is starting to feel like things are coming to a head. Perhaps people at the Trust have been threatened before and haven't been able to be as open, honest and communicative as they would have liked? It's a fucking tricky situation potentially.

Try to not overthink this.

An ITK hungry fan went rogue on an official account, got boxed into a corner answering questions they didn't really need to answer in that moment, had to have the last word and stated something they shouldn't have (probably forgetting that it wasn't universally known information because they have known for years) and deleted it.

Hopefully it's a catalyst though.

[Bennett]

Throwing this out there - is this the catalyst to get a joined up protest over the next two home games?

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

I'm trying to work out what it is they have the club on the hook for?

I could understand it if we had Highworth as a training ground and stables attached and someone was using them. But we have bugger all.

These are not good people Mate, trust me.
Only knows who “others” are but as a free bet I know where my money would go.

Emotions all over the place with the Club. Only positive the poison is coming out.

[Nemo]

I have sent the following short but unsweet message in to the Trust:

Good morning folks,

I imagine I won't be the only person - member and non-member - writing about last night's Twitter activity. I would hope that my previous communications with the Trust have been reasonable and supportive, even when I have disagreed with points, but I fear we are now reaching something of a turning point.

Quite simply, whoever was Tweeting from the Trust account last night needs to resign from the board with immediate effect - not at the AGM. For the Trust to go from the Communications Update yesterday evening to acting like an excitable ITKer on Twitter and saying things that have since been deleted but not before being picked up by the wider media is completely unacceptable and unprofessional. If this was not a rogue individual and was instead the sanctioned responses of the entire board, the entire board needs to follow them and resign, bringing the AGM forward to the earliest possible date so that a new board can take over whilst there is something left to run.

I'm sorry that it's come to this, but the club today needs a strong Trust more than ever and it is being increasingly poorly served by the current officers.

At some point I'll take a nerdy read through the articles of the Trust and see if there's anything that can be done to accelerate the change. Will need the support of existing members - I know it's tempting to resign but please don't, reduce your membership payment to the minimum at most.

[Audrey]

I reckon the club has been illegally funded (as far as the FA are concerned) by various people over a period of time. No doubt this would lead to a massive sanction by the FA if it became public knowledge - hence no paper trail.

It won’t end well whatever it is.

[Batch]

These are not good people Mate, trust me.

I do. I also don't underestimate the need to tread very carefully if you are in a position of influence.

[Bob1978]

I reckon the club has been illegally funded (as far as the FA are concerned) by various people over a period of time. No doubt this would lead to a massive sanction by the FA if it became public knowledge - hence no paper trail.

It won’t end well whatever it is.

Maybe defunded rather than funded.

[Nemo]

Maybe defunded rather than funded.

Both things can be true - if you can (entirely theoretically) put £10m of dirty money into a company, and take £8m of clean money out of it, your average money launderer would be very happy with that even though it's a 'loss'.

Not that this has any relevance to STFC of course.

[Bob1978]

Both things can be true - if you can (entirely theoretically) put £10m of dirty money into a company, and take £8m of clean money out of it, your average money launderer would be very happy with that even though it's a 'loss'.

Not that this has any relevance to STFC of course.

 

[Bob1978]

Well the facts according to the trust are that money is going out for facilities/services that the club are not benefiting from and money is coming in from Clem. Yeah sounds like what you said.

[tans]

After last nigths revelations, im now more concerned for the livelihood of the club than i was in the Diamandis days. Sad times.

Interested to see what comes out following the media day today.

[Audrey]

It’s all making less and less sense. We are told these ‘services’ were left overs from Power’s tenure. Yet there was no need for Clem to put in spurious amounts of money into ‘expenses’ in the first year. We actually made a profit in the second year. And now he’s putting in £1m to cover these.

So how come these ‘services’ didn’t cause a financial problem in years 1 and 2.