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Unsure. Merely a suggestion from myself why Chelsea need to make it clear he's working from 1st June - could be accounting for wage purposes too.

FFP/PSR

Tallies with what it has been rumoured that behind the scenes it was hardly rosy. If he’s sat there a week ago in Monaco said I’m staying that’s unreal really and explains the tone of the LCFC statement

Same here.

I’m Mr Negative/Contrary with football but I don’t think anything is happening here regards time. Just you are at the one of the few times where football chills out for a bit

Thanks for that - really interesting

The reports I received is this place is excellent

Similar experience. Once had a chat with one of their high up’s and he was a tanker. Assume you mean in their buyout? Pure just always feels dead and lacks atmosphere. Think they’ve done well to get partnered up with some big Birmingham based stuff and that’s really helped 6.5/10 beer do well. Villa, Moseley Folk, Hockley/Digbeth Dining Club

Midweek the Colmore is very much that vibe. I actively don’t visit it much because the odds are I’m going to bump into someone from work. Birmingham is very much like that with the corporates - they have the bars and pubs which are in fashion until they fall out of it. Pure Bar was the same, not any more.

Bang on. Always awks.

Some might say blasphemy but after a run around Sutton Coldfield in the blazing sun and up and down hills. A Carling Shandy at the Station pub. Simply excellent

My experience of Brits abroad is that if you go beyond the stereotype and a bit away from the tourist norm, people really like us. Think it’s a cultural thing. Sharing the first name with a bastard wizard for example has often been a ice breaker

One final thing because I don’t want to linger. @RYM spoke to me regards transparency etc. His point was valid and we had a good conversation. Diplomatic disagreement but all reasonable. He mentioned at the time he got around to joining the Trust which we was the origin of our first convos. Underpinning everything it’s good to see people willing to give time to the cause. There’s lots of good the Trust do but I think it can be a lot better and the structure and format of the organisation lets it down.

In terms of the outset, this was the brief below to the front of the skills assessment Why this is important This audit is a useful way of assessing the needs of your board. It can be used it to identify training needs, recruitment assigningcommittee members and succession planning. This model can be used to help identify any knowledge, experience, skills and behaviours your board still needs to deliver their functions effectively. How to use it No individual is going to have all the skills listed in the audit. The board is a team, and the purpose of the audit is to ensure that each skill below is covered by at least one of the board membersaround the table. If there are any gaps, these can be used to inform further recruitment to the board. This exercise is designed to enable all members or potential members of the governing board or committees to set out their skills and experience whatever their backgrounds and make clear that the essential and desirable skills for governance can be acquired through a range of life experiences. The skills and knowledge sought are those which enable board members to ask the right questions, analyse data and have focussed discussions which create robust accountability for LCFC management. Without wishing to steal the thunder of the main group, I’d be party to discussions between ourselves and board members. We set out a vision of what we’d like to see. Simply don’t think that’s been acknowledged in our correspondence or actioned upon properly. That happened in the background to the skills audit (already sent off when we presented the ‘vision’). So that’s formed my decision. We aren’t party to the number who applied rather told ‘several’, so I can’t speak if 8 applied and 8 offered. Equally all of the existing board members were asked to take the skills assessment and we don’t know how that’s played out in revising the sub groups. Which is probably where I’m more peeved. Feels like business as normal. You are welcome to join the zoom call we have planned on Wednesday. Email count me in to [email protected] if you want to hear us out. I’ll let the Reform account to take over from here as not to confuse.

I’ll speak as an individual on this because I am of one them who rejected and I am equally to the centre of the reform groups I was encouraged to apply by the trust after discussions. The skills assessment by the way was understandably and quite correctly simple to fill in. As time progressed and the offer to join the sub groups was put forward to myself, I simply don’t feel that joining a sub group goes far enough to really implement really change. The status quo stays in my opinion and structure that is failing the trust remains.

Just noting the existing board and sub group members were also asked to do the skills matrix. Has there been changes there to the sub groups as an overall alongside the new members?

Vardy v Sarri would be utter box office

no I just seen this

Some interesting decor reports from the Cardigan Arms, Leeds @Miquel The Work Geordie

Talking of reaction to a friendly. For some reason I was thinking of Leuven away when we looked an utter shambles at the back and in goal. The season played out exactly like that

Yep. The costs of electric etc are static and never going to go lower. Some of these clubs are leading an arms race when in reality for some clubs they are going to be playing a lot less in comparison

Supposedly inspired by the first kits of the King Power era according to the press release. More hog wash and ignorance of the past

Club is a mirror of Thai democracy. Chilling how so many at the club comply

Yep. Utterly baffling. Some of the signs have been there hinted (one of the few things what sells out is retro!) at but never achieved. It’s madness they never did a second run of FA Cup Winners Shirt or tried to incorporate into a third shirt since. Continually whacky colours when anything hinting at a retro for third shirt would do numbers. They certainly don’t get that whacking gear out like this is alienating and affects perspection that you are just flogging tat

Seriously does this stuff sell? Who involved with retail is saying this is a good idea? Incredibly KPFC