Ok, I've signed up. Anyone else?

[Graham S]

First I knew was when the story leapt out at me from the free London Evening paper on the train tonight - & I'll be honest, my first thought, before all the doubts set in was, "Can I still join & be part of this?"

 

I've read nearly everything on here & I share many of the reservations, but, hell, the board, the management & - possibly key for me - Jessica at the trust are behind it, so I've been on the site & signed up & yes I did let my caution have some say in that I only signed for 1 year & not the 2 or 3 a little voice was telling me to go for.

 

Perhaps a few years down the line it will eventually come to nothing, but surely those of us who have supported the Club for decades should be part of what is clearly going to happen. We have cried out for money for years & isn't this better than being owned by a single egotistical crook who could walk out at any second. Maybe I'm naive, but there seems far less chance of us suddenly being left with nothing under this option than anything else that will suddenly bring an influx of money & interest.

 

And I really can't understand people being rude to the Hereford guy who will be at Oxford. I can't make it, but you're welcome to every game, mate, as far as I'm concerned. Bloody hell we've been crying out for extra support & when people drop in our lap we tell them to keep away.

 

Any one else taken the plunge since seeing the news today?

 

Graham S

[bsmith]

I'm mulling it over. Part of me doesn't want to as a matter of principle and the other part sees that MyFC is here and by the looks of it here to stay (for a while at least) and I'd rather have at least some input into the system rather than just leaving it to people who don't know the club very well (or in fairness at all)

[Live4ever]

Fair play to you!

[rsheard]

Welcome to both of you! As I said before, we hope every supporter joins MyFC and has his or her say in the running of the club.

[Slartibartfast]

I'm with you Graham.

 

The one thing I want to make sure of is that the money goes to the Fleet.

 

Ebbsfleet and MFC have had a tremendous amount of publicity today but all of the figures bandied about seem to be based on 20,000 members, if 100,000 members means 5x the money to the club then I am in.

 

Also I understand that MFC are thinking of streaming all the matches, if I can watch all the away games for £35.00 a year then I would consider that a hell of a bargain even if the Flet weren't going to benefit from the £35.00.

 

 

[Santa]

Out of interest what percentage of the 20,000 have commited to more than a year ?

[Kenny]

I don't think we've got any way of knowing that at the moment, Santa. I don't know if that's something that'll get released when the deal's finished.

[gaspode]

Yup.

 

I signed up the minute I heard about it.

 

I've already received messages from 12 people asking about the team and they all sound like they are truly interested in getting to know us

 

Say hello to the future everybody

[toddybad]

For your info this is what we (the MyFC members) know so far which may be of use to you Slartibartfast (had to check that name a couple of times lol).

 

A year's membership is £35. Of this £7.50 goes to admin costs with the maining £27.50 going into the club fund.

 

The figures quoted today are, I think, a little out. We have been told a couple of weeks ago that we'd passed £700k in the purchase fund. This is the money after the admin deduction meaning we must have closer to 30,000 members.

 

In terms of the TV feeds, this is not guaranteed although we would certainly like to do it. Something will have to be 'screened' as a lot of members will be basing their choices on what they are shown (along with Liam Daish's notes and training videos etc). Even the MyFC webteam can't answer all our questins (and that includes will brooks himself who invented the whole thing). They know what they'd like but it's only once due diligence is completed and the club purchased that they can actually get in and see what needs to be done.

[toddybad]

Also, it would be great to have existing Ebbsfleet fans on board as they can talk us all through the squad aetc so we have some background info. Would be good to compare with what Liam Daish tells us.

 

By the way is that the Liam Daish that used to play for Birmingham - left footed centre back I think?!!?

[Slartibartfast]

Coventry City I think you'll find, kicked everything that moved.....still does.

[Graham S]

Originally Posted By: toddybad

By the way is that the Liam Daish that used to play for Birmingham - left footed centre back I think?!!?

Yes

[toddybad]

Didn't he move from Birmingham to Coventry?? Can't remember lol.

Anyway as I've got your attention and you seem to be reasonably calm at this point (like most Ebbsfleet fans us MyFC members were pretty much wetting ourselves earlier though for presumably exactly the opposite reason) - what do we need to do in your opinion to take the club on?? where are the playing weaknesses? where does the infrastruture lack?? maybe it's a bit early for these questions on this forum but if you aren't up for this conversation just yet pay your £35 and have it for ever more...

[rsheard]

Originally Posted By: Slartibartfast

Coventry City I think you'll find, kicked everything that moved.....still does.

Your essential assumption is correct. If we get to 100k members, it means the club gets 5 times as much money each year. There is no limit (again, by law) to the number of members in the trust. Our original goal was 50,000. We're somewhere above 20,000 now and will know a precise number once the purchase details are wrapped up and everything can become transparent.

I personally don't care that my individual vote is diluted by more members. The consensus will determine the direction we go and the more members, the more financial clout we'll have.

[eufckev]

I'm not going to join up, not yet. Give it until the end of this season or sometime next year, then I'll see whether I think it's successful or not.

[Slartibartfast]

Exactly what you would do with any club you took over, start down the middle.

A comanding centrehalf, a central midfielder who can run the show and take free kicks and a fast goalscoring centre forward would do it.

Fill in the rest of the side with the current players and we would stand a fair chance of a play-off place.

[doheochai]

Originally Posted By: Santa

Out of interest what percentage of the 20,000 have commited to more than a year ?

7% - but to be honest a large number of members, like me, who signed up for one year are in it for the long haul. I paid up in early August still with the doubt that this was a runner. I have no doubts now. Even if MyFC were to fold I would still want to be involved and would join the supporters trust.

[rsheard]

At one point A webteam member said 16% or 17% had signed up for more than a year, but it's been some time since I saw that. I'm personally in for 2 officially, but fully intend to remain as long as MyFC and EUFC are married. After that, it depends upon why the marriage dissolved.

[toddybad]

I signed up for one - firstly as there was no evidence of whether or not it was a con at the time and also i'd spent all my payday pennies. I will definately be here as long as MyFC exists and probably beyond that too.

[George Reilly's Hairpiece]

What does the £7.50 equate to in absolute costs? The vast majority of costs will be fixed and not driven by the number of members so there must have been an assumption as to the number of members to work out what the cost per head must be.

 

I may have missed it, but I can't find a detailed cost breakdown to support the £7.50. If there was an assumed take up of 50,000 members then the total cost would be £375,000 (again the vast majority being fixed). If the membership drops to 30,000, the costs still have to be met, but of course that means more than £7.50 being deducted and therefore less money making it to the club. In this example now £12.5 on admin costs and only £22.5 to the club

 

I presume this information has to be given somewhere else why would you happily pay over £35 a year when an ever increasing sum might be going to run the fund rather than help the club?