Spirit of '69

[RobertT]

I will harp on about my issue with the Trust - and I hope this protest move and fear of the "what if" statements from those worried focus them.

If the ownership did ever just walk away (I still think that unlikely given the entanglements), then now is the time for the Trust to have a back-up plan being worked on.  We should have a couple - ideally, some rich benefactor walks in, but given the chances seem slim, we should also have a plan for full fan ownership and what lives between those two scenarios.

Disengage with the ownership - it's pointless trying to change them.

Engage with fans and methods and means of investment and work on business plans for what comes next.

[Wobbly Bob]

More a question for the Trust.
But would the Trust's side of the JV have the power to veto a sale (of the club & by extension it's share of the CG) to any party that the JV didn't like the look of?

[Batch]

I thought it was this, also Orange is a colour that wouldn't normally be seen at a Town game & is quite visible in the crowd.  (I guess the fluorescent green would work the same way)

Definitely this:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution

But also the other two reasons weren't incompatible afterthoughts

[RobertT]

More a question for the Trust.
But would the Trust's side of the JV have the power to veto a sale (of the club & by extension it's share of the CG) to any party that the JV didn't like the look of?

I believe the veto (by virtue of the Board structure) would be about the sale of the freehold, not the football club which is a separate business entity.  Eady reps and Trust have the majority if they voted together.

[Batch]

what are your thoughts on fans throwing tennis balls on the pitch between the 6th and 9th minute of matches, as a form of peaceful (if slightly disruptive) protest?

I can't speak for the So69, but I think this is non-disruptive protest.

Personally I think we need to get behind the team as best we can once in the ground, holding off such actions. Its all we can do as fans.

Normally I say go for it. But league survival is #1 priority.

[Freeloader]

I will harp on about my issue with the Trust - and I hope this protest move and fear of the "what if" statements from those worried focus them.

If the ownership did ever just walk away (I still think that unlikely given the entanglements), then now is the time for the Trust to have a back-up plan being worked on.  We should have a couple - ideally, some rich benefactor walks in, but given the chances seem slim, we should also have a plan for full fan ownership and what lives between those two scenarios.

Disengage with the ownership - it's pointless trying to change them.

Engage with fans and methods and means of investment and work on business plans for what comes next.

The club and the Trust are joined at the hip as part of the Joint Venture.  Their current role would be to state the obvious that the fanbase has had enough of the current regime's incompetence on and off the field and that the future of the club is uncertain.  Further, it is apparently too late to turn around the general opinion of the fanbase and establishing how the Trust can assist in transferring to a new ownership would appear a next step.  It seems that Advisory Board meetings are the sole public means of communication.  Don't underestimate Dan, Rich and others in their initiative, TheSpiritof69.  

Time for a new slogan.  Perhaps, "69, it's now our time", I am sure there are better ones.

[Audrey]

‘No. More. Bullshit’

[Ardiles]

I think the SO69 organisers are wise to this, stressing the need for 'non-disruptive' protest.  The moment the fans start throwing tennis balls etc., you can be sure that someone within the club hierarchy would weaponise it and make the argument that the protests are jeopardising team performance.  And, by extension, our League survival.  (Assuming, of course, that they have finally given up on promotion as the aim for this season.)  They would aim to split the fanbase with this as a means of blunting the protest movement.

[theakston2k]

Let’s face facts, whatever is done the club will try to weaponise it.

When do we think Morfuni will put out an entirely predictable statement aimed at tugging the heart strings of the uninformed claiming the protestors are in the wrong and we all need to come together to ensure our league status?

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

Has to be Friday 5pm but I doubt he can even do that right.

[Bob's Orange]

Nothing wrong with Banbury United, thats my non league team!

Being in the same league as them, is what's wrong with it though

[tans]

Being in the same league as them, is what's wrong with it though

They wont be, Banbury are in the Premier central and Supermarine are in the Premier south

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

going to give loathed strangers a listen in a min, did anyone grab dan on points west?

iplayer doesn't seem to have included that part just about Rovers selling 45% to someone from Kuwait (but i thought there were no buyers out there)

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

Won't engage with people that are not employed by the club but claim to represent them like 'matchday guests' 

 

[tans]

going to give loathed strangers a listen in a min, did anyone grab dan on points west?

iplayer doesn't seem to have included that part just about Rovers selling 45% to someone from Kuwait (but i thought there were no buyers out there)

He was on points west yesterday wasnt he?