From The Supporter's Meeting
By Phil Sumbler - Jackarmy.net
4/1/2002
Last night
around 100 Swansea fans attended a meeting,
organised by Reeco in the Patti Pavilion. These
were Swansea fans fed up of the way the club has
been shafted and wanted to know what they could
do to help, no matter how little.
Four speakers took to the floor - Reeco himself,
Lee Wallis, Mike Kent and Lorraine (apologies but
her surname escapes me) All gave speeches on how
this club should survive well into the 21st
century and gave differing reasons on what we
could do.
Lee Wallis has kindly given us his speech for
those that were not there to read. I'll leave you
in Lee's words.....
"Some 90 years ago, on the 14th of June 1912
a meeting was held at the royal hotel to see the
birth of league football in the city by the
pioneer of the swans jack w Thorpe.
His vision was to have a club competing in the
highest standard of football in the country, and
since then we have seen this proud club top the
highest league and grace Wembley stadium.
Thousands of local people and those from further
a field have contributed to the support and
running of this city's football team to make it
the institution it is, churning out a vast array
of famous internationals far too many to mention
here tonight.
Now we see ourselves at a very different meeting
nearly a century on, fighting for the survival of
arguably one of the most successful teams Wales
has ever seen.
now I could go into all the ins and outs of
Petty's despotic regime, but that has been done
in the last few weeks as i am sure you have all
seen. We are all sure that this parasite is not
here for the good of our club, as he has zero to
contribute, and clearly sees the Morfa as a money
making venture.
So this brings me to the reason why we are here
tonight. What can we do you may ask? Well,
individually not a lot, but as a unit i am sure
we can put a great deal of pressure on the
hierarchy at the club. I am sure as Reeco has
told you we can involve the media with protest
.but I also think that pressure on sponsors and
contributors will have a telling affect on the
finances of Mr Petty and force him to leave
sooner rather than later. You can do this in
letter form, e-mail, or a simple phone call to
let them know (politely) that you oppose their
support of the current board and not the club
itself, and that you would prefer not to use
their services if they continue to contribute to
Mr Petty's funds but would wholeheartedly support
them once either he is removed or they withdraw
funding.
Also don't buy match programmes, food or
beverages inside the vetch, believe me it will
all add up.
Be in no doubt, that while harming the club under
its present owner you will not be responsible for
its demise, because there are people waiting in
the wings who have worked tirelessly on the legal
aspects of acquiring the club, be it put into
administration.
We can not let people keep on looking at this
club as solely a money making venture, it is an
integral part of the community in which we live,
and I know as surely you do that it has to be run
on a self sufficient basis by people who want it
to be a success ,not out of monetary gain, but
for the pride and enjoyment of the people of
Swansea and west Wales itself. Mel nurse and his
consortium are those people, people who are
willing to put a substantial amount of their own
money in (not like the cockney wide boy and the
alcoholic kid) and try and make something out of
this terrible situation that all the previous
money men have put us in .So please show your
support to them, write to your MP's, the council,
and even the judge who was taken in by this
conman, and let them know your concerns and your
support for the newco consortium.
Finally, I would like to thank reeco for asking
me to speak, and you for your support by turning
up together we can beat these guttersnipes, as
Churchill once said WHAT IS
OUR AIM?.......VICTORY, VICTORY AT ALL COSTS,
VICTORY HOWEVER LONG AND HARD THE ROAD MAY BE;
FOR WITHOUT VICTORY THERE IS NO SURVIVAL."
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