[spireitematt]

A supporter-owned AFC Chesterfield taking on the Spire mantle would be lovely. Being tied to a Chairman who might make bad decisions, or even die, is obviously not ideal. We all know that don't we?

The first would only grow out of a crisis - a real life-threatening crisis. The second? Well Mr Allen 's a man, he's likely to make mistakes (or brilliant decisions) and eventually die. We can't get rid of him even if we wanted to, so where's AFC Chesterfield going to come from? Are the Bob's Boarders likely to fund and run the new club through the 10-20 years it will take to come up through the tiers ...... and they'd be forced to start below Staveley's level? I didn't kind of get the feeling there was that kind of acumen available.

We've a truly decent man as manager who will give us his all. Saving us from relegation with or without Morsy will be a struggle.
We've a Chairman who has helped us change everything about the club, except our perennial inability to climb higher than the bottom two divisions. Where our money goes is not transparent to me at least, but as Mr Allen does hold the power of life and death over us and chooses to exercise it in our favour, he can't be all bad can he?

AFC Chesterfield would have to come from fans putting money together and local businesses buying shares to create the club and you would have to enter a league just below Staveley but the big question is where would you play? How would you get players and how would you pay there wages or would you refund there travel expenses?

Mansfield have an AFC Mansfield but I don't think its meant to rival Mansfield Town.

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FFS how many would pay to watch AFC Chesterfield vs Ormskirk?

I think people would pay to watch and welcome the idea of an AFC Chesterfield if anything happened to Chesterfield FC (God forbid) but as long as there is a Chesterfield FC I think fans would struggle to go watch an AFC team. I think the idea at the moment is infeasible.