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changes 2 his use of were being discussed and would have been must have suggested to many including myself that the rebranding of club with a change in shirt colour and change in logo were now a dead duck a not unreasonable understanding as he continued in the light of the vociferous opposition by a number of the fans to the proposals being considered as expressed directly to our local management and through various media and other outlets we will not proceed with the proposed change of colour and logo and the team will continue to play in blue at home for the next season with the current badge he kept his word for less than a month in his open letter he also alluded to the current instability in the club s business model thus it is clear to all concerned that the club simply cannot continue to function and exist in its current state effectively losing large amounts of money each month while acquiring more and more debt no one can reasonably disagree with view in the debate that has broken out in the last couple of days since the announcement of the decision to do a u turn 3 or to use the language you might expect from someone engaged in a strategic marketing alliance following a comprehensive review of wider supporter feedback via email letters media coverage and polls run via the official supporters club and media wales and as a consequence of the above commitment cardiff city football club will also reactivate rebranding proposals with a view to exploiting and maximising its brand and commercial revenues in international markets attitudes seem to have become polarised into two camps on the one hand what is happening is a faustian pact which involves selling the soul of the club on the other the club s survival depends on a business plan that will result in untold wealth pouring in from new fans in the far east as is so often the case it is difficult to engage in debate regarding the relative merits of these two views because they are based on different meanings of the word club 4 the present attempt at debate assumes that these are two mutually exclusive and opposed views and that there are no other possibilities no room for overlap and no possibility of compromise that certainly seems to be the view of the malaysian investors which raises a number of issues in itself it suggests that the future of the club hangs on the fickleness of future supporters in the far east who a would support a club in a red shirt but not one in a blue shirt and that b providing the club s shirt is red and has a dragon on it they will support in sufficient numbers to pay off the rest of the langston debt reinvigorate the club s fortunes in both senses of the word and allow the investors to see a return on their investment as to a i think this is simplistic and over stated as to b i can understand the malaysian investors looking to the marketing success of manchester united but they might better have a word with balram chainrai or those behind the k k shonan management corporation 5 erstwhile saviours of plymouth argyle what is happening at cardiff is little short of seeing owners who view a club as a commodity which can have some brand value spray painted onto it to make it stand out from the rest a simple question to dato chan tien ghee if the key to your success lies in owning a red club why didn t you buy a red one if the answer is simply well peter hadn t got a red one in his briefcase to show us god preserve us others have tried this drastic rebranding with some commercial success an obvious example is that of sv austria salzburg which red bull bought and rebranded as fc red bull salzburg in 2005 complete with change in club colours and logo the new club has enjoyed considerable success since the takeover but the old club had also and that is where the comparison begins to break down red bull bought an already successful club and turned it into an even more successful one but in doing so they alienated fans to such an extent they started a new club which they called sv austria salzburg and which has already climbed wimbledon and fc united of manchester style from the seventh tier of the austrian football pyramid to the third tier i ll leave my final thought to the sv austria salzburg fans who are reported as having raised this banner in the past few days share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in cashflow debts fans investors marketing merchandising ownership stadium strategy tagged cashflow debts fans investors marketing merchandising ownership stadium strategy 5 comments round the lower levels part 2 posted by john beech on december 21 2011 at last part 2 of my overview of what is happening from a broad financial perspective part 1 ran alphabetically up to prescot cables and is available here with a slight jump backwards we pick it up with port vale an interesting case of fan ownership valiant 2001 bought the club from the administrators in 2003 1 the club had debts of 2 4m and was said to be losing 500 000 a year 2 and in doing so avoided the real threat that football might have disappeared from vale park 3 survival has been a battle with the problem of sponsors not paying and a threatened takeover 4 and the need for a loan from stoke city council 5 nevertheless the club managed to complete its cva in may 2005 and to come out of administration in october 2006 meanwhile local boy robbie williams had bought shares for an undisclosed sum 6 however chairman bill bratt had taken the club as far as i can by september 2008 7 but was denying takeover rumours the following month 8 into the new year and a row was brewing over the apparently different involvement with local rivals stoke city by the council 9 bratt attempted to clarify the club s difficulties here and pointed out his already considerable commitment to the club 10 fan opposition to the way the board was running the club mounted and bratt pointed out the obvious supporters have protested against the board in recent weeks and bratt said it could be potentially destructive if we go what happens we fold immediately if that s what they want they could take the club down not the board said bratt he added i m quite happy to walk away from this club right now but the banks and creditors would come in straight away and there s no plan b in place 11 plans b c and d have however emerged in recent years the failed attempts by various parties to invest in the club harlequin properties 12 mike newton 13 mo chaudry 14 and most recently blue sky international 15 although there has been investment by peter miller 16 all the uncertainty has prompted an attempt by fans to oust the board 17 all very sad the days of fan benefactors like jack hayward jack walker and steve gibson seem to have gone and fans need to be clear in discriminating between fan owned and supporters trust owned portsmouth i d planned to avoid blogging about pompey until the situation became clearer but it hardly seems reasonable not to comment in this context the immediate situation sounds reasonable with the immediate possibility of points deduction probably not on the football league s agenda see previous posting the issue is just how long the immediate will last current indications are that it will all too brief with time and money running out sometime next month whether keith harris will have been able to weave his magic in