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I can understand your caution, Dave. Having said that, I don't mind stating that I am unimpressed as a TUFC fan, with Colin Lee. I am a big fan of Paul Buckle, though.

Yes, he does have a Nick-Nack of courting controversy. I'll get me coat. Something to chew over after the TUST meeting tomorrow, eh?

People are bound to talk, Dave. Less so about Mr Rowe and more so about Mr Lee, I would advocate.

You also need to think about the damage and impact this will have on our club and how it will effect our season, all the matters are known to all those at the club and matters were being dealt with, that is why this it is best we do not get involved.

I have been asked to put this onto this thread:

Dave,

I realise just how serious this situation is and can assure you that i've been aware of these facts for a long time. I would never take one persons word without making damned sure he was correct.
On this occasion I already knew all of what Sean had told me as i'm sure he will be happy to verify. The fact of the matter is, it's an embarrassing situation for the whole Club when a man who has put in £45,000 is then treated in such a fashion by an official of the Club.
It just so happens that after being told by Sean what had happened today I decided enough was enough and people should be made aware of what I knew, not what I presumed or thought. What I have posted is factual and I stand by it.
I should also correct an assumption made by you. There are no current lega matters to be resolved regarding this, fact.

Hope you're well,

Regards,

Dave (Southampton Gull)

Please refer to my post early this morning on the "Buckle & Oxford" thread and in particular the piece about the "embittered individual".......................

Now he has ingratiated himself into this unsavoury personal dispute between an employee of the club and the sponsor to such a degree that he is suddenly seen to be "fighting the corner" of the sponsor with whom he was previously at logger heads with, and couldn't wait to publicly denigrate as a person and a businessman.

One has to ask the question: "why?"

Why does he open a thread entitled "Colin Lee bans sponsor" yet only states that "Colin Lee doesn't want him (Sean Melhuish) at the game"?

There's a difference between banning and not wanting, and as I read Southampton Gull's diatribe revealing his information over a personal dispute between two individuals (a dispute that the details of have been known to a number of people (including myself) on this forum for some time - a dispute that we have sensibly to a man, kept the precise details of to ourselves) that has impinged on the smooth running of the Football Club, and it is alleged is making life unpleasant and difficult for Paul Buckle possibly at a time when the club stands on the threshold of being delivered from years in the doldrums.

One has to ask the question why does Southampton Gull feel it is his remit to tell the Chairman how to run the club?

Why does he feel he is qualified to demand the resignation of the Chairman?

Why does he feel it is his remit to demand the sacking of the Chief Executive?

Why such an energetic campaign to break up a chain of command at the head of OUR club?

OUR club that has endured years of minimising of it's effectiveness as a professional football entity?

OUR club that almost went out of existence?

OUR club that has been re-vitalised by Alex Rowe's board and it's excellent manager in Paul Buckle and it's formidable squad of players on the eve of a vital game in the promotion campaign?

Is it because the protagonist on .net spends such an inordinate amount of time on the Exeter City boards?

Is it because that protagonist was effectively told"where to go" by the Chief Executive last season.

Is it because the Chief Executive went on the .net site and suggested they "shut up" over a subject that was inviting all sorts of scandalous comment?

Southampton Gull is certainly no honest broker when it comes to making sure HE gets his full penneth worth of publicity in a dispute of which he is of no concern.

I would suggest it is that he has discovered his distaste for Colin Lee is greater than his distaste for Paul Buckle and now apparently his distaste for Sean Melhuish.

It's a wonderful opportunity to put himself in the centre of a dispute of which he has no part. A wonderful opportunity to put his fading .net star back in the night sky.

It matters not that this is when the team is deep in preparation on the eve of one of the most vital games on our history.

Oh no, let's all be aware that Southampton Gull is back as the centre of attention, as the very icon of just what a modern day "fan" is. Just as long as all that is put in the public domain and to hell with the greater good of OUR football club!