by Soupdragon » 24 Nov 2016, 10:57
ferrarilover wrote:You can discount the floodlights from your calculations, running them sometimes makes us a tiny, tiny, tiny profit from the FAs rebate.
We do have other income streams, so it's not all bad.
Matt.
The operative word there is 'sometimes'.
And what else is there? No 10s? Gulls Nest? Are you certain they make anything approaching a reasonable profit? Enough to support, or even help to support, a whole full-time, professional football club? I think you'll find that's a 'no'.
It really doesn't help to be unrealistically, optimistically blinkered. This club has been up for sale at increasingly basement prices for the best part of 18 months now, and no-one - but no-one - is interested. We are a laughing stock and, worse still, as fans AND players, the object of pity. Watching those smug overpaid BBC gits on Final Score laughing at our players having to drive themselves to games is just one example of how these current directors have driven us into the ground.
They took on the club by putting up nothing more than the bond required by the Conference, after being advised strongly against taking it on (including inherited bad debts and forthcoming legal cases that they were fully aware of) in the first place. They then made a series of immediate decisions with huge (in the terrible sense) financial implications for the club which meant that they started their tenure already massively in the red. I was no fan of Hargreaves, and prefer Nicholson ten times over, but what was the Paul Cox thing about? We've never got to the bottom of that, and I doubt we ever will.
I won't take any of the nonsense that they were the only ones who would put up any money, either. No. They weren't. Others were prepared to put in cash, and their stories are freely available to read elsewhere. The current directors just didn't want anyone else to be part of it. Instead, they'd rather take loans from property developers.
I recognise that there is absolutely nothing I can do personally about this situation, so I would much rather contemplate the worst and then be (hopefully) pleasantly surprised than flail about in rose-tinted blinkers and wonder, come the end of January, where my club's gone.
[quote="ferrarilover"]You can discount the floodlights from your calculations, running them sometimes makes us a tiny, tiny, tiny profit from the FAs rebate.
We do have other income streams, so it's not all bad.
Matt.[/quote]
The operative word there is 'sometimes'.
And what else is there? No 10s? Gulls Nest? Are you certain they make anything approaching a reasonable profit? Enough to support, or even help to support, a whole full-time, professional football club? I think you'll find that's a 'no'.
It really doesn't help to be unrealistically, optimistically blinkered. This club has been up for sale at increasingly basement prices for the best part of 18 months now, and no-one - but no-one - is interested. We are a laughing stock and, worse still, as fans AND players, the object of pity. Watching those smug overpaid BBC gits on Final Score laughing at our players having to drive themselves to games is just one example of how these current directors have driven us into the ground.
They took on the club by putting up nothing more than the bond required by the Conference, after being advised strongly against taking it on (including inherited bad debts and forthcoming legal cases that they were fully aware of) in the first place. They then made a series of immediate decisions with huge (in the terrible sense) financial implications for the club which meant that they started their tenure already massively in the red. I was no fan of Hargreaves, and prefer Nicholson ten times over, but what was the Paul Cox thing about? We've never got to the bottom of that, and I doubt we ever will.
I won't take any of the nonsense that they were the only ones who would put up any money, either. No. They weren't. Others were prepared to put in cash, and their stories are freely available to read elsewhere. The current directors just didn't want anyone else to be part of it. Instead, they'd rather take loans from property developers.
I recognise that there is absolutely nothing I can do personally about this situation, so I would much rather contemplate the worst and then be (hopefully) pleasantly surprised than flail about in rose-tinted blinkers and wonder, come the end of January, where my club's gone.
