Re: Forum at The Shay : Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:40 am  

Listenup94 wrote:

Very brief commentary on the fans forum

Shay stadium looking likely to be owned by davy but negotiations still in progress.

Hmrc , confidence high on winning the case.

Squad depth, reading between the lines relying on st helens but acknowledged more permanent additions required.

Don't know mccarrons injury but he didn't have a pot on and walked in without crutches and walked in with everyone else after training.

So nothing we don't already know!

And I bet Salty having a "moan" about Finn didn't go down well with one of the audience, did he get heckled?

Re: Forum at The Shay : Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:28 am  

Tony Fax wrote:

So nothing we don't already know!

And I bet Salty having a "moan" about Finn didn't go down well with one of the audience, did he get heckled?

There was a bit more indepth info regarding said matters and like I said a brief summary.

Interestingly someone did bring up the price of tickets but unfortunately they sounded like a drunk nora batty or they had been spiked with ketamine so it got lost in the moment.

Re: Forum at The Shay : Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:01 am  

It can be viewed on video later but only worth a watch if you don’t already know everything.

So one person needn’t bother.

Re: Forum at The Shay : Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:45 am  

I always say this, those who choose to see the white dot on the blackboard have the problem , there's no doubt in my mind however many things are done right they will choose to find something wrong . A fans forum not long ago when grix said we were punching above our weight was criticised despite two third placed finishes and a cup win at Wembley , I dare say regardless of what we achieve it'll be shot down but that's their problem not the clubs.

Re: Forum at The Shay : Fri Feb 21, 2025 3:25 pm  

Listenup94 wrote:

I always say this, those who choose to see the white dot on the blackboard have the problem. Part.

I don’t remember you saying that, I’m sure you've never said that and just checked with a few others and they don’t recall you saying that either.

A black dot on a white board yes but a white dot on a blackboard that’s another matter.

Could be a case of either colour blindness or you’ve been talking and muttering to yourself again, nothing to be too worried about though, probably just down to being married.

Re: Forum at The Shay : Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:54 pm  

I really like the idea of the shadow board but think it might have been better going for a little older with this maybe 18-21 or a touch higher(Only think that way as it might be better having people with a little bit of life experience). We have discussed it on here about the average age of our fanbase and one look at the average age of people there last night and you can see whole generations of fans missing. Hopefully something like this shadow board can start putting forward ideas that is going to keep the ages from around 16-30 engaged with the club.

Re: Forum at The Shay : Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:29 pm  

Well my thoughts are it went really well with a number of the current main issues brought up to date as far as could be with not long to wait for the decisions on HMRC and the ground.

Loads of work going on behind the scenes with some success on the commercial side, still lots to do with ideas and initiatives active and on the agenda and looking for more suggestions and in that area it seemed like there was a link between having to cut the cloth accordingly-staff levels-workload-progress and only being able to do so much at a time.

Absolutely no question about commitment levels from the club and anyone who can constantly knock them mouthing off whilst sat on their ars*e are a disgrace and should be ashamed, shut up and stay away.

Re: Forum at The Shay : Sat Feb 22, 2025 7:02 am  

Well if there's one thing about the forum, Clayton has wound the shaymen up . Funny how even when answering questions directly it still gets twisted to their narrative. Like he said why should he make the footballs perspective public thats bosomworth job.

Re: Forum at The Shay : Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:03 am  

Listenup94 wrote:

Well if there's one thing about the forum, Clayton has wound the shaymen up . Funny how even when answering questions directly it still gets twisted to their narrative. Like he said why should he make the footballs perspective public thats bosomworth job.

Yeah this was a strange one as early on he kind of insinuated that it was pretty much a done deal and mentioned the discussions around the main fears of Town fans that they won't be allowed promotion to the EFL, later on he back tracked slightly and he talked about it not been a done deal and that there are maybe 3 offers on the table. I don't know if it was a slip of the tongue but there appears to be an offer on the table that is directly linked to Fax although he was very coy about it and again seemed to be pushing the Davy bid.

Re: Forum at The Shay : Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:53 am  

Unlikely he planned it this way but often when teaching, giving instructions or information the most important things are left until last.

For clarity on the KD option so there was no confusion in what had been said he concluded by stressing multiple times that at this stage that’s all it was an option.

If the KD option is chosen Clayton mentioned that whilst it would be good for everyone it would be the Giants and FC Town who actually needed the upgrades rather than Fax.

The Giants need them for IMG points and Super League and FC Town need them for promotion.

The Giants side is pretty much cut and dry but from a Town perspective it looks like there is still some confusion and possibly a conflict of information / interests over the number of teams that are allowed to share the ground under the EFL rules that have been posted here on the Shay thread and elsewhere.

For Town, on the one hand to gain promotion for example the pitch would need upgrading but without Davy neither Town and or Fax could afford the extra £300 grand shortfall from the grants.

So you have a situation where Fax are okay either way and if Davy buys it and does the upgrades, Giants are okay and Town are okay on the type of pitch etc but could fall fowl over the number of teams using it!

Quite rightly the prerogative to sort this particular problem out rests with Bosomworth and FC Town, it’s a football issue not a rugby one which is what Clayton said.

I’m sure the Town fans wouldn’t be happy if Fax were to interfere with things that fell outside there jurisdiction.

Connecting the dots what I did find interesting was when asked about the loans from Davy to the clubs should he be successful Clayton seemed to infer that since Fax don’t actually need the improvements when the Giants and Town do, Fax could stress that reason to avoid having a loan with Davy just absorbing the 100k mentioned.

Interesting and meaningful few weeks ahead.