Sportsworks Division
A systems firm for clubs stuck between survival and ambition.
We help distressed and underperforming clubs move from firefighting to a stable operating model built on governance, recruitment discipline, and financial clarity.
If this sounds like your club, you can email us directly at services@cinderpoint.com.
Core pillars — the foundations before transfers matter.
We rebuild the system so sporting decisions have a chance to work.
Governance architecture.
Clear decision rights for ownership, board, sporting leadership, and head coach.Sporting model & recruitment.
Defined profiles, playing model, and risk filters before a window opens.Financial runway & supporters.
Budgets tied to reality and a credible way of explaining risk and ambition to fans.Who we work with.
Clubs on the edge.
Recurring relegation battles, chaotic windows, and managers burning out.Local investors & supporter groups.
Serious local capital or trusts that want structure, not slogans.Existing owners under pressure.
Owners who still care but know the way of working is unsustainable.Not a fit if…
You only want a PR reset or someone to rubber-stamp decisions already made.How we build trust.
We are new. The discipline is not. No inflated claims. No black boxes. No fake case studies.
Written frameworks.
Operating principles, decision rights, and filters written down and open to challenge.No black boxes.
We explain why we recommend something and what might change that view.Clear exit points.
Defined checkpoints where you can reduce or end the engagement if we are not helping.Our approach — structure that is simple to understand and hard to ignore.
1 · Situation review.
League, finances, ownership, and supporter climate.2 · Fragility map.
Where the system is likely to break first: governance, recruitment, coaching, finances, or culture.3 · Operating blueprint.
Governance, sporting model, and guardrails that match your reality.4 · Cadence.
Weekly, monthly, and window rhythms so decisions stop being improvised.Outcomes.
Stability
Fewer panic moves driven by optics or headlines.
Fewer panic moves driven by optics or headlines.
Clarity
One operating model instead of competing agendas.
One operating model instead of competing agendas.
Credibility
A story you can stand behind with staff, fans, players, and regulators.
A story you can stand behind with staff, fans, players, and regulators.
If this sounds like your reality, talk to us.
Tell us your role, your club, your league, and what you want to change over the next three years.
Email: services@cinderpoint.com