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Originally Posted by Foxy
My take on the meeting:
Harris did make an attempt to tone it down and there was a new humility in his approach, most definitely. He was as always articulate , but on this occasion more open to acknowledge where things are not going well. If I was him I would also be getting frustrated by now with the failure of other board members to back me up or take a lead. For example this was a communications evening, and there is a new WST Board member with responsibility for such, so why wasn't he on the top table chairing and taking a lead ?
Steve Lloyd came across as well meaning, though a little bit tangled up (and tripping up) in the minutiae of DSAgate. In fact it was noticeable that the Board were on the stickiest wicket where others present knew as much as them about events; the fact that clearly angry DSA members were present and able to rebut the Board's claims in detail did box the latter into a corner. It also demonstrated how easy it is for the Board usually to say anything and get away with it because the rest of us don't know the detail, but on this occasion where insiders were asking questions, those on the top table appeared seriously weakened.
Peter Jones was quite frankly awful beyond belief, rambling and irrelevant in many of his answers with a tendency to rant at points. There was one particularly good question about a tendency towards group think and inertia when the same people are in power for so long. He turned this into an analysis of Dean keates - don't know how he managed that. Then when brought back to the question, he showed enormous complacency; in his view the Board are fine.
What struck me most was how depressed and sad everyone on the two Boards looked. They all looked completely fed up and their body language seemed to be saying this (the football club) is going tits up despite our hard work
All in all, fairly interesting with a Pearson type performance from Harris, a Rutherford type game from Lloyd and a Barnum Bobb circus from Jones. The rest of them were Hooper-like in their anonymity.
Oh, and a big black mark for the lady who decided to stand up and try and shout down the questioner on group think and the need for changes on the Board.
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That was my question on Group Think and a lack of Diversity in Thinking. I think i asked it three times and got back three different answers, none of which addressed the question.
As the lady at the back of the room it was water off a ducks back and didn't deter me.