If you haven’t read this article could I encourage you to do so and poat a comment on the Guardian website. I am seriously thinking of running a petition demnading his resignation, or at the very least a public apology.
http://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/9629111.Plea_for_football_clubs_to_unite/
This councillor has shown a staggering level of ignorance, who would ever vote for such a person?
His simplistic view of a possible solution exposes his shortcomings.
If he does know the recent history of Vcs then he is incredibly naive in his opinion.
If he doesn’t know then he should have kept out of the discussion.
The best thing to come out of this article is the long list of comments which might help deliver the anti-Vcs message to an audience beyond those who read the sports pages.
An utter pipsqeak.
(Councillor Davies not you Dodger)
Mr. Davies may have got this issue totally wrong but I know him to be an honest and decent man who has for many years supported youth sport in our area so I think asking for his resignation is a bit over the top. He wishes to see Vics survive, nothing wrong in that, but it has to be by their own efforts not with ratepayers money and assistance from Witton.
WHS.
I don’t care what he’s like WHS for him to come out and use his position to publically insult our hardworking board I think is unforgivable, especially as in the past he has run teams that have been given free use of our Stadium.
Fair comment, but we all say things we regret later, I know I have many times. THe fact is Tom is dead wrong this time and I am sure he will reconsider his words if not the sentiments behind them.
WHS.
[quote=“WHS” post=42674]Fair comment, but we all say things we regret later, I know I have many times. THe fact is Tom is dead wrong this time and I am sure he will reconsider his words if not the sentiments behind them.
WHS.[/quote]
The difference being WHS, your opinions aren’t being made from a position of responsibility.
He should either issue an apology or stand down.
Furthermore, this is the second instance such as this that the Guardian has aired. I think we should also expect an apology from the paper.
This is only going to reignite the anti-Guardian feelings amongst Wittoners at a point when bridges have begun to be re-built.
Personally I have no issue with the guardian reporting this as how else would we have known about it? It’s clearly in everyones interest that the events of a town council meeting are reported and it is disappointing hearing the lack of an impartial view. Equally there is no need for him to go for expressing a personal opinion but he does need to fully digest the facts and i do believe an apology should be made. This football club is community owned through the shareholders, it has a thriving junior section that doesn’t cover up the names on shirts, has a senior team doing ok,owns it’s own stadium, talks and engages with it’s fanbase, is transparent and clear in it’s actions and direction it’s going. We also have a clear guarantee that if we are relocated from our current base, even though the developer has not spoke to us it’s in their plans, we will have a decent new facility if our ground is developed on. Based on that I fail to see why we should accommodate a groundshare with any team we don’t need or in this case unable to accommodate due to commitments on the pitch this and next season. It simply is not our problem and the sooner the council and councillors realise this the better. We are not the problem and we are not part of the solution.
In fairness, it seems the Guardian are being happily fed this BS from the top of the club. Hednesford have just put out the following statement:
[quote]We have been advised that the away match against Northwich Victoria FC, scheduled for Saturday 14th April, is to be played on Friday evening 13th April, 7:45pm kick off, at Leek Town FC.
The Vics, who have been leading a nomadic existence since their eviction from their ground, have tried numerous options to play the game on Saturday, as scheduled, but all of their ‘ground share’ partners are at home on that day and other options explored were not forthcoming.
We hope that this change of match date/venue does not inconvenience our supporters, who were intending to travel, too much.[/quote]
Of course, not giving much away, but it implies that maybe Hednesford asked “What about Witton” and if so, god knows what they were told.
Seems to me that JR is just going around saying what he wants and everyone is lapping it up.
An apology from Mr. Davies is I believe required, he has chosen his words extremely badly liking our board to “Children needing their heads banging together” We have a great board who only have the club and supporters interests at heart and that is how it should be. The only interest I have in Vics and I think the same applies to almost ALL Wittoners is that they lose every game!
WHS.
It seems to me that Wittoners love talking about our friends over the canal (now the Shropshire Union canal, not the Trent and Mersey). Let them go under. Leave it to the board to ensure our future, concentrate on positive news from our team. I doubt very much that Councillor Davies reads our forum anyway.
I saw a very intresting comment on this thread earlier from Cuddy`s Step Overs it seems to have disappeared? Have the censors been out? :ohmy:
Great post club_shop the guardian should do a piece on our great club with the points you stated.
Councillor Davies and the guardian should both write apologies and print them in the paper. Not only for us but for the none football fans who read the paper.
Think you must be mistaken. Definitely nothing been removed by me, and just checked behind the scenes and there’s nothing in the trash.
There was a wonderful post on the Vics forum earlier today lampooning the incredible person that has appeared there recently, freshly landed from cloud cuckoo land. That has now been deleted, even though it was not offensive and was very, very funny. Certainly appears that Rushe and his operatives are getting desperate now, and trying to apply pressure where they can.
Back to this thread’s topic - no doubt in my mind, he should make an unreserved apology and tender his resignation. Those would be the actions of a decent, honourable person, and I believe Tom Davies, despite this incident, to be a decent, honourable person. Also, the comment from Paul Dolan shows that he does not understand the situation. If the councillors are to discuss a topic, surely they have a duty to find out facts about the background first.
Fair point and maybe we should try to keep it to one thread?
That was on the “Northwich Guardian” thread not this one.