Player Fund?

It’s a typically Tory ‘what’s in it for me?’ attitude that unfortunately, is far too prevalent at this Club.

Typical example of somene not getting "fan ownership" in its absolute sense.

For the last 50+ years we've expected the Chairman Owner to put their hand in their pocket, to buy a new centre forward or strengthen the team, to get people in to watch the team won more games. Guess what? Assuming you are a CFU member, that owner is now you, I and many others. 

The natural extension of fan ownership is that we contribute to the playing budget. I get not everyone can afford to contribute. Also many choose not to. It's their choice.

As devaboyreturns said,  if a good number of us contribute a little, it will make a difference. 
If 500 of us put in £20 per month equals £10000 a month. That's £120000 a season.
That would add about 25% to 30% to our playing budget. Just think what Bern and Jonno could do with that!

Agree that it should be incentivised. I recall that Squadbuilder donors were at one stage invited to an evening with the manager, or training session. Wasn't able to attend but no reason why something like that shouldn't be offered. Personally, I'm happy to donate for nothing but looks like that's not the wider view and it's a bit lazy to expect the fans to keep dipping into their pockets for zero in return. Offering some sort of unique experience actually costs the club next to nothing. It needs to be relaunched. Annoys me that even the collection boxes at the ground are defunct. 

Saving the club from going under is a completely different situation to subsidising the playing budget.

Yeah you hate tories, we know.

It’s nothing, absolutely nothing to do with “what’s in it for me?”. It’s simply that I’m not prepared to donate money in the hope that it might help the managers to buy players that might help the team to do well.
I want the club to do well & to do that they need to encourage fans in & encourage them to spend money.
Holding out a begging bowl is never going to achieve the aim.

‘Holding our a begging bowl’ is such an ugly turn of phrase, but not unsurprising.

Admirable sentiment, but if that's the case then why is Squadbuilder currently generating the, frankly, piss poor amount of about £540 a month? Clearly not working. 

As I said I agree with your points, you didn’t need to call him a dickhead though.

This is exactly my point, donations are NEVER going to generate enough to cover one player’s wages. So it’s a poor model, we should be focused on maximising income through gate receipts, merchandise & supplementary spending like food & drink.
It’s been said before but the same people can’t & won’t keep putting their hands in their pockets.

The target was published last week www.chesterfc.com/2019/09/19/squadbuilder-pushforpromotion/

Obviously raising it be Christmas gives the managers time to spend it

I'm shocked at your attitude to this stortfordblue. You normally come across as a good fan and rational poster, but this is ridiculous. If a squad builder secures a player or 2 which make a difference, then surely that's a positive. The higher up the league, the bigger the crowds and the better for the club - the returns on the squadbuilder will then be multiplied. There is a time when to push for this and a time when it's not worth it. Just now is the right time.

Have just received the Squadbuilder total for August - £557.50

A fiver down on July. A trend that needs to be massively reversed...

Six weeks of the bin lids with their want, want, want also holidays, trips out etc. etc. August is always a tough month for the vast majority of us.
All in all, I would suggest that £550 is acceptable in the circumstances. Let’s go for £750 for September - fingers crossed.
Agree with a lot of previous posters that a ‘totalisator’ should be put into action. In the meantime, we’ll done to fasttoes for his much appreciated work at the club.