good idea from labour - fans on the club board (1 Viewer)

Can we nominate which SBT posters (and GMK too perhaps) that we would like to sit on the Board? Any names spring to mind?

Coventry City Ricoh Arena row helps prompt Labour pledge to give fans say in how football clubs are run



http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-city-ricoh-arena-row-7948309

You think they got this concept idea from Germany??

Edit: Looks like they did from the Guardian article.

Meaningless idea. 10% fan representation would have how much say in decision making?

Why don't labour look at addressing the monster that is the Premier League and the unfair TV rights deals (abolish selling TV rights all together)? The idiot MP I heard talked about how successful he thought the PL was. In a nutshell the idiots do not understand the problem.

I haven't read up on any of it in great detail but I can tell you now it's a token gesture with an election coming up. The idea that joe bloggs is gonna be sat next Roman Abramovich or Khaldoon Al Mubarak in a boardroom making decisions is totally nonsense.

There are 2 ways to get fans involved with the running of a club: Total fan ownership, something similar to what Portsmouth did which would be great but I don't think realistically with the sums of money involved in the modern game will work for the mainstream, particulalry higher up the divisions. The second model is the German model, a membership type sceme in which people get to vote for the president who runs the club and the fans always retain a controlling stake. Big business can invest, as Adidas has in Bayern I believe, but only upto a 49%. That's the way we should go; it's a million miles away from how our system is currently set up though so it's really a pointless debate imo.

Given that Labour have ruined us:

Geoffrey Robinson MP - selling highfield road / selling us to SISU
Labour Council - selling the Ricoh to Wasps

I'm hardly minded to take much notice of them. If they want to help then they should ban unaccountable Hedge funds from owning football clubs

I vote RFC

"So, we owe £60 million to SISU, dont own our groud, no signs of progress for new stadium, what do we do ?, RFC ?"

"Just back Pressley and the boys, I know what is round the corner"

Just labour looking for cheap votes for 2015.

Load of bullshit.

fernandopartridge said:

Meaningless idea. 10% fan representation would have how much say in decision making?

Why don't labour look at addressing the monster that is the Premier League and the unfair TV rights deals (abolish selling TV rights all together)? The idiot MP I heard talked about how successful he thought the PL was. In a nutshell the idiots do not understand the problem.

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