It just gets better....

This is the text of an email from the Newcastle United Supporters Trust which I have just received.
Beggars belief.




Fans not welcome at Fans Forum

As the only elected body representing fans, the board of Newcastle United Supporters Trust (NUST) welcomed the invitation to take up a permanent position on the Fans Forum organised by Newcastle United.

The Trust looked forward to the chance to interact with club officials on behalf of our members, with the opportunity to ask pertinent questions and report back to the membership afterwards.

The inaugural meeting of the Forum took place in September and little were we to suspect that the NUST permanent position would last only one night.

The Trust made clear that we reserved the right to report back to our members as to what went on at the Fans Forum, the club confirming via their Fans Liaison Officer that they accepted this.

Questions were duly asked (many supplied by our members following an online survey) at the Forum by the NUST representative, Peter Fanning, and a lively meeting produced many interesting topics of discussion.

Two days later, NUST published Peter Fanning's overview of the meeting and it attracted a lot of publicity, due mainly to the nature of the topics covered but also the fact the Newcastle United minutes didn't appear until 24 hours after they'd been advertised to be released.

When the club minutes did belatedly appear, nothing of substance that had been reported by NUST was contradicted in Newcastle United's official feedback.

However, the spirit of openness has dramatically ended and NUST have been informed by Newcastle United that their 'permanent' place at the Fans Forum has now been withdrawn, the only democratically elected organisation open to the whole of the NUFC fanbase, barred from attending the next meeting in December and all subsequent Fan Forums.

So, in the same week that the Trust organised a successful conference on fan engagement at Newcastle University Business School, covered by the BBC and attended by delegates from all over the country, the club have barred the local press and the only elected fans' body from interacting with Newcastle United.

At the same time at a national level, the Government's Culture Media and Sports Select Committee have recommended that football clubs develop meaningful and structured relationships with supporters.

They say the first casualty of war is the truth. The fans and local media don't want to be at war with our football club, we just want a well run Newcastle United that values all of its supporters and the integral part NUFC plays at the heart of the local community.

 

They say the first casualty of war is the truth. The fans and local media don't want to be at war with our football club, we just want a well run Newcastle United that values all of its supporters and the integral part NUFC plays at the heart of the local community.
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Would there be a football club without the fans?

 

You got it in a nutshell AB.

Time for fat mike to remember a great man's words:

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Great words from a great man, if only we could have his likes here again.

 

It's not happen in our lifetime. Glad to have the memories though.

 

Bit strong to say that, but certainly not under the current regime, the worrying thing is if Pardew the puppet left then Ashley would just appoint another puppet whether it be Kinnear or someone else.

 

I honestly can't see a Geordie manager of his stature being in charge of our club.

 

No because a Geordie manager would stand up to him and tell him the truth, the same way as Sir Bobby apparently did after games during the 08/09 season (according to Llambias).

 

While it is nigh on impossible to comprehend this action, it's not really that surprising.

The current regime are not interested in listening to the fans and to pretend otherwise would simply be false.

The club currently do just enough to keep things 'smoothed over' but anyone looking closely will realise there is little or no substance to their 'interaction' with the paying public.

 

Lol. I think Fat Mike has spat his dummy out! Obviously all the **** is getting to him! Keep up the good work! We'll run the fat ****a out of town sooner or later!

 

I seem to remember suggesting that he simply paid lip service first time round

 

Let's hope so, we'll go down again eventually while he is here, especially if our single aim is to just survive each year, the other night as well as the players played IMO was just depressing to think we could still lose to Man City 2nd XI 2-0 at home.

 

Everything you say there is true. We will be relegated again sooner or later. Also, not only can we not compete against the top teams, we can not even compete with there 2nd string.

 

That's the sad truth, not looking forward to tomorrow we will lose 2-0.