Supporters Club hail ‘positive’ Ryder talks
The Port Vale Supporters club have hailed a “positive” meeting with prospective Vale owner Keith Ryder. The meeting took place on Friday and lasted around two hours.
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The Supporters Club is a group of loyal Port Vale fans who meet up regularly to discuss events at Vale Park. They also arrange a series of events and initiatives to benefit the football club.
The Port Vale Supporters club have hailed a “positive” meeting with prospective Vale owner Keith Ryder. The meeting took place on Friday and lasted around two hours.
Influential Port Vale columnist Martin Tideswell says that “we have to accept that some Port Vale fans will never be happy.” Tideswell adds: “I would have thought that everyone would realise there is still a need for us all to be pulling in the same direction.
Administrator Bob Young has told an open fans meeting that three bids have been formally made to take over Port Vale FC. Young, along with fellow joint-administrator Gerald Krasner, answered questions from an audience of around 350 supporters at an open fans’ meeting held at Vale Park on Wednesday night.
The next open meeting of the Port Vale Supporters Club will be held at Vale Park on 28th March 2012. The meeting starts at 7pm in the Directors Restaurant, where Administrators Begbies Traynor will give fans an update on their progress in finding a buyer for the club.
The Port Vale Supporters Club have handed the club £15,000. The money will be used to cover the cost of the Port Vale team coach for the last two away trips to Accrington and Crawley and will also be used to fund all remaining away team travel and overnight accommodation costs.
Port Vale administration confirmed: the inevitable has been confirmed after the club’s hearing at High Court in Birmingham concluded on Friday lunchtime.
A meeting of the Port Vale Supporters Club on Sunday saw the group launch a hardship fund to help Port Vale’s fight for survival. Chairman Pete Williams said: “The fund is to help the club with any running costs they may need, such as travel expenses, or for employees who need immediate financial assistance.
Influential Port Vale columnist Martin Tideswell says “The smart money is on us not even making it to an AGM/EGM. It won’t be held in the Robbie Williams suite, that’s for sure.” He adds: “Meanwhile, Messrs Lloyd and Deakin – finally realising the game is up – have held talks with the Supporters’ Club’s solicitor. […]
The Sentinel newspaper claims that former Chairman Peter Miller resigned over the weekend. The move leaves the board below the legal number required to operate the business and has prompted the remaining directors to hold an emergency meeting with the Supporters Club, who are seeking to remove them.
Shareholders can find out more about the club’s proposed iterim board candidates on the recently launched Port Vale Supporters Club website.
A copy of the Supporters Club Q&A document from 2011 with the board detailing various answers about their intentions and the Blue Sky deal.
Former director Paul Humphreys urged fans to back the Supporters Club proposed interim board during a well attended meeting at Smallthorne Victory WMC. Humphreys is one of six candidates proposed as a replacement interim board. The Supporters Club hope the interim board will be voted in by shareholders at the forthcoming EGM.
The Supporters Club have issued a statement following Tuesday’s open meeting. Chairman Pete Williams also reassures all fans that: “irrespective of what happens in the coming weeks, the Supporters’ Club is committed to removing Messrs Lloyd, Deakin, Oliver and Miller.”
In his latest column, OVF founder Rob Fielding says that he’s not surprised that Vale fans are worried that the board may still have some dirty tricks up their sleeves. And with that in mind he urges fans to contribute to tonight’s meeting: to raise questions and concerns and also to show the Supporters’ Club […]
The Port Vale Supporters Club has announced that the EGM which aims to remove the discredited board will take place on March 13. The date is the same day as the club’s scheduled AGM.
The Chairman of the Port Vale Supporters Club has hit out at the board’s plans to allow owners of nil-paid shares to vote in shareholder meetings. Chairman Pete Williams told the Sentinel newspaper: “I don’t feel that morally the club should use them. This would just create more bad feeling between the board and the […]
In his latest “One Vale View” column, Rob Fielding writes that an OVF poll showing over 95% of fans have no faith in the current board is a “damning assessment of the current board. Fielding argues that “it looks like another huge wedge has been driven between the board and fans” and that “the board […]
In his latest “One Vale View” column, Rob Fielding argues that the club need to stop hiding behind their “no comment” statement on the Blue Sky International (BSI) investment and face the fans’ questions. Fielding argues that it’s in the club’s best interests to face the fans at Thursday’s Supporters Club meeting, but he won’t […]
In his latest “One Vale View” column, Rob Fielding says the recent silence from the club is worrying. Rob says “one of the key issues with the previous regime was the lack of open and honest communication” and if the club don’t re-engage with the supporters then they can hardly be surprised when the fans […]
Port Vale columnist Martin Tideswell says that while the campaign for change is a “huge gamble” he is still annoyed by “those fans who have sat idly by through the whole process – slating the current board and bemoaning the actions of the Supporters’ Club while offering no alternative to the status quo.”
The official Port Vale Supporters Club are inviting applications to join the forthcoming interim board and also announced details of another Supporters Club meeting.
The official Port Vale Supporters’ Club have hit out at the club’s board and accused them of “hiding behind spurious arguments to justify not talking to supporters and the media.” The Supporters’ Club adds that: “Mike Lloyd’s comments are thoroughly disingenuous given that the directors have not communicated with supporters and shareholders for some weeks […]
The official Port Vale Supporters’ Club has issued a statement urging fans to keep the pressure on the board by demonstrating at every forthcoming game – both home and away.
Outgoing CEO Perry Deakin has caused outrage with the revelation that he will remain in his post at least until March despite resigning in November. The news emerged on Wednesday after a group of fans visited Vale Park demanding the CEO’s immediate exit. After club officials met the group, Deakin was (somewhat bizarrely) given a […]
Almost 97% of over 2,000 Vale fans polled during Monday’s Port Vale versus Cheltenham Town game have backed the Supporters’ Club call for an EGM. The group polled 2,147 fans at the Cheltenham clash, with 2,074 – or 96.6 per cent – of them supporting the action.
The official Port Vale Supporters Club have criticised the “misleading” financial information which has come from the club’s board and are concerned that fans are again being “misled” The group have issued a statement on Wednesday 28th December which reads as follows.
Port Vale have announced that of Chief Executive Perry Deakin has resigned and is “working his notice period.” This news will come as a surprise to Vale fans reading Friday’s Sentinel in which Deakin criticised an unknown club official for “bad advice” but indicated he would not resign.