hayfever

Yeah fair enough. but if we want better supporter engagement, regular updates and a website that is useful and full of content then someone actively employed to do that is required surely? Perhaps part-time initially to save costs, especially when there's less games and no matchday/stadium specific updates to provide...

Of course, although I'd guess (or hope) MCT will be able to work with the club over the next few months to get a proper overview of how things run and have plans in place for implementation straight away. The first place to save money is usually shedding staff, but there isn't a particularly big admin staff in place already. Appointing a Marketing Manager who manages the website and social media output would be a good start.

I would think that if and when they take control the 'owners own, and managers manage'. The people running MCT can continue to do that, while appointed club staff run the club working under a competent and experienced Chief Exec (which may well remain DMcK). MCT members may of course be on the club board, but (at least eventually) shouldn't need to be involved in the day-to-day running of the place. As long as decent appointments are in place the actual running of the club should be fine (or at least no worse than it has been at times in the past!)

I think this has been answered since, but the text you quote is based on the original project which was to provide additional funding for the first team squad. The objective has changed now, which is to take over the club and will need ongoing funding. I'm assuming - based on other supporter owned club examples - that MCT pledges will provide part of the club's income or some of the pledge total will be invested straight into the club, with some being kept to build up a reserve or used for specific projects/purchases for donation to the club. Are your donations coming out at different times of the month? Also, it's weird replying to someone using the username I used to use...

It's just occurred to me that I'm probably counted as two members, seeing as I have two separate pledges, so I suppose it's amount pledged rather than number of 'members' signed up that actually counts.

What would help is the ability to amend your existing donation rather than having to set up a whole new one that's deducted at a different time of the month. Also, allowing international donations (or Paypal or similar) to take advantage of the many ex-pats who I'm sure would be keen to contribute.

This, this and this ^^^ There may well be tougher times ahead while it finds its feet, but I think it's a great idea and look forward to the club becoming better engaged with the supporter base and more and more at the centre of its local community. And to touch on a previous point about volunteers, I understand they can be a challenge at times but I don't think the contribution they can make to a club like ours should be dismissed. At my old job we estimated their contribution to be the equivalent of a quarter of a million pounds a year - they helped wash and dry strips, made meals for the players, painted the ground, answered phones and sold tickets, helped weekly with ground maintenance (in offices and stadium itself), sell merchandise, write match reports, provide match day social media updates, fundraise... the list goes on.

Even more impressive by Samuel considering he was rubbish in League Two with Newport and Stevenage. Wycombe run on a shoestring so getting to the Championship would be a huge achievement, especially compared to the amount of money wasted by the likes of Peterborough and Sunderland to not even get this close.

I didn't say you did. However, in the same post where you say people can do as they wish (thanks) you also say that people doing as they wish (i.e. supporting the idea and encouraging others) is patronising. It's almost like you are making it up as you go along. And being annoyed at being encouraged to pledge is just plain weird. It's just marketing. If the scheme can't use Morton legends etc to encourage sign up and attract attention then what can they do!? (have a decent website for one, I agree)

...and people shouldn't do that just because you aren't convinced by the project?

Other schemes of this type already exist so I think calling the idea hairbrained is a little spurious. Nobody is telling anyone what they should or shouldn't do, stop being so sensitive.

What happens when £400k is reached and invested/given to the club? Is it next project, next batch of fundraising? Can MCT members have a say on what the next level of investment will be for?

Still the only time I've seen Morton at Hampden which will be why it sticks out - I can remember absolutely nothing else about that game so AT your summary is quite apt!

Including a winner at Hampden against Queen's Park if I remember correctly?

It also features on the Guardian Goals of the Week page this morning, gif about halfway down this link: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/11/best-goals-week-forlan-reus-neymar-griezmann-lewandowski?CMP=fb_a-football_b-gdnfootball

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Yeah I'm still thinking 'meh'

Someone in the office has put Daft Punk on. Can only really say 'meh'.