Question Is it time the trust ‘stop working with Ron’ and facilitate more robust action

[OldBlueLady]

electing a board of the fans group to represent us - and to get that group in front of all interested bodies and to get legal advice on a strategy to get rid of the current ownership ..

time to get off our knees -

step one get a properly legally constituted group to represent us ..

FFS - if we had this we could probably raise zillions of funds and get the club bought

Isn't that exactly what the Trust is?

 

[joffonon]

That's a gross oversimplification, at least as far as Blackpool is concerned.

There were, in the beginning, two strands to the effort at Blackpool. The militant wing did some stunts that got media headlines and were of a nature that a charitable body (which is what a Trust is) could not possibly be involved in.

The Trust concentrated on the less visible stuff. Intelligence gathering, lobbying the EFL, taking our fight into Parliament, being increasingly involved at national level through the FSA. And ultimately, being the sole supporter group reporting upon court proceedings and their implications.

It was the latter that was most influential in affecting the Judge's eventual decision. Not the stunts, but the dedicated boycott, the advocacy, the campaigning and the communicating.

Your Trust are currently doing most of these things. They have been at pains to stress that a large part of engaging with RM is to put pressure on for an exit strategy - for him. I think that ending that dialogue with nothing in place to replace it would be a mistake. Most of the current uncertainty in your position emanates from him and the way he behaves. Not engaging with him is not going to improve that.

Likewise at Orient, we at the Trust focused on what we could do legally in respect of trying to force the owner to sell, such as getting media coverage, representing fans at a winding-up hearing and fundraising for potential crisis scenarios. We left it to others more militant to (eventually) do the things we couldn't such as pitch invasions. And we ran what we were doing past the eventual new owner, to make sure we didn't negatively affect his protracted negotiations with B*****ti.

From what I can see from the outside, your Trust is doing the things it should be while being part of a wider fans' coalition.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Is it time the trust ‘stop working with Ron’ and facilitate more robust action

What are you thinking?

Economic sanctions, air strikes, tactical nuclear weapons?

 

[Callum]

You greedy ******* get out of our club

 

[GBJ]

What are you thinking?

Economic sanctions, air strikes, tactical nuclear weapons?

Roots Hall looks like it has been subject to all three of those options, already