Fox gone..

Quoted from HertsGTFC

How do you know this exactly?

Take a look at Burton's accounts. There total wage bill for 39 first team players & coaching staff and the clubs 185 other employees is around £3.8m and was even when they were in the Championship. They are well respected for what they have achieved on a tiny budget. i.e. they pay less wages than most L2 and several NL clubs do presently. Ben Fox never properly established himself at Burton and was constantly injured. Remind you of anyone? So whereabouts in Burton's pay structure would he have been?

The idea he was on a 4-figure weekly sum at Burton is laughable. He would have been on similar money to Clifton and Wright at Burton. Do you seriously think GTFC would have given him a big pay rise to come to the NL with his injury record?

Those speculating that he's on £7.5k a month at Northampton are probably right. That's £1,800 a week isn't it? A massive pay rise on what he was on at Town and a good chunk more than Hurst was willing to give him to renew.

Quoted from Meza

I've been told by a lot of imps mates (work mates) and some are close to the club.  it was also the budget 100% you can see that in the players they recruited, losing 4m that season has certainly got there pulse racing.

A Lincoln supporting friend told me they were working towards reducing their staff costs from £5m to £4m a year.

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No, the budget is pretty much the same as last season.

Appleton leaving was mutual, he wanted to be closer to his home in the North West where he has a young child. His health problems at the start of last season didn’t help with recruitment either along with a combination of other factors. Blackpool will be better suited to him, his personality didn’t really endear him to a section of the Imps fans, but I wish him well as he left us with some fantastic moments.


I’m reliably told that the playing budget is the same but the additional money the board provided in January to help avoid relegation will not be available this year and I understand that behind the scenes there are some concerns. Evidently at the POY awards night all the players got up and walked out and McGuire informed a fan who had supposedly bought the ball he scored a hat trick with at Sunderland he’d been “had” and there was no way he he bought the actual ball. Jez George is allegedly on a cull of a lot of long serving back room and office staff and a number of his decisions are not being well received.

He may just be trying to improve off field matters the same as town have but from what I’m told the way he’s approached this task did not go down at all well. All information is correct as it comes from people involved directly with the club and were in attendance at the POY awards and witnessed what happened.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Take a look at Burton's accounts. There total wage bill for 39 first team players & coaching staff and the clubs 185 other employees is around £3.8m and was even when they were in the Championship. They are well respected for what they have achieved on a tiny budget. i.e. they pay less wages than most L2 and several NL clubs do presently. Ben Fox never properly established himself at Burton and was constantly injured. Remind you of anyone? So whereabouts in Burton's pay structure would he have been?

The idea he was on a 4-figure weekly sum at Burton is laughable. He would have been on similar money to Clifton and Wright at Burton. Do you seriously think GTFC would have given him a big pay rise to come to the NL with his injury record?

Those speculating that he's on £7.5k a month at Northampton are probably right. That's £1,800 a week isn't it? A massive pay rise on what he was on at Town and a good chunk more than Hurst was willing to give him to renew.

Golly, you either work in the football industry as a statistician or you are a very, very sad individual 😉

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

Another dump to visit next season then… Nice fish and chips though >> https://www.smfserver.com/forums/thehotelend/index.php/topic,21022.0.html

Always laughable when fans of other clubs from bog standard towns start going on about how much of a shithole Grimsby / Cleethorpes is. Well done lads, you live in a town renowned for absolutely nothing beyond being home to the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lift_Tower]country's tallest lift testing tower,[/url] and couldn't even beat places like Wrexham, Bangor and Doncaster to being awarded city status. Least there's a handful of posters on there sticking up for Cleethorpes and correcting some of the bigger knuckle draggers on their outdated opinions of NE Lincs.

Northampton total wage accounts running consistently at around £4.m a year compared to our £2.5m so it’s reasonable to assume there upper level layer salary is 1.5 times ours but it’s stool a big stretch to see they would pay £7.5 k a week to anyone and I don’t think Fox would go in as top earner

Always put a shift in in his short stint. Best wishes and a warm welcome from me.

Quoted from Hagrid

Northampton are Paying him…. Hold on….. 7.5K A week

We simply couldnt even get close.

I can't believe you posted that in seriousness. Your mate may have got most of rhe big details right recently but he's way out on that so perhaps he misheard. The clue is in the superflous £.5k a week.

Northampton chairman: 'We're willing to offer a weekly wage of 7...'
Fox's agent: Squints disapprovingly
Northampton chairman:...'.5k per week. £7.5k per week'
Fox's agent: Nods approvingly and lights a cigarrillo

Quoted from immariner

I can't believe you posted that in seriousness. Your mate may have got most of rhe big details right recently but he's way out on that so perhaps he misheard. The clue is in the superflous £.5k a week.

Northampton chairman: 'We're willing to offer a weekly wage of 7...'
Fox's agent: Squints disapprovingly
Northampton chairman:...'.5k per week. £7.5k per week'
Fox's agent: Nods approvingly and lights a cigarrillo

That superfluous £0.5k pw is an extra £24,000 per year. I’d squirt approvingly for an extra £24k p.a., whatever my agent was up to.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

As I pointed out on another thread...

He only started 22 of our 44 league matches. Of the 22 he started we lost 11 of them. That's 50%. Of the 22 he didn't start we only lost twice (9.09%). I am not suggesting that Fox is responsible for those figures, but it does indicate 2 things. For whatever reason we were better when he wasn't in the team and he couldn't nail down a regular place a promotion challenging National League club.

And remember he got injured at Notts County after coming on as a substitute so it's not even like his injury interrupted his place in the team.

He is a good player. His performances in the 3 play-off games show that. BUT we're heading into L2 and we need better from our midfielders than Fox produced over the course of the whole season.

And if we sign 1 of the 2 midfielders I've been told we've approached Fox would have really struggled to get into our starting XI next season.

Have to agree, clearly a class player and I thank him for his contribution but I always thought he was never fully fit and tended to disappear in some games.

I am sure there are just as good if not better who can come as a replacement.