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Post by agl on Mar 30, 2024 9:47:14 GMT
Reckon Scunthorpe Kings Lynn Buxton Spennymoor Brackley Have got bigger budgets than us. Hereford, Boston, Darlington and South Shields probably similar to us I’m guessing. Pretty sure you can take KL off that list. They had cuts this season.
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Post by Moltisanti on Mar 30, 2024 10:03:12 GMT
Reckon Scunthorpe Kings Lynn Buxton Spennymoor Brackley Have got bigger budgets than us. Hereford, Boston, Darlington and South Shields probably similar to us I’m guessing. Pretty sure you can take KL off that list. They had cuts this season. Even after cuts they’d still have a bigger budget than us. They were spending a fortune on wages last season
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Post by Moltisanti on Mar 30, 2024 10:13:34 GMT
Tamworth make loads off their 4G pitch and Academy also.
Waggoner pretty much spot on to be fair.
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Post by Lon on Mar 30, 2024 10:26:20 GMT
Reckon Scunthorpe Kings Lynn Buxton Spennymoor Brackley Have got bigger budgets than us. Hereford, Boston, Darlington and South Shields probably similar to us I’m guessing. Pretty sure you can take KL off that list. They had cuts this season. You can add Chorley to it though, they are spending a fair few quid with the crypto millionaire involved. Probs be spending more now Boyzone are there as well
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Post by Imperial on Mar 30, 2024 10:31:45 GMT
Thing is it’s all guess work isn’t it? Only a few people on here actually know our playing budget really is & they’re not likely to announce it. As for the other teams in the division, even those you’d expect to be pretty clued up can only make educated guesses can’t they? Ultimately it doesn’t matter anyway, we just have to ensure we’re getting value for money from as large a budget as we can manage to put together, which I think on the whole the club’s done a good job of the last few years. Even when players haven’t worked out they’ve been moved on, we haven’t been stuck with rubbish players stealing a wage & eating up the budget.
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Post by kyle on Mar 30, 2024 13:56:59 GMT
Curzon's budget can't be anywhere near ours, with an average attendance below 400
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Post by leedsutd234 on Mar 30, 2024 14:14:12 GMT
How long do you think people will turn up if we are just treading water in this division? It's not all about budgets the top two in this division prove this . Do you think that Tamworth have a bigger budget than us ! Scunthorpe have undoubtedly the biggest budget in the league and by rights should have pissed the league by Christmas. Recruitment, coaching, organisation, tactics all come into it . Yes I do think Tamworth have a higher budget than us in fact I think at least 8 clubs in this league are on a bigger budget than us I was fortunate enough to be in the LL when we played Curzon Ashton recently and chatted with their chairman Wayne Salkeld. He's a larger than life character and dropped into the conversation that we have the 5th highest budget in the league. Take from that what you like. Scunthorpe and South shields are both around the million mark. Ours is around £400,000.
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Post by nytram on Mar 30, 2024 16:37:48 GMT
Curzon's budget can't be anywhere near ours, with an average attendance below 400 Curzon make their money from the two rooms they have, both hold 150, one is for conference hire and the other for weddings etc and both are busy.
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Post by Harry Lime on Mar 30, 2024 22:15:55 GMT
Curzon's budget can't be anywhere near ours, with an average attendance below 400 Curzon make their money from the two rooms they have, both hold 150, one is for conference hire and the other for weddings etc and both are busy. Their 3g pitch(s) booked solid from morning to evening might have something to do with it too. Think a regional fa office or something similar is based behind their main stand on that sports complex.
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Post by Neil Hunt Nonsense Potter on Mar 31, 2024 7:54:34 GMT
Boston budget is £40k a year higher than ours
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Post by agl on Mar 31, 2024 8:22:59 GMT
Maybe we need to have a serious look at revenue streams. I think it's obvious that the fans can't do a lot more so it has to be external. I'm not a big fan of 4g pitches but it seems that it would bring in a lot more revenue if we are able to go down that route. Presumably if we funded it the council would not object? It does seem crazy that we have a stadium that is used once a week (including women's games). Thoughts?
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Post by southernblue on Mar 31, 2024 9:33:08 GMT
Maybe we need to have a serious look at revenue streams. I think it's obvious that the fans can't do a lot more so it has to be external. I'm not a big fan of 4g pitches but it seems that it would bring in a lot more revenue if we are able to go down that route. Presumably if we funded it the council would not object? It does seem crazy that we have a stadium that is used once a week (including women's games). Thoughts? I would hate it.
