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Post by farawaystone on Jun 28, 2021 8:52:35 GMT
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Post by jdl on Jun 29, 2021 21:59:36 GMT
Terry's views on the NL: "Away from playing matters, we are continuing to pursue the National League over the way that their board of directors ignored clear directives from the DCMS to distribute the £10million funding from Camelot and proceeded to give themselves substantially more money than they could ever have received in gate receipts. We will have our day in court because what happened was so blatantly unjust that we feel that we must expose the league for their ineptitude. (my highlight) The final nail in the National League’s coffin of integrity came last week with the appointment of a new chairman, a person who was largely responsible for the hopelessly skewed distribution of a £10 million grant, so generously given, but then shared out with so little integrity or honesty. The National League statement of how the appointment was made and how the decision to appoint Jack Pearce was done fairly – following due process – leaves me with nothing but cynicism. This is the same National League that refuses to release the independent review panel’s findings, that still refuses to give any explanation as to how they calculated the October distribution, that seems to have no recollections of their conversations with DCMS about how the grants would be turned into loans after January and the same league that conveniently has never kept any minute or records of any of the meetings. Does the executive of the league expect us to believe that the appointment was made fairly and with due process in the light of what has gone on before? As I said I can only feel the deepest cynicism. It is regrettable that our expectations of the management’s honesty and governance of football is at an all-time low." Extract from Terry's blog on the OS - www.maidstoneunited.co.uk/2021/06/directors-blog-terry-casey-2/
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Post by 61666 on Jun 30, 2021 7:25:47 GMT
Staggering arrogance from the NL Board and classic dictatorship tactics. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The solution appears simple: make the NL Premier part of the Football league, as League Three. Being absorbed by the FL would get rid of the NL dead wood and leave NLS and NLN with running the two leagues properly.
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Post by porkystone on Jul 1, 2021 12:02:11 GMT
Some snippets from the AGM:
' Ollie Bayliss @ollie_Bayliss · 44m I understand Barnet chairman Anthony Kleanthous was not re-elected to the National League Board at today’s AGM. '
Good is the only response to that news ?
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Post by porkystone on Jul 22, 2021 11:10:37 GMT
Tracey Crouch weighs in against the National League:
' Ollie Bayliss @ollie_Bayliss · 38m The interim findings and recommendations of the government's 'Fan Led Review of Football Governance', led by Tracey Crouch MP '
( see Ollie's tweet )
"I would recommend urgent reform of the National League Board and voting structures as it is clear that a significant part of the league has no confidence in the current set up."
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Post by davec on Jul 22, 2021 13:11:45 GMT
I am not a tory but i wish she was P.M.
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Post by Bernie on Jul 22, 2021 13:29:06 GMT
She’s a brilliant MP. Never forget her resigning when the government tried to delay her Fixed Odds Betting Terminal reforms. Whatever your party, definitely someone you want on your side.
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Post by pinkpanther on Jul 22, 2021 16:30:58 GMT
Tracey Crouch was fantastic in helping Dulwich Hamlet during her time as Sports Minister.. She got personally involved and started banging heads together to resolve the club's problems in being evicted from its ground by the landlords. I know she has FA coaching badges and is actively involved in coaching a junior team n her constituency. It's clear from reading her Twitter feed that she's a genuine sports fanatic with very positive outlook towards all sports.
Jack Pearce was the worst possible appointment as National League chairman. He's part of the problem, so he certainly won't be the solution. He was previously vice chairman to Brian Barwick and I understand it was primarily his decision to abandon the original plan to divide the lottery grant funding according to average gate receipts in favour of giving every club at each level the same amount, with 60% of the money going to the one third of clubs in the top division. Someone who is well placed to know recently described Pearce to me as "the most objectionable man in football" and "totally corrupt". He'll be running the league like his personal fiefdom if he isn't stopped, and anyone who objects need to push for anything that can help Tracey Crouch and her colleagues take him down before he causes any more damage. He's the type of old school blazer who believes in fixing things behind closed doors and persuading enough people to support him with a mixture of promises and threats before anyone else can challenge him through the proper channels. He sits on more FA committees than you can shake a stick at (at national, regional and county level) and having had to drop his place on the Isthmian League management committee (which he held as chairman of Bognor Regis Town) due to his new role at the National League, he's apparently managed to get Bognor's secretary appointed in his place. Any club attempting to pursue a legitimate grievance can't get anywhere without encountering Jack Pearce at every turn. It sounds like he's the main reason clubs were unable to get anywhere with our appeal against the sanctions imposed by the National League for non-fulfilment of fixtures. He is not a fit and proper person to be involved in football administration beyond his own club and needs to go.
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Post by jdl on Jul 22, 2021 23:44:01 GMT
Crouch was also a great supporter of Radio Caroline getting its new 648 mw frequency four years ago - the first time Caroline had been back on medium wave permanently since November 1990.
