Originally Posted by
wendun
Yes, voicing those ideas when I argued against Tony Stewart taking over got me a great deal of aggro on MM and elsewhere. The paternalistic model of football ownership where a club relies on the whim of wealthy individual(s) is too deeply ingrained in the psyche of UK supporters. In the case of RUFC a fan-based solution is a non-starter due to a number of factors - separation of ground ownership, unhelpful attitude of RMBC, lack of a nucleus of well off business/professional supporters etc. You have yourself pointed to the irony that some of the most enthusiastic adherents of the TS dictatorship are our own MM socialists.