StAndrew7

Just to add to the lols, Jim's statement still has a reference to the Barmarks in it, after being changed everywhere else. 🤣

You mean Wild Sheep Sports/Barmark's, yeah? That reads like you mean the Well Society! 🤣

"McMahon is now attempting to encourage others to back the Barmacks in a statement that initially spelled their name incorrectly four times, published more than an hour after voting opened on Monday morning." 💣 💣 💣 💣 💣

Not bought a Tesla yet, probs.

https://x.com/TheWellSociety/status/1810207193636966752?t=y6JssgMTmmzvzTbuW63o-g&s=19

Aye, fair play to him; he's been absolutely outstanding throughout this and so has his old man in the last fortnight or so.

I did a bit of "informing" on FB last night to one of the (many) Colins who seem to be in favour; turns out he doesn't have a vote. 🤔 😅 I kept going, as it felt like getting as much information/explanation out there was a good idea.

Pity, I felt that's the bit that really helped hammer the message home.

Mate, his name's Barmark; can't you read? I think we've all been duped here and Eric Barmark is the actual investor.

Jim McMahon's message. I feel famous; he's even quoted me:

You really had me going there 🤣

Brian McCafferty speaks out. That's him definitely off Jim's Christmas card list.

Correct; the WS shares vote as a block as a result of the vote in whatever way the majority wants.

They did this last season as well; I think Souare and Wilkinson were both injured in the last 2 minutes of a session, so they started looking at reducing timings etc. Also, see my previous... Liam Gordon is an absolute animal 🤣

Nah. We'll be laughing on our way to the bank when our #GlobalCommunityClub is a market leader in Tuvalu.

Aye I totally understand that. Definitely email the society as suggested for full answers. There will be up to date figures in the latest accounts on Companies House for the WS loan as well.

1. About 850k, I think. Can't answer the rest for certain but I'm sure others can.

I think this is absolutely true. We all know a yes vote will lead to a significant change in the WS almost immediately; there will be one person on the board as a result of resignations and the whole thing will need to be rebuilt. That could take the first 3/6/9/12* months of Barmack's reign. I would also hazard a guess that people willing to fill the spaces on the board will (in the majority, anyway) be from one "camp" of the vote, which could then lead to a nodding through of a lot of Erik's ideas without much of a challenge to them. *Delete as appropriate

I believe the biggest cause is "training with Liam Gordon".

I think I'm somewhere in between you and @Cameron_Mcd; I'd probably keep my DD going for the first 2 years but review it every 6 months or so against Erik's performance. As much as I don't want the WS to essentially fund his projects, if things don't go well the money needed to sort the buyback out and the guarantee the Club going forward per the outgoing chairman's chat at the AGM is a going to be a substantial challenge. Equally, the really snide bastard in me thinks the people that vote for this should be the ones sorting the mess out if it happens, but that's not really how it works. If it works I'll hold my hands up and admit I as wrong.

This is absolutely fucking scandalous. Surely this needs to be stopped or paused now, or at the very least his business plan removed from the supporting documentation. How on earth this got past the Club without having been checked in any capacity is absolutely horrendous. If this is the level of due diligence done on what's been provided/issued to them, this whole thing has descended into (even more of) a farce.

That mean you've decided, then? 👀 🤣

I think the thing I would point out, is that the vote is essentially for or against Erik's investment plan. If it goes through, we're effectively at his mercy because of the control he'll receive from the start. £330k for 3 seats on the board and the chairmanship. Just over 1/3 of what the WS have in the Club right now and he's receiving far more than the Society ever has. The WS's vision/proposal is designed to be worked on collaboratively with the fans, outside investors and it means we still control the Club. We can all have a say in that and get involved with it (or choose not to be); that excites me far, far more than Erik taking the reigns and, for example, spending £100k on an app, which a significant number of football media professionals have already called into question. Personally, I would remember what the our Outgoing Chairman (who is pushing so vehemently for this) said about the club in January: Why the need to rush this through, then, when there are some pretty spectacular issues still needing clarified, per @David's posts? Edit: also, just to add. The fact the Well Society had to produce the plan they did in all of this, shows just how badly the outgoing chairman has done his job over the last 3-5 years. I mentioned this before, but he spoke about "selling our story" to Netflix/Amazon at every AGM over that period and did nothing about it. Why? Because things were ticking along fine. We'd sold Moult, Turnbull, Scott, Heneghan, Kipre and others, which basically meant we were secure. We barely did any strategic thinking/projects over a significant period of time because everything was going fine and we lost a (talented, if somewhat controversial at times) Headr of Comms and then a really committed CEO to have them replaced by... no-one because the position was canned and then no-one for over a year because the candidates they interviewed all rejected the job, then they just didn't bother restarting the recruitment. We've hit the point where he now wants to leave his position and all of a sudden we're needing investment and it needs to be done NOW...

Fair enough... but how are you voting? 🤣

Which is exactly what's proposed in the Society's plan, without the need to give up 3 seats and chairmanship of the executive board and de facto control of the Club for £330k in the first year?