FC United Thread

[horlock_was_super]

Yeah what is Rhodri doing these days?

Keeping an eye out in case his brother pays one of his infamous ‘visits’

 

[Tbilisi]

Completely agree.
But there are still innocents out there (usually from outside the UK) who naively believe they are a successful, co-operative, well run club...

Defo.

I follow Darlington and go to games alongside City with a bunch of Darlo fans.

Both clubs are fan owned and theres respect from Darlo for FCSCUM for being the same. I have tried to explain the difference but I just seem like a bit of a Bertie.

In contrast to Manchester the people at Darlington Council have never helped the football club.

 

[BlueFurn]

Just fucking give up, you council leaching half wits.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Just fucking give up, you council leaching half wits.

A good point well made

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Just fucking give up, you council leaching half wits.

Very subtle, I like it.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Defo.

I follow Darlington and go to games alongside City with a bunch of Darlo fans.

Both clubs are fan owned and theres respect from Darlo for FCSCUM for being the same. I have tried to explain the difference but I just seem like a bit of a Bertie.

In contrast to Manchester the people at Darlington Council have never helped the football club.

The one thing to say to fans of other clubs who “have respect for the Rag Socks” is this.

Clubs like Darlington / AFC Wimbledon / Macc / Bury had their club either stolen off them or run into the ground by shysters to the point that the club went bust (or in Wimbledon’s case moved 64 miles north), perfectly legitimate reasons for starting up a phoenix club and using the same colours etc etc.
Where as those starting up the Rag Socks simply didn’t like the model the new owners decided to run United on. Whatever the rights or wrongs of that model the club still functioned and indeed won a number of titles and the Champions League as well as buying the leading players around the world.
Bury and Darlington were set up to fill the void left by the demise of their clubs where as the Rag Socks were set up to be a 5th rate tribute band, simply trading off a ready named brand still in operation and functioning whilst trying to claim some moral high ground.

It was started by a handful of politicised fans with a personal agenda and the formation of the club allowed them to obtain a little piece of power that they desired and thrived on the attention that they attracted as a result. They were aided and abetted by a few thousand gullible (yet well intentioned) fellow United fans who got caught up in the momentum and like a born again Christian, they were hypnotized by the charismatic leaders, just like the TV Evangelists, demanding that their followers donated more to the cause and to keep on donating more so that the leaders could take out more and help themselves to the funds. …..
The whole thing was a vanity project for a small number that sought a power grab and also thought they could change the way the game is run by doing things “the right way” and declaring this is how clubs should be run. It was all hollow symbolic gestures. And the reality (as we know now) is that whilst pontificating about evil Premier League clubs and rampant capitalism killing the game, the club itself was rotten on the inside and has only survived as long as it has done by begging the council to give them tax payers money to keep it afloat.
They had a dream - and wanted everyone else to pay for it……

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

At it again! This should be looked into. Im sure someone posted on here the splitters that bought shares found out there now virtually worthless, but now their selling more shares off..? Its just fucking scandalous! The club that just keeps on taking.

 

[ancoats]

At it again! This should be looked into. Im sure someone posted on here the splitters that bought shares found out there now virtually worthless, but now their selling more shares off..? Its just fucking scandalous! The club that just keeps on taking.

Even he would struggle selling penny shares in FCUM

 

[manclad]

At it again! This should be looked into. Im sure someone posted on here the splitters that bought shares found out there now virtually worthless, but now their selling more shares off..? Its just fucking scandalous! The club that just keeps on taking.

As the old saying goes -
"A fool and his money are soon parted" !!!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

At it again! This should be looked into. Im sure someone posted on here the splitters that bought shares found out there now virtually worthless, but now their selling more shares off..? Its just fucking scandalous! The club that just keeps on taking.

Yeah this is just flogging regular membership to fans or anyone who wants to be a member. £25 each, one vote per member. So nothing new, just trying to increase membership.
The scheme where lots of fans lost a lot of life savings was the Community Share Scheme - an investment scheme linked to the Co-op bank.
Each community share was £200 and you could buy as many as you liked. It didn't give any extra voting rights, it was an investment and annual dividends were based on profits the club made (no giggling at the back please).
You could withdraw money after a 4 year period including the dividends received each year based on the clubs profits. (Again, stop laughing at the back!)

The club never made a profit and no one could get a withdrawal......

The question, many, many years on, is "where is the money...?."