Keith wrote:jbc.shrimp wrote:Keith, I apologise for not being precise enough. I was meaning to keep collecting each and every home match until we have raised the amount required to see off Bond and have a fans owned club. Yes this could take years, but as I mentioned, it would show our intent and possibly attract a hacker with the money to help in short term. But as someone else on this thread has stated 'to do nothing', then nothing positive will come of the present situation IMHO. We must get something going. I would just prefer it to come from an official source.
I doubt if we could ever reach that level of funding. As you say, it would take years, and I doubt the club could last that long under its current ownership farce. But, having a plan for the eventuality where we need to start again would definitely make sense.
We had all this with the fiasco when PMG sold out. Lots of good intentions about the Trust and potential to fund-raise to buy the club etc whilst the ownership fiasco played out. Such a shame it all died out and all the impetus and progress just withered away. It was obvious Jason/Colin were just in it for a short term profit - they said as much at the time, so the fans, board, trust etc should have been planning for the "next" ownership fiasco, which we're going through now. It's too late to start fund raising etc., when we're deep in the brown smelly stuff. Let's be realistic, even if a white knight sweeps in to buy the club, such as Fury, it'll only be short term and in a few years, it'll be up for sale again when either they run out of money or get bored. It WILL take years for fans to fund raise enough money to be serious potential buyers via the trust, the existing board, or another fans group, so unless it's started soon enough (long before the next ownership fiasco), it'll simply never happen.