A recording of the recent Lorimer's Bar event has appeared on YouTube. A selection of my 'favourite' quotes from our former legend: And here's the glorious Q&A session: [video=youtube;blsvoP-0L1w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blsvoP-0L1w[/video]
BF: Now I know you wanted to touch on LUST. We’ve heard a lot from LUST over the last few weeks and months. What is your thoughts on the impact they are having and the way they are going about their business? KB: Well first of all, they’re not having any impact at all other than in their own minds. The way they are behaving is the most peculiar because they make no impression on the club at all. The only bad impression they are making is a bad one and unfortunately that’s externally from would-be sponsors and maybe investors because they say “who would want to get involved in a mob like that?”. But the fact of the matter is very short, I thought Martin Samuels put it very well in his Daily Mail column. He pointed out… what do they do? They make these open statements to the world and promptly send them to all newspapers and most of them have a laugh and spike them. But Martin Samuels took their claims and analysed them and according to them, with no justification or substantiation, 120 people voted for a march and 80 per cent didn’t. Well so what. We had observers at the last march and it was mostly kids. When they were asked what they were marching for and what they were there for, they said they were there for a laugh. It just about sums it up. Doesn’t make any impression on the management of the club does it? It doesn’t make an impression on the directors of the club. They just make themselves a nuisance. We’re getting to the state now where we’re getting an eight-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy having written to me saying take no notice of the rudeness. That’s all it is, rudeness. And of course they can hand it out but they can’t take it because all the chanting rude things about me, when I called them morons they were most upset… “how dare he?” … well if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen. They have nothing to offer. They make no contribution and they are just a very small bunch of self-appointed, self-important people, who are an irritant to the overwhelming majority of the Leeds fans who want to get on with supporting their club. And it’s very interesting and as you know there are lots of discussions going on at, if you like, government level with he football authorities in the proposed changes in the football governance of the game. They would like to see more supporter involvement. But if we’re going to have governance of football, it includes governance of supporters groups who should be properly regulated, properly supervised and have to be properly and responsibly reported. And at the moment, they’re not, they’re just a bunch of hooray-henrys. No impression, gives the club a bad name, and all that happens is that if the away clubs, when we play them fear that there is going to be demonstrations or shouting and balling, they just cut our ticket allocations. So it’s another way in which the good fans suffer for the idiocy of the few. I should mention, the chairman, a Mr Gary Cooper – I understand he’s an IT technician so he’s never known how to run a business and make a profit and be accountable. Another thing, he didn’t come to a game last season, he bought a season ticket this year and stated he’s not going to renew next year so who does he think he is? Who does he think he represents? Who does he think he speaks for? Nobody except himself. And another member of the board, their so-called board, lives in America and according to our computer records in his own name, he’s only come to two games in the past six years and they were both play-off semi-finals. So there’s loyal supporters for you. Yeah! Forget LUST. Most people are doing that anyway.
So bates remains, but what about lorimer and Harvey? As for lust, they are still here and should be applauded for having made all this change possible
Making what happen exactly? Absorbalot was sounding ever so desperate when others were quite rightly pointing out how LUST should now die quietly and how the mouthpiece represented only a dwindling deluded miinority on the yep site yesterday. In fact at one poinnt he seemed to be offering his critics outside for a chat. LUST had nothing to do with the GFH takeover and only made the outcome more protracted with their rumour mongering. The next LUFC chairman has already told you this. Hopefully Bates is not the only chairman that will be leaving shortly.
Well done LUST, you brought the originals to the table and we have ended up, one year after their vision statement, with new owners. Three cheers for LUST, hip, hip....
Well touching on LUST they did say time and time again that once the deal had been struck they would release PROOF of what they knew and what their involvement was?
And they may have changed their mind as they know that is not the best way to develop the new relationship It is something you are allowed to do if it is the right thing to do
