"🧵 The investment prospectus by Marc Spiegel’s “Football Strategies Group” is now in the public domain.
It repeatedly claims 600K Londoners support #cafc. That figure, though not the definition, rang a 🔔. 1/4"
"A good while back CAST had discussions with Sandgaard regarding “Fill The Valley”. Remember that?! We reported figures from @YouGov tracker. 21% ‘liked’ #cafc. We applied this to the SE London & Kent population of 3M to come up with an estimate of 600K. ‘Like’ is not support. 2/4"
"Here’s a table CAST prepared of what it might take to “Fill The Valley”. Of that 600K, we said it would be **high cost** to get 100K to attend #cafc once in a season. Yet the prospectus talks of cutting costs and increasing ticket prices. 🤷♀️ 3/4"
According to the prospectus #cafc has a “Manageable, but devoted, fanbase that will not try to exert excess influence over the club.” Guess their research did not extend to The Valley Party and more recent protests. 🤔4/4"
If the prospectus says we are a "manageable, but devoted, fanbase that will not try to exert excess influence over the club" then it worries me hugely in that this alone shows a complete lack of understanding of the club and its history. We've been down that avenue before.
"🧵 The investment prospectus by Marc Spiegel’s “Football Strategies Group” is now in the public domain.
It repeatedly claims 600K Londoners support #cafc. That figure, though not the definition, rang a 🔔. 1/4"
"A good while back CAST had discussions with Sandgaard regarding “Fill The Valley”. Remember that?! We reported figures from @YouGov tracker. 21% ‘liked’ #cafc. We applied this to the SE London & Kent population of 3M to come up with an estimate of 600K. ‘Like’ is not support. 2/4"
"Here’s a table CAST prepared of what it might take to “Fill The Valley”. Of that 600K, we said it would be **high cost** to get 100K to attend #cafc once in a season. Yet the prospectus talks of cutting costs and increasing ticket prices. 🤷♀️ 3/4"
According to the prospectus #cafc has a “Manageable, but devoted, fanbase that will not try to exert excess influence over the club.” Guess their research did not extend to The Valley Party and more recent protests. 🤔4/4"
If the prospectus says we are a "manageable, but devoted, fanbase that will not try to exert excess influence over the club" then it worries me hugely in that this alone shows a complete lack of understanding of the club and its history. We've been down that avenue before.
It gives us and most other clubs one tick for “manageable, devoted fanbase”. It gives Leeds and Millwall two - doesn’t that mean they’re more manageable and more devoted? i.e. crowds are maintained even if the club is struggling.
Ps, don't worry too much as everything is likely to be exactly the same by the time you get back and everyone on the takeover thread will be discussing everything under the sun bar the actual takeover.
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If the prospectus says we are a "manageable, but devoted, fanbase that will not try to exert excess influence over the club" then it worries me hugely in that this alone shows a complete lack of understanding of the club and its history. We've been down that avenue before.