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Post by Curva Nord on Mar 31, 2024 9:46:32 GMT
Maybe we need to have a serious look at revenue streams. I think it's obvious that the fans can't do a lot more so it has to be external. I'm not a big fan of 4g pitches but it seems that it would bring in a lot more revenue if we are able to go down that route. Presumably if we funded it the council would not object? It does seem crazy that we have a stadium that is used once a week (including women's games). Thoughts? I would hate it. Good thing you're not the one playing on it. However with Goals, Brookfields in Upton and KGV is there another use for a 4g pitch in the area? Plus if we got higher up the league, we'd have to re-lay a grass pitch
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Post by superhans on Mar 31, 2024 11:44:14 GMT
Maybe we need to have a serious look at revenue streams. I think it's obvious that the fans can't do a lot more so it has to be external. I'm not a big fan of 4g pitches but it seems that it would bring in a lot more revenue if we are able to go down that route. Presumably if we funded it the council would not object? It does seem crazy that we have a stadium that is used once a week (including women's games). Thoughts? I thought that the club was recieving income from renting out the 4G at KGV or have I got that completely wrong? As for turning tb Deva into one it's a complete non starter. Costs about £200-300k to turn it into a 4g, and if we ever want to play in the FL again we'd then have to pay to turn it back into grass
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Post by muchwenlock on Mar 31, 2024 12:55:14 GMT
Maybe we need to have a serious look at revenue streams. I think it's obvious that the fans can't do a lot more so it has to be external. I'm not a big fan of 4g pitches but it seems that it would bring in a lot more revenue if we are able to go down that route. Presumably if we funded it the council would not object? It does seem crazy that we have a stadium that is used once a week (including women's games). Thoughts? I thought that the club was recieving income from renting out the 4G at KGV or have I got that completely wrong? As for turning tb Deva into one it's a complete non starter. Costs about £200-300k to turn it into a 4g, and if we ever want to play in the FL again we'd then have to pay to turn it back into grass That isn't happening any time soon though is it . We can just about compete at two levels below. Just look at the money spent by the goats and Chesterfield to get out of the division above so it's got to be worth looking at at least.
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Post by martyntrumpcaster on Apr 9, 2024 15:33:13 GMT
If we fail to get a play off place we could end up playing matches against Bern and Jonno (Radcliffe) and Neil Young (Marine).
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Post by brooklaneblue on Apr 9, 2024 17:39:56 GMT
This is easy to answer, if we fail to get into the playoffs we will be in this league next season.
For our club this season the budget and play offs are not related. As a lot of people have said elsewhere on here, if we fail to reach the playoffs its down to failing to pick up easy points from teams further down the table than us and but winning or gaining points from teams higher up the league table, baffling or maybe not.
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Post by welshrover on Apr 9, 2024 23:55:11 GMT
This is easy to answer, if we fail to get into the playoffs we will be in this league next season. You should be in the CID!
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Post by Forever Blue on Apr 10, 2024 3:23:23 GMT
This is easy to answer, if we fail to get into the playoffs we will be in this league next season. You should be in the CID! Quite agree with him tbh if we fail to make the playoffs we will be in this league next season and nothing will change so what you going to do about it ? lol Stop supporting the club ? demand the manager is sacked ? or just whine like a bitch ? take your choice 😂😂😂😂 Sorry nearly missed request a refund 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Post by agl on Apr 11, 2024 8:30:05 GMT
This is easy to answer, if we fail to get into the playoffs we will be in this league next season. For our club this season the budget and play offs are not related. As a lot of people have said elsewhere on here, if we fail to reach the playoffs its down to failing to pick up easy points from teams further down the table than us and but winning or gaining points from teams higher up the league table, baffling or maybe not. I'm not sure that's entirely true. If we had the budget to afford a better striker (or a more proven one) we might well have picked up points in some of those annoying games where we've struggled against supposedly inferior teams. Four successive no scoring games at home in the run in speak for themselves. It's pretty obvious we do worse against teams that sit deep.
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Post by brooklaneblue on Apr 11, 2024 20:35:14 GMT
and the top scoring striker when we played and beat the top teams or shared the points? I am not sure you grasp the real issues, but its a forum and I respect your view point, but its not mine . At the end of year we where 3rd better than 2022- 2223 season, we recruited Tom Peers who bagged a few last season early on and still struggled. Our problem is a tactical and I will stop there.
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Post by agl on Apr 11, 2024 20:45:52 GMT
and the top scoring striker when we played and beat the top teams or shared the points? I am not sure you grasp the real issues, but its a forum and I respect your view point, but its not mine . At the end of year we where 3rd better than 2022- 2223 season, we recruited Tom Peers who bagged a few last season early on and still struggled. Our problem is a tactical and I will stop there. I grasp your point, I just don't agree. Last year we had the same tactics and Kurt Willoughby. With all respect to Peers, he's a journeyman even at this level. I'm not saying tactics aren't a factor but if we had Paul Mullin, the tactics would be less of an issue (as they were last season with Willoughby). To be fair to Cal, who thought Caton would be so disappointing? Hopefully next season, with the Summer to get fit, he will prove to be the player we thought we had signed
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Post by paddyseal on Apr 12, 2024 11:39:01 GMT
Hi there, took a ride up to the Deva the other day on the old trusty Honda 50 and rode around the car park for about half hour before someone came out and asked 'what the hell was i doing'? we laughed when i said i was waiting for Cal to offer him some advice. I didn't need to because Cal pulled up and had some sweet grime tunes belting out like Bigga B and Stormy. I knew then that Cal was the man to blast us back into play off contention. I winked at him and he gave me a knowing smile. Rest easy blue boys and girls, Cal Mac is back
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Post by btb on Apr 13, 2024 22:21:07 GMT
Hi there, took a ride up to the Deva the other day on the old trusty Honda 50 and rode around the car park for about half hour before someone came out and asked 'what the hell was i doing'? we laughed when i said i was waiting for Cal to offer him some advice. I didn't need to because Cal pulled up and had some sweet grime tunes belting out like Bigga B and Stormy. I knew then that Cal was the man to blast us back into play off contention. I winked at him and he gave me a knowing smile. Rest easy blue boys and girls, Cal Mac is back Maybe Cal needs to get a bit of smooth fm on in the future!
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