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Never had much time for Rob Waltham TBH but I’m not ashamed to say we sure need him now to step up and help out, he is a fan from boyhood so maybe his conscience might sway him to take a good look at our situation.
I would imagine he has half an eye on it anyway – and you would hope he’s not just going to sit on his hands.
It would be great for him politically to be proactive about securing GP. I don’t mean that people would suddenly vote for his party, I mean at a personal level. There’s no getting round the fact it would give him serious kudos and status in the town.
However, I seem to think there is history between Waltham’s administration and Peter Swann! So I don’t know quite how it would work – other than appealing to Swann’s better nature and allowing him to leave the situation thinking he has won in some way.
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At the risk of repeating myself we lost our home over 2 years ago.
When Mr Swann transferred ownership to Foolsilk?
You’re partly correct, I suppose. But while it’s still in the shop window there is still hope.
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I can’t stress how important this is.
If you lose your home, you lose control and your identity. Sooner or later, you’ve had it.
The Iron Trust should be working with all other interested parties – and lobbying involvement from Rob Waltham and the Council – to ensure GP is not lost.
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… the way Hilton has managed our expectations and off-field matters has been incredibly poor.
It has left a nasty taste in the mouth. It’s not how I would expect the Chair of a credible organisation to behave.
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I think that’s a fair assessment, Apollo. If this had happened at the start, I’d say there may be disappointment, but more understanding from more people. As it was we heard all these grand plans of a new stadium, how he had the money to buy Glanford Park and has funded what must be a well paid squad for this level. People raising eyebrows were dismissed as anti-Hilton when raising these points and told to shut up or that they wanted the club dead. Now it feels like a huge let down and loss of trust, given the previous claims and attacks on anyone suspicious, to be told it needs to be cut back severely. I know he said that before, but it was during actions which belied that (assembling a costly squad, promising a new stadium and training ground).
These cut backs may be necessary, and the start of this does start from Swann, but the way Hilton has managed our expectations and off-field matters has been incredibly poor.
The ‘land acquired’ thing was a pantomime to rattle Mr Swann, I am sure. I do not believe there has ever been the intention for a new stadium.
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ditching the fight for GP and leave us running as a humble part-time outfit and groundsharing “somewhere”.
Even if the scenario I described above is inaccurate, and there are in fact some highly dubious motives at play, and this whole aggressive gaslighting that has been going on is all some tactical play-out for some nefarious gain or other, then it doesn’t matter now. Ultimately it is going to result in the same thing: No money, no GP, going part-time and playing elsewhere.
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Puppet Board. No money = no say.
It’s not always necessary for members of a Board to be loaded with cash, you know? They can bring other things to the table – expertise, vision, a copy of the Radio Times and some chicken sandwiches.
Looking from a generous angle – and presuming for a moment that there is no ulterior motive – it’s a possible scenario that what may have happened with the Chairman is:
He has come in to a very difficult financial situation without truly understanding the scale of it, or realising what a clown’s pie the previous owner had made of the club’s books.
He probably doesn’t have anything like the wealth he has worked to give the impression he had. He has been panicking, feeling the pressure of 3,750 pairs of eyes and lashing out. He’s had too much pride to admit that he has not been paying Peter so that he can pay Paul. Over and over.
He’s assembled a Board as he recognised that he needs digging out of a massive hole. The Board he’s surrounded himself with is assisting with all of the legals, admin and engine-work to scale things right back to meet a level where the club operates by what it can actually generate by itself, plus maybe the occasional ‘top-up’ from him.
This, ultimately, will mean ditching the fight for GP and leave us running as a humble part-time outfit and groundsharing “somewhere”.
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Is this Jason Herbert guy real or just a sh#t stirring idiot, he seems to be creating nothing but division and hatred between fans who have genuine concerns for SUFC and seems to have the approval of Dave Hilton?
Seems to me that’s his job, he doesn’t realise it though.
People assuming that “difficult decisions” which will prove “very unpopular” (but ensure survival) means “kids for free is going to stop and it’ll be £2 a kid” or they might make a few people part-time is absolutely laughable. It’s almost charming.
Those carefully chosen words are designed to prepare you for the worst, which will come crashing through your screens in the near future. They obviously mean that the battle for GP will be surrendered (because WHAM doesn’t ACTUALLY HAVE ANY MONEY – but they won’t ever say that). So we will be playing elsewhere.
Effectively we will have no asset or potential asset of our own – unless you still believe in the ‘acquired land in town’ pantomime nonsense.
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