THRILLHO wrote:
Ok I have 2 points to make!
1) this whole fan board doesn’t sit right with me, I don’t think it’s for the purpose of being a link between fans and the club it’s possibly just another mouthpiece for the club so they seem to be doing something! I don’t think we will get any more change than we have now with the implementation of this new fans board. And, the biggest thing for me is who is even gonna be on this board? It won’t be Colin b, it won’t be Franco v, it won’t be Ollie c and for me there aren’t 3 people any more qualified applying any more effort than them to I still change. All 3 are representing a supporters association that have really pushed for positive change and done so with the utmost professionalism. No one has represented the fans better than them so if they aren’t on the board I question what is the point. For the most part, myself included, fans are hotheaded idiots. I suspect their will be very few if any suitable candidates outside those that represent the mkdsa and dons action who I suspect will not give up their independent organisations to be part of an official, restrictive club group! So what is the point and what idiot at the club, I already know, thinks going over the heads of the very successful mkdsa and dons action was a good idea? Maybe the club should actually be liasing with the 2 fan groups we already have in those and implementing all of the changes they’ve been campaigning for since their incarnation.
I saw this last night, and hoped someone else would have come on and pointed this as I’ve done so several times now, but but the “implementation of this new fans board” is not the clubs doing. It was a strong recommendation in Tracy Crouch’s white paper government review that fan boards should be set up at every club combing membership from right across the supporter base. The club is merely following that advice. Most clubs have more than one supporters association (all with differing membership and policies) and this white paper addressed that issue by saying it needed to be an independent body with membership open to all. Let’s not forget here that the MKDSA and Dons Action (which you can’t actually join) aren’t ALL supporters. It was recommended they sit with officials from the club.
Yes, the club didn’t read it properly and thought they needed to chair it and appoint the members themselves, but that got resolved after a straightener from Colin and Ollie