BLF Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Hi All. As we all know, a majority shareholding in St Mirren has been up for sale for almost six years now, and the future ownership of the club remains uncertain. In recent months, SMiSA has grown in strength - having doubled our membership in the past year to almost 200, and recruiting a number of new committee members. In recent weeks, the committee has started work to investigate funding models through which the fans could potentially achieve either ownership or meaningful representation in the running of the club. We would stress that things are at a very early stage - all we are doing at this stage is gathering information to shed some light on what is and isn't workable. Of course if at some point down the line anything was to be proposed which would involve committing SMiSA funds, this would be subject to the approval of members. With that in mind we are hoping you will fill out the following short survey, in the link below.https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FWNJFJY There are two aims - one is to establish the level of backing for the principle of fan ownership, the other is to gauge support for some of the fundraising models open to us. Your answers will be important and we need as many fans as possible to give us their feedback - please share our posts on social media and help get the survey out there. Thanks in advance for your participation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Hi All. As we all know, a majority shareholding in St Mirren has been up for sale for almost six years now, and the future ownership of the club remains uncertain. In recent months, SMiSA has grown in strength - having doubled our membership in the past year to almost 200, and recruiting a number of new committee members. In recent weeks, the committee has started work to investigate funding models through which the fans could potentially achieve either ownership or meaningful representation in the running of the club. We would stress that things are at a very early stage - all we are doing at this stage is gathering information to shed some light on what is and isn't workable. Of course if at some point down the line anything was to be proposed which would involve committing SMiSA funds, this would be subject to the approval of members. With that in mind we are hoping you will fill out the following short survey, in the link below.https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FWNJFJY There are two aims - one is to establish the level of backing for the principle of fan ownership, the other is to gauge support for some of the fundraising models open to us. Your answers will be important and we need as many fans as possible to give us their feedback - please share our posts on social media and help get the survey out there. Thanks in advance for your participation! Survey done, come on you saints fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
class of 76-77 Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Survey completed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pik Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 done, good questions in the survey. Potentially exciting times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrappy coco Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 I'm in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mid Calder Saint Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Survey Completed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod1314 Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Me to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidg Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Survey done. Good questions, covers a lot of angles. Personally, I wouldn't be interested if it were simply to elect "a fan" onto the board. Fan ownership, hell yeh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
car-d bud Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TsuMirren Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Survey done. Good questions, covers a lot of angles. Personally, I wouldn't be interested if it were simply to elect "a fan" onto the board. Fan ownership, hell yeh. Yeah, bit of a token but if done properly it could work. A lot of people would find contributions would raise a little if fan ownership did actually go through. FO would also allow people to not join, but also be involved. For that reason, the maximum contribution would be difficult to answer for some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaldyOzBud Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeeBud Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Completed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Pityme Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Survey done. Good questions, covers a lot of angles. Personally, I wouldn't be interested if it were simply to elect "a fan" onto the board. Fan ownership, hell yeh. I agree, if it were to simply elect a fan rep then this board would; as now looks likely remain in place maybe with a wee shuffle and 'Welcome' the extra revenue stream a fan rep on the board would bring, whilst ensuring like King at sevco that they remain in charge and take all decisions. I think it would actually become counter productive and the cause of frustration with the support when the realisation dawns nothing has changed, except we pay more to the board for the privilege of them hanging on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santaponsasaint Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Funny how SMISA was against fan ownership when Mr Atkinson was trying for it, Double standards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Funny how SMISA was against fan ownership when Mr Atkinson was trying for it, Double standards No they weren't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Funny how SMISA was against fan ownership when Mr Atkinson was trying for it, Double standardsI'll have a ringside seat for the fans council v smisa bout please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidg Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Now how about the Fans Council unveiling the new strip designs? After all it says on the Fans Council website and I quote: Our Aims; To act as an intermediary between the Club and the Fans To share knowledge and best practice and to improve relationships between the various stakeholders, in particular the relationship between the Fans and the Club. To provide a good communication flow, between the Club and the Fans. To provide a platform for the Fans to ensure they are involved in appropriate decision making. To act as the prime movers in various fund raising initiatives for the mutual benefit of the Club, the Fans and the Community. http://www.supportsmfc.co.uk/aboutus.html The Lets' have a Raffle Council.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidg Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Funny how SMISA was against fan ownership when Mr Atkinson was trying for it, Double standards They were against his proposals, not fan ownership if I remember rightly...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TsuMirren Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 (edited) They were against his proposals, not fan ownership if I remember rightly...? Ironic, as you may find that SMISA will need to embrace corporate support in favour of considerations in order to get any ownership model over the line. I suppose the fact they felt information was slow in coming forward probably clouded the waters. I can't believe they were totally against the various forms of membership, more a case of wanting to ensure people didn't get more than one vote. That said, bit difficult to admin a company having a vote due to donating say 20K then all their employees, if members, not being able to vote as their company vote is seen as a group thing. A lot more to it obviously, for both sides, but I always just felt it was more lack of info/transparency rather than trying to engage with corporate groups. Basic premise for that being that surely to hell over 1,000 St Miren fans could always out vote a small group of non fans. Or, was there a veto proposal for the main overseeing board? That board wouldn't have lasted long if so. Edited May 28, 2015 by TsuMirren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Pityme Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 (edited) Gary - you will find that SMiSA were very supportive of 10000Hours and helped initiate and promote the first public meetings. In actual fact the first meeting that Richard Atkinson and Chris Stewart held with supporters was SMiSA where he was given a serious grilling by supporters - myself included. SMiSA was formed after a Supporters Direct fan ownership conference held in 1999, so the concept is nothing new to SMiSA. Now I'm not a SMiSA committee member so I may not be 100% accurate, but from recollection the fall-out with 10000Hours was when the information relating to the proposals was not forthcoming/transparent and the structure of the different "memberships" of 10000Hours fell out of favour with SMiSA's "One Member-One Vote" cooperative model. SMiSA were not the only ones who did not support the subsequent proposals - the consortium turned it down. There were many SMiSA members that were still prepared to back the 10000Hours bid despite all these public spats, so I think your criticism is unwarranted. Now how about the Fans Council unveiling the new strip designs? After all it says on the Fans Council website and I quote: Our Aims; To act as an intermediary between the Club and the Fans To share knowledge and best practice and to improve relationships between the various stakeholders, in particular the relationship between the Fans and the Club. To provide a good communication flow, between the Club and the Fans. To provide a platform for the Fans to ensure they are involved in appropriate decision making. To act as the prime movers in various fund raising initiatives for the mutual benefit of the Club, the Fans and the Community. http://www.supportsmfc.co.uk/aboutus.html Ouch... That's a 'Bitch-Slap' right there! Edited May 28, 2015 by Lord Pityme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 I'll have a ringside seat for the fans council v smisa bout please. div is investigating crowdfunding for these seats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 I'll have a ringside seat for the fans council v smisa bout please. Not happening H S S , all fans from all groups are welcome to contribute and all will be equal. Nae fightin allowed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddiecat Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Survey done. Good questions, covers a lot of angles. Personally, I wouldn't be interested if it were simply to elect "a fan" onto the board. Fan ownership, hell yeh. Got to get sufficient numbers to have more than "one fan" that is what the survey is all about - finding out just what numbers we can get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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