Paul Mullin

Quoted from promotion plaice

Apologise if already mentioned on here but Mullin is on £4,500 per week at Wrexham (allegedly)

We need to up our game next season.

I have no idea of our wage structure but I'm guessing we won't be paying that sort of money.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Apologise if already mentioned on here but Mullin is on £4,500 per week at Wrexham (allegedly)

We need to up our game next season.

Wrexham are going to heavily distort the market next season. Even in a higher league, they're going to be able to blow us ALL out of the water financially again. Whether Parkinson's dinosaur tactics get sussed out by enough teams remains to be seen, I happen to think they will be.

There will be a knock on as well, everyone will have to up their game to try and compete with Wrexham. Hursty has spoken about maybe having to pay wages he's not naturally comfortable with, but accepts we'll have to or we'll miss out on a load of targets again.

Quoted from OddShapedBalls

£2k for his footballing ability and £2.5k for his acting ability?

He's not even a great actor, but he certainly is persistent...

Quoted from Mariner_09

Wrexham are going to heavily distort the market next season. Even in a higher league, they're going to be able to blow us ALL out of the water financially again. Whether Parkinson's dinosaur tactics get sussed out by enough teams remains to be seen, I happen to think they will be.

There will be a knock on as well, everyone will have to up their game to try and compete with Wrexham. Hursty has spoken about maybe having to pay wages he's not naturally comfortable with, but accepts we'll have to or we'll miss out on a load of targets again.

It’s going to be a tough, tough league next season, and I suspect we’ll need to improve quite a bit just to stand still, let alone better this season’s finish.

If both Wrexham and Notts County come up then that’s two bank rolled clubs along with Forest Green coming down. Stockport could still be here too; it’s probably in our interest that they go up.

Then you’ve got Bradford, Swindon and Wimbledon all with substantially higher gates than us. Perhaps the one saving grace is that it doesn’t look like we’ve got “big” clubs coming down from League One, but make no mistake, we need to be on it if we are to have a successful season by most Town fan’s standards and expectations.

Quoted from Mariner_09

Wrexham are going to heavily distort the market next season. Even in a higher league, they're going to be able to blow us ALL out of the water financially again. Whether Parkinson's dinosaur tactics get sussed out by enough teams remains to be seen, I happen to think they will be.

There will be a knock on as well, everyone will have to up their game to try and compete with Wrexham. Hursty has spoken about maybe having to pay wages he's not naturally comfortable with, but accepts we'll have to or we'll miss out on a load of targets again.

It will be bonkers

Notts will go flat out to ,get in to more debt ,others will go silly .

We will have a budget ball park mid table (even with the cup run ) , making a loss and Jason + Andrew investing circa 1 million quid .

The games gone mad unfortunately
I wonder what our budget would be if we ran an actual sustainable now break even model ?

Bottom ?

Quoted from Mappers

It will be bonkers

Notts will go flat out to ,get in to more debt ,others will go silly .

We will have a budget ball park mid table (even with the cup run ) , making a loss and Jason + Andrew investing circa 1 million quid .

The games gone mad unfortunately
I wonder what our budget would be if we ran an actual sustainable now break even model ?

Bottom ?

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Quoted from Poojah

It’s going to be a tough, tough league next season, and I suspect we’ll need to improve quite a bit just to stand still, let alone better this season’s finish.

If both Wrexham and Notts County come up then that’s two bank rolled clubs along with Forest Green coming down. Stockport could still be here too; it’s probably in our interest that they go up.

Then you’ve got Bradford, Swindon and Wimbledon all with substantially higher gates than us. Perhaps the one saving grace is that it doesn’t look like we’ve got “big” clubs coming down from League One, but make no mistake, we need to be on it if we are to have a successful season by most Town fan’s standards and expectations.

I give you most of that but would not say Wimbledon have
substantially higher gates than us they average 1k more but in reality its a few hundred as they count seats sold whereas we count bums on seats , adding to that they are effectively a fan owned club (a good one)  with minimal investment so  are not going to be up there in terms of budget

Quoted from Mappers

I give you most of that but would not say Wimbledon have
substantially higher gates than us they average 1k more but in reality its a few hundred as they count seats sold whereas we count bums on seats , adding to that they are effectively a fan owned club (a good one)  with minimal investment so  are not going to be up there in terms of budget

Fair enough, consider myself corrected!

Clubs like Wrexham create problems for others, but that doesn't fit the narrative of the media, who just want to sell the story of rags to riches.

I watched Welcome to Wrexham. I kind of like (and admire) McElhenney; I think he gets it. He's absorbed by sport, and just wants something to be passionate about. I don't get Reynolds, though. Cynically, I think he's in it for different reasons.

But, for all the good intentions they have - buying back the stadium, redeveloping the kop, investing £££ in helping them get out that league, promoting the club in the community, raising aspirations in the town... it's admirable, but through the sheer amount of money they're spending to do this - and do it as quickly as possible - it's forcing other clubs at that level to spend more, just in the hope that they can compete.

I reckon most teams in the top half of the NL are spending beyond what they can afford. I reckon most teams in the bottom half know they can't compete at the top but are still spending more than they can afford to simply battle against relegation since 'bigger' teams are being squeezed down the league by the big spenders.

It's a worrying knock-on effect. Clubs might not go bust today, but they might in the near future. By that time, Wrexham could be in L1 or the Championship, long gone. But the trail of destruction they leave in their wake will be felt by others for a long time to come.

Football has changed so much in the past couple of decades. It's in such a position that I genuinely think Scunny will struggle to ever get back to L2. Unless they find another sugar daddy.

We got back into the FL at just the right time. Your Accringtons, Morecambes, etc - those small clubs who have done remarkably well to reach L1 - will start to filter back down. Big spenders (over-spenders) will continue to climb.

The only hope we have of progressing up the leagues is by continuing to operate sensibly and sustainably, and watch other big clubs fall on hard times when their benefactors start to pull out. The likes of Bolton, Coventry and Portsmouth have all fallen into this league in recent times. More will probably follow.

Their bad stewardship may help nudge us up the league ladder one rung at a time, but we still have to do our bit and not get involved in paying silly wages to players. That might mean we never built a title-winning squad, so we'll have to find other, cleverer, ways to grow - and that's where I think the value of JS and AP comes in.

Quoted from Maringer

He's not even a great actor, but he certainly is persistent...

Are we still talking about mullin or moved onto Reynolds?