WEYMOUTH Football Club’s Supporters Association have given their backing to the club’s new board structure, and are putting plans in place to move forward alongside new chairman Chris Pugsley.

Since the news broke that director Pugsley was announced in his new role, replacing Nigel Biddlecombe, Ade MacDonald, the chairman of the Weymouth fans’ group, has held talks with the Terras’ board about progressing in the future.

Speaking on behalf of the Supporters Association, Mac-Donald told Echosport: “We welcome Chris in his new role and I have nothing but respect for the guys who appointed him, and we are ready and willing to work with them.

“We will work with the board and the emphasis needs to come from the board as well, they need to give us the confidence and the fans the confidence, but we have complete faith and trust in them.

“From the good work done by Nigel and the board, Weymouth Football Club is back, what we all need to do now is carry on with the good things and structures that are in place.”

Iain Stone, another board member of the Supporters Association added: “As far as we are concerned nothing has changed going forward. We had six directors last week and we still have six this week, and the Supporters Association are fully behind everything.

“Everyone needs to unite and get behind Jason (Matthews) and the team, what happens on the pitch is the most important thing. What happens off the pitch enables us to have a good side.”

The Supporters Association themselves were not able to have a say on the decision made by the club’s board to appoint a new chairman.

This is something that MacDonald believes is in the pipeline to be rectified by getting a member of the supporters’ group on to the board as a formal director.

“I think it’s very important that we clear that up as quickly as possible,” he added.

“We are formalising taking our director’s position properly so we won’t have a situation again, as we had at the weekend, where we weren’t in a position to cast a vote on something as crucial as who is going to be the next chairman of Weymouth Football Club.

“After the AGM, Nigel and I had a conversation, we agreed that we would set up a meeting between the Supporters Association and the club board.

“I have spoken to Chris about it and I know Nigel is still keen for it as well. It is a ball that Nigel and I started rolling before all this happened and Chris is picking that ball up now.

“There are couple of technicalities within the club’s articles of association that needed to be sorted, eventually those articles will be re-written and we are moving forward.”

And with the new regime formally in place, MacDonald is also keen for former chairman Biddlecombe to remain on the board.

He claimed: “We have said, as have all the other directors, that we desperately want Nigel to stay on the board as a director and continue the work he has been doing.”