I was just thinking of roles we could all play in this fans owned club;

Paddcok- CEO- goes without saying
Gutterfax- marketing- hasnt got a clue
Nadera 78- Director of finance as he clearly hasnt got a calculator
I would like to be gutterfax just chipping away from a distance!
Anyone else

I bet an investor with 200k a year would be the best offer Hughesy has had post-Lenaghan.

Mark Rammond's betting tips are pretty good - take TreCool's initial £200, I'm sure Mark could make it worth a lot more on his current form!

.....and the relevance of that is what exactly.

Its £2m or nothing simple. Offering 10% wouldnt even finance the Skolars

it's true, supporter's trust is a nice idea and all and count me in if it were to look feasible, but it simply isn't. we don't even have 1000 season ticket holders at £150 a pop yet alone 1000+ investors at £2k each initially, and bearing in mind there were reasons for optimism at the start of the season when the STs were sold.

i'm all for something drastic being done but it needs to be more realistic than this.

Why couldn't a trust start out as an investor rather than an owner?

200k is actually a decent sum for a start off running a Champs club, and Id bet 1000 season ticket holders would make us one of the strongest clubs outside SL at the moment.

That's the realistic future here. Being a top Champs club with an aim of 1000 x 5 year pledges for season tickets. Would makes us by far the strongest club in the south, but maybe not SL but still be something to be proud of compared to what we have now.

I for one would be happy with that if we could find a suitable facility that didn't charge us silly money.

Are you posting from Amsterdam or are you just breaking the law?

I think there are 1000 fans out there who love London Broncos enough to commit to a sound business plan that gives a solid future.

People are trying to have a rational debate so why are you just throwing stupid immature remarks around?

Are you for real? No seriously

Are you fishing for me here?

BTW....in my humble opinion, Fan buy-outs are for lower division soccer teams with their own grounds, 3 generation histories and aspirations of climbing the football league and not failing RL clubs with a 1 generation history, no ground to call home and who already at the top table.'"

Don't want to throw a damper on the fans initiative proposal and I'd happily put a fair few quid in (wife permitting) if there was a credible business plan, but this idea has come up a number of times in the past and none of us has ever stood up and said they'd commit themselves to leading this and driving it forward. Without some such person, it's a non starter.

Anybody willing now? Not me sorry.

I am not saying there aren't 1,000 fans out there willing to do it.....but just to drag it back to a little bit of reality, we had 859 Season Ticket holders in 2012 including Kids.

Who's fishing now?

I knew you would respond, you cant help yourself can you!!

mate...I sit at a computer all day..... (thinking of new and clever ways to market stuff....then just copying someone else ideas)......it's not a hardship to respond to your bait, it's a pleasant distraction

I'm more than happy to drive this, however impossible it is!

If it came to the life or death of the club, offering a viable future at champs level with a sound business plan from NEW management it would be possible to get 1000 people to buy into it.

How much investment per head?

We know neither the numbers nor the investment per head. However, I - and I expect others - are happy to invest a few hundred even if turns tits up.

Oh, and I'm not a season ticket holder, so I don't think the 859 figure is any kind of maximum level of support. There are thousands of disaffected Broncos who have attended a game or two in London in the past 5 years and there lies the key.

Could I be Vice President for Sanitation and Bog Rolls, got a lotta experience watching Crap over the years.

Talking it as well

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Would be interested in contributing if anything came of this

As I said before I'm really heartened by the positive attitude of most people on this thread. Talk to people at the game tonight about it and see what reaction you get. I'll get the game over first then resurrect the website [urlhttp://rllist.wordpress.com/[/url and post some initial thoughts on what I think the Trust could achieve, and a method for making a pledge.
If we get 5 pledges then its dead, but if we can gain some momentum then who knows? If it shows promise perhaps we can hold a meeting around the Huddersfield home game. The hook line I came up with was "£1,000 a year from a 1,000 people" - lets see how we go and pledge what you can.