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Post by merse on Jul 7, 2008 3:20:02 GMT
 If you click on BBCSport, select football and then Championship for the Carlisle United story, there is a salutary tale and example of just how a supporters' trust trust can act to protect an asset of the club. I won't comment on it for now, but leave you to do your own research and see if anyone can draw any comparisons (however tenuous) with the dilemma WE found ourselves in not so long ago.
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Post by Dave on Jul 7, 2008 20:04:11 GMT
Merse can you post a link, I'm not S. Holmes,don't think even he could find that story ;D ;D
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Post by jimd on Jul 7, 2008 20:10:05 GMT
If you click on BBCSport, select football and then [glow=yellow,2,300]Championship[/glow] for the Carlisle United story, there is a salutary tale and example of just how a supporters' trust trust can act to protect an asset of the club. I won't comment on it for now, but leave you to do your own research and see if anyone can draw any comparisons (however tenuous) with the dilemma WE found ourselves in not so long ago. Pay attention to detail merse...Carlisle are in League One!!!! ;D and the link is news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/carlisle_united/7491405.stm |
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Post by merse on Jul 8, 2008 3:05:45 GMT
I'll blame the time of day!................. 
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Post by Dave on Jul 10, 2008 16:53:26 GMT
Still waiting for you to make you point on this thread Merse, before it drops of the page  |
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Post by merse on Jul 10, 2008 17:25:38 GMT
Still waiting for you to make you point on this thread Merse, before it drops of the page The point I am making is the importance of having a trust up and running even in times of so called "success" rather than just in times of crisis. Just as when the trust was first mooted at our club, the average Carlisle fan is probably complacent that the bad old days of Michael Knighton, non league football and being made homeless by flooding are behind them. Complacency however, can only lead to being bitten on the bum when least expected. Carlisle' "return from the dead" is truly remarkable, so to find that a perceived benefactor and previous owner is after some of their freehold must be truly shocking. |
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Post by Dave on Jul 10, 2008 17:33:29 GMT
Sorry but maybe I did not read the story correctly, it seems to me the land was part of the sale and approved by the board, why would he not want to have the deal honored. The right and wrongs of, should the land have been part of the deal do not really count do they?
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If you click on BBCSport, select football and then Championship for the Carlisle United story, there is a salutary tale and example of just how a supporters' trust trust can act to protect an asset of the club.
