Monday 1 January 2007

Archive News 2007

6 December 2007

TM : BOYCOTT AND PROTEST AT BURY GAME
TM: "We call on all fans to boycott matches at Field Mill until Mr Haslam sells the club, though we do understand that season ticket holders may not join us. We call on all fans to refuse to spend any money at the club – in the club shop, at ground concessions, sponsorship etc. Cutting off all income streams to the club is the only language that Mr Haslam seems to understand and now this is the only resort left open to us.
More details here. 

 29 November - 4 December 2007
HASLAM REJECTS DERRY TAKEOVER BID (details here)
TM CHAIRMAN BLASTS HASLAM ("It is clearly a black day for Mansfield Town FC. The failure to come to a deal must be laid squarely at the feet of Keith Haslam, whose only motivation seems to be his own personal greed") (details here)
SSA, TM and SFFC JOINT STATEMENT ("call for a mass boycott of all other income streams to the club in an attempt to force Mr Haslam to do the right thing immediately") (details here).
HASLAM APPOINTS NEW CHIEF EXEC STEPHEN BOOTH (details here)
TM: BOOTH APPOINTMENT CHANGES NOTHING (details here)
 
 29 October 2007
 
TEAM MANSFIELD AGM was held on Monday 29th October at 7:00pm in the X Bar Field Mill. SSA held their AGM on the same night. This was followed by a fans forum with James Derry, Ian Randall, John Thorpe, Billy Dearden, Jake Buxton.
Minutes of the TM AGM here.
To read what James Derry, Ian Randall, John Thorpe said at the fans forum, click here.
Andrew Saunders steps down as co-chairman, but remains on TM Board.
Andrew Saunders will resign as co-chairman of TEAM Mansfield at the AGM. He has been approached by SSA co-chairman Dean Foulkes to become new co-chairman of SSA. Andy felt that he could help in driving the SSA forward into a new era once the sale of MTFC has been completed, so decided to accept Dean's offer.  
Andy will remain on the Board of TM.
Because of the very positive approach that the potential new owners of MTFC are taking towards Stags supporters, Andy sees this as an opportunity for him to return to the organisation that is his first love and that he was originally a leading contributor, the SSA, to help them to take advantage of the new opportunities that the fans will have with the new owners of our football club. The remaining leadership of TM in the meantime continue to assess how the football club purchase transaction is progressing, protecting the interests of the MTFC shareholding TM members and will wait for further developments before declaring it's specific strategy as a result, albeit in principle, already very supportive of the new leadership regime.

 20 October 2007
JAMES DERRY ATTENDS TM BOARD MEETING
Read more here about a very constructive and encouraging meeting. To read more about John Thorpe and Ian Randall, click here.

 17 October 2007
 
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO TM SHARES?
Read more here. James Derry to attend TM Board meeting on 20 October.

 16 October 2007
 
TM NEWSLETTER
Read the latest newsletter here, sent to members on 11 October.

 05 October 2007

JAMES DERRY TO BUY MANSFIELD TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB.
See the details here. TEAM Mansfield comment: "We are absolutely delighted that Keith Haslam is no longer the owner of the football club, but he will remain a shadow in the side of Mansfield Town as he will ultimately still be the landlord.

03 October 2007

ANDY SAUNDERS LETTER TO THE CHAD.
TEAM Mansfield co-chairman Andy Saunders writes a letter to the CHAD newspaper saying he has never felt as depressed as he is now about the running of our football club both on and off the pitch. Meanwhile the CHAD goes front page with a "SAVE OUR STAGS" plea. Read the letter and article here.

 21 September 2007
 
TEAM MANSFIELD BOARD MEMBER PUBLISHES BOOK.
TEAM Mansfield Board Member Martin Shaw has co-authored a new book with Paul Taylor called Images of Sport: Mansfield Town Football Club. It is a pictorial history of the club. More details here.

 25 August 2007

Tony Delahunty managing director Mansfield 103.2 on the latest situation at Field Mill and the ring-fenced committee - see details here.

 07 August 2007
 
TEAM MANSFIELD comment on bids for MTFC - see details here.
 

07 August 2007
 
JAMES DERRY CONSORTIUM AND NEWS OF OTHER BIDS FOR MTFC -see details here.**UPDATE** - A SUMMARY OF THE RESPONSES BY MTFC AT THE AGM IS HERE

 12 June 2007
 AGM
CHAD reports from the AGM are here and here.
 
06 June 2007

TEAM MANSFIELD QUESTIONS ON MTFC ACCOUNTS.
Following receipt of the MTFC accounts for period ending June 2006, TEAM Mansfield has sent in their questions to MTFC in advance of the MTFC AGM on 12 June 2007. Read the questions here.
A summary of the accounts is here.

 05 June 2007
  
JOINT STATEMENT WITH SSA, SFFC and OSSC.
Following the end of another season of abject failure on and off the pitch under the ownership of Keith Haslam, Mansfield Town supporters groups have united together to demand changes at Field Mill. Stags Fans For Change, The Stags Supporters Association, the committee of Ollerton Stags Supporters Club, and TEAM Mansfield and have agreed the following joint statement. Read the full statement here.

 16 May 2007

TEAM MANSFIELD APPEALS FOR OPENNESS
Team Mansfield calls for ‘openness and transparency’ from the Stags Community Trust.  Read more here.

 08 May 2007

WHEN SATURDAY COMES ARTICLE
Update about Haslam and supporters groups campaigns. To read the article, click here.

 26 February 2007

TEAM Mansfield statement regarding discussions with new MTFC chairman James Derry. Read the full statement here.

 20 January 2007

JAMES DERRY UNVEILED AS NEW CHAIRMAN
Read about it here.


11 January 2007

CHAIRMAN PETER LEE NO LONGER WITH MTFC
Read about it here and here.


09 January 2007
WHAT NOW?
A statement from TEAM Mansfield.
Read the full statement here.
Read CHAD coverage here, and radio interviews here.
SSA issue a statement about Alan Meale taking them to court, here, with Evening Post coverage here.


 07 January 2007

TM NEWSLETTER
Read the latest newsletter here, sent to members on 03 January.


 03 January 2007

IT`S A DISGRACE AS HASLAM SELLS BARKER
To cap everything, Haslam goes and sells Richie Barker to Hartlepool, despite the Stags captain and leading scorer having clearly expressed his desire to stay. And all this after the Stags chief executive received an unbudgeted £125,00 for Liam Lawrence. Read more here.
Read Haslam’s attempt to explain the deal here, and he claims it’s a “good deal” here!!
SSA release a statement saying they are disgusted and appalled. Read the statement here.