Something like this would be fun!

http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk/

Can you just imagine all the fans having say on team selections etc. I'd buy in just to see the Rats get a gurnsey......

To the Wollongong supporters who read this forum.

Get behind the team in any fashion.

Join the mebership crusade as an individual or in group to reduce $.

I refuse to follow West Syd or the Kings.

This looks like our last hope.

The Hawks would have more chance if they brought a lottery ticket than their fans shelling out 500 clams on a "what if" situation.

"What if" as in "what if we shell out 500 clams and they still fold?"

Another proud club falls by the wayside while the NBL looks on and comes up with more stupid ideas to make our "NATIONAL" comp international.

Cheeez!

I'm with you. Can't see it working.

Its independent of the current owners and no money goes there unless they compete next year.

So I see a lot doing it.

Whether enough do it, i don't know,but as this includes small and medium businesses who source income from traffic craeted by home games etc etc.

So there should be a lot of stakeholders that have an interest.

400 people expressed interest (expressing interest is free and easy to do). When it comes time to actually pay up, I reckon they'll fall well short of the target of 1,500 people. And should they get 400 signing up, that gives them 500 minus the ticket cost they would've already paid (let's say $250). It'd help, but it doesn't add up to a club-saving number, IMO.

And remember that this is all coming at a time when selling a standalone, normally priced season membership is challenging enough.

Have they tried putting the club up for sale rather than trying to prop it up with the existing framework/backing? If the 36ers went up for sale tomorrow, I reckon there might be a couple of buyers showing interest at least - surely there are similar options in Wollongong?

Woolongong & Singapore should be amalgamated at the start of next season. The NBL isn't financial enough to bail Woolongong out, & they would save heaps in air fares if Singapore wasn't in the comp. The singapore thing IMO was never going to work, & I think if we wish to grow the sport, we should concentrate on getting teams in N.T., & back in TAS before going o/seas.

Assuming that they get 1500 fans to pay $500 for 3 years, what happens when that money dries up and the club is once again in the same position? If its not financial enough now that they need this type of support, then they are not going to grow financially in future. All it will do is keep them alive another 3 years.

Sorry anon, promises or not; there would be no way I would give up $500 to "maybe" secure seats for next year.

Same would go for the 6ers. If they seemed in real financial strife, I would hold out on renewing my tickets until I could be sure I was actually getting a seat at the match.

The saying goes "A fool and his money are soon parted"

I think this saying applies to the Woolongong idea.

i will give them nothing when they have wankers like skin dog the hawk amongst them.

what a wanker.

Wollongong r so gone!.

Attacking someone on a forum they don't even post on. Aren't you just the toughest guy around!!!