Funnily enough, this is something I was thinking about setting up a couple of months ago.
I even approach SRS (before he went mental;)) for advice. !!!
I think we should have a fans group whereby membership is obtained simply by providing an email address for correspondance, there would be no "leader" or "spokesman/woman", instead, you would produce the results of polls etc to get our point across.
We could conduct polls, and then go to the echo with statements like...
67% of our members arent happy with the hotdogs in St Marys
73% Want a season ticket installment plan.
etc.