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Katie. Good evening. i hope this is not taking you away from your antiques roadshow ! thanks for your message. One quick thing - I am NOT happy with the current set up. These things are hard to explain face to face never mind on a bulletin board, but i think our current audience has now been through a few months of full and frank discussion, so i hope this is not going to be misunderstood.

After the salisbury game (and go back to see my posts if you have the time), I told you all that I wanted to look forward, not backwards, and that despite my clear and obvious differences of opinion with David O Neil, i felt it was important for the club to be united after such an awful few months. In this respect I wanted to ensure that I was true to my word, and that my actions matched my words. Thats why in the past week, when it woudl have been easy for me to simply point the other way, I must stand up and take responsibility for the oversight. My view (however) is that if I can ensure there is transparency, and that I can be available on this site to answer all qustions, then we can continue to move forward on this incredible journey.

One more thing. I fully appreciate that this board is not read by many beyond the hard core fans, and that we have only limited access. However, its a start, and since I made my commitment to be available for all questions to fans and the community, I think this is the best forum that i can think of.

Finally, Katie, just on DON etc on a personal basis, I really have avoided, and will continue to avoid personal comment. right now the club is foremost. I cant recall if you were at the recent shareholder meeting, but you will have seen at that time when the last petition was still fresh in our minds, I totally accepted responsibility. And now, with this recent screw up, Please do not blame DON but please blame me.

Ilyas