underwhelming and unrepresentative -- that's a bit harsh, there are some seriously talented individuals in the group with good track records of involvement in various fan groups etc, as well as outside bodies.
For the record where we get the funds is that people sit around the table and several of them say they'll put their money where their mouth is and generate some funds to bid for the shares.
And in terms of the business dealings of Mr and Mrs Raaz, there is no great conspiracy; When Dick agreed to sell to the current Haven board he had only one offer on the table.
When JD informed us that Dick was transferring them just to Ralph we felt we should act, in the interests of keeping the club's ownership as diverse as possible. We made our offer to Dick and he said he felt duty bound to honour the agreement that he'd made with Ralph, as it was the gentlemanly thing to do, and to leave it up to Ralph and the rest of the BOD how to deal with our offer. Hence the formal offer being made.
Clearly that offer hasn't been accepted as it stands but the board have given a commitment to work with HH just as HH has committed to working with them. It may be that they have other ways of generating the funds we were offering or it may be that, in the near future, the club will float more shares and we will be able to invest then, who knows?
There is no big issue here, Flannerz was simply letting people know that we'd had a meeting and what we'd done on the back of it.
And in terms of a campaign to discredit the current BOD, well I'm hardly likely to be a force behind that. Up until the final week of the regular season I was a member of it so any mistakes they've made this season I've either been complicit in or at least aware of and unable to stop -- either way it does me no good, personally, to have the season's record tarnished.
