Unfortunately, I know one of their lot quite well. He told me Parish invited members of the HF to a London hotel before the end of last season. He literally offered them the centre block behind the goal . There was apparently a power point presentation to go with it. This is backed up by another mate, non HF, who received a letter from CPFC in April saying reapplication for seats behind the goal and had been frozen and were temporally unavailable. ........since that time nothing more has been said and the offer for the seats behind the goal had been withdrawn without a reason. No further contact had been from Parish. My mate and his son who frequent block B in their black pyjamas will not be renewing their season tickets at all, whether it be block B or anywhere else, and it appears that seems to be the case with all of them.
My non HF mate said it was very weird last night, but thinks they will be back, possibly in the Arthur Waite stand.
I'd love that to be true as it's brilliant, assuming you have no self respect, honour or integrity.
Straight up lie to your most committed fans.
Get them to give up their seats.
Sell their seats.
Renege on your 'too good to be true' promise.
Turf out the 'Always' and maintain the S/T revenue.
All it took was a barefaced lie to the fans.
Kind of puts losing your flask into perspective.
Whilst I'd LOVE your take on that to be right - it almost certainly is not.
I don't think Parish has deliberately misled them. He's just made an incredibly rash promise, that he hasn't thought through - completely underestimating the strength of feeling from the STH behind the goal who he thought would meekly agree to relocate, to make room for the teenage ultras. With general fan opinion firmly on the side of the normal fans, he had to shelve his silly promise, and is now hoping it will all just go away.
I'd love to see the PowerPoint though. I bet its BRILLIANT.