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Post by bomber on Apr 23, 2022 12:40:09 GMT
Anyone tell me? Not who manages it, or works there, but who's name/names are above the door?
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Post by boyatthood on Apr 23, 2022 16:18:28 GMT
The majority shareholders of the club are Kenny Amor, Mark Jewell, Joanne Sprigg and Tom Coffey. As far as I am aware none have put any significant investment into the club as it was simply handed to then when Stuart Donald left. Whilst I am sure they work hard they can not take this club forward. It needs proper investment and people with better football acumen. The decision to bring in Lee Bradbury lacked any imagination and look where we are heading with it. His record so far is now shameful. Beaten by ten men at home today. The club is going no where until the board admit they are out of their depth and look to sell it on. I am sure there must be interested parties as Eastleigh is now a well established national league side with a solid fan base.
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Post by unknownquantity on Apr 23, 2022 22:43:37 GMT
I will say a bit more about this later, but Joanne Sprigg and Mark Jewell resigned as directors in 2018. Mot sure about the current status of Mick Budny, Peter Vickery, Allen Prebble and Mick Geddes though.
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Post by nkc on Apr 24, 2022 3:03:35 GMT
I think you are correct that the two are no longer directors but my understanding is that the shares are still divided between the four of them with only two of the four now actually working within the club. Not sure what happened to the small amount of shares that were offered to fans to buy during Stewart Donald tenure but if they still exist I assume they are just tokens compared to what was passed to the four listed. By doing a company search only the four are listed as having significant control. Listed as officers of the cub are Kenny, Tom, Mick Budny, Allen Prebble, Mick Geddes and Peter Vickery. www.eastleighfc.com/ownership/ |
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Post by bomber on Apr 24, 2022 8:32:29 GMT
I will say a bit more about this later, but Joanne Sprigg and Mark Jewell resigned as directors in 2018. Mot sure about the current status of Mick Budny, Peter Vickery, Allen Prebble and Mick Geddes though. Yeah, strange affair, them being given control of the club then 5 months later Sprigg, Jewell and Alan Harding walked, citing different reasons, but at exactly the same time. |
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Post by tenacres on Apr 24, 2022 20:11:15 GMT
There are 10 million shares in Eastleigh FC Limited and I believe
Kenny Amor
Tom Coffey
Joanne Sprigg
Mark Jewell
all own just under 22% each
Stewart Donalds father (whose name escapes me) owns just under 10% and the remaning 3-4% is owned by about 3 dozen directors/former directors/fans
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Post by seatonspitfire on Apr 24, 2022 20:25:24 GMT
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Post by unknownquantity on May 6, 2022 18:33:45 GMT
A couple of weeks ago I said I would reply in more detail, but I am surprised that Derik Brooks is listed as a shareholder when he died over four years ago.
As far as the history goes and I am writing this on the day of Sunderland's first leg playoff with Sheffield Wednesday and how Sunderland fare in the playoffs might have a bearing on how Stewart Donald proceeds.
In 2002 after the club finished mid-table in the Wessex League (four divisions below our current Level) Paul Doswell took over as manager and became a director, During Doswell's time the club achieved three successive promotions and also became a limited company (limited by shares). However Dy 2008 Doswell was finding combining his role on both the management team and the board of directors onerous and moved on.leaving the other directors in charge.
In their first season after Doswell's departure the club made a mid-season budget cut and ended up reaching the play-offs. At the start of the 2011/12 season the budget was again cut and the squad was destined to finish in the lower half of the table, but was expected to avoid relegation. In the latter part of this 2011/12 season when promotion was certainly not on the agenda Stewart began steps to take over the club.
In Stewart's time the achieved promotion, improved the ground and facilities and considerably increased the fan base. Stewart though made it clear that his ambition for the club was to reach the football league and I remember him taklking about reaching the championship at the time when Martin Allen was manager.
Stewart also became owner of the ground and I think that even while at Sunderland he still had a say on any potential sale of the club and certainly from what was said previously was not keen on selling the club.
I also believe that Stewart thought that with the playing budget for the 2016/17 season especially the club should have been promoted to the football league and also that when he left for Sunderland that revenue streams he introduced would make the club more self-sufficient than previously and although results in the second half of the season have been disappointing I personally think that Kenny, Tom and co have done a good job in running the club on an even keel financially.
Stewart talks about having unfinished business with the club and that presumably relates to taking the club into the football league. Certainly if he does come back to the club and the club does achieve that it is likely to take longer than he originally thought.
Anyway let us see what happens between now and the start of next season.
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