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The standard of threads on the fishy when we lose are starting to go from bad to worse!

Quoted from ginnywings

I don't care what happened to the money. I gave it to the club in the hope that it would give us a very slight edge in a title race, but it looks like that is not going to happen now. I now hope that it turns out to be the pivotal element that got us promoted via the play offs. If we are still down here next season, then it's still a good thing that we did and i would do it again. It may still come to fruition yet but if it doesn't, you can't then complain and ask for your money back. There were no guarantees.

Yep. Agree with this and suspect most think the same.

Can't help but think that a bit of transparency wouldn't go amiss, particularly if the Trust decides to do it over again.

There was a consensus when this was happening that it would just be absorbed into the budget and not identified as being spent on a particular player so as not to add pressure onto that player and to not make it a straight success or failure depending on how one or two players fared.

I'm with Ginny and Chaos - I gave and I'd give again and I don't expect anybody to justify to me how the money was spent. It'll be a real shame if what was a great effort and achievement becomes something to beat the club and the Trust with.

I gave my donation with the understanding it would be spent on help the club achieve promotion, aslong as it's spent on that I don't mind how, for example I don't mind it being spent on improving the training facilities but I would mind if it's been spent on painting the white lines or something, but I'm sure that isn't the case.

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

There was a consensus when this was happening that it would just be absorbed into the budget and not identified as being spent on a particular player so as not to add pressure onto that player and to not make it a straight success or failure depending on how one or two players fared.

I'm with Ginny and Chaos - I gave and I'd give again and I don't expect anybody to justify to me how the money was spent. It'll be a real shame if what was a great effort and achievement becomes something to beat the club and the Trust with.

WHS I have a feeling that those who gave the least, are the ones who shout the most

Quoted from Garth

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WHS I have a feeling that those who gave the least, are the ones who shout the most

Doesn't matter does it?

All depends on how much you can afford tbh. If someone gave 50p, it's 50p more the club didn't have

It's a budget boost. Trying to pinpoint where it went is meaningless, other by comparing this year's budget with last year's. It's like trying to work out what proportion of your taxes going on the NHS or on bombing Syria.

Having said that I'd rather have had a smaller squad of more highly paid players and forgotten about the FA Trophy. It seems some of our budget was spent on a large squad to fight on two fronts. Although we get money for getting to the FAT final I suspect we've also spent money on "lesser" players to help get us there.

Quoted from GrimRob

It's a budget boost. Trying to pinpoint where it went is meaningless, other by comparing this year's budget with last year's. It's like trying to work out what proportion of your taxes going on the NHS or on bombing Syria.

Having said that I'd rather have had a smaller squad of more highly paid players and forgotten about the FA Trophy. It seems some of our budget was spent on a large squad to fight on two fronts. Although we get money for getting to the FAT final I suspect we've also spent money on "lesser" players to help get us there.

I agree Rob. I would be most pissedoff if we've spent O P money on benchwarmers for the Trophy.

Quoted from GrimRob

It's a budget boost. Trying to pinpoint where it went is meaningless, other by comparing this year's budget with last year's. It's like trying to work out what proportion of your taxes going on the NHS or on bombing Syria.

Having said that I'd rather have had a smaller squad of more highly paid players and forgotten about the FA Trophy. It seems some of our budget was spent on a large squad to fight on two fronts. Although we get money for getting to the FAT final I suspect we've also spent money on "lesser" players to help get us there.

In principle I would agree but I think the squad is not possibly as big as what we feel it is, remember a few weeks ago the 16 in the squad for a couple of league games where the last 16 due to injuries and waiting for the transfer window to close.

I think a couple less with a bigger bonus scheme for promotion would be worth considering, remember the players do this to pay their mortgages etc....