Bittners a Legend
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I appreciate many might be sick of this topic but I was just browsing the (much improved) Trust website and came across a curious answer to a question raised from a member.
The question was regarding the wielding of power between Trust and Club Boards. The answer from the Trust was this:
"With the model at Exeter City there will always be tensions between the two Boards (Club and Trust). I would imagine if a rich owner is paying big time; everyone else has to do as he says if they want to be part of that project? At City we only have 3,000 members currently and can offer the Club less than 4% of the annual turnover. It still means we have the ultimate power described in the first paragraph, but we possibly don’t always have quite the same “Jump! How high?” relationship with the Club as an incredibly wealthy benefactor would."
There is, in my opinion, as astonishing level of confusion and misunderstanding in this answer. The Club Board put 0% into the annual turnover and ARE answerable to the Trust Board. They are no more than employees. They do not, or should not, have the power nor should that be particularly negotiable. I really cannot fathom the logic in this answer at all.
Is the Trust Board trying to cower away from its responsibilities or does it genuinely not understand the power (and responsibility) it has over the Club Board? It strikes me that if they will not face up to their duty to hold the Club Board (and thus manager) to account by taking control of a relationship they should dominate then they are failing utterly the members of the Trust that are left.
Am I wrong?
Link here by the way: With the model at Exeter City there will always be tensions between the two Boards (Club and Trust). I would imagine if a rich owner is paying big time; everyone else has to do as he says if they want to be part of that project? At City we only have 3,000 members currently and can offer the Club less than 4% of the annual turnover. It still means we have the ultimate power described in the first paragraph, but we possibly don’t always have quite the same “Jump! How high?” relationship with the Club as an incredibly wealthy benefactor would.
The question was regarding the wielding of power between Trust and Club Boards. The answer from the Trust was this:
"With the model at Exeter City there will always be tensions between the two Boards (Club and Trust). I would imagine if a rich owner is paying big time; everyone else has to do as he says if they want to be part of that project? At City we only have 3,000 members currently and can offer the Club less than 4% of the annual turnover. It still means we have the ultimate power described in the first paragraph, but we possibly don’t always have quite the same “Jump! How high?” relationship with the Club as an incredibly wealthy benefactor would."
There is, in my opinion, as astonishing level of confusion and misunderstanding in this answer. The Club Board put 0% into the annual turnover and ARE answerable to the Trust Board. They are no more than employees. They do not, or should not, have the power nor should that be particularly negotiable. I really cannot fathom the logic in this answer at all.
Is the Trust Board trying to cower away from its responsibilities or does it genuinely not understand the power (and responsibility) it has over the Club Board? It strikes me that if they will not face up to their duty to hold the Club Board (and thus manager) to account by taking control of a relationship they should dominate then they are failing utterly the members of the Trust that are left.
Am I wrong?
Link here by the way: With the model at Exeter City there will always be tensions between the two Boards (Club and Trust). I would imagine if a rich owner is paying big time; everyone else has to do as he says if they want to be part of that project? At City we only have 3,000 members currently and can offer the Club less than 4% of the annual turnover. It still means we have the ultimate power described in the first paragraph, but we possibly don’t always have quite the same “Jump! How high?” relationship with the Club as an incredibly wealthy benefactor would.