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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: The Board
« on: October 31, 2016, 10:50:54 PM »Understood Paul Cain's Chip Pan, it was a pretty awful night for me I can tell you. My uncle came over from Liverpool and walked out before the votes and went home, he was disgusted and resigned his membership of the trust, having been an Alty fan for about 70 years at the time. My friend who also came to give me a bit of support abstained from voting and I was totally exhausted by the end and had to go to the King George for a glass of wine afterwards! I resigned immediately, of course, as I was obviously not wanted. I have been an Alty fan, however for 49 years and a season ticket holder, including during my 20 years living in Oxfordshire for over 25 years and a Vice President for about 20 years, so it hasn't put me off being a fan.
It was naughty, you are right, emotions were high, we'd just been, effectively relegated by the FA sand it seemed to the trust members that the organisation they belonged to wasn't giving money to the Club but the aims of a supporters trust were not to just give money to the club without any targeted purpose. Jenny desperately needed a dishwasher in the bar at the time and we'd done research and asked her what would help her and she was frustrated by the half time rush and lack of clean glasses. Also, Ian had said that a T shirt printing machine for replica kits in the shop would be a great help to him and we'd found a supplier of second hand machines at a reasonable price. The money raised and saved from these two projects would have gone straight to the club, it was trust expenditure for club revenue but no-one wanted to listen to that on the night and long term projects were not wanted by the club at the time just a short term cash donation. So the whole purpose of a supporters trust, what they are and what they do was rejected by Altrincham fans and as an employee of Supporters Direct, it was always quite an embarrassment for me at work but it was a members organisation and if the members did not want it, then it shouldn't exist. Now it doesn't.
Sausages, that is a question you should put to the club directors of that time. The shares that STAR owned went back to the football club. Whether they were the actual STAR shares were given to him isn't definite as the Club may have had some unallocated shares or another shareholder may have transferred some of their shares owned prior to the STAR transfer to the cricketer. But there was a transfer of some shares to that person sometime shortly after that SGM. I resigned from the trust board, so the trust's shares were transferred to the club by whoever was the Secretary of the trust with the assistance, presumably of the secretary of the club.
I saw recently that there was a new share offer and that some were unallocated, so there may still be some available for people to buy?
I recollect this as being a truly horrendous evening.
Didn't Geoff Goodwin leave the meeting at one point in order to be interviewed live on radio in relation to the James Robinson/18-points deduction fiasco?
In my view, certain board members capitalised on emotions running high in order to achieve their desired aim to eviscerate STAR.
I remember being out the of Country when the FA verdict was announced, hence why i don't remember this meeting. This explains the contempt the Board have for the Club's supporters and why it is clearly bizarre that Board members are involved with the current Supporters Club. The 2 most prominent members were also involved back then. I have no idea where the Club goes from here.