Budget

Quoted from friskneymariner

We have been one striker away from an excellent season for several years.

Like two years ago when we signed that useless git who scored 37 goals. Or last year when we had a player up front so bad we sold him for nearly a million quid.

Why do people keep forgetting Asante? We could potentially have the striker we need already. He looked promising when half fit and a lot of the Solihull fans rated him higher than Bogle.

Im not sure what town fans think our level should realistically be,

4 teams that came down will have parachute payments so will have larger budgets than ours,
Lincoln had a good FA cup run and 3k more season tickets than us so i expect them to have more money than us.
Village Green throw money at it every season so I expect their budget will be larger than ours.
Mansfield seem to have found cash down the back of the sofa and again will be larger than ours
Luton has nearly double the Gates we do so again a better Budget,

Most of the players we let go will have been on conference wages and all the ones we brought in will be on league 2 wages,
At least 2 extra back room staff in a sports scientist and a health and nutrition chap.

Some of Bogles money went on the Jan transfer window and all the midfielders we got plus I would suspect a cut went to the agent and Solihull so I cant see there being that much left.

I would have thought we will have a top 10 budget maybe but that's about all

Quoted from mariner91

Why do people keep forgetting Asante? We could potentially have the striker we need already. He looked promising when half fit and a lot of the Solihull fans rated him higher than Bogle.

I don't think anyone's forgetting Asante. By the same token, I'm not pinning my hopes on a player with such an appalling injury record who's scored 3 goals in 21 league appearances.

Quoted from Rob_in_Grimsby

Im not sure what town fans think our level should realistically be,

4 teams that came down will have parachute payments so will have larger budgets than ours,
Lincoln had a good FA cup run and 3k more season tickets than us so i expect them to have more money than us.
Village Green throw money at it every season so I expect their budget will be larger than ours.
Mansfield seem to have found cash down the back of the sofa and again will be larger than ours
Luton has nearly double the Gates we do so again a better Budget,

Most of the players we let go will have been on conference wages and all the ones we brought in will be on league 2 wages,
At least 2 extra back room staff in a sports scientist and a health and nutrition chap.

Some of Bogles money went on the Jan transfer window and all the midfielders we got plus I would suspect a cut went to the agent and Solihull so I cant see there being that much left.

I would have thought we will have a top 10 budget maybe but that's about all

Exactly!

Lots of speculation, supposition and a bit too much pessimism in this thread I'd say.

My semi educated guess is that our budget is pretty 'middling' for this division. Maybe about average or just below. If DHM
's theory is right, we can expect to finish 14th or thereabouts on that basis.

Quoted from Rob_in_Grimsby

Im not sure what town fans think our level should realistically be,

4 teams that came down will have parachute payments so will have larger budgets than ours,
Lincoln had a good FA cup run and 3k more season tickets than us so i expect them to have more money than us.
Village Green throw money at it every season so I expect their budget will be larger than ours.
Mansfield seem to have found cash down the back of the sofa and again will be larger than ours
Luton has nearly double the Gates we do so again a better Budget,

Most of the players we let go will have been on conference wages and all the ones we brought in will be on league 2 wages,
At least 2 extra back room staff in a sports scientist and a health and nutrition chap.

Some of Bogles money went on the Jan transfer window and all the midfielders we got plus I would suspect a cut went to the agent and Solihull so I cant see there being that much left.

I would have thought we will have a top 10 budget maybe but that's about all

I largely agree but didn't your pal say there was little difference between conference wages and Lge 2 other than 52 weeks against 40 ish?

I just feel the claims made by the club of 'competitive' and aiming for playoffs are misleading despite the fans getting behind the club with excellent season tkt sales

Current squad has mid table at best written all over it IMO. I appreciate the club talk about stabilising after 6 years outside the FL but I can't help thinking our perceived lack of ambition could come back to bite us on the bottom

How can the club say the budget is competitive unless they know everyone elses?

Quoted from chaos33

Lots of speculation, supposition and a bit too much pessimism in this thread I'd say.

My semi educated guess is that our budget is pretty 'middling' for this division. Maybe about average or just below. If DHM
's theory is right, we can expect to finish 14th or thereabouts on that basis.

Agree - there's some ambitious clubs in our league and the two that have come up will have good funding (for different reasons). I don't see enough quality in our squad or enough ambition in our boardroom and I fear we'll struggle.

Quoted from Cloudy

I largely agree but didn't your pal say there was little difference between conference wages and Lge 2 other than 52 weeks against 40 ish?

I just feel the claims made by the club of 'competitive' and aiming for playoffs are misleading despite the fans getting behind the club with excellent season tkt sales

Current squad has mid table at best written all over it IMO. I appreciate the club talk about stabilising after 6 years outside the FL but I can't help thinking our perceived lack of ambition could come back to bite us on the bottom

My thoughts exactly sometimes I don't think this club deserves the loyalty of the fans it gets and certainly take us for granted.