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I love the 20% share offer that Mr Brent has vocalised. We await the detail but, in hindsight, I wish he had been a bit more creative.
His current offer will divide opinion, cause huge fall outs within the trust and the green army, and will lead to some ugly moments. This is (public?) life in 2012, sadly, and we will eventually come out the other side with a stronger trust but what about this for an idea....
James Brent says he is going to sell 20% of the stake in PAFC to the fans.
Over the next 5 seasons he "sells" 4% of the club via ticketing. Every home ticket purchased can have 50p (?) added to it. This gives you a proportional ownership of the 4% on offer this year. For example, if only 4 tickets were sold that season (!) the 4 people would have a 1% share in the club at the end of the season. If 8 tickets were sold each ticket would be worth 0.5% of PAFC.
This would drip feed the club to the fans. (The 50p price on top of the ticket could even be optional).
Like minded fans could then join together to get a block of votes together e.g. "organic growth" v "investment" etc.
Some maths for you....
Assuming 23 home league games and an average home attendance of (you don't want to include away fans) 8000 this would mean that there would be 184000 bits of Argyle "sold" each season for 5 seasons. If you attended all 23 home games you would have 23 bits of the 184000 pieces on offer. That 184000 would be equivalent to 4% of the club.
Assuming 8000 Argyle fans showed up each game for a season (and all paid the 50p) then this would raise just under £100 000 for a 4% stake. Not a huge amount of money and probably too low but you could just make the extra payment a little more.
A wacky idea I know but just thought it would be interesting to hear some views on it.....
His current offer will divide opinion, cause huge fall outs within the trust and the green army, and will lead to some ugly moments. This is (public?) life in 2012, sadly, and we will eventually come out the other side with a stronger trust but what about this for an idea....
James Brent says he is going to sell 20% of the stake in PAFC to the fans.
Over the next 5 seasons he "sells" 4% of the club via ticketing. Every home ticket purchased can have 50p (?) added to it. This gives you a proportional ownership of the 4% on offer this year. For example, if only 4 tickets were sold that season (!) the 4 people would have a 1% share in the club at the end of the season. If 8 tickets were sold each ticket would be worth 0.5% of PAFC.
This would drip feed the club to the fans. (The 50p price on top of the ticket could even be optional).
Like minded fans could then join together to get a block of votes together e.g. "organic growth" v "investment" etc.
Some maths for you....
Assuming 23 home league games and an average home attendance of (you don't want to include away fans) 8000 this would mean that there would be 184000 bits of Argyle "sold" each season for 5 seasons. If you attended all 23 home games you would have 23 bits of the 184000 pieces on offer. That 184000 would be equivalent to 4% of the club.
Assuming 8000 Argyle fans showed up each game for a season (and all paid the 50p) then this would raise just under £100 000 for a 4% stake. Not a huge amount of money and probably too low but you could just make the extra payment a little more.
A wacky idea I know but just thought it would be interesting to hear some views on it.....
