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Beaker
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Saw this quote on the Cornish Soccer Forum this evening. Any updates most welcomed. I know my son attended training for one of the youth teams and was told last week it is cancelled for a few weeks but I may get a call when it starts again. Anyone been told similar by a reliable and trustworthy source?.
COME ON MR. HEANEY - IF WE SHOULD KNOW SOMETHING TELL US WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON AT THAT CLUB OF YOURS. SO MUCH FOR ONWARDS AND UPWARDS. MORE LIKE TAKING A FEW STEPS BACKWARDS
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Heard earlier today, that the Head of Youth - Steve Matthews, and his team of highly qualified coaches have all been released with immediate effect. Steve will be paid a months notice, but the coaches will get nothing.
This was the Plymouth Argyle Youth Development team that Heaney brought to the club to help secure the long term future of the club. After picking up 9 trophies yesterday - i would imagine it was a bit of a shock to the guys!
As a parent of one of the boys that was taken by Steve to play Chelsea a couple of weeks ago - I am absolutely gutted. His coaches (including 1st team keeper chappy), were absolutely fantastic with those boys and girls. They have developed the players so much more than they would of done normally and have allowed the managers to sit back and manage!
I think that this is very short-sighted by the club. Already, some other parents within the very successful U16 team that have just won the league and have included many County players, have called an unofficial meeting to maybe pull away from the club.
What the hell is going on! I know the property market is bad - but Heaney was valued at £154 million yesterday in the times rich list - that comes with about £30 grand a day in interest.
Perhaps it is that he has to re-cuperate the £9 million he has lost this year but surely the supporters and everyone who has some familiarity at the club needs to know what is happening and what decisions are being made. I think that Mr. Heaney referred to Truro City as our club or am I wrong. After all, if the supporters did not watch would there be a club after all?
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Master Chief
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Yes this is true .
Was even told that the club is not going to pay for the trophies at the end of season presentation .
The club will not contribute financially to running the youth anymore .
This means the parents of the children that have supported and played for Truro City Football Club , will now have to pay for their own Trophies this season .
There is only 1 word that can describe this action by Truro City Football Club and that is
................NASTY .......................
These children have paid £65 each to join the football club , represent the football club in all competitions and then are told that the end of season parties for these children from 7 years to 16 years of age has to be paid for by themselves .
This is ..............NASTY ...................
They have had no involvement in the young players , but used them as ' pawns ' when asking all the youth to congregate in Truro when the club was going for planning .
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DuchyWill
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This comes just a day after the under-16's completed the League and Cup double - DISGUSTING.
Steve Matthews (who gave up a full-time job to run the youth set up) is the latest to be shafted - DISGUSTING.
Remember the 'heartfelt' speech last year about the youth being the future of this club? -
DISGUSTING.
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Jonsdad
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My son joined the youth development at the beginning of the season - he has now moved up to play for the thirds. We were impressed with the set-up and regularly travel 140 miles round trip to come to training and games etc.
I am not a 'happy clappy', but I do not think that this is necessarily the end of the youth system. I have posted elsewhere that I have confidence in Mr Heaney and he has reconfirmed his goals for the club. I think there will be a youth system -you don't appoint a new head of youth for nothing. This new guy carries a lot of influence - I am not sure that Steve Matthews (good guy that he is) did so.
I think this, as Heaney has said is about facilities. It may also be political. Key to the new development is facilities for kids - no new development = no facilities for kids. To continue forking out the thousands it has cost on hiring facilities etc is in the short-term not now feasible. At times it did seem that the youth set-up was throwing money away (the Chelsea trip is a good example of at least 3-4K being wasted). Similarly if the club can run a youth set-up without the new facilities it does (am sad to say) weaken the argument for getting new facilities.
Again Heaney is no dunce - he knows he has to bring through players because (as PAFC will testify) no amount of money will attract players this far down.
I think we need to wait to see what comes from all of this. I think however there is more to this than meets the eye. I think there will be questions asked about the the use of the budget to date, and what we may see is a scaled back version of what is here already. |
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lyndon07
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this is so dissapointing!!
i played this season for the u16's and have had the most amazing season and probbalbly the best season of football yet thanks to all the support from steve mathews and the youth setups amazing coaching staff!!
this is a terrible loss for truro and i am so disapointed that all my hard work and steve and his teams hard work was not reli reconised and they have used themn then shafted them!! 
this is morally wrong and it casts a shadow over the youth devolments yr as truro youth won 9 trophies this yr |
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:17 am |
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dave69
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the way these kids have been treated is a disgrace. To be told at the end of a successful season you have to look after yourselves now.The club used these kids to protest for kenwyn.they marched through truro! Now i am told they have to fund themselves, eg pay for a pitch, training facilities, kits etc, and pay truro city £100 a child !!! what a joke.this topic should be posted on the main forum.I must say though i have not heard anything from an official of truro city so once again can we please have it from the horses mouth (mr heaney) |
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:50 am |
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dave69
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the way these kids have been treated is a disgrace. To be told at the end of a successful season you have to look after yourselves now.The club used these kids to protest for kenwyn.they marched through truro! Now i am told they have to fund themselves, eg pay for a pitch, training facilities, kits etc, and pay truro city £100 a child !!! what a joke.this topic should be posted on the main forum.I must say though i have not heard anything from an official of truro city so once again can we please have it from the horses mouth (mr heaney) |
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if the rumors are true i for 1 will be demanding a refund on the monies i paid to the club due to the broken promises they have made to the kids, i remember the joke of a speach the little bloke gave at the "big signing on night" well all of that is proved to be a load of crap.....
please add up how many kids are members of the youth set up and how much each has paid , this adds up to quite a bit so not that much paid out by club for what they got back |
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RAFA
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good luck with that - he's got NO MONEY to give. |
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:26 pm |
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quote:
Originally posted by RAFA
good luck with that - he's got NO MONEY to give.
