Had a Chat With A Former Gas Member of Staff.

As this is all being taken as fact, let’s actually compare it to what we know to be true from evidence in the public domain.

On GC:

Mansfield approached us twice prior to the Ipswich game, Starnes confirmed that in his interview. He also confirmed that no discussions had taken place regarding footballing matters other than the usual discussions for the January window. If one of the conversations was limiting a first team appearance to move a player on, then that in someways is just strategic management and part of every clubs management and something every manager has to put up with, especially if GC didn’t sign him in the first place. Or would you rather a player who is either not good enough/too old/too high an earner take up space on the playing budget? GC also confirmed in his interview why he left us and the pull of moving back up north to work closer to home.

Are you saying all of the above from the 2 people most closely involved is lies? If anything GC showed a complete lack of respect and loyalty towards us as a club and fans by shooting his mouth in that interview.

His salary was a complete moot point IMO. The going rate for a L1 manager is 80-100k, for league 2 it’s £50-75k. Let’s say he was on 80k, that means Mansfield are paying him £160k, which is way over book for a manager at L1 level and about £100k over book at their level which is bottom half of L2. Now I can’t believe for one minute they would be, but if they are, more fool them, we have done our bit paying massive salaries to managers.

On DC:

DC has said many times that if we get promoted that each squad member gets another year regardless. So the fact Mildy did or didn’t play at Wembley had zero bearing on his contract status. DC was true to his word for every player on promotion from the conference and L2 even when perhaps he knew it was a level too far for them. The only ones that left were the ones who wanted to leave, like Monkhouse for example, which he did for other personal reasons. The fact Mildy became pretty much first choice for L2 season says that what your ex employee said is total rubbish.

DC got a playing budget of £1.5m for the first year back in L1 which is pretty decent for a club that was taken over only 6 months previous and still working its way into the management side. DC had to work with just under £1.2m in L2 so he still got more than what he had. However when DC left, he had a spent budget of £2.65m, the largest this club has ever had and the 6th biggest in the league.

The next biggest budget we had was £2.2m under trolls. Spending money does not guarantee you success. DC spent very poorly in the last 18 months, regardless of his transfer income, he also spent fees on Nichols, Payne, Burn and Mensah, who offered a poor ROI. You can’t look at those figures and say the owners didn’t back DC. They also backed GC that same year after DC left to sign who he wanted to keep us up.

It’s funny the same people who criticise for not spending money are the same people that are critical for the rising debt level. Which do you want in this loss making business?

I would say your man has an axe to grind.

Some of the biggest BS I have seen on here has originated from you .for example your fabricated account of how you gained access to the AGM even though you are not a share holder. Practice what you preach 81/ITB

Strange isn't it.

If something isn't true but you don't realise then you don't know that you've been deceived. And I'm pretty sure that we all have been deceived at some point.

Anybody arrogant enough to think that recognising deceit is always easy is probably caught more often than most.

I always laugh at the concept of making trouble at an AGM when 92% of the shareholding is sat at the directors table.
In reality it's just gobbyness by a couple of people who think they have a right because they own a few shares.
It does make me smile when I read this.

You obviously think there has been, somewhere at least;

My comment was a general reply, not specific to any topic under discussion, just to your comment in general.

Good luck with thinking that you always know when things aren't exactly as they appear. It must be tiring scrutinising everything to that degree, or if you do have that '6th sense' then a top job as a high level analyst or maybe as a political advisor is yours for the asking. Half the country will hate you, but the other half will think you are rather spiffing and you'll get quite wealthy.

Yes, you are right, notwithstanding some truly bizarre articles of association that gave minority shareholder rights that I've never encountered, it would seem futile, but at least your question, and the response, become a matter of record.

This will change post-Covid.  The agents held all the aces before, but no longer - clubs will offer reasonable deals without the usual sell-on clauses and new contract triggers.  What I can see happening is that any decent League 1 players will move up to the Championship and League 1 and 2 teams will rely much more on home grown players and Championship cast-offs in the hope that they come good.

Nothing will change. A couple of clubs will gamble too much trying to get promoted, some will spend too much trying not to get relegated, some will spend too much to keep supporters happy and try to increase ticket sales, just about all of them will lose money.

PL players will continue to pocket enough per-month to pay a L2 squad for a year.

Most of us will see how crazy the system is, the TV  money will roll in, boosted by new converts with the 'free to air' PL advertising campaign that's about to start, and so it'll carry on.

Until you've read something?

OK, so, New York is real, we can get on a plane and go see it, Spider Man lives in New York, you can read about Spider Man, so he's real.