The Supporters Trust

[Kane57]

Who are the top brass? Indeed who are the normal brass? I get the impression D Izza has gone rogue, apologies if that's not the case.

Always has been Ian Bridge.

[Guest]

i think there are elections

 

the current lot werent elected as there were less folk put their names forward than there were positions

 

 

i would suggest nobody put their names forward because most of the folk who did at the outset were totally ignored and heard nowt

 

rejected out of hand by a set of non entities

 

im currently giving some thought as to what we can do to remove these loons and how to make the trust useful

People offered and were ignored. Hence they didn't get involved. Some people far more qualified at least on paper than those running the trust.

[embankment]

Having witnessed a leading light of the trust.

Taking Tenners of gulible folk in Stormers." Sign here on this sheet of A4 and give us £10 ".

Said tenner rammend into right hand pocket of a black crombi.

I decided to spend my well.earned on a pork and black pudding growler.

Washing it down with a pint of Trooper.

In Ken i trust .

He is atleast appears to be open (as far as he can be) in the day to day task of trying to sort out the finacial disaster thats is BWFC.

[embankment]

Always has been Ian Bridge.

Ian Bridge ?

Went to school with one.

Wonder if its the same ?

[Happy Wanderer]

Ian Bridge ?

Went to school with one.

Wonder if its the same ?

Maybe a bridge too far.

[Sluffy]

Always has been Ian Bridge.

 

You mean this Ian Bridge!

 

http://forum.boltonnuts.co.uk/t15637-supporters-trust-keeping-low-profile-about-taking-people-s-10-s-for-renewed-membership#334720

 

 

 

 

Note to Mods - Can I be taken OFF Mod review now please?

 

Bolton Nuts has been in existence for 5 years, has over a third of a million posts and stands on its own two feet.

 

Nuts was never set up to rival this or any other BWFC forum and regularly links to other sites (WandersWays often being one of them).

 

We don't make any money what so ever out of running the site and we even provide a free live match radio link during the games so that Bolton fans outside of Tower FM and Radio Manchester's local coverage area can hear the games nationally (or even internationally - we have regular listeners from America for instance).  This service is used by a number of WandersWays regulars as well as our own 'Nuts' regulars and many who simply just use the service and who we never see again from one match commentary until the next!

 

All posters on Nuts are aware of your existence (we never hide it from them) and the majority of posters on here have heard of Nuts by now - indeed many have even registered as members over the years!

 

So how about working together from now on for the benefit of the true supporters of the club against muppets such as those in charge of the Supporters Trust by adding our voices together rather than putting barriers between ourselves and seemingly not trusting me still after 5 years by continuing this moderator review I am still on.

 

Finally thank you for putting up the link to Bolton Nuts in my earlier post.

 

For the record since you have, we have not had any new members, nor did we expect any!

 

We are not a threat to WanderersWays (nor The Wanderer forum either) nor have we ever been.

 

We just cater for different tastes and senses of humour of fellow Wanderers fans, that's all.

 

Kindest regards

 

Ian.

[Kane57]

Ian Bridge ?

Went to school with one.

Wonder if its the same ?

It's a 50/50 chance I suppose.

[Matt Lofthouse]

Maybe a bridge too far.

Great film????????

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Whilst none (or few) of us are happy with their performance, I wouldn't want to go near the role of committee member.

It would be virtually impossible to get consensus amongst all fans as to what to do, so I choose not to get too worked up by their actions.

It will get sorted one way or another.

[Carlos]

You mean this Ian Bridge!

 

http://forum.boltonnuts.co.uk/t15637-supporters-trust-keeping-low-profile-about-taking-people-s-10-s-for-renewed-membership#334720

 

 

That's a great read.

 

What could possibly go wrong with him and Honest Supa John?

[Sluffy]

Count us in

 

Bolton Nuts also!

 

In fact we've offered publically and privately a number of times over their existence for them to use Nuts as a public forum for them to interact with ALL Wanderers fans both those who are members of the ST and the vast majority who are not.

 

The offers were made in good faith with no strings in anyway attached.

 

We would even have opened a separate part of our forum and given them mods rights over it, so they did not have to fear that they were being 'set up' in any way.

 

The only remark we ever got was when one of the Board Members replied to a personal message I sent to him which was this -

 

"We have publically offered many times on the forum its use as a platform for the ST to interact with ALL the fans of the club and not just those who are pro the ST no matter what. At the end of the day we are all Wanderers fans and want the best for the club even though we all may have different ideas of what that is. Open public debate on such issues can only be better for all of us rather than simply believing that our stance and the way we think is a panacea for all that is wrong at Bolton.

 

United we stand divided we fall as they say!

