Scunny sack manager.

Quoted from Heisenberg

I’d believe that, judging by the rumours about their total wage bill. I really hope they stay down, then they’ll HAVE to trim that wage bill. But, if we stay up and they go up, that combination wouldn’t bother me at all. They’re gonna up one one year, they’ll not stay down there forever (although, if Carlsberg did non-league stint scenarios….).

It will get trimmed , most are out of contract at the end of the season

Quoted from cannylad65

I'm led to believe from a Scunthorpe supporter friend, that 2 players are on £2500 a week, and one on £2000 a week.

Dave Fivenames could afford to offer what ever contracts the players asked for because he had no intention of paying them !
If you think the abuse of our players is bad check this out, and they are still 2nd in the league .

Quoted from HerveJosse

Our nearest geographical neighbours . Clee Town may take offence at that.

Dhm posted 'rivals' and you misquoted ' neighbours'. Clee Town are our neighbours but not our rivals, due to the gap between us.

So provided Clee Town can read, they won't take offence 😛

Scunny remain our nearest geographical rivals, although that's more dubious the longer they spend in NLN I admit 😀

Quoted from Captaincod

Dave Fivenames could afford to offer what ever contracts the players asked for because he had no intention of paying them !
If you think the abuse of our players is bad check this out, and they are still 2nd in the league .

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Wow, I get it but at the start of the season they nearly never had a club, generally getting out of that level needs everyone on the same page.

That was us at Braintree when we lost 5-0 its the shock and utter despair .The fans love the Club and sadly a lot of players just don't care.

With this new TV deal the gap between NL and league 2 will get bigger you would have thought , it's emptied out of the bankrolled clubs now , but there are  still a few that will always be substantially more well backed than Scunny .

That gap from league 2 to NLN must be much much more significant in terms of turnover and ability to attact player (unless you are willing to pay them high end league 2 wages that you have not got like Dodgy Dave ) .

They won't be a FL club for a long long time if ever again , unless someone is willing to bankroll them which seems unlikely .

Quoted from cannylad65

I'm led to believe from a Scunthorpe supporter friend, that 2 players are on £2500 a week, and one on £2000 a week.

Cal Roberts will be one of those high earners.  He was one of the best players in the Conference at County before moving to Aberdeen on a 3-year-deal.  Just a year into that he agreed a move to the Conference North.  His one year in the SPL was injury riddled, but he's not going to rip up the remaining 2-years of his contract for pennies.

Their excrement or bust approach always had high risk to really screw them over, which is only increasing the more likely they fail to get automatic promotion.  Failure to get out that league will be severe for them.  Their current average of pretty much smack on 4000 a gate needs a 25% boost to reach that 5000 figure that 'It Bites' talks about.  They've reached that figure on 3 occasions out of 19, one of which was the community day against Chester.  The previous 3 games prior that drew an average of 3400.

Fail to go up and they won't get those gates next season.  Not a chance.  Still have the likes of Roberts (who has a further year to run on his contract) and no-one is going to be shelling out £2000-2500 a week for a player who has managed 628 league minutes this season on the back of just 85 in the SPL the year before.

Even if they go up.  Are their gates ever going to reach 5000?  Probably not.  They were averaging around 4000 in League One.

I hope, for their sake, that they can find a way to be sustainable but Hilton's approach has potentially lumbered them with a massive burden.  Lesser gates, still got high earners so you have to cut the cloth elsewhere (in all areas).  On the pitch that can only mean lower wages for everyone else which more often than not equals lower quality, therefore less chance of success, less fans coming through the gates, less money to spend....very, very vicious circle.

oh they've had it if they dont go up via the play offs, some of the wages they're paying is crazy. They'll rot in regional football for a long time

Do NLN play off games get televised?

Quoted from Mariner_09

Do NLN play off games get televised?

Some were last year I seem to remember, may have just been final but probs all of them I'd have thought nowadays