If I'm a true supporter i want a badge that says so

I'm pretty sure you don't need to pay VAT on memberships - Mark Green told me personally

I think Hood was also an expert on this subject!

I did say I am not an accountant and all figures may be higher or lower.
It was written simply as a guide to show that this year will be tight but could still bring in a reasonable return - especially if we start winning and crowds reappear.
The financial situation will be fluid as the year progresses.
Unfortunately, Greens financial bucket had holes in it and Ferrett was carrying it.

Hopefully, Toovey - being a chartered accountant - has grasped that outgoings have to be matched by income. Something that appears to have escaped Green and Ferres.

If I owned the club I'd offer a part-membership to owners. For example, every supporter that wants to can pay £20 a year (or maybe £30/40) and they will 'own' a small part of the club. Everytime a big decision needs to be made (this can vary from a player signing or what to do with the youth) everyone gets 1 vote. Helps the fans get clarity on how money is spent and also generates more income. 2,000 fans at £20 gets an extra £40,000 a year!

Bulls' Twitter:

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

Season tickets will be on sale on Tuesday at a discount price!

More details regarding exact pricing soon to come!

That's just the BIG announcement, I'm waiting for the HUGE announcement.

Sounds like gledhills being giving new media guy tips on how to over hype an announcement.

That's poor..

Yet another total let down. It was pretty obvious they would have to drop the prices as people are not going to pay Super League entrance fees or season tickets when you are going to watch a Championship 1 team.

TBH, ever since the Twitter started up again, I've felt whoever is handling it is like a kid in a sweet shop. Whoever it is seems a little keen. Not that keen is necessarily a bad thing, we've had enough of the opposite for years. But perhaps a fine line between keen and hyperbole.

Are they ever going to actually announce who has signed?

Was about to make the same comment.

I'm struggling to even call it an announcement. How can you announce season tickets without giving pricing details?

To keep my blood pressure at a reasonable level I think I might need to unfollow the bulls on twitter until they get a grown up to post for them.

Looks like we have Sean Spicer in charge of Twitter....

That's not HUGE!!

"We have the right to disagree with facts"

Poor lad. If this is the new Luke guy he's pretty young and not far off fresh out of college. Someone should give him some pointers though. On the other hand, if he's getting most of his feedback from the Facebook groups then perhaps he sees the overhype to be working.

It's an announcement about an announcement

He's been taking tips off Gary Pettit

TBF it is in a BIG font, so ticks the bigly box.

Wasn't this what Lamb wanted to do?

Yeah and it's as terrible an idea now as it was then.

Sorry but I disagree



(with the last line only

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le sigh..

Not necessarily. I think he wanted the fans to own 51% of the business. Majority control. What I was proposing was maybe 10-15% of the business. Helps the club raise money and fans do get a say in how money is spent. So still owned by Chalmers and Lowe with whatever funding streams they have. But the fans owning a part so we actually have clarity this time around on finances. Would also stop the owners thinking "A 40-50 man squad is good". Or prevent wasting money on a Richie Mathers.

I know it could cause problems. Some fans are wanting us to make signings left, right and centre. Why? We have a squad of 26 now. 2 or 3 new faces in the pack before the season starts fine. Then go with what we have for the 23 regular season games. See what we do, no point wasting money paying 30 plus players if we can't get out of the relegation zone. If those guys can claw the points back and we can mathematically stay up come the shield stages. Then maybe think about strengthening one or two positions. The way my proposed fan owned part could help finance two signings at that stage?