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Watty
09-12-2005, 11:41 AM
Whats the implications of this??? From BBC website:

Ross County are set to become a football club without a chairman as a result of a revolutionary plan unanimously approved by shareholders.
The original Ross County Limited will concentrate only on property, mainly their Victoria Park Stadium, Dingwall.

Its football side will be franchised to Inverness-based Global Highland Management Services, owned by former County chairman Roy MacGregor.

That budget will be run by a director of football to be named on Friday.

The three-year arrangement is the club's way of satisfying their bankers that it can survive a major financial crisis, with the Dingwall club reportedly 850,000 in debt.

Current chairman Peter Swanson will become chief executive of the property side and hopes that the club's supporters will help raise 70,000 required to provide a short-term solution to their problems.

John Robertson resigned as manager in October after a disagreement over planned staff cuts and was soon followed by assistant Donald Park.

Former youth coach Gardner Spiers has since been in temporary charge of the club still in the race for promotion from Division One.

TheBigCheese
09-12-2005, 12:06 PM
Sounds a bit like Clyde's license thing that never quite got of the ground. I think it's extremely dangerous for a club to lose control of their only assett namely their ground.

mainstand
09-12-2005, 12:30 PM
Stirling Albion did this years ago. They sold the ground to the Council and arranged a long term lease for the Club, Dunfermline and Livi also did similar. I think you will find that the majority of the PLC's are like this with the ground being owned by one Coy and the team another.

TheBigCheese
09-12-2005, 12:43 PM
Stirling Albion did this years ago. They sold the ground to the Council and arranged a long term lease for the Club, Dunfermline and Livi also did similar. I think you will find that the majority of the PLC's are like this with the ground being owned by one Coy and the team another.

Of the three clubs you've mentioned two of them are/were in a terrible financial state almost entirely down to leasing their stadium from another company!

MUZZ
09-12-2005, 05:49 PM
teams shouldn't get in debt in the first place. dont spend what ya dont have :evil:

lethamsaintee
09-12-2005, 06:40 PM
what a bunch of cocks.