After last night's meeting with Sid and Willie it appears the protest has been called off. At least by those present who agreed on the assurances given that there was no point on it carrying on.

The main points from the meeting were:

1. The only easy way to remove Brown from the chairmanship was to offer him the paid position of secretary.

2. It was assured that Brown would be removed as a director at the AGM in December. There are apparently legalities again that would prevent Brown to be removed before this time. As to his position as paid secretary no definate assurance but it was indicated there should be no difficuty here.

3. There is a definate split on the board but with Brown's removal as chairman oor wullie has the casting vote.

4. The appointment of a Trust representative to the board is apparently not allowed according to the club constituion.

5. The rules will be changed so that directors have to stand for re-election.

Well what do you think is it a whimper?

cheers for the inside info and now i will do all i can to make sure i am not removed in december.

Says it all. Game over.

4. The appointment of a Trust representative to the board is apparently not allowed according to the club constituion.

Absolutely no further forward whatsoever.

Still Brown no trust involvment. Total con job being fed little scraps of nothing.

Why can't a trust representitive be appointed and are there plans to ammend the constitution to allow this to happen?

The articles of the club do not state that we can't have a rep on the board, however, they do not state that we can either! It is a very grey area. If someone wanted to be very very pedantic (guess who) then they could challenge it. Steps are being taken to ensure this is changed and it will be changed at the AGM.

The Trust will go ahead as planned and elect a representative to be on the board of the club.

Thanks Kerriann.

Good Luck to the trust when they get there

Why didn't Gray say that?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

He near kills the Rovers, hates Trusts, feeds shite about Brown maybe being removed by the year 2014.

And the protests stopped?

Gee whiz. Some folk are easily pleased/appeased/blinkered.

I did not get the impression that Sid was keen to get a trust representative and promised to get the rules changed if necessary to do this. In fact just the opposite, as all that I remember him saying was that he has had legal advice and it would not be allowed according to the present constitution. He did also raise the matter of confidentiallity if a representative was appointed.

Perhaps at the Supporter's club meeting next week, clear assurances can be given that the rules will be changed at the AGM to remove any obstacles to a fans representative. A definate commitment that Sid will have a fans representative on board would also be good.

After all it is the way forward and all wishing the best for the club should be pushing for this.