Re: ASSF response to The Dons programme notes ...
The real thing that gets me about all of this is that EVERYBODY is right. I have spoken to many people of all walks of life, ages, professions and everybody has an opinion and many of them differ from person to person.
Ilyas has been trying to make the club come clean about the true nature of its accounts. Should this be done he is/was willing to put money in. The club wasn't able or willing to divulge this information so a man with more wealth than the rest of the fan base put together is/was unwilling to shed any more of his money.
The thing that got me about the Dons statement is that he accused the ASSF of not being true fans - well you all know me and Loweiy and Valarian and UK Cowboy and Accy Mad and that statements cuts me to the core. The other aspect was that he said that ASSF was offered the chance to buy the club when it wasn't - so that is a bare faced lie.
There is a statement on here that says this business should be conducted privately and it is right.
But I also believe that the club itself has damaged the fundraising effort by not actually spearheading the campaign, by not being seen to be on the frontline and in the trenches, by not having its Chairpersons, Co-Chairman and directors out there physically knocking on doors. Last week was a no mention week as far as fundraising was concerned and that allowed seeds of doubt to be sown in everybodies heads. I'm not happy about any aspect of this campaign but the only option I see is to carry on fundraising because until we know different that is what we are expected to do.
I'm not on anyones side in all this but both sides have the right to express opinion and to defend themselves.
The club thinks that it can dig itself out of this hole and ASSF and Ilyas think that they can't. The worry is that if it can't ASSF will be able to do nothing about it until it is too late (as far as admin and points deduction is concerned) and that may jeopardise our league position.
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