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There are non league clubs like Wrexham and Rushden &Diamonds
but as Fordy says Portsmouth got out of jail with fan investment but
got proper owners.I don't think fans can run a club,hell we can't agree
on much apart from all wanting success.Agreement on how that could
be achieved would cause meltdown!

 

Still hanging around! Not fan ownership as such but our Supporters Trust and Lee Power have jointly purchased the County Ground off the local council. I presume the Trust’s main interest here is to prevent any speculating and turning the Theatre of Screams into an Ikea.

Not sure how it will work going forward as the fabric of the ground needs major updating. There is still some suspicion regarding Power and his intentions - based mainly on his rather dodgy previous businesses. Personally, I think the recent investment in the playing side and the 50% purchase of the ground may be the first steps to his exit strategy.

The main benefit of club fan ownership is at least you can be sure that any monies generated by the club - ticket sales, TV money, sponsorship, player sales - stays within the club instead of mysteriously disappearing into a back pocket.

 

I genuinely couldn’t think of anything worse unless it was literally the only option between existing and non-existence.

 

Hang around as long as you want, we need cheering up. Notice the ginger Pele scored again, can you tell what its like to support a club with some sort of tangible plan to gaining promotion? Cos we're still looking.

 

He had no chance of getting one with us. Gave us the biggest laugh of the day yesterday at Oldham when we heard he had scored.

 

Forget it. It's hard for a club in good circumstances to do and our circumstances make it nigh on impossible.

A typical League 2 club owner puts in about £200k per year to cover losses. We have a stadium to rent. So you need to raise £10m - maybe less - to buy the club - and then keep pumping £300-500k in each year (assuming some rent is covered by our extra ticket sales - for now). Will you find 1000 shareholders to put in £10k each - maybe less - to buy the club ... and then pump in another £300-500 each year just to tread water in League 2. How many would invest that only to be asked for more each season to cover losses. If we should manage to get promoted to League 1, each might need to pump in £600-800 per year to cover a typical £500k loss plus stadium rent. This is why there are no fan owned clubs at high levels. They are rich mens' playthings. What Wombles fans have achieved is amazing. They must keep their costs down by an extraordinary amount of voluntary work.

 

It depends mate. You have to react quickly to things. Bowyer is still here and that highlights how weak the club is at the moment.

Power has never been a shy man. We have Rupp and Rhodes that don't want to face up to things so hired a yes man in Ryan Sparks. A pointless hire!

Also correct me if I am wrong but while you had flitcroft and brown etc Power was doing things off the pitch to move the club forward?

You hired Jewell a football man.

Wellens is a young manger with a plan.

Power, Jewell and Wellens is the perfect team.

You say it's inevitable that we will go back up, I disagree mate because we have no plan and teams are overtaking us and have money. Salford will improve, Bolton will be a force next season, Crewe/Exeter/Plymouth the team that don't go up will be up there. Mansfield will improve.

Bradford City are a dying club currently it's hanging it's hat on the grave.

 

Fan ownership is for Non-League or maybe Div. 4 clubs. There simply isn't the funding available under the type of ownership to move any further.

Dead duck.

Close this thread down.

 

We'll struggle to get 10k season ticket sales because of Bowyer and rightly so. Waste of money renewing at this moment.