Prospects for 2015

[Trojan 67]

Harpin' on about a "zero budget" isn't accurate, is it ? The players ARE being paid! So there IS a budget! There will be no Boardroom investment while pisstakers on £1500 per week remain at the club. Prospects for the rest of the 2014/2015 season? 50pts, 20th in the table. Prospects for the 2015/2016 season? Another start in the WhamBamThankYouVanarama Conference.

[Gullscorer]

Harpin' on about a "zero budget" isn't accurate, is it ? The players ARE being paid! So there IS a budget! There will be no Boardroom investment while pisstakers on £1500 per week remain at the club. Prospects for the rest of the 2014/2015 season? 50pts, 20th in the table. Prospects for the 2015/2016 season? Another start in the WhamBamThankYouVanarama Conference.

Chris Hargreaves has said there is no money available for him to sign new players in January. So, obviously, there is a zero budget for this purpose. Seems accurate enough to me.

[Neal]

It was obvious the day we got relegated that we would not do that well this season. Since then we have had loads of posts to that affect, I have posted several myself. While you have 4 or 5 players eating up a good percentage of your playing budget who are Conference South standard then you have no chance. I actually listed the players I thought were conf south, and I think Im a good judge as I watch Basingstoke town a number of times a season.

We have probably 8 players on league 2 wages, and at least 50% of those are conf south std. CH cannot do anything about that, that's all Knills fault!

There are many good players in conf south who are good enough and more importantly hungry enough to play in conf premier.

The problem Im afraid is attracting them here. I know that the Basingstoke players are part time, but some of them don't have another job, they want to make it in football so bad that they choose to do extra training. There are 2 or 3 players that would easily perform for TUFC at this level. How much you would need to pay them I dont know, but even though some knock our facilities they are miles better than Basingstokes and I would guess this would be the draw for some of these.

Im hoping that CH is looking at these sorts of players NOW!!!! And when he can shift out the high earners he can move quickly to get these in.

Not scientific I know but a sort of barometer is Macklin. He was a regular reserve for us, well he is a regular reserve for Basingstoke as well. There are a number of players ahead of him who are better. Basingstoke are far from the best team in the south as well, so there are even better players at some of the other clubs. If you took the best 11 south players in their positions, you would have a damn good conf prem team I can tell you.