I Don't Support a Balance Sheet

I don't get excited by how much we get for players and how much profit the club makes if the point is to make profit for the sake of it. I don't benefit from it and it doesn't move or motivate me. I don't pay my hard earned cash to enable rich people to buy and pay people to become better footballers to be sold on and for them to reap the rewards.

I'd get excited if we had a record turnover and all that was going back into the squad and improving the match day experience. If the sole purpose of my money is for rich people to invest well that doesn't work for me. My money is better off being spent on something else or staying in my pocket.

I wonder if others feel the same.

 

I think that's literally what's happening, and we're selling players whose contracts were drawn up by the old board with probably clauses the new board could do nothing about.

 

The above post us too sensible, please remove it at once

 

I don't support a balance sheet either. None of us does obviously. My question on the other thread bears repeating though. Do you support the club operating within its means?
If you do then suggest a way of getting us to the upper echelons of the Championship or the premier League.
If you don't are you happy to risk the club going bust?
If you've got an answer, brilliant, I'll support it fully.

 

If I felt that way, I would stop going. I understand there are going to be improvements to the fan experience with a Fan-zone, and money is being put back into the team, whether it’s money well spent or even enough remains to be seen
However, I don’t see things the same way and I don’t feel that way, I’ll continue to go.

 

Every sensible sustainable business needs a good balance sheet.

The problem with football and sport in general the money and dream chasing tend to **** the normally sane businessmans head leading to a number of clubs on the brink.

If it meant Barnsley would keep afloat long term i would providing the price is right have no issue selling the first 11 and rebuilding every summer.

What the ideal scenario is will be allowing a couple of players leave per window be it 1st team or reserves for good money allowing for reinvestment into the squad of better talent to develop in tje same process.
This in turn should lead to a steady improvement up the footballing pyramid.

 

You can't be far wrong just look around Oakwell on a Saturday afternoon and take note of the empty seats... That should give some idea that those seats ought to be full.. Folk who should be in them doing other things these days and spending a lot less no doubt

 

Genuine question mate, if you were in charge, what would you do differently?, reason I ask you might have ideas that the club would be interested in hearing.

 

More heavy metal at half time?

 

I'd be happy with that.

 

Kids Zone could be interesting. "Bring your daughter to the slaughter",,,

 

Not sure playing some of the stuff Conan listens to would be great PR for the club.

 

Feeble screams from forests unknown could be the new Timerider....

 

Can someone explain why so many are talking about release clauses?

What evidence is there that there’s any in players contracts?

It seems like people are trying to find excuses for the new owners selling our better players.

If there was a release clause we wouldn’t be selling players for ‘a fee that could rise to so & so’ as there would be no reason for the buyers to give us any future sell on percentages or appearance or promotion bonus.

It makes no sense for us to have set release clauses in contracts when we’re developing young players & selling them on & have made money from the sell on clauses of Stones & Mawson.

There’s not much point to our strategy if we’re putting release clauses in contracts & I can’t see evidence to support this theory

 

Where are these people coming from?

Look at our attendances since forever and we operate in a pretty reliable static banding plus minus about 1000 folk in average attendance dictated by the division we're in. Really the only exception being the period from 84 to 97 when money was tight - hooliganism was rife - football was bad - Liverpool had got us banned from Europe - people got used to not coming and we stayed in the same division for ever - with no cup runs, relegations or promotions or owt to kick start the club despite it being the era of Glavin, Banks, Mcarthey, etc.

Level 4 - 6,000
Level 3 - 9,000
Level 2. - 12,000
Level 1. - once - 18,000.

Seems we add or loose around 3,000 per division with the one probably outlying year in the prem - obvioulsy with the size of away following having some impact.

The people that should be there are there. But for anyone forecasting ticket sales for our football club - it's easy peasy. Without promotion I'm not sure where these other people actually are.

 

He’s probably bore every ****** to death with his constant negativeness first and foremost

 

I do actually support a balance sheet. I have our annual accounts printed on the back of my shirt and while you are all cheering for the super reds I’m cheering “Stand up, for the balance sheet”

So there....

 

Don't worry about it. I'd find a way to make sure you get a life ban.

 

Genuine response, if you criticise the government no one asks you for your election manifesto.

 

I think a more accurate analogy would be that if somebody criticises a specific government policy, then it would be fair to ask that person what their alternative policy might be.