What about the high percentage of supporters who do not support the Trust? Is the difference between "them" and "us" really down to ten quid?
Supporters Direct from what I have seen really does very little for them. It's more of a political tool that is used by those who want the high five or six figure salaries.
I think there will always be detractors at the way the club is run, it's just a fact of supporting a football club. There were many detractors when Reames was in charge, yet he wasn't the sort of chairman to fleece us like a number of chancers have with clubs in the League over time. You could say he stayed there so long because there simply wasn't any other viable alternative and gave way when he saw one. His legacy if you like is the stadium which is owned by the football Club and not by a penny pinching local authority or greedy landlord.
6 years on and at the moment where are the tangible benefits of the Trust having a major say in the way the club operates? There might be a lick of paint here and a new sign there and the Centrespot might be now known as the Trust Suite, but people will still refer to it as the Centrespot. On the down side we have spiralling ticket prices and still the same old issues with customer service at the club, which still stinks in my experience.
Thats not down to just the Trust I know, but "onwards and upwards" isn't really happening, in my opinion - both on and off the pitch. We are standing still or slowly moving backwards - again my opinion but if people want honesty than thats what they are going to get.
In any business it's about changing the customers perception, it's time that the supporters and fans were seen as "customers" and not as "consumers", just taking anything because it's got LCFC on it.