Quite right. He gets away with it because know one shines a light on his lies and deceit; all he does is tell people it's confidential and not to repeat it and they toddle off and think they are part of the inner sanctum. Enough is a enough.
The perks are your positions in the "inner sanctum". Feeling privileged to be fed "confidential" info by RM that he tells you (or Paul) not to share with the wider fanbase. Visibly leading on certain things and having your names attached to them. And the subconcious self-importance and feeling of power/superiority that undoubtedly comes with all of that. I think there are some people on the committee who would struggle to stop doing that stuff temporarily to send a message, even if it were for the medium and long-term benefit of the club and fanbase, because of how doing those things makes them feel. That's why they don't want to rock the boat.
You are of course entitled to your opinion but nothing is further from the truth. Even this poll whilst not an adequate sample size shows over 50 percent do not support stopping funding to the football club.
Don’t lie JP I’m sure he provides coffee and tea at the liaison meetings!!!
But that can also be spun that well over 40% are not happy with the direction and if that was mirrored in a trust members ballot then that does show an unacceptable level of discontent.
I am for sure interested in the constructive stuff here. I think this demonstrates how difficult a scenario it is though. It shows that opinions our split, certainly nothing to show there is a nailed on way to do things or the will of the support either way etc.
We need to get everybody round the table, can you take this forward?
Leave it with me
Are you trust member? If so, how comes you let this situation slide for so long? Southend in the past 13 odd years have had history of off field issues ranging from late/non paid staff/players and unpaid taxes. As an outsider as such you guys haven't really condemned this owner and taken some sort of action ie demanding change of ownership. When is enough is enough for you guys to demand change of ownership?
Im a trust board member. I don’t agree with everything in your post, the ownership has certainly been condemned, please see trust statements on the website. These are statements though and I know a lot of people protests etc which we haven’t led.
There is plenty you can’t reveal but the problem is you never update often in any way mate, even with nothing to say you need to be reassuring members/fans that stuff is ongoing, takes minutes to whip something up, I remember when I was on there it was like there would have to be an agreement and meeting before a statement went out, got no time for messing around sometimes mate
Bluewonder2 … come on Dutchess this is your finest hour you made it very clear we didn’t miss out on signings ? I’ve been looking forward to this moment #emporersnewclothes
They are busy flying the balloons ffs .. and as @OldBlueLady told us before they all have jobs to do
If we do the club the favour of to not protest tomorrow, there has to be some dialogue with the club to say that, OK we've been told these issues are short-term. If they go on past January, all bets are off. Something has to happen, we can't go on sitting in the dark being fobbed off. If Stan asks us to trust him now, I accept that and I do trust Stan, but we need to be clear there is a time limit on this goodwill from supporters.
I believe they are always looking for volunteers.
Well said. It is exhausting that people don't understand this.
Hey I'm not a Trust board member but I recognise the situation they are in. I know for a fact that most of the Trust members would be among the first to the party if this club was freed from the clutches of Ron Martin.
