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Post by someoneelse on Oct 30, 2013 14:10:49 GMT
You win £12m.
Once the pictures of you drinking champagne in your wedding and funeral suit has been in the Express you spend it like it is going out of fashion.
Once you've bought everything you could possibly want you're still left with £8m.
Against your better judgement you decide to invest this in your favourite football club.
What do you spend it on?
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Post by suedehead on Oct 30, 2013 14:13:13 GMT
The red Brighton shirt.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 14:17:58 GMT
Earplugs.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 14:22:59 GMT
Unless I won some stupid amount on the Euro Lottery, I wouldn't invest. If I won one of those stupid amounts I would want the Club and Ground and a great big pair of steel toecap boots  |
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Post by suedehead on Oct 30, 2013 14:24:48 GMT
Unless I won some stupid amount on the Euro Lottery, I wouldn't invest. If I won one of those stupid amounts I would want the Club and Ground and a great big pair of steel toecap boots This. It would take me winning tens of millions to put any of it near County. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 14:27:29 GMT
Unless I won some stupid amount on the Euro Lottery, I wouldn't invest. If I won one of those stupid amounts I would want the Club and Ground and a great big pair of steel toecap boots This. It would take me winning tens of millions to put any of it near County. Exactly and I would probably try and hide too as knowing our fans the first bad run, there would be a lynch mob baying for blood  |
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Post by Lee on Oct 30, 2013 14:28:51 GMT
15 pints in the Armoury  A squad with ability to get out of this division immediately and the next one. A Centre of Excellence/Youth policy that will grow and hopefully make the club self sufficient I'd offer Kennedy 3 million for the ground take it or leave it - wouldn't be offering anymore than that. I'd offer Steve Bellis a wage he can't refuse to get him back at the club and offer Elwood the role as chairman ... Yeah its safe to assume I've thought about it before... |
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Post by samscfc on Oct 30, 2013 14:29:14 GMT
Put the £8m on County to get promoted at 40/1.
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Post by Cale Green Hatter on Oct 30, 2013 14:31:26 GMT
I would buy a fleet of burger vans that would be staffed by the social loafers. Part of their job requirements would be that at no time do they clean their fingernails and that they scratch their privates when they ask anyone whether they want cheese.
I would have them working at Dung HQ and Wastelands and they could regale the locals with tales of when they too were professional footballers.
I would then invest the profits into a real football club.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 14:43:07 GMT
15 pints in the Armoury A squad with ability to get out of this division immediately and the next one. A Centre of Excellence/Youth policy that will grow and hopefully make the club self sufficient I'd offer Kennedy 3 million for the ground take it or leave it - wouldn't be offering anymore than that. I'd offer Steve Bellis a wage he can't refuse to get him back at the club and offer Elwood the role as chairman ... Yeah its safe to assume I've thought about it before... Don't think there is a single County fan who hasn't thought along those lines  Turning the team back to full time would be on the cards and waving a few notes at good league players saying you will be life long hero's if you come play and get the team back into the league. Thing is would good players drop so low even if you offered a very competitive salary? |
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Post by SCFCvader on Oct 30, 2013 14:44:18 GMT
You win £12m. Once the pictures of you drinking champagne in your wedding and funeral suit has been in the Express you spend it like it is going out of fashion. Once you've bought everything you could possibly want you're still left with £8m. Against your better judgement you decide to invest this in your favourite football club. What do you spend it on? Wait you'd actually go public with it? I'd keep my mouth shut, go about business the same whilst doing what was needed to buy County and EP (no more than 3million mind). I'd then keep hold of EP so nobody else can ever get their hands on it, whilst maintaining the upkeep out of my own pocket (hopefully just from the interest on the remaining cash I've got) and look into gifting the club to people I could trust like HtH and Fitzy to own and run the club in the way it should be whilst the remainder of the 3 million can go into the playing side of things. I'd like to think the club could then become self sustainable, I pay for the upkeep of the ground, they get every single penny from anything that happens from within it. I'd even look at possibly either buying a pub and turning it into a central hub for county fans (as I know some of you love drinking  ) or possibly invest and build a decent supporters bar with our own museum type display inside with previous highlights playing on screens and guest speakers coming to every home game. Stupid idea I know. |
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Post by Lee on Oct 30, 2013 14:51:30 GMT
15 pints in the Armoury A squad with ability to get out of this division immediately and the next one. A Centre of Excellence/Youth policy that will grow and hopefully make the club self sufficient I'd offer Kennedy 3 million for the ground take it or leave it - wouldn't be offering anymore than that. I'd offer Steve Bellis a wage he can't refuse to get him back at the club and offer Elwood the role as chairman ... Yeah its safe to assume I've thought about it before... Don't think there is a single County fan who hasn't thought along those lines Turning the team back to full time would be on the cards and waving a few notes at good league players saying you will be life long hero's if you come play and get the team back into the league. Thing is would good players drop so low even if you offered a very competitive salary? |
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Post by Lee on Oct 30, 2013 14:56:10 GMT
Dunno what happened there? Anyway BF, what I put is that if you cherry picked the very few decent at this level and from the one above along with the right manager that fits the bill I think you would get them to drop into this league. Lordy would have to go and manage the centre of excellence I'm afraid.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 15:41:04 GMT
£8 million wouldn't be anywhere enough to bankroll the club beyond the conference. Mansfield / FGR and a couple of others were all spending the best part of £1.5 million on wages last year, so that sort of money only gives you a couple of years grace.
However, it should be enough to secure the ground from Kennedy and allow the club to start running it self rather more sustainably, albeit with the odd soft loan still required.
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Post by Jack on Oct 30, 2013 15:41:11 GMT
I would sack Alan Lord and install Liam Watson as manager on a two year contract, let's say he is on £50k a year theres £100,000. Turn us full time and get rid of Tunnicliffe.
I'd then give him a budget of £1 million to get us through the next two seasons and back into the Football League within three years.
I'd buy the ground for £2 million - all cash upfront, that is all it's worth. Thats £3.1 million spent. I'd sort the Vernon Stand out, rip the seats out of the Railway End and put a roof on it. Call that £4 million spent.
I'd give Woodley £100,000 upfront for five years of training at their ground with all the facilites that we need during the day time (nobody uses it anyway) - and get the best youth coach in the North West to rebuild the Centre of Excellence.
Then I'd sell the club to the Co-op for a £1, with us owning EP, back in the Football League, got a stable manager and squad and a good youth setup.
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) or possibly invest and build a decent supporters bar with our own museum type display inside with previous highlights playing on screens and guest speakers coming to every home game.