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Post by Cantankerous Gas on Jul 8, 2019 15:10:52 GMT
AFC Wimbledon have launched a crowd-funding campaign to help pay for their new stadium, giving fans the chance to name just about anything inside.
From the corner flags to the urinals, naming rights are being given to everything in order to raise £13million for their return to Plough Lane.
The League One club are launching the project at £10-a-share, and fans will have the chance to have the entire stadium named after them for one game.
Twenty percent of AFC Wimbledon's home games will be reserved for this, with anyone who buys a share entered into a draw to get naming rights for the stadium.
'Imagine walking down Plough Lane with your mates, or family, knowing you're heading to YOUR own stadium,' said club CEO Joe Palmer, according to The Sun.
People who buy more shares will be able to attach their name to the various features of the stadium.
Fans will be able to have their names on the goalposts, corner flags, seats, turnstiles, beer taps, and even the urinals.
'No other club has done anything like this,' said Wimbledon boss Wally Downes.
'I can see this becoming the blueprint for football. Manchester City have the Etihad, Arsenal the Emirates — but we want our fans to have our stadium.'
Commercial director Ivor Heller added: 'It's about giving something back to the fans who help take us home.'
He also had something to say about the possibility of naming one of the stadium's urinals: 'There have been a few jokes about the urinals. If you're feeling flushed, you can always splash out on one!'
AFC Wimbledon are aiming to move into their new home for the start of the 2020-21 season. It will have a 9,000 capacity, but there are aims to make it a 20,000 capacity stadium by connecting the four corners.
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Post by devonblue on Jul 8, 2019 15:15:42 GMT
The club needs to be fan owned
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Post by gas2 on Jul 8, 2019 15:39:19 GMT
We should do the same
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Post by Baxtinho on Jul 8, 2019 16:27:54 GMT
Let's see if it works before declaring ourselves "in". I'm not totally convinced by the fans buying shares model, but that just might be after the Ebbsfleet farce a few years ago ( bit.ly/2JBwcqu ). Not that we're totally alike, that seemed to be a plaything for fans of Football Manager. Anyway, I digress - I can't wait to have a pint at the Baxtinho Thunderdome
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Post by lpgas on Jul 8, 2019 16:31:23 GMT
The club needs to be fan owned Fan owned and non league. Brentford were owned by a trust, until they went in to Div 2 then they sold it and a few two years later an established Championship club. Exeter will never get beyond the bottom of league one. And Wimbledon are not fan owed
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Post by Big Jock on Jul 8, 2019 16:31:53 GMT
Folk complain about th price of a fucckin sausage roll, i cannae see us fundraising fucck all tbh even if we had th chance.
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Post by pirate on Jul 8, 2019 18:11:01 GMT
The club needs to be fan owned Fan owned and non league. Brentford were owned by a trust, until they went in to Div 2 then they sold it and a few two years later an established Championship club. Exeter will never get beyond the bottom of league one. And Wimbledon are not fan owed www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/club/dons-trust/
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Post by badengas on Jul 8, 2019 18:20:20 GMT
The club needs to be fan owned Barcelona ? Real Madrid ? It never works.
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Post by kruger on Jul 8, 2019 18:48:32 GMT
Well if it works I'd be willing to put money in!
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Post by keygas on Jul 8, 2019 19:20:04 GMT
With a new stadium costing approximately 40 million & we get an average of say 8500 , that means we only need to cough up £4750 each.Who’s going to get the ball rolling?
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Post by cj on Jul 8, 2019 19:51:24 GMT
With a new stadium costing approximately 40 million & we get an average of say 8500 , that means we only cough up £4750 each.Who’s going to get the ball rolling? Worse than that. Kids are part of the attendance of course and they won't have those funds. So either discard kids which means the £4750 goes up a lot more per adult or families cover their own kids so a family of 4 need to cough up £19k
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Post by mjhgas on Jul 8, 2019 20:06:52 GMT
Don't forget that when a cash injection is needed, those that own the club (the fans) have to dig deep again.
If not, you play within a budget and suffer the consequences of doing so!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 20:38:25 GMT
The club needs to be fan owned . And Wimbledon are not fan owed Check your facts again.
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Post by gregsy on Jul 8, 2019 20:39:40 GMT
they must have a lot of funding in place because it will cost more than £13m.... Also, they reckon they can increase capacity from 9k to 20k by connecting the corners, you don't have to have ever been to a football ground or be an architect to see how suspect that sounds....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 20:41:50 GMT
they must have a lot of funding in place because it will cost more than £13m.... Also, they reckon they can increase capacity from 9k to 20k by connecting the corners, you don't have to have ever been to a football ground or be an architect to see how suspect that sounds.... Ha! Yeh. Also the corners in the artists impression are connected so what are they actually building?
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Post by gregsy on Jul 8, 2019 20:44:37 GMT
they must have a lot of funding in place because it will cost more than £13m.... Also, they reckon they can increase capacity from 9k to 20k by connecting the corners, you don't have to have ever been to a football ground or be an architect to see how suspect that sounds.... Ha! Yeh. Also the corners in the artists impression are connected so what are they actually building? Perhaps they're building the corners first, and at a later time will build the 4 main stands....
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Post by singupgas on Jul 8, 2019 21:05:59 GMT
Why don't the owners just pull their fingers and sort out our new stadium.
They have all been working so hard behind the scenes for so long now it surely cant be long until they have something to say on the matter.
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Post by rosssgb on Jul 8, 2019 22:15:57 GMT
Owners have said they’re not interested in external funding - Hamer made that very clear in one of his interviews with 20pence.
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Post by pirate on Jul 8, 2019 22:50:32 GMT
Owners have said they’re not interested in external funding - Hamer made that very clear in one of his interviews with 20pence. Seemingly not interested in internal funding the project either.
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Post by geddongas on Jul 9, 2019 5:10:03 GMT
Owners have said they’re not interested in external funding - Hamer made that very clear in one of his interviews with 20pence. Seemingly not interested in internal funding the project either. Well i guess they probably want some assets to swallow up some debt instead of it coming back on them. The issue with fan owned is you cannot speculate to accumulate, you cannot have debt. Because the money has to come from the fans trust. Therefore they have pretty much stagnated as a mid-top table league 2 side that might bounce up to L1 every now and again. Having lived in Exeter for a while and knowing what their fans are like, I would personally find it hard to get on board with a fan owned rovers. Their situation is very different and the council is very favourable to them, yet only through jammy cup meetings with prem clubs and a wonderkid farm of an academy are they even still afloat. Been in jeopardy so many times.
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