Are you all pleased with yourselves ?............ So - you think that Scally is gone !
I am happy that Scally is no longer on the Board - and that (( as I understand )), he no longer receives 'consultancy' fees - BUT -
with his 30% share he will still receive dividends - and benefit from any increase in the value of GFC........ and, as I will sit in my Gordon Road Stand seat, I will look across to the 'splendid' Main Stand and think to myself , that with his 30% shareholding, Scally owns that ! (basically)
Ok I'll tell you where I am at with this...
As you all know I've never been a Scally Out supporter, in fact I use to try and defend his ways...but over the years what I saw, whether accurate or not, was him continually stirring sections of the fans up. Now let's get something straight before I go any further...it's not right to abuse him or his family, it's never been right nor to send malicious messages to him, nor do any criminal damage at the club, no matter how minor. However, PS way of responding to social media in my eyes, was that of a dinosaur...I'm a dinosaur so that allows me to call him one, because he's older than me. I've said countless times, get yourself a PA or an advisor that knows how to handle social media, and more importantly any trolls. Btw I think Brad and Shannon handle it superbly, a lesson in how it should be handled, you can't please all the people all the time, but at the very least know when to shut up, and when to drop a subject....something I felt our previous chairman struggled to deal with many a time, and often left me with my head in my hands muttering please shut the &^*£ up. It's advice it's guidance from me nowt more.
Now when the new owners bought the club, to which I was delighted and very much still am - I was somewhat surprised to see a certain person still held a stake in the club. Now as much as I can understand all the reasons behind that, and although I accepted it, it didn't sit comfortably with me, simply because it said to me, trouble ahead, we all know what he's like....and here we are. I was even more shocked to read in that recent article it was as much as
30% YOU WHAT...30% - now we have a problem. My hope when we kept him on is that he would be a sleeping partner....how foolish of me, he don't know how to sleep, it's who he is. So now we got to go through the lawyers. So yes
@alwaysright he owns the equivalent of the Medway Stand, that you get to look at, week in, week out...somehow that's kind of funny lol when actually it's not.....So sorry, brb will stop laughing. Oh well that's life, if that is how the deal was done we are going to have to suck it up and blow bubbles like a little kid on the naughty step....or these lawyers will all have to come to some sort of agreement that Mr Scally goes to sleep, goes away, but will be rewarded with the terms of the sale as agreed, but only IF he abides by the conditions. He's earned himself a lifetime wage, am I happy with that, no, but after 30 years we have to face fact you can't always have what you might like.
Am I glad he's no longer a director, you bet I am, as I said I think the new owners are brilliant and have invested well in the club I love....ask me the same question in another 30 years, although unless by some sort of miracle I start knocking a hundred I'll never know....one Scallywag in a lifetime is enough....thank god!