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Call me naive, styoopit even ... but ... is our club maybe too big for a fans buy-out? I doubt if anyone wants Stewart Milne to be anywhere near Pittodrie, let alone any rebranded committee. What if regular season ticketers withheld their allocation in favour of shares? What if guys like myself, who cannot attend even occasionally, wished to buy a share or two or ...
Pardon me, I keep reading folks desires to get Milne etc out of the club followed by the question 'who will buy him out?' ... focussing on a single, mythical, rich Dons sympathetic individual. ... and it ain't happenin' .. !
Correct me if I am wrong, but the income from ticket sales alone is around 3 - 4 million quid per annum.
If that could be paid as a mortgage on a new stadium, it would be buying, over 25 years, a facility worth about 40M now, and about 200M in 25 years time.
That is disregarding sponsorship, development grants, income from advertising,corporate events, concerts, other venue hire income, film rights, sale of Pittodrie (should this still be an asset) ...
Building costs more than met via the above (fantasy) buyout? ... Future efficiency measures can be implemented ... solar panel the entire roof! .. have the floodlights mounted on Wind turbines (plenty wind at the beach!) ... use stored energy to minimise energy costs to club, but also provide underfloor heating to sections of ground in colder months to mak the matchday experience less fvckt-up!
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Apologies tae 57 for suggestin' a shared communal wealth/investment plan, essentially a socialist/collective/co-operative model ... but whose fortunes rely on neo-liberal/capitalist driven macro-economics.
Still, that question .... where is it written that a socialist or anarchist is not permitted to enjoy wealth beyond levels of survival/subsistence/comfort/security? Provided these are not the spoils of exploitation in any of it's forms, these might be enjoyed
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We are filthy lefties who are not allowed nice things. Good job, I canna afford them anyway.Originally Posted by NaeMairNeeps
Apologies tae 57 for suggestin' a shared communal wealth/investment plan, essentially a socialist/collective/co-operative model ... but whose fortunes rely on neo-liberal/capitalist driven macro-economics.
Still, that question .... where is it written that a socialist or anarchist is not permitted to enjoy wealth beyond levels of survival/subsistence/comfort/security? Provided these are not the spoils of exploitation in any of it's forms, these might be enjoyed
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I like the idea of us all clubbing together and buying out Milne and Cormack. You could well be onto something. I haven’t had a season ticket for quite a few years now but I certainly would stump up that cash for a share so fans can control the club.
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The best one was hiring a raging jakey, who every man and his dog knew was a raging jakey, then not firing him when he got pished and no showed on game day.
Smuggling said jakey out the ground in the boot of a car I thought would never be topped (9-0 came close)
Football Monitoring Board - hold my beer…
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If Aberdeen were anywhere close to being a well run club, the managers would leave us to better things. Why would anyone still value Stewart Milnes opinion? Why is this catastraf*ck still involved in the decision making?
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Terrible state of affairs at AFC. My theory is that cnut Milne is still in charge and Cormack is just his puppet.
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This is a point that is hardly raised, how many managers have we had that have been poached from us? That have left and gone onto bigger and better jobs?
The fact you have to go back to Fergie in 86 for the last time that was the scenario speaks volumes about how good our managers have been.
We're not an over demanding bunch in my opinion and it's certainly not the case that we have hounded out "successful" managers and gone on to regret it, Goodwin is just another in the long line of failed recruitment by the chairman at the time.
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Yep - in my Dons supporting lifetime (45 years now) until this week I’d have said only the greatest manager of all time has gone onto bigger and better things.
I now have to include McInnes on that list cause Killie is clearly a massive upgrade on the omnishambles clusterfuuck that is Aberdeen football club.
Still a pretty short list mind…
Last edited by The_Moog; 26-01-2023 at 12:18 PM.
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That is the reality. Stewart Milne is the major shareholder and everything has to be run by him before a decision is made. Cormack is a puppet and a front for the Stewart Milne. Milne needed someone to take the flak from him as it must have been getting a bit much when Darek was under pressure from the fans.
Whatever happens from now on in…The 4 representatives of The Football Monitoring Board need hounded right out of Aberdeen FC.
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