Straw poll
Webmaster, is there any way of doing a straw poll
1 Sustainability where we fund ourselves
2 Sugar Daddy who funds us
I prefer option 1 although option 2 has its merits
1 Sustainability where we fund ourselves
2 Sugar Daddy who funds us
I prefer option 1 although option 2 has its merits
Comments
we dont need a billionaire. we need someone with common sense managing the club off the pitch, and experts running it on.
That means a proper DoF who looks across the whole club.
Works with coaches across the age groups to make sure that we are playing to the same principles, so the step up is less easier than walking into a completely different style and environment.
Coaches who are able to feed into the recruitment and retention process, as well as the scouting department.
And a business people off the pitch who are savvy financially not to over stretch, and able to manage short term funding/cashflow situations when they arise. but they should not be a norm, as they had become.
But there is one billionaire, however that seems to fit that criteria, and that's Steve Landsdown, owner of Bristol City.
He's built a new stadium. Stuck with Lee Johnson for 3 years, despite some ups and downs, and they have built a decent team and philosophy on the pitch.
Bristol born Steve Lansdown of financial services company Hargreaves & Lansdown is also involved in Bristol Rugby Club. Some info on him.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/23501929
Do we have one?
Barnsley model where we sell everything that anybody wants to buy, get relegated to division 1 and promoted back to Championship all the while practising Moneyball and talent spotting overlooked youngsters we can give a profile to and then sell on at a big profit
Is that the extent of what you get from a locally owned club without a Sugar Daddy - itself a mug's game as like Sam Hammam they always want all their money back ( with interest) - in the end?
Local football mad billionaire please
But , irrespective of whether it's a homegrown organic model or the sugar daddy approach, neither should include HJ. I believe that his resignation/removal is something that needed to happen in order for us to "move on" and any return in any capacity whatsoever would be a totally retrograde step in the extreme - any future re-emergence would be like the final scene of Carrie
Coupled with identity and by the fans for the fans.
I believe it is still possible, as we have shown once.
I appreciate it is a romantic notion, but the blue print we still hold!