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August 2, 2017, 6:31pm
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I wonder how competitive our budget really is? Yes the club say we are competitive but we hardly seem to be signing big earners unless I have totally misjudged?

Players out since last season (in no particular order)

Disley
Gowling
Pearson
Andrew
Gunning
Jones Dan
Chambers
Brown
Youssef
Wright
Venney

New players
Dixon
Osbourne K
Clarke
Kelly
Cardwell
Rose
Sawyer
Keeble
Dembele


May have missed players off either list but in general we certainly don't look to have increased the playing budget. I guess Clarke plus maybe Dixon, will be on decent money but the rest look distinctly bargain basement.
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The budget seems to be nowhere near the amount required for the players Slade wanted , the way we are still gambling on trialists shows that.


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August 2, 2017, 6:40pm
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Unless somebody has the facts whats the point in speculating about budget size?

Leicester demonstrated the power of teamwork over individual ability and I think we need to focus on GTFC as a team not a collection of 11 individual players and their respective merits. I accept when new players come in we will debate opinion on whether we think it is a good or bad signing but in pre-season we have played three league sides; beat Barnsley from the Championship, lost 1-0 to Blackburn and drew 1-1 with Wigan both from league one.

This suggests we will be competitive in League 2 with, hopefully, a mean defence. As for goals we did ok in the 3 home games we played under RS last season and I still expect new forwards to join but maybe a bit later then we hoped.

I think the above results show there is no need to be too downhearted whatever our budget is or is not.
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The budget probably has increased, but slade may have chosen to invest it in other areas such as staff and sports science. It also seems that this question is mainly arising due to our current failure to sign a striker. But which clubs in this league really have the fbudget to sign a proven goalscorer. Most of the time clubs top scorers will come from rejuvenated strikers like amond was with us in the conference (gooden being a good example last season), or through taking a chance on a non league player such as bogle. No clubs at our level have the ability to go out and get a striker who has consistently been banging in goals within the football league over the last few seasons.
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Can't believe we've been outbid for Neymar ffs Town sort it!
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I think the question is a valid one, how competitive are we this year?

Yeah sure there's always one club every year that goes against the grain but generally your budget reflects your league position by the end of the season.

We had a lot of 'footballing fortune' last season with higher than anticipated gates, compensation for Hurst  and then the Bogle sale. Granted, we reinvested some of that in Clements, Jones and Osborne and then had less success with Yussuf, Gunning etc.  We've also stepped up our sports science which won't come cheap.  I suppose we could add the ever increasing costs to maintain Blundell Park to the list of costs too.

But I would still like to know how competitive we are and if we are actually competitive, whatever that means, why we appear to be rooting the bargain bin at this stage of pre-season and getting knocked back by player after player.

We're less than 72 hours from kick off and we have some big holes in the team.  Our left back, who I'm pleased we got, arrived at the weekend and I'm not sure what pre-season he's had. We have no real cover for him. Up front we've got a guy in Vernon who has never been prolific and for large parts of last season was forgotten about by many.  The only other striker we have has never kicked the ball in the top four divisions.

I think Vernon has a role to play (not as the main man) and I think Cardwell is very promising. But the situation is not good enough and questions should be asked. If that's to Fenty and the board for signing off a weak budget or Slade and his team for building a squad that is lopsided in balance, we're entitled to raise concerns and question.

For the record I think we're a good striker away from an excellent season.  Defence looks solid, midfield full of creativity but it all comes down to someone to lead the line.  
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August 2, 2017, 7:19pm
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Quoted from diehardmariner
I think the question is a valid one, how competitive are we this year?

Yeah sure there's always one club every year that goes against the grain but generally your budget reflects your league position by the end of the season.

We had a lot of 'footballing fortune' last season with higher than anticipated gates, compensation for Hurst  and then the Bogle sale. Granted, we reinvested some of that in Clements, Jones and Osborne and then had less success with Yussuf, Gunning etc.  We've also stepped up our sports science which won't come cheap.  I suppose we could add the ever increasing costs to maintain Blundell Park to the list of costs too.

But I would still like to know how competitive we are and if we are actually competitive, whatever that means, why we appear to be rooting the bargain bin at this stage of pre-season and getting knocked back by player after player.

We're less than 72 hours from kick off and we have some big holes in the team.  Our left back, who I'm pleased we got, arrived at the weekend and I'm not sure what pre-season he's had. We have no real cover for him. Up front we've got a guy in Vernon who has never been prolific and for large parts of last season was forgotten about by many.  The only other striker we have has never kicked the ball in the top four divisions.

I think Vernon has a role to play (not as the main man) and I think Cardwell is very promising. But the situation is not good enough and questions should be asked. If that's to Fenty and the board for signing off a weak budget or Slade and his team for building a squad that is lopsided in balance, we're entitled to raise concerns and question.

For the record I think we're a good striker away from an excellent season.  Defence looks solid, midfield full of creativity but it all comes down to someone to lead the line.  


All valid points but the main reason we're struggling with recruitment is location, both in terms of facilities and geography. I'm sure that the budget will be questioned and I'm sure Slade has used some up on support staff but after 6 years of non-league, the club's infrastructure had fallen miles behind other clubs and that certainly needed to be addressed and Paul Hurst and Marcus Bignot said much the same.
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August 2, 2017, 7:22pm

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I have no idea what out budget is, or what wages our players are on. Equally, I don't know how the club would know what another team's budget is, or how competitive they are.
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We have been one striker away from an excellent season for several years.


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There could be 6, 7, 8 clubs with a bigger budget than us in the coming season:

Coventry, Luton, Lincoln, Forest Green, Mansfield, Swindon, Chesterfield, Notts County.


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