No statement yet from The Trust ?
I'm confused with the last bit of last night's statement from the Allams
“We hope the threat of further disruptive action can be retracted, so we can continue the next meeting with all parties in attendance and pulling together to agree on the detail and delivery of the brand guidelines, crest redesign and concessions.”
The Supporters' Committee will reconvene later this month.
So the next meeting will go ahead irrespective of whether so called 'threats' are withdrawn ?
What happens if the Trust make a conciliatory statement but protests still occur - will the next meeting go ahead ?
I assume the Allams want to force the Trust to encourage a protest amnesty again. That would show the owner’s power over the oiks
Having been involved in many negotiations I personally think it’s time to push back
I’d suggest the following
1. Reiterate publicly that the Trust haven’t encouraged future protests, merely stated that Geoff ‘fears’ they may occur
2. Remind people that saying he ‘fears’ they may occur makes it very clear that he doesn’t want them to occur...otherwise he would have used the word ‘hope’
3. Remind people that the only people that can actually resolve the issues being discussed are the owners as this isn’t a negotiation in the sense that workplace negotiations are. There’s no ACAS it is entirely down to the owners discretion what they want to do or not
4. Point out that the meeting would have been fairly pointless anyway because Ehab had already gone in the media to state his new ‘conditions’ and because he hadn’t shared them with the Trust before the meeting they wouldn’t have had time to respond to them in detail so another meeting would have been needed anyway
5. Produce detailed responses to how concessions could be ‘policed’ whilst reminding everyone that they have already given the club the way that it could be cost neutral, but the club haven’t responded to that proposal yet (I think?)
6. Produce more detailed brand guidelines to make the use of the name prescriptive so even the most confused reader can understand them
7. Produce a consultation plan for the badge, with very clear questions that should be asked. One being ‘should the name Hull City be used on the badge’
8. Publish all the above
9. State the Trust are happy to meet when the club give them something in writing to consider in response to their proposals, but that a meeting before there is something for Trust members can consider the club’s stance would be pointless