Below is a translation of their statement:
"The Sky Blue Trust has been approached by Mr Michael Orton, the co-ordinator of the Keep Coventry In Coventry campaign group asking the Trust to take over the running of this group. The Trust fully agrees with the ultimate aim of such protest groups, be that KCIC or the newly formed Get Cov Back To The Ricoh, after all we are all Coventry fans and we all want our team back in its home City. Howeverthe Trust is not a protest group."
Translation: We agree with the aim of a protest but we are too spineless to do any protests ourselves because we don't want to upset whoever will win the battle of SISU vs. CCC/ACL.
"The Sky Blue Trust is there to represent its members."
Translation: The Trust is not willing to represent the members who want us to organize protests (see first paragraph) but we are happy they cough up their membership subscriptions. Also, we are not willing to put this to a membership vote because we are hoping to get on the CCFC board one day and we really don't give a toss what our members think.
"The Sky Blue Trust wants a club that has success on the pitch, is financially stable and rooted in the community. We believe that a level of fan ownership and fan involvement at board level is the best way of ensuring that these long term aims are met."
Translation: The Trust wants to be on the board of CCFC despite having no inclination to actually do anything when the club is in dire need of supporters taking direct action.
"At this moment in time these important aims are not the priority, bringing our club home is and the Trust is trying to aid this process through dialogue and discussion with all the major stakeholders. We believe we can achieve this through negotiation, pragmatism and a professional approach. Being involved with or even running any protest group would be counter productive to this."
Translation: Being professional means having no firm views that might upset whoever ends up in charge of the club. Also we don't want those bods on GMK accusing us of being mongs.
"Mr Orton and his colleagues have done a fine job highlighting the plight of our club to the world at large but if he feels he no longer has the will or capacity personallyto continue then we are sure someone equally capable will come forwardto take up the reigns. The Trust is sure that there are plenty of dedicated Coventry fans who would be happy to take over the running of KCIC from Mr Orton and we would urge them to contact him directly."
Translation: Anyone but us. After all we don't want to upset the bosses in case they don't give us a seat in the board room.