It's very odd that the only MP who actively supports the two things closest to my heart should be a Tory! Although, from what I know of her, I can't really understand why she is a Tory.
Interesting comparison with our own MP, also from a 'liberal' backround, and on the left of the party (in theory). Whilst Crouch supports local causes and fights for things that are not traditionally Tory concerns - even being prepared to put her career on the line - our own dear MP keeps her head down and votes for every crackpot Tory idea that Johnson and his merry band of Brexiteers puts up. Even as Sports Minister she was of little use to us.
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Post by Tstone on Jul 23, 2021 6:57:41 GMT
Crouch was also a great supporter of Radio Caroline getting its new 648 mw frequency four years ago - the first time Caroline had been back on medium wave permanently since November 1990. It's very odd that the only MP who actively supports the two things closest to my heart should be a Tory! Although, from what I know of her, I can't really understand why she is a Tory. Interesting comparison with our own MP, also from a 'liberal' backround, and on the left of the party (in theory). Whilst Crouch supports local causes and fights for things that are not traditionally Tory concerns - even being prepared to put her career on the line - our own dear MP keeps her head down and votes for every crackpot Tory idea that Johnson and his merry band of Brexiteers puts up. Even as Sports Minister she was of little use to us. I seem to remember she was a guest at one match at the Gallagher and didn't know what league we played in
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Post by davec on Jul 23, 2021 9:37:08 GMT
Crouch was also a great supporter of Radio Caroline getting its new 648 mw frequency four years ago - the first time Caroline had been back on medium wave permanently since November 1990. It's very odd that the only MP who actively supports the two things closest to my heart should be a Tory! Although, from what I know of her, I can't really understand why she is a Tory. Interesting comparison with our own MP, also from a 'liberal' backround, and on the left of the party (in theory). Whilst Crouch supports local causes and fights for things that are not traditionally Tory concerns - even being prepared to put her career on the line - our own dear MP keeps her head down and votes for every crackpot Tory idea that Johnson and his merry band of Brexiteers puts up. Even as Sports Minister she was of little use to us. I seem to remember she was a guest at one match at the Gallagher and didn't know what league we played in You maybe right but i think that may have been Helen Grant
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Post by jdl on Jul 23, 2021 9:47:47 GMT
I seem to remember she was a guest at one match at the Gallagher and didn't know what league we played in You maybe right but i think that may have been Helen Grant He means Helen Grant. I'm sure Tracy Crouch would have known everything about the club. I wonder if she has been to any games? We're not in her constituency, of course, but I'm sure a little detail like that wouldn't worry her!
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Post by Bernie on Jul 23, 2021 11:19:41 GMT
Tracey Crouch visits Chatham Town regularly, as they are in her constituency.
I read several years ago that Grant not only doesn’t live in the town, but lives in another county. Don’t know if that’s still true.
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Post by jdl on Jul 23, 2021 14:14:05 GMT
Tracey Crouch visits Chatham Town regularly, as they are in her constituency. I read several years ago that Grant not only doesn’t live in the town, but lives in another county. Don’t know if that’s still true. She's a classic career politition.
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Post by gromley on Jul 23, 2021 18:59:57 GMT
It's very odd that the only MP [Tracey Crouch] who actively supports the two things closest to my heart should be a Tory! Although, from what I know of her, I can't really understand why she is a Tory. Interesting comparison with [ONE OF]our own MP[ s ], also from a 'liberal' backround, and on the left of the party (in theory). Whilst Crouch supports local causes and fights for things that are not traditionally Tory concerns - even being prepared to put her career on the line - our own dear MP keeps her head down and votes for every crackpot Tory idea that Johnson and his merry band of Brexiteers puts up. Even as Sports Minister she was of little use to us. Different forms of pragmatism I suspect. It is often said that a pig in a blue rosette would win pretty much and seat in Kent (excepting the student republic of Canterbury) - I'll make no comment on how this reflects on Maidstone's two current MPs. Tracey as far as I can see is Kent through and through and therefore if she wanted to get into politics and represent the County - there was only one real avenue available. AFAICS TC's parliamentary record is largely politically neutral - defying the government on issues she believes in. OTOH "the Helens" seem to have adopted a different form of pragmatism - "I want to be an MP so I need to be selected in Kent and then I will get in on the nod." I have completely lost interest in Grant, so cannot really comment. Whately on the other hand seemed quite charming and helpful to start with until I challenged her on backing the infamous Dominic Cummings road-trip. Apparently from that point she was not prepared to talk to me unless I proved my name and address. It is a real shame IMHO that the constituency system means even faced with an ineffectual, morally vapid, careerist MP - I really actually have no vote. Unless I have missed something, Whately has also done nothing about any of the representations she has received on football governance. Maidstone (if not the whole of Kent) is I am saddened to say a "Rotten Borough".
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