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[JHRover]

The Consultation Meetings used to be recorded / broadcast on the radio so that everyone could directly hear what was said by the club. 

By comparison this nonsense over minutes is absolutely outrageous given it is the only way fans can find out about how the club is being run.

If the joke that is the EFL had any interest or backbone they would not be accepting this arrangement as being compliant with their regulations on supporter communication/consultation.

[glen9mullan]

7 minutes ago, JHRover said:

The Consultation Meetings used to be recorded / broadcast on the radio so that everyone could directly hear what was said by the club. 

By comparison this nonsense over minutes is absolutely outrageous given it is the only way fans can find out about how the club is being run.

If the joke that is the EFL had any interest or backbone they would not be accepting this arrangement as being compliant with their regulations on supporter communication/consultation.

My issue is the unprofessional outburst and aggressive nature of some of the club officials.

They went to a place where they lost total control of their emotions and lashed out stating things they now clearly regret.  

We were just a panel of supporters giving our free time.

I can't accept a retraction or minutes which state things which were never said or edits to change what was said , which in turn then make the published answer a lie and complete fabrication of the truth.

Thankfully it appears particularly supporter group leads are all of the same opinion and are also rejecting on this basis 

[JBiz]

8 hours ago, StHelensRover said:

 

I think the request that Pasha, Waggott and Gestede not attend matches was a good move, in hindsight. It was an unusual and quite petty request that the fan groups surely understood would be ignored, but it was a different angle of attack to the blanket "venkys out, sell the club".

It caught people running the club off guard a bit and it got media attention in the way that the last ten years of "venkys out, sell the club" hasn't. 

I think since then they've continued to trip themselves up when speaking on the record and showed a level of incompetence many of us expected. Every time we're able to force the leadership out in the open they continue to expose the rubbish job they've done and continue to do.

Given Waggott's speedy departure and then now coming out and threatening to ban fans, I'd say it ruffled feathers more than anything else in the last half-decade 

I don’t think it’s done anything positive personally but that’s opinions. I also need to point out, if you talked to as many rovers fans as you could, young and old - the majority wouldn’t have described that as “a good move”. 
 

I personally think losing 6 on the bounce or whatever it was, did a lot more to open us up to media criticism.

[lraC]

3 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

For the fans forum? 

I didn't like you attacked O2G for the minutes and given he has been doing that job for a long time and very well. Maybe some respect is needed here. 

Sadly, he has been allowing the club we love, to get away without being properly held to account.

I am hopeful we will see exactly this, very soon, as we have had a club friendly version of the minutes and a non club friendly version this time and given they haven’t  been challenged in the past, they have done more harm than good in my opinion. 

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, glen9mullan said:

Hahahaha absolutely gold.

 

[lraC]

1 hour ago, glen9mullan said:

My issue is the unprofessional outburst and aggressive nature of some of the club officials.

They went to a place where they lost total control of their emotions and lashed out stating things they now clearly regret.  

We were just a panel of supporters giving our free time.

I can't accept a retraction or minutes which state things which were never said or edits to change what was said , which in turn then make the published answer a lie and complete fabrication of the truth.

Thankfully it appears particularly supporter group leads are all of the same opinion and are also rejecting on this basis 

Thank goodness you are calling this out. They were once again, getting away with this and for those who were happy to let them do so, by omitting things from the minutes and adding things  that were lies, please have a serious look at yourselves.

This time, they are not getting away with it, but perhaps they have in the past and as we have just seen with my reply to one supporter, people were convinced, fans were doing a good job on these meetings, yet it appears that they were letting the club, cover some serious issues up.

[lraC]

4 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

For the fans forum? 

I didn't like you attacked O2G for the minutes and given he has been doing that job for a long time and very well. Maybe some respect is needed here. 

Well given what we have now learned from Glen Mullan, perhaps you need to show me and a few other people a bit more respect,

It appears I am correct to say, what I have, or of course, you could carry on defending, someone, who despite good intentions, may have been letting the club off the hook. 

[lraC]

11 hours ago, rigger said:

Should this not be put to the EFL for them to ask questions of the club. Maybe ask the Blackburn MP, to ask the EFL to look into it.

I guess it is now down to the people who were present at the meeting. It seems that we have two versions of the minutes. One version that the club were happy with, but several attendees weren’t and another version, that the club, have now rejected.

Perhaps the club, now need to explain, their reasons for rejecting the second version, as the fans, are still in the dark.

I haven’t seen either version, but of course the club, do have a responsibility, to meet with the fans and certain things need to be dealt with in order for them to comply with their responsibilities. It appears to me, they they are falling well short of this, but whether they are held to account or not, remains to be seen. 

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, lraC said:

Thank goodness you are calling this out. They were once again, getting away with this and for those who were happy to let them do so, by omitting things from the minutes and adding things  that were lies, please have a serious look at yourselves.

This time, they are not getting away with it, but perhaps they have in the past and as we have just seen with my reply to one supporter, people were convinced, fans were doing a good job on these meetings, yet it appears that they were letting the club, cover some serious issues up.

Maybe these meetings weren't as confrontational previously. Swag was there to just shrug his shoulders and fob people off and the heated exchanges were more with WATR.

Seems as though they've now cut off contact with the Trust and there is no more swag so the FF meetings have become the only contact between the fans and club. With the likes of Glen there they're not going to be able to get away with just fobbing folk off with nothing answers and the fact that the shadow man is a complete gutless coward that can't handle any pressure whatsoever has brought up the current situation. Official minutes that show how unprofessional and incompetent these people are will not be something the club wants to put out there.

Applying pressure on the shadow man clearly is having an effect. As I said previously, I can actually see a point in time where the club severs all contact with the fans as they simply can't handle the pressure. Even if there's a new CEO put in place, it needs to be demanded that the shadow man is in attendance as he is clearly the one running the show. 

Keep up the good work all involved 👍