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Post by Stadium way on Mar 22, 2017 17:48:33 GMT
Can anyone in the know enlighten me as to the true state of the club finances.I don't expect us to be rolling in cash, but if we were chairman run as we always were, there would be serious ruptions these days as to how threadbare we are on the pitch.
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Post by Pavlov on Mar 22, 2017 18:34:38 GMT
Can anyone in the know enlighten me as to the true state of the club finances.I don't expect us to be rolling in cash, but if we were chairman run as we always were, there would be serious ruptions these days as to how threadbare we are on the pitch. In line for a 20K loss this season although we may sell Hughes for £100k in the close season. A lot of posters are having a right flap about this, but in my humble opinion that is quite reasonable given the size of our turnover and declining attendances. Again lots of people are flapping about falling attendances but we are in our 4th season of the national conference without a hope of getting out and having to charge £18 or £15 to get in watch a struggling team. After over 40 years of supporting CFC is astounds me that some posters are surprised by our current attendances. |
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Post by Stadium way. on Mar 22, 2017 18:48:37 GMT
Right, the attendances don't overly surprise me, im 51 so have the t shirt so to speak .I rememember us beating Birmingham in the early 80's with about 1300 there. We have though shown since the reform that we can get up to 5000 watching a winning team.Last season we had way too many loan players, this season we cant even bring a few in to at least allow the right players we already have to play in their best positions.All very frustrateing.
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Post by sirfred on Mar 22, 2017 19:17:47 GMT
Some say we couldn't afford a couple of loan players in January but that's proved false economy because with a stale squad 500 off the gates and now real danger of entering a relegation dog fight - they say you need to speculate to accumulate -
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Post by Pavlov on Mar 22, 2017 19:41:12 GMT
Some say we couldn't afford a couple of loan players in January but that's proved false economy because with a stale squad 500 off the gates and now real danger of entering a relegation dog fight - they say you need to speculate to accumulate - I agree to an extent but the great first part of the season must have had an impact on the decision to not bring in more players. We have had bad luck with injuries, attendances were always going to drop if we weren't pushing for play offs. It's frustrating but some of the posts on here are cringe worthy and one can only assume the authors have been supporting only since the reformation of the club or have a case severe amnesia over CFC's league history. |
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Post by sir henry on Mar 22, 2017 20:31:48 GMT
I would be interested to know how the funds are split between players and non playing activities. ie Administration, rent,maintenance,rates fuel water etc
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Post by Always blue on Mar 22, 2017 21:10:57 GMT
Does it really matter,some of our supporters are more concerned about being non supporters.Just get behind your team you might get to enjoy it.Constant moaning ,if you can't support your team win lose or draw find some other pastime.ChesterF.C. are a fan owned team so be a fan or disappear as real fans will always be there.
ps stop moaning about cost as at the beginning of each season we all have the opportunity to buy at reduced cost along other offers.
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Post by Sealking on Mar 22, 2017 21:32:35 GMT
Did I read somewhere beginning of the season that our rainy day fund is six figures?
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Post by Chester_Blue on Mar 22, 2017 21:47:23 GMT
for me we have never fully recovered from our first season back much as i loved neil young and how quick he got us back the conference season he wasted a wage budget on a fair few poor players and on long deals whoever sanctioned that was wrong to
as for last season burrs wheeling and dealing to bring players in then not playing them possibly on a wage really peed me off how many players signed but we never actually seen play
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Post by Steven on Mar 22, 2017 22:24:38 GMT
The rainy day fund is 100k and looks like we will dip into this season possible of about 20k-30k. That's what it's there for rainy day when income is down (ie attendances) doesn't match the budget set. This will have to be built back up again in the next coming couple of seasons, possibly with the sale of a player or the old bob grey cup run.
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Post by Diva on Mar 22, 2017 22:27:20 GMT
for me we have never fully recovered from our first season back much as i loved neil young and how quick he got us back the conference season he wasted a wage budget on a fair few poor players and on long deals whoever sanctioned that was wrong to Didn't Neil Young also bring back in a 6 figure sum for Sarcevic |
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Post by Derry Blue on Mar 22, 2017 23:39:26 GMT
Does it really matter,some of our supporters are more concerned about being non supporters.Just get behind your team you might get to enjoy it.Constant moaning ,if you can't support your team win lose or draw find some other pastime.ChesterF.C. are a fan owned team so be a fan or disappear as real fans will always be there. ps stop moaning about cost as at the beginning of each season we all have the opportunity to buy at reduced cost along other offers. Nice to see that on the new board we've still got the "I'm a better supporter than you" mentality. I'd hoped we'd left that behind. |
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Post by YELLOW CARD on Apr 6, 2017 10:29:30 GMT
Regarding all the comments with funding etc, and other comments made about the budget for the Playing Squad; the Board should look at the money being spent on "off field staffing" ie why does the Club need a full time CEO and a full time General Manager? for a Non League Club this is nonsense; these two positions must be costing may be £75k; how can the Board justify this.?
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Post by border collie on Apr 6, 2017 11:02:06 GMT
Regarding all the comments with funding etc, and other comments made about the budget for the Playing Squad; the Board should look at the money being spent on "off field staffing" ie why does the Club need a full time CEO and a full time General Manager? for a Non League Club this is nonsense; these two positions must be costing may be £75k; how can the Board justify this.? Only time will tell whether a full time CEO is value for money . There doesnt seem to be a great deal of added income so far |
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Post by Blue Boy on Apr 6, 2017 15:26:40 GMT
Regarding all the comments with funding etc, and other comments made about the budget for the Playing Squad; the Board should look at the money being spent on "off field staffing" ie why does the Club need a full time CEO and a full time General Manager? for a Non League Club this is nonsense; these two positions must be costing may be £75k; how can the Board justify this.? I would imagine our paid staff is amongst the smallest in the league , look at the mess we got in without these paid professionals there is not a queue of volunteers looking to undertake the mechanics of running a business that can commit to 40 hours per week that it requires |
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