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Scunny sack manager.

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Limerick Mariner
March 7, 2024, 3:57pm
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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.


Most clubs get a jump in crowds when a dodgy owner is removed and the new owners are local and / or fans and perceived as having the good of club at heart. We did, Oldham did, and Scunny did, even with 3names who clearly wasn’t that. They are in safe hands in terms of asset stripping risk, but the financial numbers will be very challenging going forward.

Even if they don’t go up I think the fans will stick with them for another season, JD will be gone and they will have a reasonable pot from ST sales. Another season in NLN to rebuild the finances could be no bad thing for them.  If they go up and struggle which they could well do without a big cash injection it could end up a worse outcome in the long run. I’m really surprised that York and Kiddy have struggled so much. If they came back down like Kiddy look like doing, that’s when the fans could lose interest - a bit like we’ve been saying on here if we end up back in the NL.
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March 7, 2024, 9:34pm
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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 .

Tweet 1765145675174465927 will appear here...


They must be Town fans in disguise as some on here seem to think it's only Town fans that resort to that abuse.
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Imagine the grief they would get if they were third in the table!!
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Imagine the grief they would get if they were third in the table!!


We might see this week 😄


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2018/19  LWDDLLLLLLWWDWLLLWDWLWWWWLLLLWWWWDLLLDDLLDLWLW Hello Scunny  
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We might see this week 😄


They should bash the Bishop today 😬
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