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A mate of mine phoned me about this tonight, I am half tempted to become a member because I think it will be a good laugh as well as something of interest and potentiallly save a club from going belly up.

I must admit the logistics of it all, sound a bit of a nightmare and whether it will get off the ground is probably doubtful. They already have 50000 members and over a million quid to invest. What do you think?


http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk/

I signed up at the beginning, and have had emails asking me to pay my £35, i haven't yet and am still unsure if i will..........

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=23405.0

Ahh sorry ironside that is one of those threads that got so long before i started reading i never bothered with it. Did have a look around to see if it been mentioned before as well, doh.

no worries looks like we could be picking the halifax town team soon

I cant wait for this to start, I have a feeling it will go belly up, read a bit on the forum and so many people have different ideas, but it will be fun..

I just hope it does not ruin a football club

Ebbsfleet United eh, interesting...

Interested to see how this works, particularly fans having a say in team selection

On most football fora I see, a lot of fans don't have a clue and get ludicrously biased one way or the other

Good fans though there, had them at our place when they were Gravesend and Northfleet the day they won promotion ot Conf South!

Does anyone think this can work?  It's bad enough when the board with a few members interferes with the running of a club, but when there's thousands of members that are supposed to have a say in team selection it can only be a disaster.   I can't understand why the manager has said he's looking forward to working with so many people.

It would be good fun perhaps to be a part of it, but as for the good of the team that they are buying, I have my doubts.

Because he's paid to.

I'm hopeful it can work.
Boards with a few members or sole owners of football clubs can often be the reason for the clubs problems.
I think there will be videos and Pro-Zone style statistics along with weekly briefings and fitness updates from the coach.
When the coach puts forward his recommended team and formation, if the members vote for changes to his line up he can hardly be blamed if things don't work out.
It's not just team selection but the whole structure and running of the club that gets voted on, from which clubs to send scouts to, to resurfacing the car park.
It's such a radical idea and there will be problems along the way and wrong decisions will be made but I'm looking forward to being part of it.

If things go wrong will the crowd chant "WE dont know what we're doing"?

So the coach has to submit the team he wants to play each week and needs the members approval?  How long do you give it before the coach gets fed up and quits?  Sounds like he'll spend most of the week getting reports and stats done for the members rather than concentrating on the club.  As for the day to day decisions needing approval from all the members, that's just crazy.  People need to be left to do the job they are paid to do, especially as 99.99% of the people involved in the decision making will have no knowledge on the workings of any club, yet alone the club they are buying. 

Like I said, I think it's a great idea from a fans point of view, but from the clubs, I think it's bad news.   I am tempted to get a stake myself though, just out of curiosity :)

I would love this to succeed, but its gonna go t*ts up in my opinion... Fans picking the team? Leave it out... Do fans realise how time managers/coaches spend with the team and players on the training field, how much they know about them as a person etc, what will the 'members' judge the team selection on, what rating the News of the World gives them in the sunday paper?

In theory its a good idea but in reality it will not work.  I feel sorry for the Ebbsfleet Utd die-hards (I'm guessing there will be a few) whose club is being used as a guinea pig.

Any Ebbsfleet fans on here?

IMO i will work, that's why i have donated my £35 a long time ago.


yes he may quit, but I think the coach will submit his prefered team, and the majority will go with him anyway meaning that any fans that vote for different players will not got it in, so in the end it will be the managers choice. Him staying when things are going wrong may be different because some football supporters can be so fickle..

I think the administration of myfc will be doing a lot of the work for the coach.

The main issue I can see with this going belly up is that (I did not realise this until i read FAQ, but then maybe i should have done) is that the £35 is a yearly subscription, and I cant see what would happen to the club in the event that no person subscribed next year. What happens to the 51% that is owned by myfc.co.uk, it cant just go into thin air..

Ebbsfleet will be ok, some things will change, the whole concept has got people in, but when the fad has gone, I see people (like myself) not making another donation because I dont actually OWN anything, which is what i believe has brought so many in..

I would love to hear any more comments..

Might be in a bit !!

Ebbsfleet Manger on 5live now

this seems a bit of a con to me

so far everything voted on has been over 90% one way

all in the way the guys running MyClub want (all the stories are slanted in that favour)

so the guys behind the site are basically running the club but claiming the members are

the people behind myclub are going to make a mint

every year they will keep ploughing the members money into the club untill

the members decide not to renew and the site pulls out

sells its shares and the people behind it will share the money between them

if they can get the team into league 1 then that should be a few million

Same view as I adopt.  Some guy had an idea to buy a football club but couldn't afford it, so he sold 'shares' where you don't actually own any part of the club and have to repay each year.

That said, Barcelona is apparently run in a similar way.  You can buy a 'stake' in the club and you get to vote on matters like voting a new club President in when it's time.    There's a couple like this in Spain, but I would think it's a better run than the UK version.

How things change, I completly agree with you Iron. I thought this was a wonderful idea, but now i dont.. I will be one of those not donating another £35 when its renewal time, and i feel that there will be a few more of the same attitude..

ok we should try and get a vote up

to sell all existing players at the end of the season and play an under 18s team to help bring on young talent

think we would get to vote on it

NOT A CHANCE IN HELL as it would make the teams chance of promotion less and therefore reduce profit for the "owners"

As I said, for me there is nothing positive about being a member of myfootball club, at this present time. What I though was going to happen was very similar to the recent news about getting 100k Liverpool supporters to buy a share for 5k. I think this would have been a better idea, or would have more substance.

What I dont understand is they still advertise it as 'Own the Club, Pick the Team', yet I dont have a share in anything, i dont own anything.. I'm hoping someone somewhere can tell me why, I should not be thinking that it's very misleading, and that they might have got away with daylight robbery.

latest vote

should we allow the manager to strenghten the squad with loan players


anyone think the no voters will get it? i think 96% yes

Any shareholders going to Wembley?!

I will if you can sort it to be a scouting mission ...  ;whistle;

The only thing worth watching for Torquay is Helen Chamberlin, and even shes looking rough these days...

ooo They won a cup.. My share is now worth.....mmmmmm f**k all still

think mines worth the same