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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action 14:50 - Feb 21 with 21295 viewsTheResurrection

Lets get an idea from us fans in general as to the last 6 months or so. A 6 months that's seen us bought out by the Americans in a deal where the old owners sold their souls and us down the river.

We all know they did their best to keep the Trust away from discussions and tried wilfully to get the Trust to sign a legal document stating the old regime's Shareholders Agreement practically meant nothing.

Since then the Trust have parted company with their Supporters Director and Vice Chairman and have been threatening legal action throughout the whole time, also stating on many an occasion that "this can't go on much longer"

As we are now aware from recent statements the Trust feel they are "building bridges" and getting somewhere with the new regime. Do we think this is the right course of action and to trust the new American owners and the remaining old Directors, bearing in mind all that's gone on?

What do the fans think?

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 19:50 - Feb 23 with 1040 viewsperchrockjack

With respect ,Chris, you re misunderstanding my concerns

There is no panacea in all this, just opinion and argument


THAT is my point


THAT is my concern, I e , the bitterness leads to Destableising matters on the field of play.


Fans do NOT have either to own or to even have a say in the running of a club mainly because all of us have different views, so which fans should hold sway.

However, the ownership of our club has to be professional and competent able to move us upwards.

With Jenkins and dineen, this is impossible .

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 19:50 - Feb 23 with 1041 viewsNeathJack

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 19:11 - Feb 23 by TheResurrection

Is that Cattulus you're attacking?

And why are you now calling him a pitiful tw@t? He offered to take a number of questions to a Trust meeting.

You're a horrible bloke I know that. I can't be bothered with you.


But in addition to the theme of this argument, the Trust meetings are pathetic and mostly are attended by sycophants and fools, Landore Jack except. The people that go there are more interested in Leon's favourite music band than to ask any searching question.

The Trust should be presented with a series of proper questions on the night and made to answer them. Nothing good comes out of these meetings, just more questions and answers but they continue with the same format and pat themselves on the back when they're done.

Where did these meetings get us when the going was getting really tough? I'll answer that - Nowhere!!


Well to be fair the opportunity is there for anyone to turn up and ask any question they like.

Wouldn't you agree?
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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 19:51 - Feb 23 with 1040 viewsLord_Bony

Bottom line.
I think all we want as fans is the Trust to be strong and in a good position to defend the interests of scfc in times of trouble.

Recently, we have been disapointed because they were ignored and totally left out of any real negotiations in a very important chapter in the future of the club.

This was done illegally and should never have been allowed to happen the way it did without consequences. What was done about it? not a lot really....which worries us if the Trust can be ignored again in future when it comes to major decisions...

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 19:52 - Feb 23 with 1030 viewsLoyal

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 14:09 - Feb 23 by Darran

You should do what The Res does and send some pitiful twát to ask the questions for you.


Oh dear, Darran, this really isn't you, is everything ok ?

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 19:53 - Feb 23 with 1028 viewsperchrockjack

There are more questions than answers


Answers more important

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 20:13 - Feb 23 with 1907 viewsTheResurrection

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 19:50 - Feb 23 by NeathJack

Well to be fair the opportunity is there for anyone to turn up and ask any question they like.

Wouldn't you agree?


It is.

And it's a farce.

Always has been and in it's current format, always will be.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 20:20 - Feb 23 with 1902 viewsNeathJack

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 20:13 - Feb 23 by TheResurrection

It is.

And it's a farce.

Always has been and in it's current format, always will be.


The opportunity for anyone to turn up and ask any question they want is a farce?

Weird.
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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 20:25 - Feb 23 with 1892 viewsDarran

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 19:11 - Feb 23 by TheResurrection

Is that Cattulus you're attacking?

And why are you now calling him a pitiful tw@t? He offered to take a number of questions to a Trust meeting.

You're a horrible bloke I know that. I can't be bothered with you.


But in addition to the theme of this argument, the Trust meetings are pathetic and mostly are attended by sycophants and fools, Landore Jack except. The people that go there are more interested in Leon's favourite music band than to ask any searching question.

The Trust should be presented with a series of proper questions on the night and made to answer them. Nothing good comes out of these meetings, just more questions and answers but they continue with the same format and pat themselves on the back when they're done.

Where did these meetings get us when the going was getting really tough? I'll answer that - Nowhere!!


I called him a pitiful twát because I was there on the night and he was extremely pitiful and he looked like a teát.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 20:32 - Feb 23 with 1867 viewsLoyal

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 20:25 - Feb 23 by Darran

I called him a pitiful twát because I was there on the night and he was extremely pitiful and he looked like a teát.


He comes across as a a bit handy, wanting a pop whenever possible.
Shame he doesn't live up to his personal billing.
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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 20:57 - Feb 23 with 1834 viewsDarran

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 20:32 - Feb 23 by Loyal

He comes across as a a bit handy, wanting a pop whenever possible.
Shame he doesn't live up to his personal billing.
[Post edited 23 Feb 2017 20:33]


To be honest to him I think he got sucked in by Chrissys gang on the fiddlers forum when they were all ganging up on Phil.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 21:06 - Feb 23 with 1806 viewsLoyal

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 20:57 - Feb 23 by Darran

To be honest to him I think he got sucked in by Chrissys gang on the fiddlers forum when they were all ganging up on Phil.


