Housing associations have tenants on their Boards and have really benefited from having a customer (not much choice there either!) perspective. Since introduced in the 1990s - its standard practice now. There have been massive business benefits. How do they get over the one voice not being representative? They don't - the tenant board member is there to give a "customer" perspective and is expected to contribute their experiences as a tenant. The FA have discussed how to get get more women and BME on the boards and this could be another avenue - breaking up the traditional white male business owner perspective.
I'm all for it!
But her arguments are irrelevant, it isn't a Housing Association, it's a football club, it hasn't got the same structure. (And what's more it's Brighton we're talking about, not Blackburn where the idea might have some merit). What works for one area of society doesn't necessarily work for all others and she still hasn't said what the rep would actually DO that we can't do with the existing channels of supporter/club dialogue. And if someone like Attila doesn't think there should be an official supporters' rep ...janee has said it far better than I could.
