Netcafe with David Johnston tonight
Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 11:15 am
As above starts around 1830.
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Nigel Batches Beard wrote:DJ answered a question on Chris Hunters departure and whether there was a fee involved
"as a club we will not be commenting on whether we receive any fees as this is sensitive commercial information that makes signing players more complicated."
The add on for Mark Beck from Harrogates promotion seems to be well documented? Sounds like this is new club policy - but its going to show up in the club accounts further down the line. And the question wasnt asking how much, but did we get a fee? Is that really that commercially sensitive?
It’s the same Directors so let’s hope they’ve learned a lesson. The DFCSG have to stand firm and push back on overspend.Quakerz wrote:But then we struggled to attract much more than 1,200 to the home games after that, so on the other hand there is lost income there.
It will be nice this season to have a realistic budget set (I believe around 250k playing budget thanks to our 86k contribution), gates get back over 1500 average, and have a bonus cup run so we can actually get some money in the bank and not have the seasonal cash call!
We're in the best shape we ever have been to achieve this, as under Gray we were always pushing budgets to their limit.
Let's not forget that last season we started out with a 334k playing budget which was revealed at a forum, and Gray's entourage was a minimum of 72k (that's what it cost in the Evostik season according to the staff costs in the 15/16 accounts), so a total budget of at least 406k. Of which we contributed 42k BTB so the club had to cover at least 364k.
This season the playing budget will be c250k, and I can't see the staff costs exceeding 50k (pure guess to be fair) simply because Tommy does not have a massive blue coated entourage following him around sucking money out of the club. So with maximum total playing/staff costs of about 300k going forward and an 86k BTB contribution from us, then the club would be covering 214k...
All I can say is that if there is yet another mid season cash call, then we may as well give up and fold the club.
He's quite right. We don't need to know and there's no point advertising our financial position to other clubs or prospective targets.Nigel Batches Beard wrote:DJ answered a question on Chris Hunters departure and whether there was a fee involved
"as a club we will not be commenting on whether we receive any fees as this is sensitive commercial information that makes signing players more complicated."
The add on for Mark Beck from Harrogates promotion seems to be well documented? Sounds like this is new club policy - but its going to show up in the club accounts further down the line. And the question wasnt asking how much, but did we get a fee? Is that really that commercially sensitive?
Completely agree. I’m half expecting the first person to pipe up with ‘I’ve put money into the club so I’m entitled to know’Spyman wrote:He's quite right. We don't need to know and there's no point advertising our financial position to other clubs or prospective targets.Nigel Batches Beard wrote:DJ answered a question on Chris Hunters departure and whether there was a fee involved
"as a club we will not be commenting on whether we receive any fees as this is sensitive commercial information that makes signing players more complicated."
The add on for Mark Beck from Harrogates promotion seems to be well documented? Sounds like this is new club policy - but its going to show up in the club accounts further down the line. And the question wasnt asking how much, but did we get a fee? Is that really that commercially sensitive?
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I've put money into the club so I explicitly don't want it wasted by revealing information that could impact the price others ask for.D_F_C wrote:
Completely agree. I’m half expecting the first person to pipe up with ‘I’ve put money into the club so I’m entitled to know’
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I agree - I wasnt disagreeing with it as a policy. Just that, as Becks transfer wasnt that long ago, that the policy must be a recent oneSpyman wrote:He's quite right. We don't need to know and there's no point advertising our financial position to other clubs or prospective targets.Nigel Batches Beard wrote:DJ answered a question on Chris Hunters departure and whether there was a fee involved
"as a club we will not be commenting on whether we receive any fees as this is sensitive commercial information that makes signing players more complicated."
The add on for Mark Beck from Harrogates promotion seems to be well documented? Sounds like this is new club policy - but its going to show up in the club accounts further down the line. And the question wasnt asking how much, but did we get a fee? Is that really that commercially sensitive?
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Beck's fee was discussed as other parties had released it into the public domain.Nigel Batches Beard wrote:I agree - I wasnt disagreeing with it as a policy. Just that, as Becks transfer wasnt that long ago, that the policy must be a recent oneSpyman wrote:He's quite right. We don't need to know and there's no point advertising our financial position to other clubs or prospective targets.Nigel Batches Beard wrote:DJ answered a question on Chris Hunters departure and whether there was a fee involved
"as a club we will not be commenting on whether we receive any fees as this is sensitive commercial information that makes signing players more complicated."
The add on for Mark Beck from Harrogates promotion seems to be well documented? Sounds like this is new club policy - but its going to show up in the club accounts further down the line. And the question wasnt asking how much, but did we get a fee? Is that really that commercially sensitive?
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