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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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My Football Club buys a team - in principle
They bought in Principle Ebbsfleet United!!
Woohoo This is so exciting http://members.myfootballclub.co.uk/index
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Burke, VA
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that link sucks
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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good start, the site crashed
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: The State of Insanity
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www.myfootballclub.co.uk is a better link once it comes back up (if you're not a paid up member, like me.. I WANTED to pay em, but they wouldn't let me!)
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Hmm..interesting. I wonder how it'll work out. They need to appoint someone to represent them or is the guy who setup the site already doing that?
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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One of the collest thigns I've ever seen
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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the member voted and over 95% approved the purchase of Ebbsfleet of the Blue Square North division!
Come March of this year we will be choosing starting lineups and approving transfers. Very exciting. Quote:
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Herndon, VA
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Ebbsfleet manager Liam Daish was one of the must-buy bargains in some of the early CM/FM games. If that's not a good omen, I don't know what it.
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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here is the ad Eurostar took out in the papers over there...
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College Prospect
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Buffalo,NY
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70 bucks to become a fat cat cigar smoking union hatin' pro team team owner? I'm in
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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they just initiated free streaming TV for ALL 16 games left this season and for 10pounds more you can get Hi-Res streaming. I bought the Hi-Res as we have a huge FA trophy replay game tonight against Burton Albion so it'll be nice to be able to watch the game!
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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we beat Burton Albion 1-0 in ET and now we play Aldershot in March in a double legged Semifinal, I think. Winner goes to Wembley for the FA Trophy!!!!
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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In case people are thinking of joining and forgot or missed it, check out this update from today!!
Quote:
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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well we played the team at the top of the table, Aldershot Town, in the Semi-Final of the FA Trophy tournament. We played them at home, Stonebridge Road, in the semi's first leg and beat 'em up!
Woohoo, 3-1 I listened via realplayer and now we go there next week and if we hold them off we will go to Wembley for the first time in team history! It's crazy what's going on. Nike is sponsoring the kits this season, next and who knows how long after that. Nike is going to take over the club shop and apparently EA Sports is doing something behind the scenes. Check out some of the videos on youtube but its kind of crazy that the team we took over is having a Cinderella run in year one....Apparently we havnt lost since December of last year!
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Las Vegas
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This is a very interesting thread, I appreciate the updates Flasch
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Mascot
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: 6721 Foxpointe Road Fort Worth, TX 76132
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It has been pretty strange. We purchased them new balls and new field equipment; better accomadations on the road, ect. Maybe they feel different about themselves now.
I was starting to worry; I had signed up well over a year ago, and was wondering if we were ever going to get a team. Seems like it may have been a solid choice. Road trip to Wembley. |
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Herndon, VA
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I'm sure it mentions this somewhere on their website, but is the 35 pound "membership fee" an annual thing, or a one off?
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College Prospect
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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SI Games
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Melbourne, FL
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This is to be honest why I didn't cough up after initially signing up as 'interested'. The advertising was about owning part of the club - not renting an interest in it ... its still a very interesting idea, but if you're paying a yearly membership fee then you aren't really owning part of the club its more a clever move by an individual to get other people to purchase a club which he'll run and try to make a profit from (great idea and well marketed so far - will be interesting to see what happens long term). |
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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supposedly the bylaws of the trust disallow any individual from profiting from the endeavour, AFAIK.
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SI Games
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Melbourne, FL
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(cynic) I'm sure the chap who came up with the scheme now has a full-time job running the trust these days ... imho thats a profitable endeavour but I'd be surprised if its seen that way under the regulations. (end cynic) It IS however an interesting idea and the club should in the short term be fairly successful which will sustain interest and momentum behind the club - however once they are promoted they may find things somewhat harder as the revenue stream behind them isn't 'that' substantial. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Ebbsfleet just won the FA Trophy today and convinced the FA and SKY Sports to stream the game over the web for all of the internationals to see so it was pretty awesome watching the game in great quality. Good to see the team win it in the first season of MYFC ownership and should bring some attention to the team and possibly a spike in membership. Good stuff.
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Mascot
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: 6721 Foxpointe Road Fort Worth, TX 76132
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It was so fun screaming at my PC. I felt I was there, but the bathroom was much easier to get to.
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Home*-*OwnMyTeam - The Fans Will Own The Basketball Franchise
Some guy is trying to same concept in the US for a minor league basketball team. I think it'd be way smarter to stick with soccer, but here in the US. But meh. |
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Herndon, VA
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Fortuna Dusseldorf in the German Third Division are doing the same thing too.
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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People romanticize the Packers ownership model all of the time. I think the only way it could work really well here is to do it in a major league sport people care about. But soccer is the only real sport that's "cheap" enough comparably to make it work.
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