One "Fan Group" to rule them all????? YES and NO!!

A post where I show that A Single Issue New group may be the way to go.

A few folk have commented on the issue Rangers appear to have with loads of Fans groups all fighting and disagreeing with each other and have asked how with such a divided support they could ever "get it together" to mount a serious Fanownership bid.

Well the good news is your internal and sometimes very public external arguments are nothing new, it is the same at the vast majority of Clubs, the main difference at Rangers is just one of Scale and the fishbowl media coverage that the Club gets, which makes it seem much worse than it is.

The behind the scenes fights at other Club are just a fierce but get very little other than local media coverage.

So this apparent division should not put anyone off.

It is important to consider that most Fans of any Club are a member of No Group.

Hearts Fans have managed to form a group  nearly 8000 strong in their Fan Ownership model using a brand new company that only exists for the purpose of Fanownership.

This has allowed the rest of the Hearts Fans groups all of whom have their own history and tradition to keep that going.

That includes the Hearts Supporters Trust.

History and Tradition is important to Fans (the modern owner witness Hull and Cardiff dont seem to appreciate this) and so in no way should a Fanownership bid seek to remove, ask or force other groups to disband or merge, but group leaders and group members should also recognise that justified or not some people just will not engage with some groups.

IMHO if there is a single person that is put off engaging with a Fanownership bid just because of the identity or historical legacy of that group then it is one too many, it is just too important to let that happen and for this reason just as at Hearts, Ayr, Motherwell and Dunfermline a new group dedicated to Fanownership has been the way to go.

So my gut feeling is that if Rangers Fans want to go for what is probably a final chance to take the Club back to the ownership model of its original 4 founders then a New group solely dedicated to the task is the way to go.

As a CIC Coop then just like the IPS that is the RST which is also a Coop there is a rule that applies to all Coops regarding them working together where appropriate as part of their Coop principals see Coop Rules blog post and rule 6.

So there is no problem with even a few different organisations who have Fanownership as part of their agenda working together with one whose sole purpose it is

So Should there be One New Fan group to do this...Yes i think so, but should it be RULING others or absorbing them, absolutely not


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