Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:51 pm  

JUDGE666 wrote:

As for the playing staff, i really do we hope we do not lose any of the current squad, especially Sammut, didnt he recently tweet he was going no where?

Replied to someone with something along the lines of "I ain't walking out on Bradford mate" I think.

Wouldn't be the first or last time someone said words to that effect, then left a week later though.

I agree with the sentiments regarding the team. Losing Gale just isn't that big a deal except for some competition for places. Losing Sammut would be a big blow. (Purely from a team pov, nothing to do with the financials, which I appreciate are more important)

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:47 pm  

tristram wrote:

How about trying to raise 400k, or at least significant proportion of it, rather than 'save' it?

Yay! Let's get the begging buckets out again. That is a great idea.

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:52 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

Yay! Let's get the begging buckets out again. That is a great idea.

I think the poster you quoted may have actually meant that the club should attempt to obtains additional sponsorship and/or investment to raise some cash, not a pledge MkII

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:54 pm  

daveyz999 wrote:

I think the poster you quoted may have actually meant that the club should attempt to obtains additional sponsorship and/or investment to raise some cash, not a pledge MkII

Perhaps so, but did the board not say that, due to the current situation, they are finding it increasingly hard to attract sponsors?

Therefore, that idea will pretty much be a non-starter.

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:01 pm  

I don’t know if the Foxy Bingo promotion is still available?

All you had to do was deposit a tenner, the wife got thirty quid to play & you put in a promotional code for the club of your choice, which allegedly received fifty quid.

Apologies if you’ve already been down this route earlier in the year.

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:08 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

Perhaps so, but did the board not say that, due to the current situation, they are finding it increasingly hard to attract sponsors?

Therefore, that idea will pretty much be a non-starter.

I would be concerned if the club shared the same pessimistic view as yourself. If something is "difficult", I wouldn't say it was a non-starter. It is what it is "difficult", lol.

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:56 pm  

ME in slight / pop at club again....surely not !

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 5:52 pm  

It would surprise me if we keep our better players. If the reports are accurate and the players have been asked to take a 10% pay cut , it's likely that both agents and families will be pressing for a move. Many of the squad have already been through troubled times and loyalty to the club must be stretched. For the new signings it must be a kick in the teeth.
It will be a massive task for FC to keep team spirit high.
Any club with room under the cap can cherry pick
One question I have is whether the cut is a straight 10% or whether there is scope for an "incentive"-- that is if the income streams improve during the season ,players salaries have first call.
Incidentally what dent will the 10% make? I know it depends on how near the salary cap the club are but I don 't think that amount has been (or is likely to be ) published.
Finally is it proposed to cut ALL wages including coaches and admin staff?

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:23 pm  

Seem to remember salary bill (including off field staff) last year was quoted somewhere between 160k-200k per month. Cant imagine its much different this year. So a 10% cut would equate to between 192k and 240k. Puts a decent dent in 400k if staff accept it. Maybe Robbie saying we may only need to lose one or two players wasn't that far off the mark.
Wonder if they've considered asking players to take a 10% cut on basic pay but increasing win bonus so that if they win matches it negates the cut. More wins we get the higher attendances are likely to be which would pay for extra expense.

Re: Cutting the £400,000 : Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:56 pm  

A good idea and point, more wins = more bodies in the crowds, if we can get up to the 12k attendance figure the extra income generated would and should along with slight cost cutting erase the 400k figure, have to say lucky this has been found out in ore-season and not 2 month before the end of season when there would be little we could do about it.