(05/04/06)

First few of days have been quiet manic.

Thanks for all your emails and texts of congratulations.

I had so many calls from inside and outside the club wishing me luck. I spoke with Constantine Gonticas who called to wish me the best, we spoke for quite a while, he is very knowledgeable about football and he travels to most away games. A couple of issues he emphasised to me, firstly he refuted suggestions he is here to make money for himself and that he was a self made man and if he wanted to invest to make money he could think of easier ways than with Millwall. He is purely here for the football side. He mentioned the recent rumour regards Marvin Williams going to Watford, he said "If he was I would know and I haven't heard a thing"

I am meeting him on Saturday for an informal chat, he invited my wife and I to the Directors box and Boardroom at Derby, but I declined as I prefer to be with my pals. I said I would take him up on it at some point just to experience it, he said "well you now have full Director rights and you are entitled a place in the Directors box." Blimey is this all for real! At no point during the conversation was I told "this is between me and you" the discussion was open and frank, hopefully it will stay that way.

Met with Simon Menneer, from the chairmans office, and discussed the club at length. We discussed the list of ideas collated from all the webs sites, all ideas have been prioritised and we will be discussing these with the MSC, ones that can be completed quickly will be, others will be given timescales that we will all be working to.

Simon and myself agreed we need the help of everyone to get things moving, we are in the planning stages of setting up small regional teams of fans who will have responsibility of growing/gaining support in their region. They would arrange coach travel in, arrange to visit local schools to promote Millwall (possibly with players), carry out leaflet campaigns and call up lapsed fans to try and get them back.

Fans would be rewarded by reduction in their ST should they manage to tempt people back.

Simon is very keen and I have faith he will help push all the issues through, I have spoken to him between 40-50 times during the first 3 days!!

There is a lot of posturing going on and once it all settles down I think I will get to get a real feel for everyone and see if the momentum carries on.

I asked club to try and arrange for senior pros to attend the Junior Lions quiz night on Friday, I had a response within an hour advising, the players will be travelling up to Derby on Friday night so this time it will not be possible, but in future it will be arranged for players to attend.

I have been asked to put a piece in the SLP for Friday, Southwark News, TLR, NOLU, LionsLive and Lions World just for starters.

One thing I must add, this wont happen overnight, but we will keep chipping away!

It is a lot more intense than I thought, hopefully I will be able to delegate a bit on Thursday at the MSC meeting.