"The club will soon offer for sale a number of digital tokens that will give purchasers the opportunity to watch and take part in decision-making. "
That's a bit worrying tbh. We will have no idea who these token owners are. Just what decisions will they have a say in? Anything to do with the first team needs to be off limits. The big worry is it won't be.
"The club will soon offer for sale a number of digital tokens that will give purchasers the opportunity to watch and take part in decision-making. "
That's a bit worrying tbh. We will have no idea who these token owners are. Just what decisions will they have a say in? Anything to do with the first team needs to be off limits. The big worry is it won't be.
I agree there's so much unknown and the fact these can be sold on too. Even if we knew the holdings, what do we know about the motives behind them? Are they even club related and how will it work? More questions than answers on this as usual unfortunately.
"The club will soon offer for sale a number of digital tokens that will give purchasers the opportunity to watch and take part in decision-making. "
That's a bit worrying tbh. We will have no idea who these token owners are. Just what decisions will they have a say in? Anything to do with the first team needs to be off limits. The big worry is it won't be.
It'll be a disaster. Get that board out and get the match day protest ready for the start of next season. This cannot happen. The club is lost at this point. Completely lost. These guys are gamblers and will end up gambling our club away. SACK THE BOARD
That's a bit worrying tbh. We will have no idea who these token owners are. Just what decisions will they have a say in? Anything to do with the first team needs to be off limits. The big worry is it won't be.
It'll be a disaster. Get that board out and get the match day protest ready for the start of next season. This cannot happen. The club is lost at this point. Completely lost. These guys are gamblers and will end up gambling our club away. SACK THE BOARD
I did raise an eyebrow at the thought of an NFT holder determining whether we invest in ‘offence, midfield or defence’. Apart from the fact that this isn’t a grid iron game with separate squads for each phase, what happens if KB looks at the squad and realises he only has 2 fit centre backs and one full back? He goes to the board for money to bring players in but is told that Surfer Dude from Hawaii has invested £100k in an NFT for image rights of Tony Craig’s jock strap and is demanding more offence in return. Surely the composition of the squad is for the manager to decide?
I did raise an eyebrow at the thought of an NFT holder determining whether we invest in ‘offence, midfield or defence’. Apart from the fact that this isn’t a grid iron game with separate squads for each phase, what happens if KB looks at the squad and realises he only has 2 fit centre backs and one full back? He goes to the board for money to bring players in but is told that Surfer Dude from Hawaii has invested £100k in an NFT for image rights of Tony Craig’s jock strap and is demanding more offence in return. Surely the composition of the squad is for the manager to decide?
I did raise an eyebrow at the thought of an NFT holder determining whether we invest in ‘offence, midfield or defence’. Apart from the fact that this isn’t a grid iron game with separate squads for each phase, what happens if KB looks at the squad and realises he only has 2 fit centre backs and one full back? He goes to the board for money to bring players in but is told that Surfer Dude from Hawaii has invested £100k in an NFT for image rights of Tony Craig’s jock strap and is demanding more offence in return. Surely the composition of the squad is for the manager to decide?
I guess none of us know how well this works in practice but the theory is that Surfer Dude who loves jockstraps only has a very minority parochial concern that will get washed away by the weight of the other investors' more sensible views, who will be aware of our injury concerns and vote accordingly.
For me, introducing some kind of greater fan input isn't something to be necessarily scared of unless you think most football fans are total idiots - i don't think this, there is often a certain wisdom in crowds. For example, I think fans did actually know better than John Yems re. Josh Wright's efectiveness. Now that doesn't happen often as glaringly as that, granted.
You suspect any early experiments in this kind of democracy will have all kinds of safeguards built into it. In practice, it will be no different to the owners of football clubs getting his way about certain things behind closed doors, which is stuff we never hear about. The new democratic era, we will hear about it and can react accordingly. And we non-NFT-buying season ticket holders over here will also be part of this greater process of fan consultation, we have been promised our votes too so it won't all be dudes in Hawaii. Tho I don't think we should be sniffy about people all over the world getting interested in Crawley Town
The article is very well written until the slur at then end (Betsy being young and black is vastly different to what went before).
It does raise the question of exactly what is meant by "how much of our wage budget in a transfer window goes towards offence or midfield or defence..."
If its the same as an owner saying "I will pay to strengthen our midfield but I'm not forking out for any more defenders because you've got loads" then fair enough. If it's a case of spending a fortune on striker "A" as some nerd saw him on a live stream...not so much.
As with all these things the devil is in the detail.
The article is very well written until the slur at then end (Betsy being young and black is vastly different to what went before).
Indeed Jim, a bit odd, as we have had both young managers and black managers before.
In fact one of our most successful ever comes to mind.
Quite. And did we not also have a female chairperson around that time as well? One who tried to promote a friendly welcoming face for the club and a family atmosphere. Quite the trendsetters, weren’t we? Or has that all been airbrushed out of history?
For me, introducing some kind of greater fan input isn't something to be necessarily scared of unless you think most football fans are total idiots - i don't think this, there is often a certain wisdom in crowds.
Maybe, but then having heard some of the nonsense spouted by fans at games then seeing some of the comments on here and other media after we have the temerity to lose a game, I’m not sure I entirely agree. My point is that surely the manager has to have control over the playing staff. It’s his job that is on the line. Listen to any group of fans at a game and you will hear vastly different opinions about a particular player and where he ought to be playing. The manager is also the one best placed to decide on things like whether a player should play or not if he has an injury or other problems which are likely to affect his performance.
