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There's probably a very good chance a few of those were blocked before he took the role at SAFC. Don't think you can blame anyone for removing people they don't want on their personal social media. I've done it plenty of times but if these same people wanted help or needed to get in touch through professional channels then I would have been there every step of the way to help where I could.
I think what's happened is obviously he's been appointed and people have thought "I'll go and follow him on twitter" and then discovered he's already blocked them and they had no idea having never been in contact with him. He can do it as you say, but it won't have done him any favours in terms of the impression created.
 
Do you not think SD was making stuff up about his Daughter being forced to go home with 3 SAFC supporters before he then had a laugh with them?

i’ve nothing personal against Sloanes, but they all allowed SD to pretty much blame & criticise Rawa and fans for everything during that meeting including telling a fan to shut up. The fact he blocked everyone on twitter who dared to disagree or ask him why tells you all you need to know

No idea if it was correct or not but I've no doubt that one or two are capable of taking things too far and I'd like to think Stewart Donald wouldn't make up something as ridiculous as that.

Obviously the fan base are going to claim he's wrong whereas the board members who know Stewart are likely to believe him. Nature of the beast.

These meetings are always going to be fiesty with both sides fighting their own corner. I've worked closely with the RAWA and hope to again in the future and have no doubt they wouldn't take offence to anything said in that meeting and they're still around the table now so the comments clearly didn't upset them.
I think what's happened is obviously he's been appointed and people have thought "I'll go and follow him on twitter" and then discovered he's already blocked them and they had no idea having never been in contact with him. He can do it as you say, but it won't have done him any favours in terms of the impression created.

I agree with this but think it's harsh to expect Sloanes to keep everyone on his socials on the off chance he lands a role on the board. His twitter account is his personal account, nowt to do with the club.
 
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Really? We were on the slide quite significantly. We'd gone off the boil completely and looked as bad as when PP took over.

In the last four games before the season ended we were dicked by Bristol Rovers, drew at home to Gillingham, were beaten by Coventry and drew with Fleetwood. All shit teams who are back in with us next season.

I wouldn't have put a penny on us going up, we weren't up to it.

I had these debates privately at the time and my opinion hasn't changed. I think we had every chance of finishing in the top 6. This league is so poor that 1 victory was enough to fire us up towards the top 2 nevermind the top 6. Do you genuinely believe we stood no chance of winning another game? Rotherham, who "finished" 2nd, were looking every bit as poor as anyone in the league. Someone would have had to go up at some stage. Why not us?
 
Really? We were on the slide quite significantly. We'd gone off the boil completely and looked as bad as when PP took over.

In the last four games before the season ended we were dicked by Bristol Rovers, drew at home to Gillingham, were beaten by Coventry and drew with Fleetwood. All shit teams who are back in with us next season.

I wouldn't have put a penny on us going up, we weren't up to it.

Yeah but 2 points from 12 that's clearly play off form. We looked f***ing abysmal prior to the season coming to a halt.
 
They are all confident for the new season but I’m not sure where that comes from. I think we have a mentally weak squad although no fans may help that but that should not be the case. We have to learn to defend and grind out results. I’m not confident about the season at all and I’m not sure why they are
 
Same applies to Tom Sloanes who could quite easily just run Betdaq from his base and leave the club to it. He also backed Jones up on Twitter with those comments.

Sounds like Sloanes is paying me to back him up on here but I wouldn't even consider him a "friend" as referred to earlier. He's someone I've got to know and I respect him and feel obliged to speak up when he's taking pelters which I find ridiculous.


I'll be honest I read the minutes from that meeting and really struggled to find anything that warranted the abuse that followed. Obviously those that were blasting Sloanes were then claiming that Donald was making all the abuse up that he's received.

