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i am very much up for anything which will help the club. count me in.

Well done for the enthusiasm guys but if a trust with a guaranteed income from Max couldn't run the club successfully I doubt that well meaning amateurs can do it, look at the present board.

Trek wrote:

Diamondsforever wrote:
Someone please tell me who the current chair of the Trust is please and I'll make contact with him/her.

One of these may know who the elected Chairman is:-


John Souster

That's the answer to your question.

Not sure what use i could be but count me in!!

And me!

coltrane wrote:....but if a trust with a guaranteed income from Max couldn't run the club successfully I doubt that well meaning amateurs can do it....

I shouldn't imagine a reformed Supporters Trust has any desire to run the Football Club. The real purpose of any Supporters Trust is to act as a conduit between the rank and file supporter and the club's board. If, at present, we had a pro-active Trust then they would be performing this role at the present uncertain time.

I think a fans group of some sort is essential to show the creditors that Rushden & Diamonds does have a future.

Looking from outside they might see the poor uptake on Season Tickets and think that means we don't care about our club. We have to show them that we do in whatever way possible.

Other Supporters groups have got people to commit to buy season tickets, or make other pledges, via a holding account that will only get released subject to agreed conditions. I think Luton fans did this, conditional to certain debts being cleared.

Other Supporters groups have assembled skilled people prepared to pledge their time / skills to help creditors / investors and thus keep them loyal to the club, if not in the current form.

Other groups have lobbied the leagues, councils, MPs etc.

These ideas might not be appropriate in our case - we need to discuss them - but if we are only sending out signals that we are all looking for excuses to not get involved, rather than rising to a challenge, we'll have to take some of the blame if R&DFC does cease to exist.

Diamondsforever wrote:If we stand by and do nothing, I am utterly convinced that wewill lose our Club.

I'm not suggesting for one minute that we, the fans, go back to running the Club but there must be something we can do to help the situation; we've enough skill sets between us to come up with ideas and plans that might, just might, help solve something. I'd hate to be sat at home on a Saturday afternoon next season thinking "If only...", so if you think you have something to offer, doesn't matter how insignificant you may think it is, bring it to the table and let's talk about it, we can only try...

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Diamondsforever wrote:If we stand by and do nothing, I am utterly convinced that wewill lose our Club.

I'm not suggesting for one minute that we, the fans, go back to running the Club but there must be something we can do to help the situation; we've enough skill sets between us to come up with ideas and plans that might, just might, help solve something. I'd hate to be sat at home on a Saturday afternoon next season thinking "If only...", so if you think you have something to offer, doesn't matter how insignificant you may think it is, bring it to the table and let's talk about it, we can only try...

I can bring tea & biscuits to the table?

Stuart