by Taelee73 » 13 Feb 2024, 09:33
When Nicholson was in charge and we had the very bare bones of paid staff, with Nicho doing a lot of the extra work, the club needed 1800 fans to break even. It's blatantly obvious we are losing big money with all the staff and overheads we have now.
We have had no cup runs or sold players on for decent money or add ons this season. Last year we had the Derby FA cup matches, but that money would have still been limited, although welcome. Maidstone beat us, got Ipswich and will be making decent money.
A phoenix club playing at Plainmoor? well the manager would need paying. Guess ground staff, maintenance staff, office staff, match day staff could all be voluntary.
The council aren't going to be helping out with finance, when they don't have any money themselves.
The running costs of the ground? Even if two stands were closed down, you'd still have electricity bills (floodlights as well), water bills (watering the pitch as well) stadium maintenance, grounds machine purchasing, running and maintenance.
The pitch would need a minimum of over seeding once a year.
I assume licences and insurance would be needed for people to play and come watch
The rent to the council.
Can't imagine a phoenix club getting far unless we have between 1000-2000 every game and the good will of a lot of people and companies.
It can be done, but we'd need quick success to move up the divisions and entice fans to regularly watch.
What we really need is a successful youth team, one where they will progress to first team players and/or make us decent money in sales
The players that have moved on to have decent L1/L2 careers since leaving at the end of their contracts the last few years, is terrible.
When Nicholson was in charge and we had the very bare bones of paid staff, with Nicho doing a lot of the extra work, the club needed 1800 fans to break even. It's blatantly obvious we are losing big money with all the staff and overheads we have now.
We have had no cup runs or sold players on for decent money or add ons this season. Last year we had the Derby FA cup matches, but that money would have still been limited, although welcome. Maidstone beat us, got Ipswich and will be making decent money.
A phoenix club playing at Plainmoor? well the manager would need paying. Guess ground staff, maintenance staff, office staff, match day staff could all be voluntary.
The council aren't going to be helping out with finance, when they don't have any money themselves.
The running costs of the ground? Even if two stands were closed down, you'd still have electricity bills (floodlights as well), water bills (watering the pitch as well) stadium maintenance, grounds machine purchasing, running and maintenance.
The pitch would need a minimum of over seeding once a year.
I assume licences and insurance would be needed for people to play and come watch
The rent to the council.
Can't imagine a phoenix club getting far unless we have between 1000-2000 every game and the good will of a lot of people and companies.
It can be done, but we'd need quick success to move up the divisions and entice fans to regularly watch.
What we really need is a successful youth team, one where they will progress to first team players and/or make us decent money in sales
The players that have moved on to have decent L1/L2 careers since leaving at the end of their contracts the last few years, is terrible.
