Quote Originally Posted by RED_JOHN View Post
Similar to Rangers...how many times have Rangers tried to gather extra funds through their own fans after supposedly having a rich chairman/board? Milne and our board of multi millionaires are absolutely no better as we now are expecting the fans to contribute towards our playing staff budget. (Hope you don’t need further help understanding my point )

No suggesting we copy the Huns at all...far from it. All I am saying is Milne is doing nothing with his own personal vast wealth to help our playing budget but our own fans are going to increase it by financing it. Milne didn’t even as much as say that whatever our fans put in he would match it (I am even trying to compromise).
I know the whole dna thing might not be a lot of money for our fans but spare a thought that the guy in charge of the club has more than enough money to spare.
I am in favour of DNA but it is disappointing that Milne and the Board are just viewing us fans as an additional income stream without any sort of similar commitment from people who as you say can far better afford it and are supposedly fans as well.

The proof of the pudding of Milne will be the funding of the new stadium rather than DNA. The give or take £30M gap in funding will simply have to be funded in the main by a share issue (anybody who thinks we will be saddled by huge debt is simply wrong as banks just won't lend to Scottish football clubs in the quantum like they did in the past as they know they won't get their money back if things go wrong - it's not like a mortgage on a house where you have a sellable asset when the mortgage is not repaid - any mortgage we have will be fairly modest). So for the share issue Milne will either need to fund the majority of the share issue himself (as the majority shareholder) or if he is not prepared to do that then either the stadium doesn't get built or someone else (single or group of people) steps up to take up the slack and at that point then every chance that Milne is no longer the majority shareholder.

As I say proof of the pudding in Milne's financial commitment to the club will be revealed in the next year or so.