Neil
18/06/2001, 2:59 AM
Alarmed Galway United supporters have reacted to the club's precarious plight by vowing to set up a supporters' trust based on one of English football's success stories.
Northampton Town were saved from extinction in 1992 after their fans founded such a trust and United supporters have looked into what happened across the Irish sea with the aim of testing the plan in Galway.
The aims of a supporters' trust would include:
• To have meaningful supporter representation at board level
• To make the club fully accountable to the supporters
• To ensure the club meets the highest standards of business management
• To encourage youth and community programmes
Supporters would pay a small membership fee to gain entry to the trust, but in return they could elect a committee and executive, from which somebody would be voted onto the club's board of directors.
In severe debt and managerless, the Connacht club is urgently in need of some surgery. United supporters interested in implementing their new idea will meet shortly to trash out a plan of action.
Northampton Town were saved from extinction in 1992 after their fans founded such a trust and United supporters have looked into what happened across the Irish sea with the aim of testing the plan in Galway.
The aims of a supporters' trust would include:
• To have meaningful supporter representation at board level
• To make the club fully accountable to the supporters
• To ensure the club meets the highest standards of business management
• To encourage youth and community programmes
Supporters would pay a small membership fee to gain entry to the trust, but in return they could elect a committee and executive, from which somebody would be voted onto the club's board of directors.
In severe debt and managerless, the Connacht club is urgently in need of some surgery. United supporters interested in implementing their new idea will meet shortly to trash out a plan of action.