The Spirit of '69 and our Day of Action

[dagrumpymunki]

There’s a very easy and straightforward answer. Do you want a club that involves a convicted drug money launderer, a convicted drug dealer once one of Britain’s Most Wanted and a convicted wife beater. We’ve had numerous lies told. But even if this wasn’t the case the people running the club are completely incompetent.

It really makes no difference if we’re fighting relegation or up amongst the play off teams.

I want a club to be proud of.

And these people are who? Presumably they're recent arrivals as there weren't any protests last season?

[dagrumpymunki]

The information is pretty widely available across the Internet mate. Google it. Look at spirit of 69 socials. Better yet, read this thread properly. Don't see why it needs be spoonfed to you in a reply because you don't want to look for it or are being facetious.

If I Google Spirit of 69 I get swamped with pages related to the anti racist skinhead movement. Might have been worth the campaign doing that before they went with the name because it means their on line visability is for shit.

These people have launched a campaign to drive the owner out of their club. I assumed that meant there was a coherent  list of  issues and demands that was relatively easy to access.

It's kind of where most people would start a campaign. If that exists just point me at it.

[4D]

Try and research some of the names of those 'associated' with the club/owner.
How did you feel about Power?
I see your avatar has it's hands over it's eyes, how apt.

[Audrey]

And these people are who? Presumably they're recent arrivals as there weren't any protests last season?

Don’t pretend you don’t know the names.

It’s the season on season cumulative effect of shitness and the never ending ‘admin’ errors and watching the stadium falling to bits. There’s only so much people can take before the gravity of it all hits home. We, as a club, are in the gutter face down. We need somebody to at least turn us over and get us looking up towards the light again.

Nobody is demanding success on the pitch - we just want a club to be proud of supporting. We need to shake the ‘Swindle’ shit off our shoes once and for all.

NO. MORE. BULLSHIT.

[Batch]

And these people are who? Presumably they're recent arrivals as there weren't any protests last season?

It's got demonstrably worse since last season, and no sign of change.

You don't have to agree with the protests, but if it's not obvious why they are happening I suggest you've been living under a rock.

[Batch]

If I Google Spirit of 69 I get swamped with pages related to the anti racist skinhead movement. Might have been worth the campaign doing that before they went with the name because it means their on line visability is for shit.

These people have launched a campaign to drive the owner out of their club. I assumed that meant there was a coherent  list of  issues and demands that was relatively easy to access.

It's kind of where most people would start a campaign. If that exists just point me at it.

They/we just want mourfuni to commit to selling the club.

Fucking hell, it's only difficult to find if you want it to be. Here's the twitter handle which I'm sure you found in about 30 seconds @so69fangroup

Are you Rob Clarke?

[singingiiiffy]

They/we just want mourfuni to commit to selling the club.

Fucking hell, it's only difficult to find if you want it to be. Here's the twitter handle which I'm sure you found in about 30 seconds @so69fangroup

Are you Rob Clarke?

Sell now" is a nonsense unless you're looking to buy. Are you?

2 bingo hits in one reply. Ian Holloways "nonsense" and buy the club. If you don't know why by now and you have missed everything in the press surrounding the protest then you can't look behind someone fishing for shit replies

[dagrumpymunki]

Don’t pretend you don’t know the names.

It’s the season on season cumulative effect of shitness and the never ending ‘admin’ errors and watching the stadium falling to bits. There’s only so much people can take before the gravity of it all hits home. We, as a club, are in the gutter face down. We need somebody to at least turn us over and get us looking up towards the light again.

Nobody is demanding success on the pitch - we just want a club to be proud of supporting. We need to shake the ‘Swindle’ shit off our shoes once and for all.

NO. MORE. BULLSHIT.

I have no fucking idea who you're talking about you prick. I'm as out of the loop as it's possible to be.

And your list of everything that's been wrong with the club for the last 2 decades being placed at the door of someone who's run the place for 2 years doesn't convince me this campaign has a fucking clue what it wants.

I've seen the same group of people decide that the "current owners" aren't fit to run "their club" every 3 years or so for over a decade. Oddly the only owners fans never turned against were the one group that despite having plenty of resources never made any progress on or off the field.

Yes the ground is a mess. It's been a mess for decades.  At least now it's a mess the club own a stake in and can develop.

Presumably the "everything about the club is a shambles" thing just ignores that the academy is in the best shape it's ever been in, the youth teams performing better than ever, youth teamers  are actually becoming pros either for money elsewhere or actually graduating to our first team for the first time in fucking years.

Pretty sure the women's teams made progress too?

Is there an explanation for that?

