Badly run - on and off the pitch?

Quoted from davmariner

To be fair, re. the £200k I think it was explained at the fan’s forum that JF lent the club an extra £200k to cover the associated costs of getting to playoffs and the final. I’m fairly sure that the £200k he took out was just a repayment of that extra loan.

Almost right, although the sum he lent was only about £35k. The extra £165k, who knows where that has gone.

Quoted from davmariner

To be fair, re. the £200k I think it was explained at the fan’s forum that JF lent the club an extra £200k to cover the associated costs of getting to playoffs and the final. I’m fairly sure that the £200k he took out was just a repayment of that extra loan.

Looking like a waste of money and effort at the moment... I remember most saying that its great to be back in the league,, is it ?  lets face it there are not many that are happy at the moment, and at least 2000 cannot be bothered to go now,, and by the look of the players body language neither can they

Quoted from moosey_club

After the initial 30k i believe the trust can do as it chooses with its money.  

Indeed.

Quoted from ginnywings

Maybe there is a middle ground involving both sides?

Unfortunately, I don't think that could really be feasible. It would mean that, ultimately, the wealthier benefactors who are effectively bankrolling the club/guaranteeing loans etc wouldn't have the complete control over what was done with their money. I can't see many people willing to put in their money without any control.

I know German teams are half-owned by the fans (by law, I believe?), but the whole set up of the game over there is very much different and I don't think they have nearly as many professional full-time clubs as we do.

Regrettably, as long as one club can be bankrolled by somebody wealthy, then the others potentially can't compete without the same. It's a real problem that so few clubs are self-sustaining, but I don't think it has ever really been very different - if you read Bob Lincoln's book, there is plenty of information in there about how the board were funding the debts even back in Victorian times!

If even a little more of the lucre raining down on the Premier clubs made its way down to the lower division clubs, it might be a different prospect, but I can't see any prospect of this ever happening.

The difficulty with our board at present is in the event you wanted to motion a vote of no confidence due to being unhappy with how the Club is being run who exactly do you aim it at and who does the aiming?