finding a buyer before then 18 seems unlikely pompey are hardly the most attractive of clubs to buy in their present mess 19 i have it on good authority that even the liquidation of the oldco is proving to be contentious administration for the club as opposed to the existing administration of csi looks increasingly likely with its inevitable 10 points deduction threat to keeping up the cva payments and further points deduction increasingly liquidation and resurrection by the pompey supporters trust looks the only viable longer term scenario rossendale united the club did not reapply for membership of the north west counties football league at the start of this season 20 and a new club is being resurrected 21 news is scant any local informed input would be appreciated see also my posting in march where i argued that the club was a classic case of benefactor withdrawal syndrome bws rothwell town in october the rowellian football social club trading as rothwell town football club did go into administration 22 again any local informed input would be appreciated rushden diamonds following their expulsion from the conference 23 the club tried but failed to get into the southern premier league 24 and went into administration 25 that appears to be the end of the club in this manifestation but an afc rushden is being formed 26 this seems to be another case bws although perhaps with twists yet to emerge southend united in november the club announced roots hall development moves closer 27 so nothing new there then meanwhile the fossetts fantasy farm project has been has been removed from the council s capital programme until the certainty of developer contribution can be ascertained 28 truro city the club owned by kevin heaney wannabe owner of plymouth argyle is in deep deep trouble wages have been unpaid 29 and the stadium for cornwall project now has a big question mark hanging over it 30 hmrc are chasing tax debts of over 100 000 and the club has until january 16 to come up with the money or face a winding up order 31 wakefield a not entirely unfamiliar story here too 32 with unpaid wages and money owed by a sponsor 33 all too worryingly i could start going round the alphabet again with various tales of various woes at barnet 34 cheltenham 35 chorley 36 coventry 37 croydon athletic 38 and dorchester town 39 although at least the last of these has a positive side a possible takeover by dorchester town supporters trust it looks as if the race is definitely on for the club to face the first insolvency event of 2012 february is the second highest peak for insolvency events behind may so it could well be a close run thing i m beginning to wind down or is it up for christmas so in case i don t post again in the next few days a very happy christmas or bah humbug delete as you consider appropriate to all readers share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in benefactors debts hmrc insolvency ownership stadium tagged benefactors debts hmrc insolvency ownership stadium 1 comment round the lower levels part 1 posted by john beech on november 28 2011 plenty has been happening once you look down the football pyramid since i last gave a general overview the continually flashing lights on my radar screen have of course been plymouth argyle and wrexham although for entirely different reasons i have resisted the very strong temptation to blog on these two clubs in the case of plymouth i have been put off by the plethora of non news that has been churned out over the last few months it seemed as if 90 of this consisted of peter ridsdale purring that one of two takeover attempts was due to completed next wekk at wrexham in distinct contrast real news was happening at a staggering rate i did actually start a posting but while i was writing it two press releases issued which made my opening paragraph redundant in any case my friends over at twohundredpercent gave happenings and non happenings at both clubs excellent coverage a third nebula seems to heading towards my radar screen the ever dependable portsmouth but with one henry james redknapp due in court shortly i ll hold back for the moment at least it s not as if the radar screen has been otherwise blank though in alphabetical order of clubs then astley bridge i haven t managed to identify which league the club plays in any offers the club which has been around since 1892 1 is under threat thanks to thieves who stole the club s pitch mower 2 the club cannot afford the alternative of having the council mow their three pitches at a charge of 1500 for five cuts bournemouth the club has failed to buy back its dean court stadium which it was forced to sell and lease back almost six years ago 3 meanwhile 50 of the club s shares have been sold to a 41 year old russian petrochemicals trader 4 and chairman eddie mitchell purred his arrival brings security to the club is it just the pompey fan in me that finds this less than reassuring i hope so carlisle carlisle have formidable issues with the existing brunton park stadium not least the threat of a repeat of the 2005 flooding 5 just over two years ago the club was losing 1 2m a year and facing gates down to just over 6 000 6 by march 2010 gates were down to around 5 200 and budget cuts had to be imposed 7 now we have the results of a feasibility study 8 and project blue yonder which would see the building of a new 12 000 seater stadium 9 certainly this appears more realistic than plymouth argyle s ill fated plans for a 40 000 stadium but not a great deal more so plymouth has a population of just over 250 000 whereas carlisle s population is just over the 100 000 mark no easy solutions to the club s dilemma i m afraid dawlish town i m a bit thin on information here but a link 10 said that the club had withdrawn from the western league premier division in july the club website 11 is still live but does not appear to have been updated recently with doubtless no intended irony it still has a link to an item headed chairman dreams of promotion and new stadium their wikipedia entry 12 begins with that damning phrase dawlish town a f c was a football club a facebook page 13 implies that the club has disappeared and a new fc dawlish town is being formed can anyone with local knowledge expand on this harlow town a winding up petition from hmrc was dismissed in court o 14 november because the club had paid its tax bill 15 this followed on entering a cva in september 2009 16 see also postings passim hucknall town after a particularly turbulent period last season 16 the club has new owners 17 who talk of turning into a community club there is even talk perhaps just a tad ott of the club as a sleeping giant 18 all in all things a lot a rosier nonetheless kettering town ah the inimitably enigmatic imran ladak see postings passim having solved the impending problem of the end of their ease ladak took the club to rushden s nene park 19 which everyone hoped would see the start of a new period of stability for kettering at least ladak is now open to offers for the club 20 the entire team is transfer listed 21 players are partly unpaid 22 and as a result it has been transfer embargoed 23 who can guess what ladak will do next this after all is the man who brought in gazza to run the club sacking him after six games 24 prescot cables this community interest club has taken the decision to return to being an amateur club the finan...