Foxes Trust latest statement!

[RYM]

Just saw this on the old Facebook...

 

Strange it's not been posted on here by the trust. And the timing?

 

https://foxestrust.co.uk/11580/foxes-trust-in-dialogue-with-lcfc

 

"On Wednesday evening last week and yesterday evening, Foxes Trust Co-Chairs, Lynn and Steve, met with Susan Whelan (CEO), other LCFC directors, members of the Supporter Engagement team, and the supporter representatives on the LCFC Fan Advisory Board(FAB). These were open meetings, with frank and candid discussions about the on-field situation, management decisions, finances and supporter anger and disappointment. It was helpful to meet with and witness how the FAB members were not afraid to ask difficult questions of Susan. It was also interesting to note her passion for the club in responding and wanting to provide answers, subject to confidentiality. There was a genuine desire to take on-board views from a supporter perspective and to explore possible solutions, short- and long-term.

We cannot detail the comments and questions asked by others, nor the answers given, as we agreed to abide by the confidentiality imposed on the FAB. We have posed relevant questions and queries, and provided feedback on answers from the Club and other participants. We will maintain dialogue with the Club, and a further meeting is planned for next week."

 

[RYM]

Unsure what to make of it.

 

Some words are better than none? or a completely cowardly way to say they won't be shouting at the club tomorrow (ever) because the club have promised to come back to them on something again and don't want to jeopardise that.....again....!

 

I'm not convinced the trust should even be giving the club or the FAB any credibility at all right now. Both are an absolute mess and a disgrace in their current formats!

 

To call this Fan Engagement is also laughable when it's just a meeting.

 

“FAB weren’t afraid to ask difficult questions” is a pathetic thing to say. They may have mentioned something but I can guarantee they didn’t say “answer this by X or else......” , and if they did it’s another empty threat. The Trust say they aren't a protest group but at some point they have to turn on the club to have any credibility (if they have any left). Very nearly getting slightly cross at Susan isn't holding the club accountable.This is all the FAB / Trust do. Get a bit frustrated and then sit back while the club come back to them in their own time.....ad nauseam.  

 

I could be wrong, make of it what you will but the timing? Slightly yellow maybe?

[Daggers]

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These were open meetings, with frank and candid discussions about the on-field situation, management decisions, finances and supporter anger and disappointment. It was helpful to meet with and witness how the FAB members were not afraid to ask difficult questions of Susan. It was also interesting to note her passion for the club in responding and wanting to provide answers, subject to confidentiality. There was a genuine desire to take on-board views from a supporter perspective and to explore possible solutions, short- and long-term.

 

 

[Clogger_]

What on earth is that rubbish? Another group of KP sycophants. Purge needed so badly at our club

[adam]

What a shower of ***** them lot are. In it for themselves and no one else. As long as they get their free cheese cobs and cups of tea down Seagrave three times a year all is well. What's the point in a statement like that.

[Nolucklcfc]

If it’s not shared with the winder fanbase, what’s the point? 

[CosbehFox]

Just now, adam said:

What a shower of ***** them lot are. In it for themselves and no one else. As long as they get their free cheese cobs and cups of tea down Seagrave three times a year all is well. What's the point in a statement like that.

I wish that was the case. Be lucky if you get some water 

[adam]

Just now, CosbehFox said:

I wish that was the case. Be lucky if you get some water 

The foxes Trust must at least get a biscuit.

[SK3Blue]

Another shiteshower, about as useful as Edouard. 

[AjcW]

Leaving the statement to one side...

 

3 meetings in the space of 2 weeks shows they're absolutely shitting themselves at least?

[andrewsfoxes]

Bunch of tossers!

[AjcW]

1 minute ago, SK3Blue said:

Another shiteshower, about as useful as Edouard. 

Hey! You leave Odsonne alone!!!

 

[Iwebema]

Minus the confidentiality nonsense (can someone please read the room) on the face of it, it sounds positive, but our experience of what the foxestrust deem as "frank and candid" doesn't fill me full of hope that we were well represented...but I guess we will never know, still waiting to find out if anyone was held to account for the worst relegation in premier league history....

