\jamjc64 wrote:You have to look at this quote............
Totally agree the board are just looking to sell the club & shares at a massive profit
They do not care about the future of The Arsenal only profits for themselves
What a load of bollocks. the Hill-Wood family have brought this club to were it is now. We may not agree with all the decisions the club has made, but thank fuck we live in a democracy. If they wanted to make a quick buck they shore are going a long way about it.
Face facts, we have a club with shares on the open market and although many wealthy people own them, so do a collection of small investors.
So if you really do feel that strongly and want to have an input on the clubs day to day running GO OUT AND BUY SOME BLOODY SHARES..
You may not be able to afford them but the people that do and have invested millions into it, do you really think they would jepordise thier investment and risk losing everything ?? I doubt it
It does not surprise me regarding the lack of signatures, its just not The Arsenal way. If you like turmoil the ability to cause disruption and constantly bash your club go and support Utd or the fucking Mousers.
This petition is ill conceived badly thought out and seriously lacks the class of our STILL great club.
And for that reason Im Out
What deluded rubbish. Peter Hill-Wood has sold his family's shares in the club any opportunity he has had frankly, and does not deserve to be mentioned with his forefathers who at least genuinely cared about the club. No one made him look to cash in or forced him to either, just as no one has done so to Dan Fiszman or to Lady Bracewell-Smith, who is looking for a neat profit of 100 million for all her tireless work in acquiring Sir Bracewell-Smith's shares. Which was, to be precise, to inherit control of them on his passing.
The simple truth is this - The Hill-Wood family has sold out their holdings. The Carr Family has sold out their holdings. The Bracewell-Smith family will sell out its holdings soon enough. That is reality. The Arsenal Way represented so admirably by their predecessors and forebearers in everything they did for Arsenal and how they did it has gone with them. It simply no longer applies and anyone who believes otherwise is being childishly naive.
The Arsenal Way is part of Arsenal's - and our - past now, killed in fact by choice of those entrusted to uphold it. But it is as much a part of the past as the rotary phone is now. To pretend otherwise is not merely naive but dangerous at this time, given the consequences of some these decisions already made and others that likely or possibly even will be made still.
The fact is the Arsenal Way is now little more than a facade covering over a vastly different way in which the club is operating, in the same way that Arsenal Stadium is now a facade covering over the reality that what was The Home Of Football is now home to anyone who could afford a nice upscale flat. I'd even bet there are Man United and Chelsea and Liverpool
living in Arsenal's true spritual home, maybe even - though I could never fathom doing it myself if the roles were reversed - a s***s supporter. The color of their pound notes not their football scarves was all that was considered I'd bet in their purchases.
Anyway using the Arsenal Way as an excuse not to stand up for the club when our Board won't at this point is childish. It reminds me of the bloke who said the sole reason the Club chose to re-develop Highbury was to ensure the job was done in the proper manner - even though by British law the job could be done no differently really, and to do anything significantly differently would have risked losing money on the project by any developer.
If you don't want to sign that's fine. But either way such naivete as your post betrays can only hurt Arsenal more than help it. And trust me if things go really wrong you'll just be one of many who will have to ask themselves did I do the right thing for the club ? And deny it all you want - you will ask it. We all will. Some of us just won't have to be as afraid of the answer.
The truth does hurt, doesn't it? On that you are right, and you'll know it soon enough.