I suspected as much.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 21:33 - Feb 23 with 1791 viewsLandore_Jack

When I spoke to Phil after the meeting I also mentioned that the Trust has no choice but to build a relationship with the Americans, but not they must not be naive. After all, Jenkins was making the right noises about protecting the Trust when they were in discussions with Moores and Noell, and look at what has happened with a different buyer. Phil assured me that wouldn't happen. To be honest it remains to be seen. The Trust needs to carefully plan it's future and not stand still.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 23:52 - Feb 23 with 1740 viewsTheResurrection

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 20:32 - Feb 23 by Loyal

He comes across as a a bit handy, wanting a pop whenever possible.
Shame he doesn't live up to his personal billing.
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Who does?

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 07:40 - Feb 24 with 1693 viewsShaky

Well this is certainly an interesting thread. Not due to the split of the votes - Psycoboy could and probably has already been manipulating that freely - but rather as an indication of the sad, sad capitulaiton of Swansea supporters.

On this critical issue for the future of the club, only 69 people could be bothered to register an interest, and that includes some share of the Psycoboy block vote!

Nobody should be in any doubt that this is a reflection of the fact that the 5 stages of grief have now been completed, leaving supporters in a state of acceptance that not a fcuking thing is going to be done.

Mission accomplished, Trust board, who now appear to have quietly steered a course toward a policy of rapprochement, founded on hot air only; certainly there is no sign whatsoever of any contractual guarantees underpinning this, now or binding on any future owners.

However, I note the Trust has in to a certain extent accommodated my demand that they should publish legal fees incurred, even though they seemingly fail to offer full disclosure by playing semantic games that exclude legal billings prior to discussions with the Levin and Kaplan having commenced.

Furthermore I am unfortunately left with the impression that games are still being played; £5,000:- is not not going to buy more than a couple of days of QC's time so why no news on legal action.

Nevertheless, here in summary is the Unfair Prejudice case as I see it is:

Fraud on the Minority: Selling shareholders have captured the control premium and excluded the Trust from participating in it. In Finance it is the same as a scientific fact documented in numerous academic studies that control premiums exist, amounting typically to anything from perhaps 15%-40%. Further it should be easy to find any number of independent academic experts who can testify that the unique nature of football clubs typically making them cash-flow negative, means the premium would be at the high end. However, even at the low/mid range it is material.

Elevated duty of care by directors: See Sharp v Blank. A "Special Relationship" clearly existed, ask any random sample of 500 Supporters. Further numerous statements and PR puff pieces from the selling shareholders document the collegiate nature of the ownership of the club. Further trust placed in co-shareholders/CEO/Chairman implied by refraining from enjoying bard representation on holding company board.

Also subsidiary argument is that the Club qualifies as a closed company under UK Tax law. Could refer to commonwealth cases where Closed company status automatically places elevated duty of care on board. Eg see appeal Court ruling in Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co

Obstacles: I have already described the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle on Jackarmy message boards, but in case of any doubt the case I was referring to was Peskin v Anderson and the ruling of Lord Justice Mummery.

Other: Regardless of the situation of Swansea specifically, I actually think it is critical for this case to be litigated. European law demands that shareholders be treated equally in takeovers, but have held that this only applies in scope to stock exchange listed companies, and that it is up to individual countries to rule on its applicability in private companies. Reasonable fairness - and perhaps legal equity - demands that, and this case could be an ideal way to get an urgently needed initial ruling. As such if you were imaginative you might find quality representation ready to take this on a pro bono basis due to the much wider issues involved.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:18 - Feb 24 with 1616 viewsTheResurrection

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 07:40 - Feb 24 by Shaky

Well this is certainly an interesting thread. Not due to the split of the votes - Psycoboy could and probably has already been manipulating that freely - but rather as an indication of the sad, sad capitulaiton of Swansea supporters.

On this critical issue for the future of the club, only 69 people could be bothered to register an interest, and that includes some share of the Psycoboy block vote!

Nobody should be in any doubt that this is a reflection of the fact that the 5 stages of grief have now been completed, leaving supporters in a state of acceptance that not a fcuking thing is going to be done.

Mission accomplished, Trust board, who now appear to have quietly steered a course toward a policy of rapprochement, founded on hot air only; certainly there is no sign whatsoever of any contractual guarantees underpinning this, now or binding on any future owners.

However, I note the Trust has in to a certain extent accommodated my demand that they should publish legal fees incurred, even though they seemingly fail to offer full disclosure by playing semantic games that exclude legal billings prior to discussions with the Levin and Kaplan having commenced.

Furthermore I am unfortunately left with the impression that games are still being played; £5,000:- is not not going to buy more than a couple of days of QC's time so why no news on legal action.

