[The Official Airdrieonians Thread - 2019/20 and beyond]

18 hours ago, Pesadilla said:

It's a shambles. Airdrie as a club lurch from one disaster to the next. Just when the furore of the Trust argument had settled down somewhat, the inexplicable vote to shoot our own cock and balls off. The club come up with the well publicised - and well received - begging bowl in the form of Club 1924 then castrate our league campaign without a by your leave, especially to the hundreds of season ticket holders who've saw their value for money purchase go up in smoke.

From my understanding of the other thread on the matter - we're due an outstanding £4k or so - why on earth would we vote to lose any chance of promotion for such a paltry (in the scheme of things) sum?

This is actually why we needed a Trust to hold the board to account rather than the odd cabal we have at the moment.

You really do talk a load of rubbish Mark.

Tell David Gallacher I was asking for him though. 

[The Official Airdrieonians Thread - 2019/20 and beyond]

My wife should start next week. . She's a fighter as one or two on here will confirm. 

[The Official Airdrieonians Thread - 2019/20 and beyond]

9 hours ago, Airdrie Minded said:

Here’s my take of the key points. There was other stuff talked about.

 

Key points:

1. PH actively engaged Trust prior to take over. Trust played a key part in helping put pressure on Wetherspoon. PH worked with Trust and DFC to engineer the takeover.

2. The Trust are due an additional £10k worth of shares and the club appear to have reneged on that deal (this is in addition to the original £10k of shares that was bought by the Trust). Money was passed to the club but no shares were passed over. There is documented evidence (email trail) of the agreement to sell to the Trust.

3. The Trust buying Colin Elliot’s shares appears to tie in with a further souring of the relationship. However this wouldn’t have impacted the overall “power” or control

4. PH bought the Ballantyne shares without advising other shareholders (this was told to me)

5. Trust view is that the community work they undertake helps raise the brand, helps breed new supporters and generates a source of income for the club

6. Trust donated £142k to the club since 2002. FFIT club for instance raised £8k approx recently - this goes straight to club. Not sure this is a Trust hatchet job?

7. Trust will continue to focus on community. Want to do that working with the club.

8. The Trust ARE co-owners. They own shares. They’ve put £20k in.

9. Trust don’t understand why the conflict exists. Want to resolve it

10. The Board members left are allies of PH. No one else appears to be left.

11. Trust were told not to use club crest to advertise camps by the club.

12. Trust have continued activities as normal in support of club (lottery, FFIT etc).

13. The Advertiser approached the Trust for comment about the football camps. The Trust did not contact them. 2 separate camps being advertised led them to ask the question.

14. Walter Spiers advised they (him, Gavin, Stuart Shields and Bobby Watson) walked away as their main driver was the club, supporters and community. Priority of those left is now money. He sees the key for them is funding the stadium. The club is just a vehicle to allow this to happen.

15. The Trust speaker stated they would not be advocating a boycott.

 

I also heard a rumour amongst those that were there that not all original consortium members put money in as planned. What happened was PH covered their share (so, for the guys on his side) effectively leaving him as the man in control. The original vision of everyone putting the same amount of money in and having equal say didn’t happen as he put more money in than others - don’t know if by design or he was let down. The consortium ‘vision’ was therefore that, just a vision, a concept. And although we all bought into it, it never existed. I’ve not tracked it through on companies house but it’s another company holding shares in the club of which PH is 100% shareholder in? Something like that. Maybe rubbish. Diamond Dave can likely help.

 

It would be good to hear from the club now. The Trust have stated they want communication. We should want an update.

 

 

 

 

You are a very bitter ex-director and I claim my £10.