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Originally Posted by Doug

I think the original aim was clearly a public appeal to save the club; then and only if that appeal fell short would the club itself input; this would be in the from of making up the difference prior to payment, not necessarily contribution/donation to the SOS appeal. This could well be the reason you don’t see donations in to the SOS Fund directly across the board from Directors/Chairs has they will have anticipated having to top up the fund before the final outcome was resolved.

Look at macca's post at 13.26. The public appeal was NEVER going to raise over £300,000 in 8 weeks. But what a morale booster it would have been if the powers-that-be could have been seen to be a driving force behind the appeal from the very start, and got the whole thing underway with a substantial initial contribution. You only have to look at so many posts as the weeks have gone by to see the increasing cynicism. In fact, by not even providing regular updates, the club is giving the appearance of hardly bothering at all. The DON could well have been saying "Please can you all help to save my business", thus relying on the emotional commitment to the club that so many of us have, but even that lacked any sort of conviction or commitment to a cause. All that we've had, in effect, is "Don't worry; we'll be ok."

As macca said, the policy is losing us a lot of friends and will continue to do so.