Spirit Of Shankly - March and Meeting with Gillett

[Spirit Of Shankly]

Spirit Of Shankly, Liverpool Supporters' Union, have released the following statement about Saturday's march and a meeting that took place with George Gillett - http://www.spiritofshankly.com/news/Saturd...ge-Gillett.html

Edited September 14, 2008 by Spirit Of Shankly

[Guest Snorky]

Nice one, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

[Guest Ant]

Awesome

[Guest Scot]

Really excellent work this. For what it's worth, I think meeting with Gillett is a canny move and does a great deal to enhance SOS' credibility.

[chrisbonnie]

excellent stuff lads, gillett is obviously getting wind of the events happening over here, and the march, and constant effort by SOS is making him take notice

 

im looking forward to the email, or letter us members receive about the meeting

 

we;; in lads

[stressederic]

Spirit Of Shankly, Liverpool Supporters' Union, have released the following statement about Saturday's march and a meeting that took place with George Gillett - http://www.spiritofshankly.com/news/Saturd...ge-Gillett.html

 

Really well done indeed.

[liverbird04]

Not sure what to make of this, seems more of an indication that Gillett is in it for the long haul rather than someone selling up soon.

[Rimbeux]

[JimmyF]

You couldnt trust that sneaky b*****d as far as you could throw him, it does worry me that he is trying to appease us though

[Tones]

Unfortunately no mention of selling up! but well done to SOS for meeting with him and getting the points across to him. Think this is a better way of approaching things.

[Ed the Wool]

"He also claimed that the banks were responsible for the debt being put onto the football club as a result of the credit crunch."

 

What total black f***ing lies. Him and Hicks are scum. Watching the financial news tonight, they are finished by the looks of things. If I were DIC or anyone else, I'd hold my nerve. Someone will get us for a bargain, because they'll never refinance in this market. With a bit of luck the pair of them will go bankrupt as well. Hang in, its about to get interesting, and I'm getting more confident by the day these two are finished.

[Gunga Din]

I think its time to step up the pressure on the pair of them

[Paisley]

I think its time to step up the pressure on the pair of them

 

Thing is if they'd been good owners we'd have been loyal to them too if they hit hard times, but these two are just lying, greedy scumbags. Keep turning the screw.

[ali]

From The Times

September 15, 2008

George Gillett fails to pacify critics of American ownership

Oliver Kay and Tony Evans

 

As thousands of Liverpool fans mobilised for a protest march around Anfield on Saturday, George Gillett Jr, one of the club’s owners, was launching a belated and fairly calamitous charm offensive, instigating a meeting with supporters and expressing surprise upon learning of the ill feeling towards him and Tom Hicks, his estranged business partner.

 

Members of the Spirit of Shankly (SOS) group, which was formed in January as a protest against the club’s American owners, were contacted last week to inform them that Gillett wished to meet them while on a rare visit to Merseyside. The meeting took place on Saturday morning, before kick-off against Manchester United and just before an SOS demonstration against the Americans’ ownership. Gillett had come to believe that the supporters’ group was being directed in the protest by Amanda Staveley, the head of the Dubai bid to buy Liverpool, a notion that was quickly shot down.

 

Gillett admitted that communication between himself, Hicks, Rick Parry, the chief executive, Ian Ayre, the commercial manager, and Rafael BenÍtez, the manager, could have been better. The American claimed that the club is in a healthy financial state and its situation is no worse than other Premier League clubs. When questioned why he and Hicks had, contrary to an earlier pledge, taken the club into debt with a £350 million refinancing package in January and had failed to deliver the funds to build a new stadium, Gillett blamed the global credit crunch.

 

The union delegation outlined their objections to the club’s ownership and reiterated their desire for Gillett and Hicks to end their involvement with Liverpool. These sentiments were underlined during the protest, when upwards of 3,500 fans marched to the stadium chanting “get out of our club”.

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/foo...icle4754194.ece

 

 

cheers for the mail SOS

[Gunga Din]

Thing is if they'd been good owners we'd have been loyal to them too if they hit hard times, but these two are just lying, greedy scumbags. Keep turning the screw.

 

I think the ball was dropped somewhat during the summer, but we have another home game against Stoke this weekend, so maybe we could direct a bit of stick towards Moores and Parry

[Coyler]

That article in The Times is gold.

[Zoob]

Did Gillett really "express surprise upon learning of the ill feeling towards him and Tom Hicks" ???

 

FFS a few months back the guy was saying he was receiving 3 million death threats every hour, and that was before they dumped the plans to build a new stadium and refused to sign off on Rafa's number 1 transfer target.

 

Can't stand the way both him and Hicks pretent to exist in some alternative reality and think we all fall for it.

[Coyler]

What was the link that led to an article about the "Anti-Tom Hicks Rally"? Why so called?

[lfc4eva99]

Brilliant work SOS, keep it up

[Behind Enemy Lines]

I think the ball was dropped somewhat during the summer, but we have another home game against Stoke this weekend, so maybe we could direct a bit of stick towards Moores and Parry

Keep up the pressure - yes

Moores & Parry - no

 

The protest has to remain focused

[Gomez]

I think the ball was dropped somewhat during the summer, but we have another home game against Stoke this weekend, so maybe we could direct a bit of stick towards Moores and Parry

 

To what end?

 

Seriously some of our fans need to stop trying to change the past and get with the here and now.

[Mike]

To what end?

 

Seriously some of our fans need to stop trying to change the past and get with the here and now.

 

like the s*n boycott you mean

[Guest Ant]

I understand the ill feeling towards Parry and Moores, however it's the yanks first, them second. They have no power no influence, and by all accounts know they've screwed up.

 

They are not the issue atm

[Hassony]

I understand the ill feeling towards Parry and Moores, however it's the yanks first, them second. They have no power no influence, and by all accounts know they've screwed up.

 

They are not the issue atm

 

Agreed on the whole, it would still be good to get the message through the media that those two clowns have f***ed us over

[Stevie H]

Agreed on the whole, it would still be good to get the message through the media that those two clowns have f***ed us over

doesn't achieve a thing really. besides which, whoever owns us next parry will be out of a job regardless.