by ferrarilover » 25 Oct 2016, 15:17
Yaaaay, TUST getting the club, that's great news...
20 players, a manager, an assistant, a physio, a kitman, a groundsman, a stadium manager and a receptionist. 27 employees at £300/week on average. That's £32,400/month in wages alone. Plus NI, pensions, insurance, gas, electricity, water, admin, expenses, phone, internet, stewarding, contingency, depreciation, sundries, Sky TV, stock, bar staff, programme production, policing, St Johns donations, repairs and maintenance. The list is almost without end. It will cost £100,000/month to run our club to its full extent. More if you actually want us to do anything other than stay 16th in the Conference. Community ownership, like communism, is great on paper, but it simply won't work. Torbay really is the arsehole of the UK. Full of penniless pensioners and out-of-work scum. Quite where this money is supposed to come from, no one has yet satisfactorily explained. Yes, I get it, the TUST runs some lottery thing where you can win a pint of real ale and a scratchcard, but that is hardly going to generate the sort of income needed to run a football club.
We don't need a dozen or so well meaning but ultimately ill-equipped and underfunded busybodies, we need a Dale Vince or a Pete Masters. Someone willing to chuck millions of pounds about the place with gay abandon. Someone who has run a business before and made a bloody success of it, not a cab driver (hi Nina - if I ever buy the club, you're getting your own stand!), a bouncer (hi Dave - not making Eastleigh tonight, sorry!) and a retired copper from Paris or wherever (hi Scott - good show by the England boys in the end!)
Yes, it's very sad that it'll never happen, but when a club is simply not popular, it's not popular. Have a look at Burton, they still only get 4000 or so in the Championship. People in Burton, as people in Torquay, just don't give a shit about football. That's how it'll always be. Newcastle could manage it, as could Villa and maybe QPR, but the chances of us being sustainably run by donations alone in the position we are in now is absolutely zero.
Might as well give it to me and let me have a bash, I don't have £100,000/month going spare either.
Matt.
Yaaaay, TUST getting the club, that's great news...
20 players, a manager, an assistant, a physio, a kitman, a groundsman, a stadium manager and a receptionist. 27 employees at £300/week on average. That's £32,400/month in wages alone. Plus NI, pensions, insurance, gas, electricity, water, admin, expenses, phone, internet, stewarding, contingency, depreciation, sundries, Sky TV, stock, bar staff, programme production, policing, St Johns donations, repairs and maintenance. The list is almost without end. It will cost £100,000/month to run our club to its full extent. More if you actually want us to do anything other than stay 16th in the Conference. Community ownership, like communism, is great on paper, but it simply won't work. Torbay really is the arsehole of the UK. Full of penniless pensioners and out-of-work scum. Quite where this money is supposed to come from, no one has yet satisfactorily explained. Yes, I get it, the TUST runs some lottery thing where you can win a pint of real ale and a scratchcard, but that is hardly going to generate the sort of income needed to run a football club.
We don't need a dozen or so well meaning but ultimately ill-equipped and underfunded busybodies, we need a Dale Vince or a Pete Masters. Someone willing to chuck millions of pounds about the place with gay abandon. Someone who has run a business before and made a bloody success of it, not a cab driver (hi Nina - if I ever buy the club, you're getting your own stand!), a bouncer (hi Dave - not making Eastleigh tonight, sorry!) and a retired copper from Paris or wherever (hi Scott - good show by the England boys in the end!)
Yes, it's very sad that it'll never happen, but when a club is simply not popular, it's not popular. Have a look at Burton, they still only get 4000 or so in the Championship. People in Burton, as people in Torquay, just don't give a shit about football. That's how it'll always be. Newcastle could manage it, as could Villa and maybe QPR, but the chances of us being sustainably run by donations alone in the position we are in now is absolutely zero.
Might as well give it to me and let me have a bash, I don't have £100,000/month going spare either.
Matt.
