You'll finally hear it from the other point of view.
You have to realise that Tavington has spent 1000s of £s over the years to set-up, maintain and upgrade the 91st servers - a fundament to all major regiments.
By this reasoning, 91st's Costs = Tavington's Costs.
Tavington may have taken excess donations, the odd 10-20 euros, but the truth of the matter is that he has made a huge net financial loss on the regiment.
Tavington also made it very clear when advertising donations that he 'spent a lot of money himself on server costs, and is looking for some financial support to help keep the servers going'. So it was pretty damned clear that when 91st members donated to the regiment they'd be donating to Tavington, in essence: helping Tav help 91st.
A few disgruntled members decided to paint this as malicious fraudulence. They had ulterior motives; they had fallen out with Tavington. And whilst many of the members have had issues with Tavington's personality at one point or another, no one wanted the disbandment of the regiment over this (they'd have simply left the regiment if they didn't like being there).
The reason why the regiment disbanded was a mismanagement of communication and trust between Tavington and the members. He should have been more explicit about how the donations system worked so that disgruntled members could not nitpick holes in it and destabalize the regiment as a result. They quickly manufactured the half-truths that Tavington was embezzling money in a money-grubbing/profiteering sense of the word.
It is abundantly clear once you have heard both sides of the story, when you consider the reality of funding of the regiment, when you consider how apologetic and remorseful Tavington was in disbanding his regiment over this, that this was not malicious whatsoever. And the more that time passes, the more ex-91st members are realising this and the more the FSE community should realise it too.
In light of many FSE members' recent vulgar attitudes/celebrations towards 91st members on this forum, the 91st have personally asked Tavington to reform the regiment for our own pride's sake. We will be defining how we exit this community, not the community. We also have unfinished business here in regards to tournaments and competitions.
So sorry to be a party-pooper, but you'll have to put your celebratory paraphernalia back in the closet for the time being. We're back.
