Quote: Ceejames "That cannot be true!!!
They are commonly owned blah blah....Barcelona model blah blah.
A working guy signs acontract in good faith and gets treated like this...a poor do.'"
Ceejames, you seem to think that because the club are
cooperatively owned (rather than commonly owned) that they are not run like a normal business? That they are somehow immune from having money troubles?
At the end of the day, every single club that has money coming in and going out is a business and should be run as such. The fact that Bramley use a different ownership model to most clubs does not make them infallible from any of the downsides of business - at the end of the day, if you spend more than you earn your business suffers.
I'm sure the board at Bramley will be the first to admit they are not perfect, but I do know how damned hard they work to keep the club going and that if it wasn't for them, there wouldn't be a club full stop.
The cooperative model isn't a perfect one - those involved need to ensure they bring in the skills required to make sure the club is run properly but at least with clubs like Bramley,
every single person who joins is entitled to a say in how the club is being run and if they think it's being run badly, they have the opportunity to step up and do something about it. Can you honestly say any of the privately owned clubs would allow this? I doubt it.
As for the issues with Mark, I suggest that as this is currently a legal matter (as the article suggests) it would be wise for nobody to make comments about who is to blame or what the outcome might be.
