Trust SGM - Notice of withdrawal

It speaks volumes that everyone on here is pro the movement and anti how the Trust is currently run.

Normally we all disagree on all sorts of things about the club but not on this.

That says a lot and the people at the top of the Trust should reflect on that.

Ned, i'd like to see a lot more who use this forum join the trust and have their say.

I've been a Trust member for years, never on the Board and rarely involved as I have far more priorities personally and for work - it is a shame that what appears to be fairly deliberate obfuscation has taken place, certainly that is the perception I have taken from the communications I have received and seen.

It is a shame as the Trust itself is a very worthwhile organisation and has delivered some meaningful positives over the years - it is by its nature going to be limited in its scope vis a vis changing the football club.

Keith Morgan is an expert in football finance - I look forward to his analysis of CCFC accounts every year. I don't know him personally, but as Chair I would ask him to think carefully how this plays out. The Trust Board have been scaremongering and that was the wrong strategy - better to offer 4 vacant Board places to reps of the new intake and let next May elections play out. Instead we have this nonsense about sinister this and blah blah that - it is not appropriate.

Anyhow - CTID

Good post, there should be thousands of members to the trust but there is 350, (not including our huge intake over the last 2 months) as you've indicated, 4 slots which have been vacant on the committee for a long time because nobody wanted them could have been allocated to the new members instead of the false info that they've been tbrowing around. The chairman and vice chair need to be very careful going forward with their attitude towards City fans who want to help improve the trust.

The trust does very little for me as a Cardiff City fan for the £12. It's the £12 that bugs me. I know £12 barely buys 2 beers in the Grange, but that's 2 beers more than I get if I sign up.

But it's not a closed shop. It's almost subconsciously deliberately ineffective to discourage those without their attitudes and views on Cardiff City. It has a lawn bowls club feel.

I don't see why you withdrew your submission. Surely, you need to see what the non-board or the trust movers and shakers feel. Now you don't. There may well be a silent minority who think it could do with some new blood.

The £12 is a good number, its not much, but you don't get anything, but it's enough to discourage casual non-political, barely interested in the off-field stuff fans from signing up and disrupting the status quo.
The club likes this version of the trust as it's polite, educated, and the right sorts. It saves them from fully committing to communications, as they do a bit of the heavy lifting.
£20, and only the inner crowd subscribes; £2, and you get thousands, but you lose all control, and the trust and club don't really want that.

I am still not a member. But, its not a closed shop.

The trust does very little for me as a Cardiff City fan for the £12. It's the £12 that bugs me. I know £12 barely buys 2 beers in the Grange, but that's 2 beers more than I get if I sign up.

But it's not a closed shop. It's almost subconsciously deliberately ineffective to discourage those without their attitudes and views on Cardiff City. It has a lawn bowls club feel.

I don't see why you withdrew your submission. Surely, you need to see what the non-board or the trust movers and shakers feel. Now you don't. There may well be a silent minority who think it could do with some new blood.

The £12 is a good number, its not much, but you don't get anything, but it's enough to discourage casual non-political, barely interested in the off-field stuff fans from signing up and disrupting the status quo.
The club likes this version of the trust as it's polite, educated, and the right sorts. It saves them from fully committing to communications, as they do a bit of the heavy lifting.
£20, and only the inner crowd subscribes; £2, and you get thousands, but you lose all control, and the trust and club don't really want that.

I am still not a member. But, its not a closed shop.

It’s a truth that ‘if you don’t pay, you don’t get a say!’ at any cost

However, looking from the outside with limited but considered knowledge, it is clear to me that the general membership are being let down and maybe even held back by those who are supposedly in place to properly affect things. Equally, those at the very top appear to have a certain ‘self-interest’ in their minds when dealing with the club, and the Trust members;

The rules for a football club Trust are governed by its constitution and/or rules or articles. These are legal documents that outline membership, voting rights, and the duties of office holders; so when members question/challenge any situation/issue, they are either right to do so, or unable to do so, according to said constitution, and/or rules or articles

That goes for those desperately trying to cajole/prevent from the top, too!