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Will be on the 10th May

And it's being hosted by Keith Cousins - maybe it's not over yet!!

http://www.thediamondsfc.com/page/NewsD ... 18,00.html

Described as urgent. 6pm in the Kimberly Suite.

Was supposed to go back to Uni on Monday, but may have to delay and make my fans forum debut.

Oh for f***'s sake at least give us a general idea of how fucked we are, don't make us wait another 4 excruciating days!

Oh and 'not attacking the current directors' is ****ing rich.

Wow, will the Directors be sitting in a sealed bullet proof box or will they appear via a video link from a safe house?

My only other obvious question would be why on earth has the youth set up been completely ruined? If there's one thing that needed to be ringfenced it's that. It is (or was) our future.

I think you will find the Beasants will not be in attendance at all.

This is about finding if there is any future for the Football Club. Believe me I have very strong opinions about their ability to run this Club but I think this meeting is absolutely essential to establish if there is anything that can be done.

Don't be under any illusions that KC is going to say that he will bail it out and pay off the debts because that is not going to happen

I would like to hear from KC what debt if any he left these guys with because any tax and vat outstanding is being blamed on KC.

I think they are non businessmen trying to fulfil a fantasy of running a football club and they don't have a clue or a slight business brain to make this happen.

I hate the way the invite is worded and yet again they will try blaming the fans for not buying the shares and earlybird season tickets, what have they put in?

Time to show us all;

1) The level of currunt debt.

2) The business plan to rectify this.

3) The financial investments they have personally made.

4) A live timeline to completion of the amazing supporting businesses they have.

They can't call another fans forum and spout more false promises and bull s*it and expect the fans to dig deep in their pockets.

I propose a fans meeting on the 7th, 8th or 9th May in order to discuss and decide what we all want from this meeting and go in as a combined group with clear objectives and goals. We can invite KC along if he is willing in order to offer his input?

garya2414 wrote:
Time to show us all;

1) The level of currunt debt.

2) The business plan to rectify this.

3) The financial investments they have personally made.

4) A live timeline to completion of the amazing supporting businesses they have.

Good questions, Gary, and I would like to add a further one:-

5) How much money have Steve and Liam Beasant personally taken out of the Football Club and paid to themselves or close members of their family?

If we want our football club to survive then this is the most important meeting in the clubs history and I urge all Diamonds fans to drop whatever else you are doing and get down to NP on Tuesday.

I agree with Gill that we must be under no illusions that this is a meeting to see what, if anything, can be done to save our club and not one where we are going to be told that KC will put money in to save us again. Clearing the debts is one thing and extremely difficult in itself but meeting future running costs is entirely another thing and one that must be addressed to see if we have a future at all!

Once Tuesday's meeting is over perhaps a fans committee /another fans meeting can be set up to see if we can help in any way. We must do something, anything, everything in our collective power to save our club because not only does it not deserve to die but to most of us it is a way of life. As somebody else has already said such a meeting would send out the right kind of message to our creditors as well.

The bottom line here must be to remove the 'owners' asap, attempt to put in a structure that just might keep us alive and, if remotely possible, maintain some kind of football at Nene Park.

This is not a time for laying blame because the damage has already been done. equally, we must be under no illusions as to the enormity of a desperate situation but while there is a mere glimmer of a chance that we might survive we have to take that with both hands and maybe, just maybe, Keith Cousins might be our last chance in doing so!