 

You or any other Board Member of the ST would be very welcome as a poster on Nuts, either contributing directly under your own name or as a nom de plume to take part generally across the forum and to lead debate on ST topics. We hold out the hand of friendship to you. We hope you would wish to take it".

 

His reply was this -

 

"Thanks for the note. It is appreciated. I'll give it some thought. It's usually more a matter of time available. I recognise the concept of a Supporters Trust is not everyone's cup of tea".

 

That was several months ago now!

 

 

 

I find it absolutely incredible that a body who continues to claim they represents the supporters voice simply haven't wished to engage in any way with us the fans they claim to be the voice of except by means they are generally in control of, namely the public meetings which they chaired or media interviews where they could agree in advance what areas they would be prepared to talk about and those they would not.

 

What have they to fear?  Why don't they want to talk and listen to us?

 

The offer to use Nuts as a public platform for the ST to interact with the fans, is still there for them to take up - I'm sure WandersWays would only be to pleased to offer the same facility here if they preferred.

 

I know the ST Board reads Nuts, I know at least one of them is a member, so they are fully aware of these many offers to them that have made.

 

I don't doubt the ST read this forum also (Marc Iles too I believe), so there can be no doubt that we would love to hear and understand from them what they are doing in getting our voice heard at the club because this poll shows all but 100% dissatisfaction with them so far.

 

The offer stands - are they going to ignore it once more?

 

All you have to do is post something on this thread (or the one over at Nuts) and we will happily set something up.

 

We look forward to hearing from you.

[Happy Wanderer]

When the ST formed I created a separate forum for all ST related posts but it soon became apparent that threads on topics were very limited and pretty much died on its arse with lack of posts. Basically there was nothing to talk about but the formation which in truth was very disappointing.

 

If there was another opened it would be a Q&A style forum for airing transparency, which of course is what we all want.

[anewman]

What do the trust actually do besides take money from gullible fans?

[Traf]

What do the trust actually do besides take money from gullible fans?

 

Stir shit up about the club. Thought you'd be a fan

[Mounts Kipper]

What do the trust actually do besides take money from gullible fans?

The trust is free to join.

[waffer cup 07]

Now it is, it wasn't at it's setting up. that must tell you something.

[Sluffy]

The trust is free to join.

 

It's not.

 

You STILL need to pay for membership although they have since said RENEWAL fees had been waived.

 

Then they went ahead and debited a further £10 from people's accounts anyway!

[Sweep]

Have they ever said how many people originally paid the £10? - and what the money was used for?

 

I'm sure it was used properly, but presumably as they're all about transparency, then they will have published a report for the ST members, in order to avoid any doubt or suspicions.

[MickyD]

Have they ever said how many people originally paid the £10? - and what the money was used for?

 

I'm sure it was used properly, but presumably as they're all about transparency, then they will have published a report for the ST members, in order to avoid any doubt or suspicions.

 

I'd love to know the ratio of "Expressions of interest" for the £10 membership against actual payments made.

[Sweep]

I'd love to know the ratio of "Expressions of interest" for the £10 membership against actual payments made.

 

I suspect it's not great, I'd be very surprised if more than a couple of hundred people actually parted with their tenners. I presume the information is out there somewhere.......

[Mounts Kipper]

It's not.

 

You STILL need to pay for membership although they have since said RENEWAL fees had been waived.

 

Then they went ahead and debited a further £10 from people's accounts anyway!

The trust emailed members to say that it was free to renew and to cancel DD many folk me including me chose to pay the tenner. Quick question folk who are anti the trust is there any way that it might be possible to be pro trust? What would they need to do? Or has that horse bolted forever. If it's the latter why not just let those who feel a trust is required get on with supporting it.

[Casino]

The trust emailed members to say that it was free to renew and to cancel DD many folk me including me chose to pay the tenner. Quick question folk who are anti the trust is there any way that it might be possible to be pro trust? What would they need to do? Or has that horse bolted forever. If it's the latter why not just let those who feel a trust is required get on with supporting it.

 

 

my reason?

 

the continual sniping at anderson

[Carlos]

If it's the latter why not just let those who feel a trust is required get on with supporting it.

Sorry but when they are a legal entity entitled to buy the club in the event of administration, or whatever, rather than a supporter's assoc. then this is not happening.

[MickyD]

The trust emailed members to say that it was free to renew and to cancel DD many folk me including me chose to pay the tenner. Quick question folk who are anti the trust is there any way that it might be possible to be pro trust? What would they need to do? Or has that horse bolted forever. If it's the latter why not just let those who feel a trust is required get on with supporting it.

 

If you disagree with something do you just let the perpetrator carry on doing the thing that pisses you off or do you say something loud enough to be noticed?

[Carlos]

Maybe they should let Ken get on with running the club?