The Norwich City Supporters Trust is urging fans who opted to claim their relegation rebate to help secure a supporters' position on the club's board.
The Canaries' 18,000 season ticket holders were entitled to a rebate after the club were relegated to League One back in May, but a third of those fans opted to wave the right and £359,304, which was doubled by director Michael Foulger, has been ploughed back into Bryan Gunn's transfer kitty.
Around 12,000 fans chose to accept the money and Trust chairman Paul Bond is hoping those supporters will opt to donate the money to help make a difference in the boardroom and make the fans a major shareholder in the East Anglia club.
He told the NCST website: "If every season ticket holder reclaiming their rebate joined the Supporters Trust and donated their refund, the Trust would invest and hold a significant fan-based stake in the club.
"The Trust believes such action by a large proportion of the 63.3% of season ticket holders would give the fans the second or third largest shareholding in the club and one that would endure.
"With such a large number of members in the Trust, the board would find it impossible to ignore the voice of fans. Almost certainly, from that size of membership, there should emerge suitable candidates with the necessary business experience to become a valuable member of the football club board and an important spokesperson for grass roots fans."
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you dont buy a washing machine to get a refund ! the refunders should get a life , i hope they enjoyed their refund perhaps they went for day out to hemsby
at long last someone is speaking some sense get behind the club. on the ball city
when i wrote my comments i thought that perhaps i was the only one of that oppinion.
i am glad that im not the only one who feels the same .
get behind the club and the players , i did not buy 2 season tickets to ask for money back, but to support the club in the best way possible
What a shame that the NCST doesn't seem to have the club's interests in mind at all. for weeks now they have been moaning about this and that and now want to have a director . . . what a bunch of loosers they are.
Perhaps if one of them used the collective brain cell for a single moment, it might, just, dawn on them that the remaining players, the manager and his team (who have more league 1 experience then any of them) need support and encouragement.
A large number of season ticket holders obviously want to give them the chance, perhaps at the half way stage if things haven't improved then perhaps they should move for more change.
The team starting their first game will be differentto the one that finished the last - the greedy players, the trainees, the ones who can't get a game even in their reserves will be gone. Get behind them NCST or go and play in Politics . . .
The so called fans who claimed their rebates obviuosly don't care that much about NCFC, The cash for the season ticket had been allowed for ansd spent, it can possibly help get the key players to make the team successful this coming season.
But if all you want is to complain and not contribute................enough said.
they wanted their money back because it was more important to them, than the well being of the club.So what makes you think for one moment they would then give the money to a complete stanger with a view to only a slight chance that 1) enough people would give their money and 2) that the board would allow that to happen 3) who would this supporter be would their be an election ? No let them keep their money, i for one never claimed 2 refunds my money ,heart and loyality is with the club , in fact would if asked pay extra to enable the club to regroup and get promotion, claiming a refund did none of this.
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