As I posted elsewhere, this will keep happening again and again, new owners will come and go and most so far have been speculators, whether well-meaning or not.
Is there some way fans can find to secure the assets of the club long term at least to prevent harmful speculation and debt that puts the valley and SL at risk and therefore the club? Perhaps the current lease arrangement presents an opportunity.
Fans can demonstrate etc, and as has happened will vote with their feet, but what we really need is leverage and security. A long term scheme and perhaps partnership with LBG might be a way forward. Perhaps that is the real struggle we need to embark on.
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Ben Ransom from Sky talking about the difficulties of getting media coverage for the woes of lower league clubs. Says we need to give them a tangible thing to hang the story off really.
Rick talking about what he understands the situation to be with possible investment/takeover interests. Pertinent quote "don't expect if we sell out Brighton that we'll see a takeover the next day".
Rick (me paraphrasing here): "I don't think it's a good idea for us to be having protests at this point. It could create the narrative that as a group of fans we're not going to be happy with any ownership."
Rebecca Sandles: concerns about knock-on effects on the women's team when the men's team is doing badly.
Oh come on, really?!!!
Well given when we got relegated from the Prem the women's team got hived off completely, it's not an unreasonable concern that if we go down to League 2 that that's going to screw over the funding for the women's team.
Lucy Bishop: she and Lewis have had a conversation with Thomas tonight. Process to appoint a new manager is underway, but is likely to take weeks rather than days. He described the Sun story about the potential takeover as "garbage"
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Is there some way fans can find to secure the assets of the club long term at least to prevent harmful speculation and debt that puts the valley and SL at risk and therefore the club? Perhaps the current lease arrangement presents an opportunity.
Fans can demonstrate etc, and as has happened will vote with their feet, but what we really need is leverage and security. A long term scheme and perhaps partnership with LBG might be a way forward. Perhaps that is the real struggle we need to embark on.
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