Fans taking a stand against G&H

Last night, a grand plan to wrestle Liverpool from the hands of George Gillett and Tom Hicks was unveiled at the University of Liverpool.

Supporter and season ticket holder Rogan Taylor and others launched Share Liverpool, an attempt to get 100,000 fans on board with £5,000 each to help raise £500m so the club can be bought and the new stadium can be built. The club would then be run in the manner that Barcelona is where one share is one vote and a club president is elected democratically.

A grand idea, but I have huge doubts about how it would work. For starters Share Liverpool is asking an awful lot of 100,000 fans who would have to part with £5,000. I can't imagine that many Liverpool fans have that type of money to hand which means people who are not fans could come into the equation.

Now Taylor talked of a group of fans combining to buy one share as is already happening. But what about a group of millionaires combining to each buy a share of their own and then combining those shares to accrue some sort of balance of power? Then it gets messy.

As I've said here before I am abysmal on financial matters but it strikes me that this plan is just a little too audacious. Share Liverpool's website has already crashed because of interest. A good thing that people are interested but a bad one that the people organising didn't seem to expect it.

Last night also saw a meeting Liverpool fan groups and websites at The Sandon Pub near Anfield with the aim of establishing another way of impacting on the owners of the club. The Liverpool Supporters Union has released a statement under the name "The Sons of Shankly" and seem to have more realistic ways of getting Gillett and Hicks out of the club starting at Sunderland this weekend.

And it is against Sunderland this weekend that we really need things on the pitch to start organising themselves. After Wednesday's defeat, we can safely say we are in a fight for fourth place. Depressing but we just have to get on with the task of ensuring we are in the Champions League next season, not being there will only place further financial doubt over the club.