Playing Budget

Round and round and round we go

 

We don’t need to ask where it went we know. John dewhirst I think it was showed us all from the accounts where it went. Straight back to Rupp. Which other football clubs fans would sit back and watch an owner who has no interest in the club use it as part of his portfolio? He needs to go. You’ve proved my point in all of your post. We make excuses for him not spending because he has no interest at all. And people still say “where would we be without him?” Well I ask could it get any worse? We’ve dropped around 30 league positions, have zero sellable assets, still no own ground or training ground etc. The list goes on and on and nothing changes

 

If Sparks had been honest and stated this during the season ticket push then I feel the criticism would have been much less.

As it stands, as a Season Ticket holder, I feel like I've been completely misled about our true position and I'm sure the feeling is shared by many of our supporter base.

The overriding point then being one of mistrust and from that all the negativity projected at the club and the eventual loss of future support.

 

And the longer we leave it, the more we stand still which effectively will only push us backwards.

 

Why anyone would want to buy a football club is beyond me

 

Totally agree. Didnt the Ifollow (away) income cover a lot of the playing bill and we had 9,000 + season tickets on top. I reckon that, tied to furloughing staff and having very little matchday costs etc, actually made us better off in the pandemic,

 

Totally agree. Didnt the Ifollow (away) income cover a lot of the playing bill and we had 9,000 + season tickets on top. I reckon that, tied to furloughing staff and having very little matchday costs etc, actually made us better off in the pandemic,

 

Well @Keefly Bantam is just happy to have a club to support and the only problem he has in life is finding gloves to fit his hands with 6 fingers

 

Because football is a business and there is no obligation on the owner to put extra money in.

 

Think you will find that was Gordon Gibb.

 

Bought a club on the verge of the championship and turned it into a midtable league 2 side within 3 years.

With saviours like that....

 

Football is a business that is correct but mostly a loss making business.

If you are looking to make money from it then you need to spend.

 

Yep totally agree, and I'm with you on your points. Just highlighting that Rupp is never going to look at any windfall from a sell on/transfer and put it towards growing the club. He's just happy turning red numbers into black.
As pointed out - Sparks needs to also understand this. What exactly do they talk about when they have a board meeting? Sparks coming out all gung ho at the beginning of the season, saying we're going up in 2022 highlights the fact that those two are on a completely different page. Sparks sees the black numbers and thinks we've got money to buy promotion winning players, whereas Rupp sees black numbers that the business is "running well" and wants to keep it that way. All that happens, is that us as supporters see has no interest in progression, and us as supporters see that our CEO is spouting bs to sell season tickets and is out of touch with what is really going on.

 

I think Sparks said we were about £1m plus down during the pandemic when he was first on McAnthony's podcast.

Edit - just listened back £3m in lost revenue according to Sparks.

 

As bullseye's Jim Bowen use to say :

'That's the gamble'

He also said

'Here's what you could have won'

 

Indeed and, with the exception of the Rhodes family (and I am still unsure what their overall position is with the dividends etc), no-one in recent memory has had any inclination to put their own money into the club, and because of the aftermath of the Richmond/Rhodes years we no longer have any assets to use as collateral if someone was willing to borrow to invest.

 

Maybe Rhodes and his style killed off any thought of people wanting to spend money.

When finances become more important that football the club will always struggle.

Rhodes set this club back 10-20 years. Account style operation in football never works.