Message from JP Creba – TISA Chairman
Currently the two supporters groups are perceived to be at
polar extremes with the Truro City Supporters Club committee acting as a PR
machine for the football club owners and doing little to provide a forum or
benefits for its members and TISA seemingly opposing the football club in all
it does but providing well for its members. Neither of these perceptions
is the full truth but if things are going to change then now must be the
time. In considering how things might change TISA are considering
restructuring as a Supporters Trust affiliated to Supporters Direct. TISA
recognises however, that to attempt to do this it must grow its
membership and widen the debate. We therefore invite expressions of
interest to participation in an open meeting to explore this initiative and
debate the options. At the same time, in order to broaden our membership
we are inviting everyone to apply for membership of TISA which would be FREE in
the first year. Application for membership of TISA is open to everyone
including existing Truro City Supporters Club Members. You don’t need to
join TISA to take part in the open meeting but if you wish to then send us a message at https://twitter.com/TISAboys. As TISA is currently an Association we do need
to have an application process and this is detailed on our website at http://trurofans.blogspot.com/
.
At the
end of September, if there are sufficient expressions of interest then we will
send out details of the open meeting.
In summary then, should you apply for membership you will be
applying to join an association which is proposing to support however it best
can “ensuring that Truro City returns to playing its home games in the
Truro area as soon as possible, with an ownership structure that has proper
representation from and engagement with its fans and rebuilding links and
relationships with the local community.” and to participate in that
debate.