by kevgull » 28 Mar 2017, 08:17
midtable wrote: 27 Mar 2017, 21:31
The most important person in all this fiasco is the mayor. You can forget your leaflets at the ground because we know things are bad. The mayor is the one you need to inform and even better turn up every one of his public functions with a Torquay scarf and politely inform him NOT to give away the freehold of the ground. If the club go in admin and the council hold the freehold there is a chance for the club to rise again with Plainmoor. GI want the freehold as leverage to build homes on council owned park land make millions and with the spare cash maybe build a stadium. If they don't get their way they can sell the freehold to themselves (ie another company) and charge us rent forever. A trick done up and down the country
The problem is that GI have already not kept promises. The obvious one being when Nico was not give given the money to bring in more players.
If people are serious about protesting then follow the mayor around the bay and tell him your views. If people don't bother then you can't complain online.
If GI build a stadium give them the freehold but not until them. The rumours that the mayor like GI more than TUFC which is why they did not need to splash the cash in the transfer market.
The Mayor will be making a public decision about the disposal of the Plainmoor freehold at a (Policy, Development & Decision Group) meeting planned for April 26
I would agree, putting pressure on the Mayor would seem to be the best use of any Fanbased resources we might have.
However there needs to be active local members who are willing to help in this action. If we are looking for local help where better than the Fans who actually care about TUFC.
Therefore I return to a leaflet drop, at the ground where all minds are focused. The leaflet should inform us all of what is known to be true, what is very likely to happen and what we should/ can all do to prevent it.
You probably need 100 - 200 active members to follow the Mayor round to make it newsworthy . If only 5% turn up the target message audience needs to be between 2000 - 4000 local people.
Unfortunately our Forums do not reach that kind of target audience. Therefore the net needs to be widened in order to catch the activists.
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The most important person in all this fiasco is the mayor. You can forget your leaflets at the ground because we know things are bad. The mayor is the one you need to inform and even better turn up every one of his public functions with a Torquay scarf and politely inform him NOT to give away the freehold of the ground. If the club go in admin and the council hold the freehold there is a chance for the club to rise again with Plainmoor. GI want the freehold as leverage to build homes on council owned park land make millions and with the spare cash maybe build a stadium. If they don't get their way they can sell the freehold to themselves (ie another company) and charge us rent forever. A trick done up and down the country
The problem is that GI have already not kept promises. The obvious one being when Nico was not give given the money to bring in more players.
If people are serious about protesting then follow the mayor around the bay and tell him your views. If people don't bother then you can't complain online.
If GI build a stadium give them the freehold but not until them. The rumours that the mayor like GI more than TUFC which is why they did not need to splash the cash in the transfer market.
The Mayor will be making a public decision about the disposal of the Plainmoor freehold at a (Policy, Development & Decision Group) meeting planned for April 26
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I would agree, putting pressure on the Mayor would seem to be the best use of any Fanbased resources we might have.
However there needs to be active local members who are willing to help in this action. If we are looking for local help where better than the Fans who actually care about TUFC.
Therefore I return to a leaflet drop, at the ground where all minds are focused. The leaflet should inform us all of what is known to be true, what is very likely to happen and what we should/ can all do to prevent it.
You probably need 100 - 200 active members to follow the Mayor round to make it newsworthy . If only 5% turn up the target message audience needs to be between 2000 - 4000 local people.
Unfortunately our Forums do not reach that kind of target audience. Therefore the net needs to be widened in order to catch the activists.