Nevertheless, here in summary is the Unfair Prejudice case as I see it is:

Fraud on the Minority: Selling shareholders have captured the control premium and excluded the Trust from participating in it. In Finance it is the same as a scientific fact documented in numerous academic studies that control premiums exist, amounting typically to anything from perhaps 15%-40%. Further it should be easy to find any number of independent academic experts who can testify that the unique nature of football clubs typically making them cash-flow negative, means the premium would be at the high end. However, even at the low/mid range it is material.

Elevated duty of care by directors: See Sharp v Blank. A "Special Relationship" clearly existed, ask any random sample of 500 Supporters. Further numerous statements and PR puff pieces from the selling shareholders document the collegiate nature of the ownership of the club. Further trust placed in co-shareholders/CEO/Chairman implied by refraining from enjoying bard representation on holding company board.

Also subsidiary argument is that the Club qualifies as a closed company under UK Tax law. Could refer to commonwealth cases where Closed company status automatically places elevated duty of care on board. Eg see appeal Court ruling in Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co

Obstacles: I have already described the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle on Jackarmy message boards, but in case of any doubt the case I was referring to was Peskin v Anderson and the ruling of Lord Justice Mummery.

Other: Regardless of the situation of Swansea specifically, I actually think it is critical for this case to be litigated. European law demands that shareholders be treated equally in takeovers, but have held that this only applies in scope to stock exchange listed companies, and that it is up to individual countries to rule on its applicability in private companies. Reasonable fairness - and perhaps legal equity - demands that, and this case could be an ideal way to get an urgently needed initial ruling. As such if you were imaginative you might find quality representation ready to take this on a pro bono basis due to the much wider issues involved.


Phil Sumbler, Andrew Godden, Matt G....

Can you respond in as much detail as possible to Shaky's post please.

Let's get the cards on the table as this has been strung out beyond belief.

Let's see the invoices, the notes from the legal people and exactly where we are with it all.

Shaky,

I couldn't agree more with the paltry amount of posters who voted.

This is another major failing of the Trust, but perhaps one of design rather than of culpability

There's big worrying part of me that thinks they are happy with this drifting off to the back of everyone's minds and manipulating the minds with sound bites to the tune of building bridges.

What the hell has been going on for 8 months??.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:27 - Feb 24 with 1601 viewsDarran

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:18 - Feb 24 by TheResurrection

Phil Sumbler, Andrew Godden, Matt G....

Can you respond in as much detail as possible to Shaky's post please.

Let's get the cards on the table as this has been strung out beyond belief.

Let's see the invoices, the notes from the legal people and exactly where we are with it all.

Shaky,

I couldn't agree more with the paltry amount of posters who voted.

This is another major failing of the Trust, but perhaps one of design rather than of culpability

There's big worrying part of me that thinks they are happy with this drifting off to the back of everyone's minds and manipulating the minds with sound bites to the tune of building bridges.

What the hell has been going on for 8 months??.


So it's a major issue because people haven't been voting in a Planetswans poll?

Fuçking hell.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:28 - Feb 24 with 1596 viewsDarran

This poll has been rigged. Sumbler out.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:28 - Feb 24 with 1597 viewsTheResurrection

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:27 - Feb 24 by Darran

So it's a major issue because people haven't been voting in a Planetswans poll?

Fuçking hell.


Go away please.

Go and find something else to play with.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:31 - Feb 24 with 1593 viewsDarran

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:28 - Feb 24 by TheResurrection

Go away please.

Go and find something else to play with.


And another thing too haven't you got anything to say about Shakys vile name calling? lol

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:37 - Feb 24 with 1589 viewsTheResurrection

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:31 - Feb 24 by Darran

And another thing too haven't you got anything to say about Shakys vile name calling? lol


Nobody wants you on this thread. You offer it absolutely nothing. Your opinion is worthless. I won't reply to you again and just hope you'll let people who matter debate it like adults.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:44 - Feb 24 with 1575 viewsDarran

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 16:37 - Feb 24 by TheResurrection

Nobody wants you on this thread. You offer it absolutely nothing. Your opinion is worthless. I won't reply to you again and just hope you'll let people who matter debate it like adults.


It isn't very adult to be calling someone Psycoboy surely?

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 17:08 - Feb 24 with 1547 viewsLoyal

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 23:52 - Feb 23 by TheResurrection

Who does?


Cattlulis, whoever he is, always having a pop.

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 17:18 - Feb 24 with 1540 viewsDarran

Landore Jack you're forgotten to down arrow Shaky for his abusive name calling. lol

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 18:09 - Feb 24 with 1497 viewsShaky

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 17:18 - Feb 24 by Darran

Landore Jack you're forgotten to down arrow Shaky for his abusive name calling. lol


Been reading private messages again, Des?

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Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 18:11 - Feb 24 with 1500 viewsDarran

Build Bridges with Americans/Sell Outs or Respectfully Proceed with Legal Action on 18:09 - Feb 24 by Shaky

Been reading private messages again, Des?


How can you do that?

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