NO MONEY 
He Has Over 150 Million
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:32 pm |
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St Darren
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his money is tied up in business!
in his current account he probably has no more than a decent bloke on the street!!
Get real folks!!
Disgraceful!!
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:38 pm |
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dave69
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we dont want his money! we just dont want him using our kids! |
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:43 pm |
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complete joke
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i will donate the money to the air amblance, if the club do the right thing and refund it.
lets set up a petition for all youth monies to be refuned and given to charity |
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:55 pm |
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St Darren
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it will all come down to "facilities"
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KIT 65
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If this is true,I am sorry to say that I will have lost all trust in the management at Truro AFC.and just shows that their words and promises are a load of crap.What about when they said,the youth of the club are the future of the club,all big talk and a load of lies.The management of the youth set up must feel so let down after all the hard work they have put in to make it such a great season.I really hope this is not true,because if it is,I will have lost all faith and trust in the club.This is not just a disgusting thing to do to the youngsters but also an insult to all Truro City supporters.
Truro City the pride of Cornwall,its begining to be one big joke.Is there no end to the bad news,it seems to be a daily event over the past few weeks.
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St Darren
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The worst thing about all of it, is that it is being talked about on a discussion forum without any statement from the club!!
Something that has happened before I believe, and something that I believe will happen again!
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Beaker
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From all the replies I have read on my original post I think it is time that
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Mr. Heaney ought to face the truth and come face to face and tell us what is going on.
Firstly he goes against his promises and suddenly there are no full time contracts to be had by the players (except Dean Stamp).
Next Dave Leonard leaves the club.
Then we hear that that Steve Matthews has "resigned" and the youth coaches have all lost their jobs.
And now Kevin is treating the children who he used to front his Kenwyn Campaign (my son being one of them) the same way. To hell with this. We need answers and not in the near future. We need them now. Where is the official statement we deserve? Where is the PR? Where is the support from the club? Does anyone care about the supporters the way that Dave Leonard did? It doesn't seem like it.
I thought to myself that all this would blow over but it's not. It's getting worse. I wasn't going to make any posts about recent happenings because I thought it would all blow over. But no, now that it involves the children, the children that Mr. Heaney said were our future, I think it's time everyone had a say.
This is cruel, evil and downright two faced.
If this is how a club is run then it's time to make changes higher up the ladder.
These are all young people whose lives are being messed with. Players and children, I admire them all but Mr. Heaney I am slowly losing respect for you and your lot. Why don't you come out and tell us what is going on now before the situation gets too bad and out of hand. Don't we deserve a little respect for our loyal support?
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KIT 65
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Originally posted by Beaker
From all the replies I have read on my original post I think it is time that
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Mr. Heaney ought to face the truth and come face to face and tell us what is going on.
Firstly he goes against his promises and suddenly there are no full time contracts to be had by the players (except Dean Stamp).
Next Dave Leonard leaves the club.
Then we hear that that Steve Matthews has "resigned" and the youth coaches have all lost their jobs.
And now Kevin is treating the children who he used to front his Kenwyn Campaign (my son being one of them) the same way. To hell with this. We need answers and not in the near future. We need them now. Where is the official statement we deserve? Where is the PR? Where is the support from the club? Does anyone care about the supporters the way that Dave Leonard did? It doesn't seem like it.
I thought to myself that all this would blow over but it's not. It's getting worse. I wasn't going to make any posts about recent happenings because I thought it would all blow over. But no, now that it involves the children, the children that Mr. Heaney said were our future, I think it's time everyone had a say.
This is cruel, evil and downright two faced.
If this is how a club is run then it's time to make changes higher up the ladder.
These are all young people whose lives are being messed with. Players and children, I admire them all but Mr. Heaney I am slowly losing respect for you and your lot. Why don't you come out and tell us what is going on now before the situation gets too bad and out of hand. Don't we deserve a little respect for our loyal support?
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I agree with every thing that you have said Beaker.I feel so sorry for all the young ones who have paid their subs and worked so hard this season.they must feel so rejected.After having such a great season they must have thought the world was their oyster.And if the romours are correct,they will have to pay for their own trophys.I just cant believe this,it's got to be a joke.
SO COME TRURO CITY MANAGEMENT LETS HAVE SOME BLOODY ANSWERS THE SOONER THE BETTER.
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:22 pm |
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Jonsdad
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Whilst I understand the anger and frustration, I think it is important to hold fire until there is a statement from the club. There is clearly something going on, but until we get something official from the club, I think it is just a bit premature to be slagging people off.
The point has been made and it is essential that the club give some sort of statement similar to the one made by Mr Heaney earlier in April, that sets out what is happening and what will happen to the youth structure in the future. If it is as bad as people suspect, then of course that is terrible. But I have to say the kids have got their money's worth for this season in terms of kit, training, facilities and fees etc for their £65. Any other club would have been more than that. |
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