My interview with representatives of #watfordfc Supporters Trust can be heard here. (from 37 mins 30 secs) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00lrksv/Midday_30_11_2011/ I would like to see the trust show some more teeth and not be like the old yes men of old ! Maybe some of us should join , what are your opinions of the trust and how it should move forward?
Just checked the link and it works , try taking the mute off H or is it because you keep watering the computer
RookeryJon From The Rookery End @ @jonmarks72 Do you have a contact for the supporters trust?? Their remarks in your interview as very very similar to our latest podcast!
Come and join us. Let us have 5,000 fans in the ranks. Well it would help if they appeared from time to time and told us how. Have they considered a recruitment program, as a short piece on 3CR in the middle of the day is not likely to have much of an impact? They say that they will have a voice on the new committee, but only to discuss the price of pies and things about the ground I suspect. If they do become privy to sensitive information they will be faced with having to make a choice, tell the fans or retain their place on the committee. The two spokesmen were asked some fairly pointed questions, yet tip toed around them. No face to face meeting, just another phone call from Baz. Unless they can show that the fans voice will be heard by getting some answers to the questions swirling around, then I am afraid it will continue as a fairly anonymous organization, which is a shame.
Better representation from the rookery end methinks OFH have you listened to the latest podcast out this evening!
While acknowledging that I have met Graham Sterry through something completely unrelated to football and found him to be a pleasant man, I have no faith at all in the WST. We have been through years which seemed as bleak as or bleaker than this off the pitch, and where were they then? The dilution in Watford Leisure share values didn't happen overnight, but what were they doing about it for the best part of the previous decade? It's my belief that the only reason they're piping up now is that the Bassini takeover marks the first time in a long time that someone has decided not to tickle their bellies.
I think that Graham Sterry has just given up his role in the trust NNW. Maybe they just need to look at what they haven't done, and set out on a completely different course.
But the timing of it makes it simply too little, too late. If in six months, a year or even two years they stop piping up about this owner or the next, on what basis can we be confident that everything is hunky dory? I don't think the problem was Graham Sterry, but the nature of the organisation. To my knowledge, the fans' forum was literally the first time that the WST has ever said anything distinct from what either the club or the Wobby was saying (and IIRC those words came from Sterry). If asking to be engaged with doesn't work, the WST should use its position to financially compel the club to do so. If fans were to go through with a boycott the catering, or the Red Lion, or programmes, or a cup game, or delayed purchasing next season's shirt, the club would have absolutely no option but to get around the table. It would be a mark of how disgustingly fans are being treated if it took all of that simply to get acknowledgement. And the irony is that I don't think a supporter's trust should resort to such extreme measures, but that the WST has been so moderate for so long that this is how far I believe it will need to go to restore its credibility among fans and the club alike.
