I had a brilliant response so far , to the appeal for 1000 members but what I ve also got is people upping their membership to double, which is brilliant, as I said, our new CEO is also doing this.

We all need to pull together here and get what we all want, a team to support next year.

FWIW I dont want a seat on the board neither for all my hard work, my pleasure will be to know that Ive done the best I could to save my club.

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.

Maurice your climbing aboard that big horse again

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nor is huddersfield, warrington, and dewsbury, but they are still in there too.

regardless of where we play and what competition it is. the point is, we had our club taken away from us because the then owners decided they were bored and shut it down.

we wouldnt let it die, we run the club, we control the club and no one person can cause us to fail.

You haven't grasped the situation we find ourselves in , we have had a benefactor making up the shortfall from what the club can ' earn ' via playing RL and ' raise ' via donation , this benefactor has found himself very rapidly in a position of no longer being able to make up this shortfall , therefore to secure the short term future of the club , we need an influx of cash , what we are suggesting is a large scale increase in the monies provided both by the LISA membership ( fans ) , and the corporate Club ( sponsors ) for a period of time until more long term plans can be arranged

as well as being from bramley, i'm involved with Supporters Direct as their rugby league director, so you could be right that i'm crazy

which is great, but who owns the club? by the time you've done all this hard work someone could have come in and bought the club, thanked you for your cash and then decided that they want nothing to do with you (as in LISA and the corporate club).

so why not be doing both?

You have a shareholder husband who has access to all financials by right, transparency comes with a shareholding - you still do not understand that being a Director/Sitting on the board is very different to having a shareholding. Oh and if that was a dig at me, I attend too many board meetings as it is - very over rated imho.

I didnt mean you that was crazy lol

Martyn , a trust might well be the way forward for Leigh in the future , either as a part of the club management structure , or as a shareholding funding organization , but right now , all it would do is confuse the issue , and most probably reduce the potential for raising money quickly

Not that old chestnut again

or you put money in to be swallowed in an existing overdraft. Let the different groups get the cash and work with whatever/whoever takes over the club.

The cash raised from LISA is drip fed to the club , not all given in one lump sum , personally I do hope we get a single investor , as what we are looking to raise will still not manage to keep the club at it's current level , but it will keep us playing , and that is the main concern ATM

or it could work against you, in that people will react to a crisis, once the initial hurdle is over come and the short term future is sorted. people will think that everythings hunky dory and the panic is over and theres no need to look at owning some or all of the club.

Quite possibly I do , but I haven't asked for that information , and I am not going to do , it isn't anything to do with me

you need to remember to log out and log back in as you

Well that will be down to whoever gets their hands on the majority shareholding

You've lost me

How could LISA be on the board?.
If you had a thousand members you would need to ask them What they want then they would need to reply through letter,txt or e.mail then you'd take the majority veiw then pass that to the rest of the board then act on it.It would take an age to get anything done.

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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.

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yeah i know, but the question was aimed at her and you answered and the way the answer read it could have been either of you replying.

Its all in hand