How would you like our trust to proceed?

[E for B and Billy Best]

It's called 'missing in action'. A court martial offence, I believe.

 

[basilrobbie]

Would cutting ties not make them completely impotent anyway?

We had no ties with our club at all in the last few years of the Oystons. When they sue the Chair of your Trust it is difficult to keep talking.

It didn't stop us from campaigning though. If anything, it made some aspects of the task easier.

Edited to add : just a couple of points on what you expect of your elected representatives :

1) they are all unpaid volunteers, trying to operate in what is quite a complex environment. I don't think you can expect levels of commitment from them that you wouldn't show yourself.

2) to be effective, your Trust needs a clear mandate from its Members in particular and from the fan base in general. Isn't the lack of such a mandate a large part of the problem?

 

[Leigh_Seasider]

We had no ties with our club at all in the last few years of the Oystons. When they sue the Chair of your Trust is is difficult to keep talking.

It didn't stop us from campaigning though. If anything, it made some aspects of the task easier.

Edited to add : just a couple of points on what you expect of your elected representatives :

1) they are all unpaid volunteers, trying to operate in what is quite a complex environment. I don't think you can expect levels of commitment from them that you wouldn't show yourself.

2) to be effective, your Trust needs a clear mandate from its Members in particular and from the fan base in general. Isn't the lack of such a mandate a large part of the problem?

2 - yes, as a fanbase we aren’t all aligned. Rumours fly around like wildfire and some can’t see past “Martin out”. Others see a bigger picture. Some support protests, others see them as pointless.

A suggested release of funds related to the FF/RH developments was meant to be the big difference. Wasn’t October cited as key or am I wrong on that? If things are no further forward by November then I’d really start to worry. To me, the fact we’re having these issues now is no surprise and I’m sure we’ll wriggle out of the embargo as we always do. The real tragedy here is the non payment of staff.

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Staff were told in July that from 1st August club would have funds to ensure that wages would be paid on time every month, thanked for there loyalty and told they would receive a bonus for said loyalty...since then their wages have been paid later each month and their morale crumbles by the day.

 

[kentblues]

2 - yes, as a fanbase we aren’t all aligned. Rumours fly around like wildfire and some can’t see past “Martin out”. Others see a bigger picture. Some support protests, others see them as pointless.

A suggested release of funds related to the FF/RH developments was meant to be the big difference. Wasn’t October cited as key or am I wrong on that? If things are no further forward by November then I’d really start to worry. To me, the fact we’re having these issues now is no surprise and I’m sure we’ll wriggle out of the embargo as we always do. The real tragedy here is the non payment of staff.

I’m suspecting that the stage that releases some funds relates to either training ground completion or spades in ground for the next (Stadium phase). Meanwhile Ron is apparently seeking a bridging loans/loans in the interim- who from is as much a question as is how funds are released by the development- sums involved/timing/effect on clubs budget for reminder of year and for next. Two absolutely fundamental questions to ask IMHO. Unfortunately no doubt will got lost amongst all the other stuff real and imagined.
Sometimes this is how Ron “escaped scrutiny”. Rather than relentlessly focussing on 2-3 key questions it’s all over the place.

 

[JD]

Same person:

Tom Lawrence: CEO - Southend United Football Club
Tom Lawrence: Director - PG Site Services Ltd

That’d be a cracking legal battle

 

[Special Blue]

That’d be a cracking legal battle

More so if He lost!

 

[TrueBlue]

More so if He lost!

Yeah but which side?

 

[Kat_r]

Staff were told in July that from 1st August club would have funds to ensure that wages would be paid on time every month, thanked for there loyalty and told they would receive a bonus for said loyalty...since then their wages have been paid later each month and their morale crumbles by the day.

Yikes