And you can spare me your moral indignation about someone with a criminal past having some vague connection with the club. Not too many years ago you were all somehow managing to persuade yourselves that chanting the name of an actual Fascist was fine because the first team were winning games.

[iParadise]

I have no fucking idea who you're talking about you prick. I'm as out of the loop as it's possible to be.

And your list of everything that's been wrong with the club for the last 2 decades being placed at the door of someone who's run the place for 2 years doesn't convince me this campaign has a fucking clue what it wants.

I've seen the same group of people decide that the "current owners" aren't fit to run "their club" every 3 years or so for over a decade. Oddly the only owners fans never turned against were the one group that despite having plenty of resources never made any progress on or off the field.

Yes the ground is a mess. It's been a mess for decades.  At least now it's a mess the club own a stake in and can develop.

Presumably the "everything about the club is a shambles" thing just ignores that the academy is in the best shape it's ever been in, the youth teams performing better than ever, youth teamers  are actually becoming pros either for money elsewhere or actually graduating to our first team for the first time in fucking years.

Pretty sure the women's teams made progress too?

Is there an explanation for that?

And you can spare me your moral indignation about someone with a criminal past having some vague connection with the club. Not too many years ago you were all somehow managing to persuade yourselves that chanting the name of an actual Fascist was fine because the first team were winning games.

You can’t be fucking serious.

[dagrumpymunki]

You can’t be fucking serious.

No you can't seriously think anyone with a passing interest in the club you support also spends their time poring over 2 years worth of internet forum threads full of rumour and gossip to be able to know WTF you're banging on about.

Can I make a polite suggestion. If any of you are involved in this campaign adjust your approach. Because responding to questions with "you should already know this" makes it difficult to win people over.

I'm old enough to have been supporting the club when it paid half the squad off the books to reduce tribunal transfer fees and defraud the Revenue, and would bet club money on the team's results to cover the bonus fund and on one memorable occasion when money was really tight bet on the team to lose a fixture which we then lost 5-0.

Pretty much every player and member of staff was involved in a criminal conspiracy.

I'm struggling to find the repairs to the floor in the Legends Lounge being delayed that indicative of corruption after that TBH.

[4D]

If you only have a passing interest then why are you so bothered?

[@MacPhlea]

Let’s face it, the club has been run by cunts for years, supported by cunts for even longer and we’re all just a bunch of cunts on this forum arguing about the different bunch of cunts managing it and playing for it year in year out.

If Clem sold it, it’d just be to another cunt you’d be moaning about in 6 months time and calling on them to sell it to another cunt.

Eat cunt, sleep cunt, repeat cunt, orange hat…

[4D]

The protest came about as a culmination of years of shite. Fully justified. Long may it continue.

[Audrey]

I have no fucking idea who you're talking about you prick. I'm as out of the loop as it's possible to be.

And your list of everything that's been wrong with the club for the last 2 decades being placed at the door of someone who's run the place for 2 years doesn't convince me this campaign has a fucking clue what it wants.

I've seen the same group of people decide that the "current owners" aren't fit to run "their club" every 3 years or so for over a decade. Oddly the only owners fans never turned against were the one group that despite having plenty of resources never made any progress on or off the field.

Yes the ground is a mess. It's been a mess for decades.  At least now it's a mess the club own a stake in and can develop.

Presumably the "everything about the club is a shambles" thing just ignores that the academy is in the best shape it's ever been in, the youth teams performing better than ever, youth teamers  are actually becoming pros either for money elsewhere or actually graduating to our first team for the first time in fucking years.

Pretty sure the women's teams made progress too?

Is there an explanation for that?

And you can spare me your moral indignation about someone with a criminal past having some vague connection with the club. Not too many years ago you were all somehow managing to persuade yourselves that chanting the name of an actual Fascist was fine because the first team were winning games.

Vague connection? Zav Austin was who Morfuni wanted as Vice Chairman to oversee the club when he’s not around. The same Zav Austin who was convicted of money laundering, who was beaten up on his doorstep in front of his wife and kids for reasons not for this forum.

Anyway, you know you’ve lost the argument when you have to resort to personal insults.

[dagrumpymunki]

Vague connection? Zav Austin was who Morfuni wanted as Vice Chairman to oversee the club when he’s not around. The same Zav Austin who was convicted of money laundering, who was beaten up on his doorstep in front of his wife and kids for reasons not for this forum.

Anyway, you know you’ve lost the argument when you have to resort to personal insults.

So you held a protest in December 2024 motivated by the presence of Austin who joined the Board in 2015 under Lee Power, who Clem tried to appoint as Vice Chair in 2021, and now isn't on the board, owns no shares and holds no position at the club?

Timing is a bit odd TBH?

I'd bet £100 that at least half of your orange battered brethren have no idea who Austin is.