Conference Play-offs

..........the experience of being robbed in a final the previous season spurs a team on.

FGR weren't robbed.  They were beaten fair and square by the better team on the day
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Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

FGR weren't robbed.  They were beaten fair and square by the better team on the day
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I don't think SNAFU5 was referring to FGR.

I'm guessing he was referring to the team that were robbed the year before !!

Personally I think FGR deserve to be promoted. They've gone close the last few years and keep coming back year after year . They haven't spent stupid money on players the last few years compared to what they used to and have serious plans for a new stadium which will grow their fan base . Let's not forget a team like Accrington only average about 1800 at best and no one slates them .

Halifax made it back, after ET v Chorley.

Well done to Halifax. Hope both teams lose tomorrow - can't stand either  

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Personally I think FGR deserve to be promoted. They've gone close the last few years and keep coming back year after year . They haven't spent stupid money on players the last few years compared to what they used to and have serious plans for a new stadium which will grow their fan base . Let's not forget a team like Accrington only average about 1800 at best and no one slates them .

The year ending 30 April 2016 they made a loss of £2.47 million. A loss of £2.47 million. Their income for that season was £1.1 million. It was widely reported that Parkin was on £3000 a week so his wages alone were 15% of their turnover. That's ridiculous. He isn't even that good.

That was down on the previous year but the losses for the two seasons combined (14/15 and 15/16) were £5.3 million. I doubt Town's budgets over the last two seasons were as much as their losses and we get nearly 3 times as many fans through the gates. I imagine they're

Accrington Stanley are a well run club that have earned their place in the FL and continue to prosper through astute management. They weren't the vanity project of some millionaire trying to push his own green agenda through a football club that he will ultimately ruin. He's previously claimed that the long term ambition for the club is to get them to the championship but a village team in that part of the country just isn't capable of sustaining that, there is very little appetite for football in that area. As seen by their woeful ticket sales for the play off match tomorrow which currently stand at roughly 1/5 of Tranmere's, slightly down on last year. The fact that their ticket sales have fallen show how little the locals actually care for the club, clearly a significant number of them only went last season for the novelty of a trip to Wembley.

The fans who were there before Dale Vine are the ones I feel sorry for. Sooner or later he will get bored when he realises the only way a club that small in Gloucestershire can compete or get in to the FL is by him throwing more and more money at it. Once he's bored he'll leave and behind him he'll leave a once-proud non-league club with a long history that now has a huge amount of debt, a fanbase that hasn't increased in size and, if he's there long enough, a white elephant of a stadium that cost them a fortune in the middle of nowhere. Ultimately, they'll go bust because of his ego and that is really sad.

I bet a fair number of those in attendance in the FGR seats were Ecotricity employees with free tickets and a strong encouragement to go - 'Dale will like it'.

Hook , line and sinker 91 .

Excellent knowledge of football finance though, thanks for the lesson .

Those losses will look like a good investment if they get into the league. They won't get relegated for a while with mr eco warrior behind them will they ?

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Hook , line and sinker 91 .

Excellent knowledge of football finance though, thanks for the lesson .

Those losses will look like a good investment if they get into the league. They won't get relegated for a while with mr eco warrior behind them will they ?

Will they look like a good investment? And how long can he afford to spunk money away? Plus I'm fairly certain the FL has rules on wages being a certain percentage of your income so either they will have to slash the wage budget or he'll have to directly put money in to the club. Obviously he could do this through "sponsorship" with his company or something along those lines but how rich is he? In at least three season the club has made losses of around £2.5million and he's been there since 2010 so I think that figure is probably close to double. How long can he afford to lose money like that?