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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2461124, member: 1764"] I think member ownership would be a massive step backwards. In modern sport, modern economic and commercial realities, having fan-owned franchises is simply nonsensical. Just look at some of the member-owned clubs still in the NRL and the kinds of people they elect to their club boards...usually it's former players. I don't really care what they do post-football, there's almost no players that have the objectivity and business sense to run a modern professional sports franchise. Invariably they want to stick their bib in football. The best way to run things is appoint football staff to run the football, and leave the board and the CEO to run the business. While Russell Crowe took an interest in football, spoke to the players, spoke to the coaches, I never got the impression he was trying to control that. Simply wanted to be informed of what was going on, what the vision was, what the plan was. Nothing wrong with that. When you've got owners/board members wanting to hire/fire players, make game plan changes, that's when things go to shit. [/QUOTE]

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