The Supporters' Trust is introducing a dedicated resource centre on our website to help co-ordinate effective but appropriate responses to supporters' concerns. This will be launched on our homepage from tomorrow morning (Thursday 31st December) and we invite organisers to submit details of their upcoming planned actions, their goals and their contact details for inclusion. Please email these details to
secretary@castrust.org.
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However, and I don't want this to sound negative, I'm uneasy with the words used in the OP - 'effective' and perhaps more importantly 'appropriate'. Does the Trust determine what is effective and/or appropriate and therefore only offer to coordinate those actions?
Would for example the Trust be prepared to consider coordinating the protest being planned for Saturday, instigated by Rick? The 'Spell it Out' campaign now switching to let's spell it out for you as in 'go now'? The call to support any possible takeover (if that's what it was) orchestrated by Reg? Removal of data from CAFC databases? Trying to understand what RM's position is on the debacle now unfolding at the Club? Season Ticket boycotts?
Would the Trust consider any/all of the above effective and appropriate?
Cake and eat it?
But maybe a good first step
From reading here the past few days and going on the reports of the reaction v Wolves it appears that the fan base is pretty unified against these muppets and surely the Trust have realised that.
This is a really good idea.
You've reached the itch but you're nowhere near the start of solving the problem.
It could have links to various articles
It could have links to fund raising efforts either the scarf one or the Davo?Curb-it one
It could list actions proposed (like for Saturday, is it in the ground or outside, is it both, what are the strongest suggestions for any walk out)
It could (yeah nanny state) suggest that chants are not gratuitously offensive or profane, but aimed to reveal our feelings, and express our wants.
...and more.
There are a lot of good reasons why a degree of co-ordination should be initiated, if only as an exchange of information.
Well done the Trust board, if anybody is worried they are a fifth column for the club then they are in a minority.
If the club wanted to know what's what, and who's who, they could easily do that with an hours effort.
I may not always agree with everything they decide to do or not do but they deserve our respect and trust (pardon the pun). They've got mine.
Anyone who gets involved in petty point scoring against fellow fans is effectively helping the current ownership, as a divided fan base is easier to control.
Divide and Rule will fail if we unite for a common goal. Management has not helped itself and most Addicks are now seeing it for what it is. The evidence demonstrates that this regime was, and is, bad news. I suggest that we should not become anxious about what comes after Duchatelet. We can't control that. What we can do is put the pressure on and bring about a situation where the owner sees fit to sell.
The hub is on our site already, and I've taken the liberty of posting the Spell It Out campaign from Henry's first post on the subject just so there's something there. I'll ask Ben/Joe directly to provide an update for that, and Rick to summarise his for the hub. It would make sense to post information regarding the fundraising too.
It may be that some campaigns will be listed a little more cryptically and link to a private area, where sensitive, but we're aiming for a 'single view' of proposed activities, not a 'view only what we want you to see'.
Hopefully we can see a unity in fans working together.
We certainly need to in this increasingly desperate situation.