Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
You might have been a DFCSS Director when John Nelms sent a bill to the DFCSS board of directors for ?38,000 which included charging them for meals which were never taken by Platinum members are part of their package and the cost of a free match programme for every home game for every Gold member which was part of their package.
Only two or three members had taken up this offer but Nelms decided that he would fleece DFCSS by charging for the cost of every Gold member receiving a free match programme for every home game irrespective of whether they received a free match programme or not because he hates DFCSS. In my opinion Nelms wanted all DFCSS?s money which would put them out of business.
It is more than a passing coincidence that within two months of Bill Colvin resigning as Chairman of Dundee Football Club and a partner of FPS that the management of Dundee Football Club had seized the televising of Dundee FC home games live on DEETV and the various DFCSS packages for supporters for Dundee Football Club.
The various packages and DEETV were a joint venture between DFCSS and Dundee Football Club.
Interestingly the management of Dundee Football Club dispensed with various fundraising packages as that would have involved in the management of Dundee Football Club carrying out extra work and I have heard DFC supporters complaining that the management of DFC have not spent money upgrading the equipment for televising Dundee FC homes games live on DEETV.
If correct then it fits with Nelms?s penny pinching tactics of trying to get as much money out of Dundee supporters at the lowest possible expense.
I remember the programme thing. He actually wanted the full cost of a hard copy, glossy programme from every DFCSS member for every game because a PDF was being uploaded to the website and available for viewing by every member. Reality was that very, very few people were accessing it and they (Nelms and Crighton) were told to beat it.

The Platinum meals thing is ringing a bell but I wasn't really involved in those discussions.

The removal of streaming rights was an absolute disgrace and he even refused to return the equipment needed for it which was the property of DFCSS. The standard of coverage fell off a cliff when the club first took it on but thankfully it's better now.

These things were done to try to get all the DFCSS funds which Nelms was adamant belonged to the club because the money came from Dundee FC supporters. His belief was, and probably still is, that any spare cash that any Dundee fan has and intends spending on football should be the club's either by the purchase of something or ideally by donation.

The John Nelms business model is essentially get as much money out of DFC fans as possible, at the lowest possible expense to him and spend the least amount to thank those same fans for their loyalty.