What do we do?

Exactly! We're all looking for good investment opportunities. We're heading in the right direction.


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I can't remember another summer when we've spent as much as we have over the past month or so. None of McGeehan, Pinnock, Mallan or Lindsay would have been particularly cheap - I'm sure we've spent considerably more on them than we did on Hourihane and Winnall.

 

Patrick Cryne clearly stated that we would not be using transfer income to subsidise wage levels beyond the normal income streams of the club.

 

No, that's two separate issues.

We can afford we can afford what we can't afford is wages in line with most other clubs at this level.

 

Based on what beyond wishful thinking?

 

What do we do?


Look at other clubs who have been financially mismanaged to the point they hit rock bottom and almost gone under and then say thank goodness our club isn't run like that.

Or something like that.

 

Reality. It may stick in your throat that our capitalist approach is making us richer but under the current regime we're reinvesting and whilst inevitably there'll be peaks and troughs, the general trend is upwards.


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It's not reality, not yet, it's an assertion/belief.

I suppose your assertion/belief that the trend is upward will be (severely) tested this season.

The balance sheet might remain healthy but that doesn't get folks hearts racing. Except @BFC Dave of course.

 

Put up wi it or find summat better to do. It's as simple as that.

 

In overall terms we are exactly where we always been as 75 years in the Championship will tell you. We have neither progressed or regressed.


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Probably cost as much added together in relative terms as Hignett or Dyer did.

 

The fact that the goalposts have changed so dramatically over the past 20 years probably defines this as a period of overachievement that we should enjoy while it lasts.


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If we are selling players to keep the club afloat then we are in the sh£t.

 

Nah, if Piggy Winnall had an extra year on his contract do you think he'd have stayed? We might have got another million out of them but he would have forced a move for sure.

 

Of course we are. Why else would we sell them?

 

We can't be. We're selling players to sustain losses largely incurred by the desire to maintain an academy above our means.

As I've said, Patrick has already said we won't use transfer income to subsidise wages we can't afford so we shouldn't be doing it.

 

Ok, without knowing the full facts it's difficult to argue convincingly, but we obviously need the transfer income for something otherwise why would we do it? Anyway after several beers and wines I'm. Finding it. MORE and mo. Re difficult to formulate sensible replies. You Reds.

 

To replace the money, over the long term, that Patrick puts in to sustain the losses *I think* that are attributable to the Academy.

 

Stones and Bree must have back paid any debts the academy could be attributed to for the last 5 years and paid forward the next 5 years surely?