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Reply		Portsmouth Matchday Prog: The Trust
at 20:56 1 Dec 2024

Posters are right to point out it was a decade ago and it is time to move on. In the 23 years of the Trust 2015-2016 were the most important. At that time they needed to act. They wanted to carry on as before but that was not an option.

The fall of the Trust from being respected to today's of being less relevant are defined by this two year period. They won the pools but did not submit their ticket.
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Reply		FA Cup today : Where to watch
at 17:56 1 Dec 2024

Congreve came on for 15 minutes. JT stayed on the bench.
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Reply		Portsmouth Matchday Prog: The Trust
at 17:55 1 Dec 2024

The Trust board member emphatically stated their position.

Their share were not up for sale adding for the record " they never would be" . No one in the Trust contradicted this in February 2015. Levien and co were in Swansea a few months later looking at the club and no doubt were made aware of this.

As I understand it they needed a mandate from the members to sell and had made no moves to get this mandate.
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Reply		Portsmouth Matchday Prog: The Trust
at 16:37 1 Dec 2024

My perception is far closer to the truth than yours. I called their strategy poor 8 years ago and have been proven correct.

Hard cash give them clout and when buyers were circling in 20115 they decided they did not want the money on offer and did not ask the member their view. The members did not demand a vote. Truth be told they probably never given it a thought.

They wanted "protection" at a level of 25% with the influence the 25% gave them. They have settled for 5% and a place on the board.
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Reply		Portsmouth Matchday Prog: The Trust
at 15:23 1 Dec 2024

The previous board presented them with a strategy that would have destroyed Swansea city You favour legal action and a best case of giving huge money from the convertible loan note to faceless people in South East England with no interest in football.

Many members think like you and that is why they are not to be trusted with power.
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Reply		Lets talk about Tymon
at 12:52 1 Dec 2024

Abdullai is a great player used out of position. His excuse is he needs 90 min every week to improve I his confidence, reduce nerves and improve his touch. He runs and gives and collects the ball on the move.

Just what Williams needs.
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Reply		Head of performance intelligence ?
at 12:47 1 Dec 2024

What is bound to happen if that drones will be seen around training grounds checking out short corner kick routine training. The days of a suspicious looking bloke in a rain mack and flat cap next to a hedge have long gone.
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Reply		Jason Levien has left us in a stronger position than when he took over?
at 00:07 1 Dec 2024

You are talking about three squad playyers not trusted by Willams

What about Eom doing well Franco doing well. Vigouroux doing well Key doing well

Tymon improving. Vipotnik and Bianchini are young and developing.

The fans share responsibility for the breakdown buy the failed and ill thought out legal case by you know who.
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Reply		Jason Levien has left us in a stronger position than when he took over?
at 21:15 30 Nov 2024

This is a Trust thread. Levien highlighted the friction caused by them as a major reason for their lack of engagement with fans and by implication them k leaving a whopping £69m behind.

Less quality people would have said to hell with them and sold all the players and thrown the club into administration.

One poster compared them with Petty.

Kaplan has a good reputation. The Trust are a laughing stock even with their own fans these days but typically for the wrong reasons.
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Reply		Jason Levien has left us in a stronger position than when he took over?
at 18:57 30 Nov 2024

The Trust were one out of nine or ten owners who are not owning worth £ 6-8m as a minimum.

They performed poorly because of very poor decisions and a lack of monitoring and logic by the Trust members.

Some Swansea fans are unique in world football in singing ethnic slurs against themselves.

The fans body was going to take £20m promised to the club and give h more than half away to faceless funders from South East England.

No one agrees with me that w this was really dim and the members voted for it.

No one apologies or admits error. Levien has had enough of this and give the club to his mates for around £3000. He does not even get credit for that.

Remember the new boys are the same as the old boys but in a different package.

Swansea fans need to improve a lot.
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Reply		Swansea City v Portsmouth : Match day thread MATCH DAY
at 17:44 30 Nov 2024

Perhaps Williams was happy with a point ?
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Reply		Back to shocking
at 15:49 30 Nov 2024

Manager needs to rip into them at HT.
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Reply		Head of performance intelligence ?
at 15:11 30 Nov 2024

Ken Gude is already heading of *corporate culture' or something like that. (I think w he was working on the sale between golf rounds!)

This guy will bring discipline and a efficiency culture I would think a with logistics a strong point.
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Reply		Martins Saints
at 15:03 30 Nov 2024

I make a judgement on what I see and read. Martin put the fans against the owners and possibly the players as well. He has already taken Wood at a discount. No wonder people think Cabango and Darling would not sign extensions until they left.

I would want to know if I was Coleman who actually went to Wembley.
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Reply		Martins Saints
at 13:34 30 Nov 2024

Swans fans need to love th club not individuals. Martin was unprofessional after the window and it seemingly necessitate the top man flying out to see him.

We have all had our collar felt. People with egos do not like it.

Let's hope he gets sacked before the end of the season.
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Reply		Martins Saints
at 13:12 30 Nov 2024

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ceqxqnv51v2o.amp
Good summary by the beep. Swansea city were bleating when Martin left without settling his compo then calling it " personal".

I hope he gets sacked soon and has no gentlemen agree ment with Daring and Cabango.
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Reply		Do you want Swansea to re enter the Welsh cup with Europe. Qualification
at 12:20 30 Nov 2024

You are careless sometimes . There is no "British Lions". It is a fake comparison. It is the British and IRISH Lions. Some of the touring players are from the European Union. Ireland is a independent state.

I have raised the concept of "British exceptionalism". We want special rules for ourselves and this will be resented. No other footballers anywhere in the world can represent two flags simultaneously.
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Reply		Let the good times begin.
at 11:24 30 Nov 2024

£40 million over 4 seasons I read. For your information £40m is $51m roughly at a conversion of $1.28 that I got in the Summer.

Take care of the denominations it can cost.

I am clear why I give thanks. I am a decent fellow.

Think about it. They could have not sold and simply asset stripped and put the club into administration. They did not do this as they have a reputation to protect with people who have clout.
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Reply		Let the good times begin.
at 23:56 29 Nov 2024

Another 'Max special' I have to respond to.

Kaplan and Levien had a plan and it was to expand the stadium and stay in the Premier league by utilising the excellent in- house team including Jenkins and Morgan who stayed on as directors.

Levien had done similar thing at DC United raising the value of club massively. Had it worked a big stadium naming right would have been signed with Audi perhaps as Levien knows their people.

K&L have done the new owners a big favour in g handing the club over cheaply which gives them the best chance to return to the premier league. K&L will be wanting Swanse to do well to recover half of their 2016 investment.

Your comparison with Petty is typically disrespectful and exposes your complete lack of judgement. Petty invested very little but still demanded more than K&L off the new board (in 2002) to leave.

Levien has handed over the club for pennies to new owners and said "pay me back $50m if you stay in the Premier league for 4 seasons".

Fans should be writing him a thank you note stepping aside. They sadly do not have the fibre to do this. Neither do the Trust fearful of the reaction .

Sometimes people just have to do what is right and not worry about fear or the reaction of others.
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Reply		Martins Saints
at 23:32 29 Nov 2024

It is the old "interfering with play" presumably. I want to see Martin relegated.
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