New owners of TUFC

There are clearly those who relish in fans squabbling. You are quite right that "the club would quietly go about it's business" if fans squabble. Pete Masters knows that and so do the property developers.

However, those might be the only two interpretations either you or alpine could muster, but most might see things differently if GI actually do any of what they are saying. To be honest, any sub-board is at best advisory to the real power behind the throne, but I would be happier with decent savvy people with the club's interests at heart on the advisory or patsy board than not.

I've never considered Osbourne and his lot weren't media savvy. Quite the reverse. There'll be plenty more for you and alpine to get all starry eyed about, don't you worry.

Fingers crossed then, for the unlikely outcome where a group of property developers and speculators will put aside their own profit-driven agendas so as to ensure that the football club is the priority. I don't think that is remotely a realistic wish.

Those falling for GI spin at the moment, are a bit like Edmund drooling over Turkish Delight in Narnia. They'll find out the cost soon enough.

I have just listened to the latest podcast on the HE website, most of which contained the views of Dave Thomas. I can't decide whether he really does believe that Gaming International will be the club's messaiah, or is he simply paying lip service so that he remains in their confidence and therefore has exclusivity regarding their plans and intentions.

It isn't negativity; its realism based on GI's prior record.

You'd only require that Chelston, if there was some suspicion that the vast majority of the information supplied to the Forums so far regarding G.I had not been compiled and presented in a fair and impartial way. I'd refer you to the TUST update thread, and reiterate the key phrase  'the silent and apathetic majority of fans need to be educated to make informed decisions about whether they support community ownership or not'.

I think you should back TUST in their commitment to such noble principles. Having people indoctrinated educated in only one side of any argument, while harassing,making false allegations against, or asking for silence should any lone voice dare to put forward a different view, would be trying to impose 'education' in the same way that the North Korean News Agency educates it's population on an issue.

I hope that, like me, you're quite convinced that if information reached TUST, that threw a particularly good light on Peter Masters or Dave Phillips, they'd be just as eager to distribute it for 'information purposes only'. 

Have faith in the fair mindedness of your fellow TUST members, in their attempts to provide you with an accurate picture, and one not unduly skewed against G.I in the hope that it might have boosted TUST's bid for club ownership. Do this, if for no other reason, than under the current classification, any suggestion to the contrary (as Floridagull has learned) is deemed an 'attack on supporters'.

Put all those nagging doubts to the back of your mind, that your image of G.I might be heavily tainted by selective information or negative spin applied by TUST militants, and instead get back to the mince pies, sherry....and pop a Perry Como album on the gramophone.



                                                 


                                                                

There's been so much written/told/made up etc. that its hard to see the wood for the trees.

GI have come in for some stick regarding failed past ventures and I am interested in the opposite view point.

It's a truly awful back catologue, chelston. Best not to focus on finding that reassurance as it won't lead you where you want to go. Hoping that the leopard has changed its spots will be more comforting in this case.