Rochdale, who are currently third in Championship 1 for those that think the model doesn't work. They're also not far from posting a small profit. Obviously as a supporter owned club, that profit will be reinvested into the club rather than lining the pockets of a sugar daddy.

Oh and they don't own their stadium either so have very few money making avenues from that.

no not at all.

the way it works for us is that the BOD are installed by the members and we run the club on a day to day operation. we can make operational decisions and strategic ones regarding the running of the club. if we wanted to move to another ground or change our name we would have to take it to the shareholders.

it works like that for other shareholder companies too.

ASDA or Tesco don't contact every share holder when they want to increase the price of a loaf.

Sorry Ste, it was that old red herring she threw out again - no need for it when we are asking fans to dig deep and change our future. Some will follow the LISA way, some the shareholder partneship, some both - the key being they get involved. Some fans may read the carp and be influenced by the bloke on his barstool.

Its all in hand