We are not skint

why do people keepposting in the likes of i thought we were skint.

how the heck can a club who is not making a loss every year be skint.

we have money we are managing the club correctly.
Because we arent spending big on players doesnt make us skint.


WE ARE NOT SKINT END OF

 

We are as skint as a badgers arse!

 

We are as skint as Skint McFlint.

 

Maybe not quite skint, but we simply cannot compete in the transfer market with most clubs in this league so we may as well be "skint".

 

My concern is that if we 'dont compete' in the next couple of weeks for just three quality players then we will be down.
If fans think we are skint now...........just wait while we are playing clubs like Yeovil week in week out

 

Why do you think Yeovil will get promoted this season ?

 

It's not that we can't - we choose not to. Every other team in the Championship is carrying huge debt by gambling on promotion but we're balancing the books. Look at Huddersfield - everyone says they're better run than us yet they made a £5 million loss last season whereas we made a profit.

 

be the first time in my 50 years of watching the super reds i have seen that printed

 

We're not skint in that we can afford to pay the bills. Wages, rent, utilities, VAT, etc will all be paid. But then there won't be any left. We may even have to get a bit of a helping hand from our owner. There's no pot of cash stored away for buying players. The budget is accounted for. So as far as disposable income is concerned, we are skint.

 

And (probably more importantly) we are refusing to go into debt on the chance of success on the pitch.

 

If you have 30 apples and i take 30 apples from you, how many apples do you have left?

 

well if they were my apples and i grew them i would say i have more than you cause i own the orchard.

that must be where im getting lost. im looking at pound signs

but your looking at fookin apples

 

We don't own the orchard. We pay rent.

Or summat.

 

i was asked if I own apples

 

Do you own the orchard?

 

YES. it would be silly to rent it wouldnt it

 

I like apples.

I prefer oranges though. Do you grow them? Or grapes?

 

There is a difference between being skint and in debt. There are clubs enormously in debt still buying the top players so they obviously have access to money and might not be described as skint. There are clubs such as Cardiff and Leicester who have sailed very close to extinction in recent years who appear to be prospering despite this.

We are relatively poor but refuse to run the risk of endangering the club. The board though is faced with the dilemma of relegation and income losses that will be incurred - offset that with the immediate team investment that my prevent this from happening. It would be a batch of quality loanees, but with the exception of Tudgay, the last lot hardly pulled up any trees.

Suddenly, Brian Howard to the end of the season doesn't sound such a bad idea.

 

Even if we operate the world's biggest orchard which produces 9,000,000 apples a year, if the money needed to keep the orchard running is equivalent to what we make from the sale of 8,999,999 of those apples then we are, by most sensible measures, skint.

The difference between our orchard and other orchards is that we don't use bank loans to fund experimenting with finer, continental types of apple. Orchards that do this might make a massive profit in the summer but equally the harvest might end up perishing in winter leaving them with nothing but bare branches and a ton of debt at the end of the season.

 

We wouldn't want that.