SC Rep

According to the SC website there are still mostly only women on the committee?

I sense there's some confusion over the FD role as its role seems to be to represent the SC's and it's members interest, its not represent fans interests generally, so they are never going to report anything back to them.

I had plenty. The best bit about it was that the most damning part of it, which proved the collusion between them all to try smear Wael came from inside the SC itself, a whistleblower if you like, who was equally appalled at what was going on.

I still have everything today.

All those involved should have been kicked out of the club and never be allowed to return. Vile and spiteful thing to do to a decent man

Based on all the above details - why would anyone want to be the SC board member? Seems a thankless task, especially as a lot of details from board meetings are confidential.

Just because someone is appointed by the supporters club does not automatically make them trustworthy as far as the Board are concerned. Trust has to be earned and bearing in mind the sensitive nature of what is being discussed at Board level  i am surprised that clause wasnt always in there . After i retired from work ,  i went along to a meeting and offered my services a year or so ago to the supporters club and despite  being told that i would be invited along to the next meeting, i heard absolutely nothing and so assumed that my face didnt fit 

I find it difficult, nay impossible, to believe that the SC were party to an accusation of child grooming by our owner.

Safeguarding covers a wide range of issues, all of which are important but not all of which are crimes, and while I can easily believe that the powers that be in the SC would hold grudges against the owner(s), I think this has been blown totally out of proportion. By whom I do not know.

Whether the SC were just doing what they were supposed to do and reporting a Safeguarding guarding issue to the FA or did it purely as a grudge we'll never really know.

Whilst the letter may imply the latter, who knows if the writer of the letter didn't have a grudge against the SC?

The fact the club had to tighten up its own Safeguarding controls after the incident suggests the FA didn't just simply dismiss the issue.

That's surely why the SC is at present, just look at the present committee members they hardly look like the type who are planning coup!

We'll never know if Messer's SC, KM & SH had the club at heart or their own egos, when they seemingly fell out with Wael over the FM.

As there was nothing in the letter that was of any concern, the FA and police had no grounds to pursue any lines of enquiry and the fact the people who were making the allegations have been removed/retired/resigned (delete as appropriate) and the majority owner is now longer just that, I dont see any point in producing any evidence now, if anything, it would be counter productive to the good work that the late David Thomas did in rebuilding the bridges between SC and FC.

Let me put it this way, had any of the threats that had been put to me materialised, I would have gone after each of them in a way that Wael should have done, which would have amounted to defamation as a minimum, and I would have happily taken it to the press myself and would produced all the evidence.

I think we all learned some lessons from that episode.  The people involved tarnished their own reputations and good name with the accusations and their own legacy was being remembered for their demise rather than the good work they had carried out for 25-30 years previously, which is also a shame for them.  Fans with that dedication should be honoured and remembered but their own egos eventually got in the way.  Sad.

The lesson I learned was that not to get overly involved in something that isnt my show, however I couldnt stand by and watch an innocent man, regardless of whether he was the owner of the FC at the time or not, be subjected to the heinous behaviour and vulgar accusations from people who simply had an axe to grind and wanted to serve their own interests.