Completely agree. The Trust could have had a very valuable role to play, but it has now successfully turned itself into 'the enemy' as far as the owner and board are concerned, and it is not going to be given the time of day. First the Woolwich meeting, giving Rick Everitt, Steve Dixon et al a platform to attack the owner and his CEO (and both Rick and Steve spoke very convincingly, I hasten to add ); now an interview to give an ex-employee and the manager of tomorrow's opponents a platform to lambast the way the owner runs the club on the very day of a crucial match. Duchtalet and Meire will today be saying , "with friends like that, who needs enemies?" - and I don't blame them. The Trust are now perceived as being outside the tent pissing in and have ensured that they will never be invited inside the tent. The analogies between CAST and the Valley Party are way wide of the mark because the VP was politically savvy and astutue. This time around the politics are naive and self-defeating. All of this agit-prop stuff would have been much better coming from a seperate grouping like the G21, so that the Trust could concentrate on wortking for change from the inside. The G21 were accused of trying to undermine the Trust. Actually, they were trying to protect it by not compromising its chances of creating a dialogue with the club.
It's much simpler than that. Small time nobodies looking for big time recognition without entitlement. When will people wise up? It's not about who runs CAFC it's about what these dickheads can get out of CAFC
Who cares about CAST, Football for a fiver, G21, Fake sex, or whether we win? All I want is to see SCP doing just one more tunnel jump, just one. And I don't mean all this mamby-pamby walking out and clapping, I mean the full monty, running out full pelt and leaping high in the air, fist raised. I'm telling you, I'm not leaving the Valley on Saturday until he does.
