When people go on about the squad and it should be this, that or the other maybe it could be if the club were not having to fork out £1384.61 per week in rent (not just the season, but every week!)
I would guess this puts us at a major disadvantage to a lot of clubs even with there much smaller attendances.
How do you work that out? Just done a quick spreadsheet and here's the figures for last season:
Number Team Attendance Price Income per game income per season
1 Telford United 1845 11 £20,295.00 £405,900.00
2 Boston United 1401 11 £15,411.00 £308,220.00
3 Nuneaton Town 932 10 £9,320.00 £186,400.00
4 Alfreton Town 760 10 £7,600.00 £152,000.00
5 Worcester City 665 11 £7,315.00 £146,300.00
6 Stalybridge Celtic 483 10 £4,830.00 £96,600.00
7 Eastwood Town 460 9 £4,140.00 £82,800.00
8 Stafford Rangers 456 11 £5,016.00 £100,320.00
9 Hinckley United 455 10 £4,550.00 £91,000.00
10 Blyth Spartans 449 10 £4,490.00 £89,800.00
11 Guiseley 409 9 £3,681.00 £73,620.00
12 Workington 400 12 £4,800.00 £96,000.00
13 Corby Town 398 10 £3,980.00 £79,600.00
14 Gainsborough 378 10 £3,780.00 £75,600.00
15 Gloucester City 359 12 £4,308.00 £86,160.00
16 Hyde United 353 10 £3,530.00 £70,600.00
17 Solihull Moors 317 10 £3,170.00 £63,400.00
18 Droylsden 315 10 £3,150.00 £63,000.00
19 Harrogate Town 295 12 £3,540.00 £70,800.00
20 Redditch United 265 9 £2,385.00 £47,700.00
21 Vauxhall Motors 210 8 £1,680.00 £33,600.00
I've gone for attendance X adult standing price for price per game then X 20 for season. If you - £72,000 off our final income it's £236,220.00 still more than everyone bar Telford. I'd guess our bar takings and sponrship etc. is as good if not better than most other teams. Obviously a fair few have sugar daddies to artificially inflate budget but that was only 4 or 5 teams. So explain how we are worse off?
Oh and it is common knowledge that Church and Pearson where offered significantly better deals to stay, if this money isn't available why not and if it is why are people making budget an excuse for signing JJ?
I'm not a fool, owning a football club is a money pit and I dont want us to run at a deficit and I'm pleased DN is cutting our cloth accordingly. But I'd say going on figures above our budget should still be more than competitive against most clubs in this league.