I don't know what you wanted from that meeting? Sloanes to join in and throw abuse at Donald? That's never going to happen (rightly so) so you're always going to be disappointed.
Before that meeting I knew nowt about Sloanes but I thought he should have intervened and helped a clearly emotional Donald out not just take his side as Methven has done before. An example of that is Donald’s story about his daughter. If there’s truth in it he communicated it in a way that made it sound absolute bullshit. Random Sunderland fans identifying a girl as a daughter at an Oxfordshire bus stop. Really ? Not saying he hasn’t had abuse. Though I think it’s fair enough for people to tell him he’s doing badly if he’s there I’m sure some have crossed the line. Sloanes clearly has passion and honesty for the club but also seems like he has an ego and gob on him. Jones just seems quietly confident.
 
They are all confident for the new season but I’m not sure where that comes from. I think we have a mentally weak squad although no fans may help that but that should not be the case. We have to learn to defend and grind out results. I’m not confident about the season at all and I’m not sure why they are

There's nothing whatsoever to derive any confidence from at the moment.
 
They are all confident for the new season but I’m not sure where that comes from. I think we have a mentally weak squad although no fans may help that but that should not be the case. We have to learn to defend and grind out results. I’m not confident about the season at all and I’m not sure why they are
Agree mate. It’s virtually the same team as last year. Teams sussed us out by sitting on the wingbacks meaning we had to go through the middle and we know how that ended up
 
Before that meeting I knew nowt about Sloanes but I thought he should have intervened and helped a clearly emotional Donald out not just take his side as Methven has done before. An example of that is Donald’s story about his daughter. If there’s truth in it he communicated it in a way that made it sound absolute bullshit. Random Sunderland fans identifying a girl as a daughter at an Oxfordshire bus stop. Really ? Not saying he hasn’t had abuse. Though I think it’s fair enough for people to tell him he’s doing badly if he’s there I’m sure some have crossed the line. Sloanes clearly has passion and honesty for the club but also seems like he has an ego and gob on him. Jones just seems quietly confident.
People should go back and read the passive aggressive toadying from Sloanes at that meeting (“well I haven’t seen anyone denounce the abuse on social media, Stewie”:rolleyes:). Fox and Donald were exactly as cowardly and unaccountable as you’d expect. The only one who came out with any credit was Rodwell He was clearly attempting to mediate, could tell how damaging Donald’s histrionics were and seemed like he spent much of the meeting with his head in his hands.

I hope that sloanes isn’t as lightweight as his public utterances to date - and I desperately hope he isn’t really that dope, Summerbee. Because if he is, he’s not what we need at this club right now.
 
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Agree mate. It’s virtually the same team as last year. Teams sussed us out by sitting on the wingbacks meaning we had to go through the middle and we know how that ended up

So true, tbh I don’t care if we are boring as fuck and win every game 1-0 we just need to get out of this shithole. Defence is key in my opinion but of course we do need a goalscorer
 
So true, tbh I don’t care if we are boring as fuck and win every game 1-0 we just need to get out of this shithole. Defence is key in my opinion but of course we do need a goalscorer
I’ll be happy if we win every game 1-0 but I think it would be suicidal to try to set up to do so. Our defence is generally decent but we’re desperate for more creativity and more goals. If we try to defend our way out of the league next season we’ll fail imo.
 
I’ll be happy if we win every game 1-0 but I think it would be suicidal to try to set up to do so. Our defence is generally decent but we’re desperate for more creativity and more goals. If we try to defend our way out of the league next season we’ll fail imo.

my point is that clean sheets are the key. We have lost our goalie and have 2 keepers who we will need to wait To see how they will perform. JM won us a lot of points remember it’s vital to have a top keeper
 
I’ll be happy if we win every game 1-0 but I think it would be suicidal to try to set up to do so. Our defence is generally decent but we’re desperate for more creativity and more goals. If we try to defend our way out of the league next season we’ll fail imo.

We (currently) don't have enough of a threat on the break to occupy sides when we do sit back. There's almost no chance of us doing someone on a counter when defending a one nil lead. Sides know they can just pile on and chase goals.
 
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