I can assure you that in no way does The Supporters Trust undermine Squadbuilder. Squadbuilders aims are still to help fund purchase and retention of junior players as witnessed by the recent junior signings including talented half back Liam Kay. The Trust and Squadbuilder monies will be kept in completely seperate accounts. The 3 committee members of Squadbuilder of myself, Phil Townend and Philip Hulme have all been instrumental in the formation of the Trust and see it as a communication vehicle between fans and the club as well as abody that safeguards the future of the club for the fans. hope that helps

think you are missing my point, its not about people like you and phil who give so much time and effort to every aspect of the club, and please dont take me as being disrespectful of that because im not, its about the average supporter having a focus for their time, and yes money, and having three or four groups to chose from.

as for a communication vehicle, think committees are a bit out of date on that front frankly the best vehicle for last 5 years has been on here, like it or not, its live its real and it has a daily input, in the information age there may be 100 people at a meeting and 150 waiting for the results of it to be posred on here.

sorry I think I did miss your point. The committee/ communication is vital as then fans may find out such things that the ground has been sold when it is sold not 3 years after and to the person that sold it and we maybe able to prevent such things happening again !

no worries!
for what its worth i think there is only one question pertinent to the future of WTRLFC and it is as follows;

The administration document showed a debt owing of 1.9 million pounds, what were the dates of incurance those debts, and to what extent did the business plan during the period of those debts ignore them, and secondary to this if the period is less than 4 years, what plans are in place to establish and maintain a top level rl team and achieve a revenue increase of 500k per annum so as to break even?

its sort of fundemantal.........

The thing is that it could take 6 or 12 month to form the Army (could also take a lot less). If it does hit the fan again we more than likely won't have that kind of time to form one. What you need to do is think of it as less of an Army but more a Reserve. Bit like the home guard with Sandal cat as Captain Mannering (sorry Ian) for the time being.

Hope this doesn't make me Pike

SC as mainwaring i like, although ive never thown beer over arthur lowe!

Im like sgt wilson.......do you think thats wise???

Never been referred to as Captain Mainwaring before



As has been said the current Board/Steering Group are just caretakers until the AGM when the new Board will be formed. As that's only 3 months away there is little point us laying down cast iron strategies - that will be for the new Board to determine. Some of the Steering Group will probably stand for election and some of us will stand down. The Trust is a truely democratic organisation and its Members will determine the Board and therefore its Policies provided they are in accordance with the Trust Rules.

Between now and the AGM I would dearly love to bring the Supporters Club and WiSCA together within the Trust. I do not know all the Politics involved and don't really want to, all I want to see is the Trust representing the Supporters of this Club and the SC and WiSCA within it.

We need the membership of the Trust to be truly reperesentitive and therefore we need as many members as possible. If you have not joined the Trust can I please urge you to give it serious consideration and join. The bigger we are the louder our voice and the more we are heard.

I don't see the issue with any group saying they support the general ideals as is now, but with them wanting to know more longer term at an open AGM before committing fully and have specific hopes for influencing them. There has been about four months since the initial ST meeting to state their place, either they support the ST ideals or they could state publically what they stand for or where they are. I apologise if I have missed an announcement. I don't know who they are, what different groups stand for etc.. If its former regime related, well they aren't here - it should be club related.

The problem I have is that duplication is unnecessary. Duplication is unnecessary, see it really is!

Idealistically, and I know life is different, I would hope that the ST would be able to support/represent the different groups, the Squadbuilder group, the Disabled Supporters group, the Transport to away games group, and any other groups that are 'single issue'. It would be a good way of keeping a uniform approach to publicising each of the groups through an umbrella organisation (ST) that would be able to put any issues to the Club through the ST. And also each group would be able to publicise its aims and hopes so it reaches a wider audience than currently does. They may actually be able to increase their effectiveness by doing so.

Just a slight correction to that statement so that the record doesn't get muddled, The Trust was conceived of and was being implemented for a number of months BEFORE the proverbial hit the fan!

The events of late 2010 lead to an early unveiling of the Trusts potential formation.