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So you're lottery rollover numbers come up this weekend and you have a cool £50m in your pocket. Do you give Lee Power a call and say time to move on? If so how much would you invest and how would you spend the money?

Would you invest in the team, improve the ground or training/football in the community facilities. Interested to see how supporters would approach it and what would be other supporters expectations if they found out the new owner was a local lottery winning fan?

I'd buy the club, put in £5M and put Dossy as chairman.

I'd buy the club, and put tans in charge.

I'd have banner boy as media pimp.

I'd buy the club and make my priority of either finding a way to buy the County Ground site or find an alternative site to build a purpose built stadium within the town.

Just imagine the trolling opportunities. One could release a Friday statement announcing that Paul Hart has been appointed manager with Maurice Malpas as assistant. Just for shits and giggles. The meltdown would be apocalyptic.

I have to make millions immediately somehow, if only to do the above.

I'd definitely think about trying to make Swindon Town a supporters owned club.

Id even buy The Kassam Stadium and change the seats to red and white.

Good one.

Not forgetting to up the rent,  :clap:

Based on what I've seen and read over the last few months I couldn't think of a worst idea. Too many of our fans are clueless when it comes to finances and I think it could lead to some awful decisions being made.
The more time goes on the less I think a supporter owned club would be able to regularly make the big and right decisions. Some accountability and involvement from something like the Trust could be a good thing, but full ownership by the fans.... Not for me anymore, too many people only look at the short term. The amount of people moaning about building a new training ground rather than spunking all our money on new players is a case in point. Too many supporters are only interested in the current season whereas good businessmen take more of a long term view.

I said 'think about'.

No matter how rich I was, I don't think I would ever want to own the club. There's pretty much no upside.

You either lose money hand over fist and the fans might like you, or you try and treat it like a business and get it running under it's own steam and just get shit and conspiracy thrown at you.

I'd rather remain sane and watch my club burn.

Pretty much this!

This also.
Although I would definitely be tempted to make anonymous donations.

I'd give power 40 million for a 51% stake. And spend the other 10 mill on a really big steak, and then sit back and enjoy the ride. Fuck it cant take it with you.

Easiest way to lose your money. With £50m you could buy the club for a fraction of it though. I'd buy it for the short term to change the experimental way it is being run at the moment. I'd be prepared to make a loss, return it to being operated in a more conventional way, invest in players that are there to succeed rather than a long shot of making a profit (Bangoura?!) then sell on to someone with deeper pockets for next to nothing (Andrew Black style) asap - I'd just do my DD first and not sell to McCrory McCoy.

If you won that sort of money and your priority is buying stfc then you really are not deserving of it.
 I doubt I'd ever visit the town again let alone waste time at the county ground.

Crikey.

I thought this thread was supposed to be a bit of fun.

Good to see everybody getting into the spirit of things.

you only watch town because your not a millionaire  :headhurts:

What, like I'd make the club a supporters owned one type of fun comment ?

You're so much nicer when you're holidaying in Devon.

Hahaha!!! Fucking weirdo.

If I win then I'll be looking to invest whatever it would take to get the fabled 'Second Concourse' in the Shrivenham Road stand opened up for the fans.

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I'd give the club £5m or something to in theory get out of this league and establish themselves in the Championship.

They are on their own after that, owning the club would be a bloody nightmare with our dickhead fans

If against all common sense I did ever own the club I'd end up banning so many of the moaning dickheads for ruining my match day experience that our attendances would probably fall back to the Diamamdis era levels. With the contempt that I hold some of our 'fans' in I'd be dangerous with that kind of power. Actually owning the club suddenly feels like a good idea, off to buy some lottery tickets I go....

You sit 3 or 4 rows in front of me, you must have heard the moaning old cunt a few rows behind me. His personal best was slagging off the team within 2 mins of the first half starting!

I'll listen out for him today. My personal favourite is the guy a couple of rows behind me with quite long black hair and glasses, the shouts he makes are pretty entertaining as he seems to forget what he's going to say half way through.

He wears glasses and has grey hair

that group are good value haha, hang on im about 2 rows behind you... Fuck you :)

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