What about the 170,000 members at Barcelona then?

That sounds like it would transfer well into a smaller scale model in Bradford though doesn't it?

In theory, yes, in reality maybe not.

Say you get 5000 people willing to pay £50 for the right to be a member with voting rights, that's £250,000 - which isn't going to get you very far - you then have to have a candidate to run the club (as president/chairman whatever) who is going to have the right contacts to be able to bring in the necessary income to make the club a success. So, in reality, it isn't much different to the situation that clubs in SL find themselves in now i.e. they have directors scratching around trying to find income to be able to run the club.

The advantage for the members is that if someone is making a pigs ear of running the operation, and there is an alternative, he/she can be turfed out - but if there is no alternative?

Personally I don't think Bradford, or any SL club, are big enough and would attract enough members or candidates/business partnerships to run the club to mimic the Barca/RM model, conversely we are too big to be able to be successfully supporter owned and operated.

There may be a middle way.

After all this is over, those of us currently charged with running the Supporters' Trust can and will look at future options, consulting with the members, the club and maybe other stakeholders.

But, as I keep stressing, there was never remotely enough time to stave off the current crisis by this means, nor is anything possible until a solution is found to the current crazy shareholding impasse. And anyone from Wakey or elsewhere who suggests otherwise is well-intentioned but misguided. Believe me

Without a period of administration somewhere down the line, or someone/thing buying out the exisiting shareholders is there any other way to sort that out? I presume not?