freelander2, on 26 October 2016 - 05:40 AM, said:
It could be the training ground, the manager's accommodation, players' accommodation, etc. However, whatever it is, it wasn't being charged to the rent nominal code in the accounts for y/e 30/06/12 & 30/06/13.
Edit - having said it could be the training ground, there is a separate cost for 'training facilities' at £29,172.
I know one or two folk associated with the official youth set-up.
Apparently they used the training facilities hired by the development school when their own were waterlogged, though it's not clear how often.
Could that explain it?
h again, on 26 October 2016 - 10:04 AM, said:
Assuming that's true, where's the surprise? It's obvious we've been paying over the odds for years to attempt to sign players who might get us into the Championship. It might even have worked in a parallel universe. Unfortunately no player comes with a guarantee, and Saunders' gambles went badly astray.
Surprisingly, IF it's true, it suggests DA was still supporting a high-wage attempt to get up a league into the 2015/2016 season, and was prepared to use transfer income to finance it, rather than using it to pay himself some of the debt we owe, which makes him not quite the ogre some would have us believe. The policy was seen to have PROBABLY failed about the end of November 2015, at which point drastic action had to be taken, and was.
End result is that crowds won't support a Championship place, and player sales have failed miserably to do the job, so all that's left is retrenchment - or, in English, dig in and get the wage bill down, and that means Danny has to get much more out of much less. Who'd be a football manger, or Chairman for that matter?
Why is it
'obvious we've been paying over the odds for years'? Haven't you repeatedly insulted so-called 'know nothing' forumites for making similar claims? And even if true, isn't that a stunning indictment of the CEO you've humiliated yourself to defend?
Why November 2015? The accounts showing the million-plus loss appeared months earlier, as did the abrupt ending of the Higdon pursuit, as did Cook's downbeat interview, no players were signed following it's revelation and crowds were averaging more or less the seven thousand Allen himself had targeted. So exactly what happened in November - other than our progressing in the Cup - and doesn't such an assertion totally contradict you saying
'DA was still supporting a high-wage attempt to get up a league into the 2015/2016 season'?
Why won't
'crowds support a Championship place'? How do you know when we've not been there for over sixty years? Isn't it the height of stupidity to base such an assumption on what we were getting whilst mid-table in L1?
Seems to me your just repeating yourself rather than accept you might, just perhaps, be wrong.
As you were regarding the debt, amongst many other things.
And we're still waiting for that apology to those who've run rings around you...
This post has been edited by MDCCCLXVI: 26 October 2016 - 04:08 PM
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