I'm not sure that's entirely true. You'd have to be someone fairly comfortable with being a magnet for abuse from a fair few 'fans', as well as with a roughly 50% chance of at some point never being able to set foot in Odsal (or wherever we end up playing) again. So, essentially someone with no emotional ties to the club or who feels that their relationship with the club is pretty disposable. Not the best qualities in someone to be a fan representative.

If memory serves me correctly, Supporters Direct pushed very hard for BullBuilder to include provisions for getting on the board in the constitution. They were very helpful in setting up BullBuilder, but the constant talk about leaving the board options open no matter how many times the steering committee told them they didn't want that, were quite irritating.
I think as a group, they're very keen to get involved at the higher end as much as possible, so it doesn't surprise me they want to try and get involved here too.

What the last 20 months have shown is that people are too stupid to be allowed to vote on anything more important than Strictly.

The problem with fans' representatives is that the representative starts to look after his or her position more than the interests of the fans, not wanting to give up the status of being on the board and having the inside track on everything. The focus switches to the interests of the Board rather than the fans, and the non-fan members start to use the representative as a publicist, to keep the fans onside.

I've seen it in happen in the wider world, and it is human nature.

Absolutely. The combination of robustness, insight, ability, commitment, humility, integrity etc required is pretty f***ing rare. I can think of a couple of people but I'm pretty sure none would want to do it.

Is this a joke? Are you not describing Marc Green?

Not at all. He's exactly the sort of person who would put himself forward to be part of running the club. That's why it's such a worrying idea.

You mentioned the biggest problem in your post Slugger, "[istarts to look after his or her position more than the interests of the fans[/i", the trouble is, which fans? The fans are individuals, each and every one won't agree on much on anything with their neighbour.

To be truthful, after reading much of the stuff which goes into some supporter forums, I seriously wouldn't want a few of these 'supporters' groups', to run anything more important than the sweet stall. And I doubt that would break even.

I think that supporter owned should only be used as a stop gap and that it should be done with the aim at Gwtting the clubbing an even Keal and making it a viable proposition for a "money man" to come in and continue progressing the club.

At the moment you are just not an attractive proposition for someone with real money to take u to SL

We're not an attractive proposition for our own fans either.

So does anyone know what's going on?

We don't exist so without been negative aren't a proposition for anyone,
All that's for sale is a franchise of which has a 12 point deduction over its head.

What we need is a money man that is wanting a very big challenge, In another thread Koukash is mentioned he would relish the thought of sticking two fingers up at the RFL

I thought there was meant to be something after "close of business today" - anyone have a definition of when that might be, when applied to the RFL?

about 3:30 when they finish lunch