[Clogger_]

Thank you RYM for keeping us abreast of goings on with those FT muppets. It's interesting - if disheartening - to hear about another way in which the interests of the fanbase are misrepresented and ignored

[CosbehFox]

I’ll step in here and I might get told off but I want people to understand the thinking and provide some context. I’m genuinely interested as a new board member to understand motives and get the feedback in how people want the Trust to follow. 
 

The Trust contacted the club post Fulham home with a whole series of concerns. I can vouch that these concerns were pretty much monumentally shared by the fanbase. PSR, strategy, planning etc. 

 

As a result of that contact, the opportunity to have a meeting and conversations opened up. It’s highly frustrating that the nature of FAB means the content of those conversations have to remain private. 
 

The board felt that there was a need to illustrate that the Trust was holding the club to account. Now there’s a whole argument about the balancing act of maintaining communication with the club and not. It’s a thorny subject where you can argue either way. 
 

Retrospectively the timing is clumsy and off but we wanted to give an update as opposed to silence when the accusation is often the Trust are doing nothing. 
 

Genuinely I want to hear people’s views but I want people to understand that there’s a genuine attempt to get over the feeling of the fanbase to the club. 
 

As a new board member, it’s an area which massively needs improving that engagement of its own members, making sure you are heard, happy to be PM’d here. 
 

The ideas that the Trust receive any favourable benefit is minimal, other than free hosting of events, which has a community society in a central Leicester location, you’d want to take advantage of 

Edited 14 February by CosbehFox

[CosbehFox]

8 minutes ago, adam said:

The foxes Trust must at least get a biscuit.

No, having sat in the room at mu first board meeting. You’d be lucky if the club even turn the heating on 

[lanefox]

8 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Leaving the statement to one side...

 

3 meetings in the space of 2 weeks shows they're absolutely shitting themselves at least?

And that insufferable cvnt Rudkin not mentioned about at all

[RYM]

12 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Leaving the statement to one side...

 

3 meetings in the space of 2 weeks shows they're absolutely shitting themselves at least?

Nah not at all. Playing the “we listen” , “we’ve even had more meetings than normal” cards. Easy PR wins by the club to those they can make dance by tickling their tummies. 

Meetings that have concluded zero and that IMO should not have been entertained by any fan groups/ fans with the FAB and club in such states.

 

Don’t forget the club haven’t created these FE groups for us fans, but purely because they have to by EPL regulations and because the FSA promised to flash this “best practice” to all other clubs if the club played ball. The club played ball, but with their own ball and the Trust let it all happen.

Edited 14 February by RYM

[Skidmark]

The Foxes Trust are part of the problem also.

 

False entity with no backbone, secret meetings and a useless Quango made up of people who think they're something that they aren't.

[Philkeavo]

Foxes Trust = Useful Idiots.

 

Don't you realise you’re being played. Naive fools.

[OadbyBlue]

What is the purpose of such a statement, if they can’t even divulge to us plebs what was discussed?

[CosbehFox]

1 minute ago, Skidmark said:

The Foxes Trust are part of the problem also.

 

False entity with no backbone, secret meetings and a useless Quango made up of people who think they're something that they aren't.

That can be effectively changed if people want to put the time and effort into it. 

[Jackubu]

4 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

The board felt that there was a need to illustrate that the Trust was holding the club to account. Now there’s a whole argument about the balancing act of maintaining communication with the club and not. It’s a thorny subject where you can argue either way. 

But the board hasn't demonstrated that. It's the complete opposite 

[lfu]

4 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

It’s highly frustrating that the nature of FAB means the content of those conversations have to remain private. 

I appreciate your post, however with other clubs (I have Everton under Kenwright/Moshiri in mind) the contents of those conversations would be publicised, through official means or unofficial, by the supporters groups whether the club directors/FAB liked it or not

[oxtonfox]

Love to know what the review into the relegation of 2022-23 season actually came up with. What went wrong and who was accountable? Will it be revealed ? or have we got to wait 30 years?