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http://members.boardhost.com/peoplesforum/msg/1296683860.html

Some good content here.
 

I've only skim read their material and see name dropping all over the show. Egoistic?

The question mark is to be noted - ignorance on my behalf to be fair.

If it's for a greater cause - good luck to them.
 
Oh Dear, I hope that the People's Forum is not its home and this is just a post on a trawl of supportive sites (GoT?)

My only wish is that it doesn't turn into one of those anti board, conspiracy type groups who see dark forces wherever they go.
 
I didn't say i supported it, the proof of concept is there to see, it needs backing and growth.

It's a good thing, albeit in it's infancy.
 

I'm not sure it's the way forward, tbh. They're setting up a plc to buy fixed assets for the club (such as the training ground) to take that strain off the accounts. Maybe the thinking is it could release funds for players/wages, but to my mind it'll just leave in place the clowns who are uselss at growing the club commercially and complicate any takeover...which, despite this trust's POV, is surely the only realistic way of getting Everton back up there challenging again.
 

davek said:
I'm not sure it's the way forward, tbh. They're setting up a plc to buy fixed assets for the club (such as the training ground) to take that strain off the accounts. Maybe the thinking is it could release funds for players/wages, but to my mind it'll just leave in place the clowns who are uselss at growing the club commercially and complicate any takeover...which, despite this trust's POV, is surely the only realistic way of getting Everton back up there challenging again.
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Fully agree with this. I appreciate the thinking behind it but it would only work if we had a generally competent ownership, which we don't.
 
A few things to remember:

1) Do you honestly think the current incumbents will sell the club any time soon?

2) The training ground is currently for sale. Who would you rather own that - a property development company with carte blanche to charge whatever rent they like? A bank? Or a fans trust?

3) The club currently pay £8m a season to use Finch Farm, not owning it outright anyway. The plan wouldn't be to give it to the club free of charge with no strings attached, Rent would be renegotiated with the club (in theory).
 
4) By a fans trust owning the assets, rather than propping up a dying regime, it will actually give the Fans Trust a greater say in how the club is run, and hold the club far more accountable than they are now.

It should be the shareholders who hold 32% of the club who should be doing that job, but they don't.

So let's have an independent trust owning some of the assets. It will definitely force the club to communicate more about what's going on, as the Trust will hold all the purse strings - literally and figuratively.

The answer isn't to just poo-poo this and keep hoping for a Sheik whilst selling our best players and trying to win an unwinnable PR battle by shouting at an aloof owner through a fence.
 
I for one wil sign up for this. My only concern is that Chelsea fans tried something similar and it caused problems when they came to sell to Ambramovich.

But if it means that when the incompetent board try to asset strip the club AGAIN that we as supporters can secure those assets. Then I'm all for it. Through gradual progression the club could potentially be owned by the supporters. The Barca model springs to mind continually for me. Supporters owning the club and financing the club through small monthly 'donations'
 

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