Quote Originally Posted by thnhouse View Post
While you're not saying anything that hasn't been put in the public domain your absolute maniacal desire to twist everything into a negative either about the academy or the club means that you present it an inflammatory way.

To me what Hamilton Smith has said was easily the most damning aspect for Crewe, but when you read it without the headlines like "Crewe knew of Bennels abuse" and look at the facts it's different. Smith went to the board as he'd been told, the board asked for evidence and no one was willing to come forward. The damning part of it is that seemingly the club acted naively and rather than initiate a full investigation at that point they just decided to put precautions in place to stop it happening again.

The way you rant on about it you'd think that the club were complicit in it and practically encouraged it.
Utter tosh! I've said NOTHING of the sort!

I'm not twisted anything, either with this case or the academy failings which will result in it being downgraded or done away with it like Vale have. Just remind me what league they are in and what gates they get? I should be congratulated for trying to save the club millions and also to put it where it always should have been...In the FIRST team, otherwise what really was the point? People claim it was all rosy in the good old days and so just remind us how much of the Ashton or Powell money was reinvested in the FIRST team? We got 27 millions didn't we? What sort of team could we have had reinvesting 50% of that? THAT is why this club failed the fans. And is still doing or haven't you noticed?