Comments on: MyFC – a case study for misleading naive customers

By: Single Parent

Single Parent — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:42:34 +0000

£40,000 to fleet leisure as part of the myfc deal, and the club cant use the traing ground. It stinks. The whole deal is sooo naive. Will Brooks at myfc should hang his head in shame. I feel sorry for all involved with Ebbsfleet for their sorry involvement with these myfc characters.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:16:25 +0000

A Fans’ owned club only works in the medium or long-term if the fans concerned are already fans of that club.

By: Will Brooks PR man (spin doctor)

Will Brooks PR man (spin doctor) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:07:07 +0000

I would like to state categorically that Will Brooks has not gone on holiday whilst his organisation faces the worst crisis in its short history. That members were not privy to a supposed secret forum which showed that he was really running the show and that his web team have not embarked on a campaign of bannings in an attempt to silence the people who really know what he is up to with hundreds of thousands GBP of other peoples money. He is not currently sipping cocktails on a desert island while the ship goes down leaving his henchmen to face the music.

By: BobTheBuilder

BobTheBuilder — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:58:30 +0000

With all the postive comments in the mainstream press you’d think that MyFC couldn’t help but be a great success. And ofcourse it should have been! How many other new business ventures have had so much free publicity.

Also. what other businesses have had an army of highly qualified business, marketing, and IT etc professionals offering to work for free. These people, myself included, were given the brush off from day one.

Had MyFC been well managed and this early success capitalised on, I beleive a membership of around 100,000 by now wouldn’t have been impossible.

However, I think the ego driven MyFC Team has just forged ahead, believing they could do no wrong, all the time showing a complete disregard for the membership, who’d got them there in the first place.

The whole thing reminds me of lottery winners who go out and buy new cars, boats, TVs etc and then have nothing to show for it a few years later. Like the MyFC Team, they failed to capitalise on what they had won!

By: Free The Gravesend 11

Free The Gravesend 11 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:29:32 +0000

It was never going to happen, not in the way it was sold. That much became obvious really quickly – and instead of admitting that and simply giving everybody their money back, they trundled on, blindly, pretending to give members control, pretending to make good on their promises. Spin and untruths from those in charge, Mr ‘Im just a member too’ Brooks must be pissing himself laughing at the gullibility of crowds.

By: W.C.Fields

W.C.Fields — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:56:00 +0000

Weenie, has the club become profitable?
All I have seen is the playing budget being increased,(still waiting like everyone else for the long promised Financial Report!)without any increase in income, which in turn increases the debt incurred month to month!
Come February, when the renewal numbers will be revealed, will Ebbsfleet in fact become insolvent, allowing one or two people to step in and takeover the club for peanuts?

By: Will Brooks PR man (spin doctor)

Will Brooks PR man (spin doctor) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:07:32 +0000

We have had to resort to banning members who don’t agree with us, I mean Will. I mean, he does it democratically you see, we’ve set up some quasi officials on the Society who basically do what he tells them and they’d better know which side their bread is buttered on. From now on there will be a Zero Tolerance policy on the website. Anyone, new member or old finding out that we don’t carry out our original promise of “Own the Club, Pick the Team and complaining about it, especially without offering to do all our admin for us will be put on blacklist and thrown out. Got it?

By: dogday

dogday — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:35:43 +0000

What a joke. Brooks cannot understand that he has simply replaced the management with another management. The difference being that he couldn’t organise a pissup in a brewery. If he being dishonest and stuffing the money away he his more stupid than people give him credit. Personally, I think he has fallen into the power trap that inevitably surrounds football.

By: Will Brooks PR man (spin doctor)

Will Brooks PR man (spin doctor) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:28:24 +0000

This is all simply not rue, people should just sign up, in under a year we have bought a team for the members, we do have Pick the Team, its just that not enough members want to do it anymore, its not our fault they have all left. Its down to the members, its their fault, all they do is moan and criticise. We have offered to let members do much of their own work on the project, but we can’t just allow them unfettered access to the financial figures, they might see something they shouldn’t. We have votes on all sorts of things, how to fund an extra player, how to put your hand further in your pocket. Some members are still mug enough, I mean supportive enough to do it…. You will be hearing from our solicitors young man!

By: weenie

weenie — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:17:11 +0000

What many people don’t seem to realise is that Radio 1′s Chris Moyles encouraged many (between 10-12,000) Leeds United fans to sign up, thinking they could buy the club via MyFC. How many of these would have remained interested when they found out that the club purchased was Ebbsfleet? I was sceptical of the ‘Own The Club, Pick The Team’ tagline and because of this, am not unhappy that I neither own the club nor do I pick the team. Helping a non-league club grown, become profitable and become successful is why I signed up. Onwards and upwards for the Fleet!