Michael O'connor

Quoted from Maringer

Why would it anger you that a lower division footballer could earn this much? It's a specialised job, one which only a tiny fraction of the population are capable of carrying out so why would you begrudge them the money, if they can get it?

Anyway, in the grand scheme of things, it's not a massive amount in comparison to, say, the folk in the City who make vast amounts of money speculating with (and often losing) other people's money.

A lower division footballer on a decent whack isn't exactly the same as the top level players who bag a few times this amount each week.

Worth noting that City boys only get paid big money if they make others (personal & corporate) big money, don’t knock them too much they’re possibly managing your pension funds or the investments that support it.

I’ve no real issue with the likes of say Luke Berry and a handful of others earning good money as they are the better players. What does concern me is that you’d get average players earning 6 figure sums which can’t be sustainable for many clubs and catches up on a fair few.

We will never attract him with the wages we pay. MJ is going for younger talent.

Have Lincoln sold 6,000 season tickets? Wish they'd mention it more.

Quoted from gtfc98

Have Lincoln sold 6,000 season tickets? Wish they'd mention it more.

Won't be long until normal service resumes and they're back to a crowd of a couple of thousand.

Quoted from Mighty_Mariner

Won't be long until normal service resumes and they're back to a crowd of a couple of thousand.

and we're back with 20k at the Park.......oh wait....

let them have some credit, they were in a similar position to us, have rebounded much stronger than we did and have either;

been lucky as fck for two seasons on all fronts

or

have appointed superbly, invested wisely, generated and captured interest in the community by being highly pro active and imaginative with their approach to PR and are now p1ssing all over us when it comes to being a well run football club.

The only crumb we have at the moment is that we start the season in the same League, on the same points and appear to be turning a corner with a fresher approach led by the manager.

Hopefully we will rise again and take the ascendancy.

Quoted from gtfc98

Have Lincoln sold 6,000 season tickets? Wish they'd mention it more.

I haven't said a word on that I don't think.

Quoted from moosey_club

and we're back with 20k at the Park.......oh wait....

let them have some credit, they were in a similar position to us, have rebounded much stronger than we did and have either;

been lucky as fck for two seasons on all fronts

or

have appointed superbly, invested wisely, generated and captured interest in the community by being highly pro active and imaginative with their approach to PR and are now p1ssing all over us when it comes to being a well run football club.

The only crumb we have at the moment is that we start the season in the same League, on the same points and appear to be turning a corner with a fresher approach led by the manager.

Hopefully we will rise again and take the ascendancy.

Can't argue with any of that, I hope we keep the ascendancy for a while yet though.

Quoted from Cloudy

You may be happy for your season ticket to go up to £6/800 or your Sky/BT subscription to rise and rise but this is the sort of move that will be neccesary for the game to continue to pay exhorbitant wages. Pitches and stadia have improved, slightly in GTFC case, but the ever increasing cost of football just goes in to the pocket of limited ability players. It is that that is killing the game for me.

But that's just a straw man argument you've built there. I wouldn't be happy for my season ticket to double overnight, but then I don't expect it to. I'd imagine that the salaries offered by clubs will be affordable for them so, if clubs think they can afford a few grand a week for a player, then fair enough. Lincoln obviously have the means due to their recent fortune so, if they want to spend that on one player, I've got no problem with it.

Ultimately, it's just down to the market and what it will pay. The vast amounts of money swallowed up by the Premier League have created an enormous imbalance and the top players are now pocketing incredible wedges of cash, aided and abetted by the Bosman ruling.

At the same time, lower division footballers really haven't benefited in the same way - look how it has gone with the days of 3 year contracts becoming incredibly rare and many professionals often moving around on one year deals with the make up of teams changing enormously year to year. I think that lower division players are certainly no wealthier than they were 20 years ago, not something which could be said for the top level ones. I won't begrudge them anything they get and let's not forget what a precarious and short-lived way it is to make a living, either.

Quoted from gtfc98

Have Lincoln sold 6,000 season tickets? Wish they'd mention it more.

Ah the jealousy. It's their time now, just let them enjoy their fortunes going up as we hope for a recovery from last season.

Quoted from Impish2

Can't argue with any of that, I hope we keep the ascendancy for a while yet though.

Can't see why not just got to keep the connection between the fans and club as it is.