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RichMariner
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One of the best things about Operation Promotion is the way that John Fenty has stayed out of it.

He's taken a back seat, refrained from publishing one of his statements and let the campaign run its course naturally, as it should. The fans came up with it; the fans ran it; the fans have made it a success.

And they rightly take the glory, without any distractions.


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With more teams jumping on I bet the guys at crowdfunder are laughing all the way to the bank!
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As great as it is I also think it shows the sorry state of the game, especially when you think how many times some teams have flouted the rules regarding Financial Fair Play and have been in and out of administration.

Don't forget as well, next season teams like Crystal Palace and potentially teams like Bournemouth will have bigger budgets than almost all of Serie A, the Bundesliga and La Liga...quite frightening really, and here are clubs/fans setting up crowd funding for transfer kitties...


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With more teams jumping on I bet the guys at crowdfunder are laughing all the way to the bank!


I bet they are fees are not good.
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With more teams jumping on I bet the guys at crowdfunder are laughing all the way to the bank!


Why not set up a generic club funder site? Should be able to make money with half the crowd funder fees I would have thought and the site can be geared to sport. Anyone feeling entrepreneurial?


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Why not set up a generic club funder site? Should be able to make money with half the crowd funder fees I would have thought and the site can be geared to sport. Anyone feeling entrepreneurial?



What was it they took from yourselves 6% £6000?
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What was it they took from yourselves 6% £6000?


It was 6% yes but not all the money raised was through the Crowdfunder site. About £30,000 was outside Crowdfunder.
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I've mentioned it on here before, but my Scottish club Auchinleck Talbot, have been doing something similar for about 8 or 9 years now.

Fans pledge £10 per month over 10 months of the year, so each gives £100 per annum. All the players and management do the same, as do a good number of the committee. We've raised over £130,000 since we started, which given our avergae home gate is around the 400-450 mark is a huge amonut of money for our grade. Other clubs up here have tried to do something similar, but none have matched the level of success we've had.

On a similar note, we play in the Scottish Junior Cup every year, and the Scottish Cup on a fairly regular basis dependent on our being successful. Four years ago we played away at Lossiemouth in the 1st round of the Scottish Cup, and two coaches heaaded north of Aberdeen on the Friday night for the game the next day. We ere booked into a hotel by one of the Supporters Clubs, and the weekend cost about £100 per person, which also included an element of £20 per head to go directly back to the club so that it cost nothing to transport the club up there for the game, and the overnight hotel costs. This is a fairly regular occurence and goes to show the bond between club and fans.

We play at Hermes in Aberdeen on September 5th in this year's Scottish Cup and I assume something similar will be happening this time around as well.


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Why not set up a generic club funder site? Should be able to make money with half the crowd funder fees I would have thought and the site can be geared to sport. Anyone feeling entrepreneurial?


Trifosy has already contacted us.. They are a company set up to do exactly that. And they are far more hands on than crowdfunder were.
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I'd say that Darlo have used Crowdfunder-type organisations with some great success over the past few years. Granted their circumstances are different (and something I hope we never experience at GTFC), but I'd say they've been out well out ahead of us on this.


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