Lindsay Jones – Election Address and CV at Dragons News (from Wrexham Football Club)

Lindsay Jones

I am a 44 year old father of 3 .I live near Oswestry and work as retail manager. I saw my first Wrexham game during the 1969/70 promotion season.

During the ‘struggle’ I helped with the original fanzine that exposed the corrupt actions taking place at the club.

For my pains I was sued , along with my schoolmate Ken, by Guterman who wished to suppress certain material. Because of the information passed to me in the case I was able to pass important information to the Administrators which helped to bring about the Summary Judgement last year.

I was a board member of the WST from June 2004 till March this year when I resigned because of my increasing frustration with the direction the WST was taking. During my time on the Trust board I attended many meetings on behalf of the WST and worked on more projects than I care to remember although I am particularly proud of the Yearbook we produced, a real team effort by members of the WST.

I feel that the members of WST have received a very poor return for their unequivocal support of Mr Moss & Mr Dickens and nearly 12 months after their takeover we still have no idea what their vision for the club entails.

Of particular worry to me is their proposal, or suggestion, that the club would benefit by the splitting of the business into two separate companies, one to own the club and the other to own the ground. Over the past three years we have all seen the ‘benefits’ that such a move can bring to the club and, like all of you, I have no wish to return to that situation.

This idea was floated at a meeting between the WST board and the club but I have yet to see any comment on this from the board of the WST. I feel that they should be actively condemning it.

It is vital that the club retains its assets.

I along with the other nominees Wayne Price, Len Willett, Colin Bithell and Phil Wynne support the current WST strategy of building a local consortium to bid for and run our club.

However we feel that this strategy needs to be widened to include other stakeholders such as the local authority and other organisations. We believe that the key to the clubs future prosperity is the provision of a new stand on the Kop and that the WST must work in partnership with all stakeholders to bring this about.

We believe we can bring new energy and ideas to assist the existing WST board members in their negotiations with the club owners and other parties, to ensure the club and the Racecourse is protected for the benefit of current and future generations of Wrexham AFC fans.

Read Lindsay Jones – Election Address and CV at A fresh approach