EastStandBlue
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Ok, I pretty much can buy most of that. However I look at it like this; why would you want the same person who's done this, to stay and try and carry us through?
I don't think anybody truly wants any football club chairman, do they? Obviously, the ultimate goal is to have the club owned by the fans, but that has proven to be unfeasible without the club itself owning the infrastructure and having a significant supporter base paying annual membership costs a la Barcelona. Those who are deemed to be Pro-Ron or simply agnostic agree that, while RM is by no means the saviour, he's the only show in town and with Sainsbury's now on board, we stand a significantly greater chance of seeing the project through.
Hell, this was even the view of the Trust having spoken to a number of supporter groups and were privy to a considerable amount more information than the majority on here.
Now, had RM realised that in the wake of the banking crisis he couldn't have pulled this off on his own and got Sainsbury's involved sooner, then we may not have been in this mess.
The accounts show that a £60k management fee is tranfered from SUFC to one of Martins comapanies (Martin Dawn?) on a yearly basis, despite Martin saying that he doesn't take a wage and his other companies are nowt to do with SUFC? What is this for?
Firestorm has already cleared this, on several occasions. The £60,000 management fee isn't a wage from the club, it's to compensate Martin Dawn for the time both RM and GK spend away from MD running the club and its interests. It's a contentious sum, but it's not something alien to football clubs owned by property developers. Both Robbie Cowling (Col Ewe) and Darragh MacAnthony (Posh) take similar fees IIRC.
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