The future of TUST

Brilliant analogy by Jon, as usual. I haven't bothered to read the crap that follows, and that is the honest truth following my previous pledge.

A question for those who understand these technological things. How is our deluded friend able to post something without appearing in the list of people who have visited the site during the past 24 hours?

High noon for TUST ? It’s biggest and most crucial battle looming ? Will we see it fade like a glossy brochure left in the sun? Or could this long hot Summer lead to a ‘TUST Spring’ ? Let’s examine the evidence.

Chatting on the phone last evening, with another keen TUFC and TUST watcher, he put forward the idea that we could be about to witness, on a much smaller scale, the equivalent of the Brexit situation. That is, a good number of the little people (but with no power) indicating they want one thing, but the Authorities, strongly wedded to something else, determined to push through their own agenda.

Now in some ways there could be an element of poetic justice if that were to happen, as in many cases it’s those most in favour of having the People’s decision on E.U membership ignored, who are now most loudly claiming that Business interests and local political manoeuvrings are taking scant regard of the voice of the supporters

It’s not a viewpoint I personally agree with though. For one thing, Riviera Macron is always very quick, and perhaps too quick, to muscle in and add his two penneth, to what is exclusively a decision for local politicians. The coffers might be empty, but even getting the current local bunch of councillors to relinquish their grip on money draining white elephants such as Oldway, is nigh impossible. Rather it crumble to a state of disrepair and eventually get demolished, that allow private investment to try making a go of the old place.

It’s clear that Torbay isn’t blessed with politicians who have a natural inclination towards smoothing the way for private enterprise. And nor can Mayor Oliver single-handedly remove all the obstacles that have been, or are yet to be invented. Surely the Osborne Arena would mean there’d have to be a hard border in Ireland ?...it must be stopped !!!!

And so onto the Mayor’s presentation at the Riviera Centre tonight. When a body such as the Council takes, or considers taking measures that will affect TUFC supporters, TUST seem to be willing to be on the case straight away, even calling their members along for a show of strength. Yet when it’s the Left Wing BBC (Biased Broadcasting Corporation) taking a decision that clearly adversely affected TUFC supporters, there somehow seems to have been a marked reluctance to speak up, or tackle the BBC in any way. Now I of course, speak as an outsider, and just because I’m unaware of TUST lifting a finger to challenge the BBC and to fight the corner for old or disabled supporters, who can’t get to matches, it desn’t mean that they might not be quietly in dialogue with the BBC giving it everything to get this decision overturned. But why not publicise such work if it’s happening ? If I were a TUST member living up country, I’d be spitting feathers at the way my representatives appear to have silently accepted the sudden halting of the provision of commentary.


MILITANTS DISRUPT MAYOR'S PRESENTATION AT RIVIERA CENTRE




But back to stadium concerns. For the moment, TUST knows they dare not lose. For the level that fans want TUFC to be playing at, keeping the club at the economically unviable Plainmoor is a total must for TUST.

It virtually guarantees losses, to the extent that the Philip’s consortium scraped some money together to keep the club hanging on for a year or two more. After that a ‘buyer’ could only be found on the basis that the business could be moved away from Plainmoor and it’s fortunes turned around. Stop that happening, consign the club to Plainmoor, and you’ll have killed off any further chances of interest being shown……………...except for a certain group, waiting with arms stretched wide for the club to fall into their hands by default. The very ones currently working so hard to retain the conditions that would guarantee the club is viewed as a financial basket case, know it’s the only way they can hope to get TUFC under their control.

As things stand at the moment, it could be that a compromise will eventually be reached. When push comes to shove, I don’t think Riviera Macron or the Councillors would have the nerve to halt, and therefore deny the population of South Devon from enjoying the wonderful sporting and leisure facilities that are now on the table, in order to let a small group of radicals play Venezuela politics with the local football club.

To admit that they are too hopeless to devise some adequate safeguards, and so it all comes to nothing would be a terrible and damning admission…..and that would almost be the bigger story that what our little group of Chavez’s managed to do to TUFC within 6 months of their ‘ownership’. So will it come down to a fudged compromise? The new Arena, new stadium, hotel, etc etc are allowed to be built……. but on condition that enough sops are provided to our Socialist friends? Starting off with naming rights. At an absolute bargain price, for it’s first five years, why not call it the ‘Moderate Trust Community Stadium’? The main thoroughfare leading to it, being ‘Fairtrade Way’. Once inside, you have the choice of taking a seat in the ‘Inclusivity & Diversity Stand’, or watching the match from the ‘Social Justice Popside’.

Reaching out to TUST, and showing that they’re still wanted and welcome in our new home, really isn’t too much to ask. And these are the sorts of gestures I’m certain they’d appreciate.The ‘Supporters Direct Overflow Car Park’ perhaps?, the possibilities are endless, and the motto ‘No TUST member left behind’ should be a central tenet of our move to a new home.

Working together, and putting extremist political dogma aside, can make this project a success and, most importantly, be in the best interests of the club.



TUST MILITANTS MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE RIVIERA CENTRE. (It will be important to find ways to help them feel included when we move to our new home)

AJ tries to twist this into being an argument between those who want a brand new revenue-generating stadium and those who don’t.

It isn’t. It is an argument between those who understand Clarke Osborne’s modus operandi and those who don’t.

And then there is AJ who understands Clarke Osborne’s modus operandi but is supportive of it. What the motive is behind that I could only guess.

For the record AJ, the issue of future coverage of TUFC matches on the radio has been taken up by TUST, and we understand the club will be making an announcement in due course.

Good to hear, torregull. Proactive as ever, with no agenda other than the best for TUFC and it’s supporters.