The Day We Lost Our Club

[animallittle3]

This is an answer to a question posed to me by ESR and one which I thought I couldn't answer , after giving it some thought I think I can .

We lost the club the day Peter Doyle bought it and the old Barnsley Football Club Limited was wound up .

Under the old company people within the borough owned shares , they may have had one or two and they were spread all over the region .

This entitled them to attend the annual shareholders meeting where the accounts for the previous year were presented , also and perhaps more importantly , directors and the chairman had to offer themselves up for re-election , in affect they could be challenged by anyone owning a share if it was felt they weren't doing a competent job .

All this of course changed when Doyle purchased the club and set up Barnsley Football Club 2003 .

It could be argued from that day on the club's business was done without scrutiny and accountability to supporters / shareholders and became the business of purely one owner who held one single share , there was only one share available I believe .

Now you can always make a point about emotional ownership , the club will always belong to the fans etc etc , the reality of course is that it doesn't and fans no longer have any meaningful influence over the running or it's accounts .

I'd be very surprised if the club ever returns to a model of local shareholders , if it ever did then you can more or less take it that the club went bust and a group of fans were starting a new club right from scratch .

[Ponte_Steve24]

A bit morbid that.

[DOOALI]

Amen

[red_card4zip]

A bit morbid that.

Innit.....

With a bit of luck OP will call us relegation certs....

Cook needs a taxi to the airport , past his best

.......only 244 not out.


Say we won't win a game all year, animal.......please.

[animallittle3]

Innit.....

With a bit of luck OP will call us relegation certs....

.......only 244 not out.


Say we won't win a game all year, animal.......please.

Aye where was the 244 not out whist the series was still a contest ......... exactly !!

[red_card4zip]

Aye....thanks to Mr Cook it wont be a whitewash.

Small mercies and all that....

[Exiletyke]

This is an answer to a question posed to me by ESR and one which I thought I couldn't answer , after giving it some thought I think I can .

We lost the club the day Peter Doyle bought it and the old Barnsley Football Club Limited was wound up .

Under the old company people within the borough owned shares , they may have had one or two and they were spread all over the region .

This entitled them to attend the annual shareholders meeting where the accounts for the previous year were presented , also and perhaps more importantly , directors and the chairman had to offer themselves up for re-election , in affect they could be challenged by anyone owning a share if it was felt they weren't doing a competent job .

All this of course changed when Doyle purchased the club and set up Barnsley Football Club 2003 .

It could be argued from that day on the club's business was done without scrutiny and accountability to supporters / shareholders and became the business of purely one owner who held one single share , there was only one share available I believe .

Now you can always make a point about emotional ownership , the club will always belong to the fans etc etc , the reality of course is that it doesn't and fans no longer have any meaningful influence over the running or it's accounts .

I'd be very surprised if the club ever returns to a model of local shareholders , if it ever did then you can more or less take it that the club went bust and a group of fans were starting a new club right from scratch .

The day the music died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ecvBaqHBk