We don’t even know there’s an NDA about it. We know nothing. Nearly half a million quid lost and now they want us to donate more? Yeah right.

Trigger - Someone knows where it is/was, that's for sure. If they're currently scratching around for farthings in other areas, then that amount doesn't just slide off the map unnoticed.

As before that missing money is a clear example of why we may not be able to trust anything told to us or advised to us by the people responsible for determining the future of the football club. It’s an absolute trust vacuum.

If that missing money is still being sought hence the reason no one is talking about it then the legal costs by now must be part of the reason we’re running at such a loss.

And as for the idea we can survive by selling youth players. Let’s be realistic here. Assal went for 1M ish because it was a Middle East club paying. Rudoni (the much better player) went for a lot less than this. And if headbt had a bad back when he was 12 Palace would have kept him. Currie went for about half that. AAH was a gamble on someone else’s player and we had to pay them a cut to get him. And here’s the biggest WTF about the funding plan. Those three who netted us about 2M were all from the same fucking year group. They came through 5+ years ago and we haven’t seen money since.

DD/Lurker - Why would missing money qualify for an NDA, I wonder? Doesn't seem right somehow. Maybe, one day, we'll find out.

Let’s be honest. The biggest reason it’s been fucked up is a small group got so carried away with their own stadium daydream to let any objectivity be brought into things.

Pete I doubt someone investing money wouldn’t be told the full accounts. And anyone who did without them, more fool them.

Go for it Spit.

Better not criticise the ESG on here later in the year,or we might get strongly worded emails :-)

Maybe the NDA will enable the Club to share that information with the investor as part of their due diligence, Pete.

Good to hear that you'll be on the ESG, OI.

Shame for Kelle Roos it seems Notts County fans are very glad to see him go out on loan and credit their new first choice keeper for a huge uptick in form.

Would not any potential investor rightly question the missing £400k before parting with his money? The veil of secrecy which seems to surround the (so far) unknown answer could understandably scupper any negotiations, unless explained in full.

I'd have thought it wouldn't be hard to craft some forfeiture provisions (or suspension of various rights?), if they didn't cough up. Whether or not investors would buy into such an arrangement is a different question, of course.

Alan - I think there is still a casual vacancy he could take unless it has been quietly filled.

I reckon due to fielding illegitimate election bans, Trigger should get a bye in the next board

Also agree $6m the main stand always looked like a Vanity project to me and bearing how poor we have always been as a club to get outside income from advertising I never felt we would be much better at selling conference space.

We need a range of realistic options presented to us by people we can trust.

Completely agree with that 6mdm. Anything told to us last night has to be viewed through the lens of how badly the boards have performed since 2019 and how badly information has been shared in that time.

Maybe guarantee your ST seat by the end of march. Or lose it!

Because we are told reducing costs to match income is not viable without any evidence to back it up does not make it so. In the same way I challenged the need for all the conferencing facilities and extra floors in the west stand before it was built despite being told it would generate income without any credible evidence to back it up, I could not see where the demand would come from. If the club really could not survive if we lost our league place then that would be reckless by the directors to allow us to be in this position as two clubs every year lose their league place and very few have gone to the wall. Getting a seat on the board to fund ongoing losses for something others control does not seem that plausible to me. What if they stopped funding us unless they get their way? What then? You can't make them sell their shares, even if anyone could afford to buy them. You may be able to remove them from the board but that will achieve very little and you have less equity to sell to somebody else if we wanted to fully sell out.

Hash - agree it is not. The question is about the early take up of STs!

Ah, so when they reconvene, I will be invited to join the ESG it seems. Should be interesting, though it will mean having to self censor some of my opinions when it happens. Mostly I want to help frame the elections policy which the new constitution will require.

Thanks Hash - I think some won’t buy ST if the football continues to be so poor though