My view of the Vote

My question is why didn?t nearly 10,964 vote? And why aren?t the club concerned about that figure. In effect the club have only the opinions of 2/3 of their support. And even that is split. Is 70% of the eligible fan base voting enough to carry on.

Here?s another way of looking at the vote. Even now you would assume that the 10,964 who didn?t vote were ?undecided?... So the positive analysis of the vote from the clubs point of view is 59.27% said ?YES? and 40.73 said ?NO? a vast majority gives them the mandate to proceed.

So let's look at the not so positive analysis of the vote from the club perspective:

• 36,662 votes were sent out
• 25,698 valid votes were returned
• 10,694 did not vote

Now the percentages ? based on the full amount of dispatched ballot papers:

 
Yes 		=  41.5 %
No  		=  28.5 %
Undecided 	=  29%
Invalid		=  1 %

I would look very hard at the club and the spin it?s putting on this vote. It?s an un realistic vote. Surely anyone who wants to do this fairly will turn around and say look there are 21,432 eligible votes out there who are not sure about this move. Because that?s what the real figures tell us. Not that 60% of the voters want to move.

I hope the club realises this and that it?s in danger of damaging even further a relationship with a huge number of supporters if they use this vote as a mandate to carry on. They owe it to themselves and to all the supporters to examine the other possibilities. I for one hope they do.

Reader Comments

Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer