BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
That sounds like a very one-sided information source. Has the club ever publicly stated that the Trust changed their plans? It certainly wouldn't be out of character for the Trust to publicly insist on something they already know will happen so as to seem to matter.
I'd also take issue as to whether a few £ here or there is anything of import.
I think your last line is key. I’m sure the trust can help in some of these quite low level things. Tiering of tickets and what have you.
But the absolute cringiest, most awful, most embarrassing way they can act is to ask the club for an explanation of football business. Eg why haven’t we signed anyone. It’s simply nothing to do with them, and it damages their credibility for the small things they could have an impact on. Ticket prices - probably is something to do with them. Because of the tension between a fan and club (which we have to admit is different to that of customer vs business just because we will always have some tribal loyalty ingrained in us, and as such it’s good to demonstrate some sort of collective effort to ensure the prices don’t get too out of hand). Football business? They haven’t got a clue.
They don’t have a clue, and it just makes that look much, much worse. It makes them look like amateurs stepping well outside of their station, and it means no one will take them seriously on anything that actually is important. They don’t seem to get it either, that if they demonstrated a capability to understand football business they might actually better their relationship with the club.
The MK boycott is a somewhat different issue, but again them over stepping their mark. The idea that it’s a ‘personal choice, we aren’t telling you what to do’ is just nonsense. If it’s personal they don’t need to publicise it. And in this instance I think it’s clear the club is doing all it can to build all of us a bloody nice new stadium, and it isn’t easy. The last thing we need is the group that is supposed to represent the fans actually adding to the problems when there doesn’t seem to be any other way out of the situation. They should be in the trenches with the club here, helping them pull through, not encouraging a lack of support to the squad who have to contend with 2 home stadiums this year.
Really cringey, embarrassing people. A trust could have a role, not denying that, but these guys do a sub par job. They are 5/10 at best. I’d love to stand for it myself if I could, but not being in the UK all that much at the moment I assume means I can’t. In any case though, there is a different between thinking the club should be held to account on certain things, and allowing some poorly informed people operating with ideas way above their station the power to claim they represent us. They do a very poor job of it.