Is Drury not kind of making his own Budget ? When he was interviewed for the postion did he inform Mr Newton that we would double the gate? the same as he told us supporters. With gates on the downward slide since his appointment, can he really be that surprised that his budget has been cut. He cant have it both ways!
No sir he isn't and I am afraid thats simply not how things work at all. If a manager, any manager says he wants to or even more emphatic,says he will double the gates,it is a wish, a desire. The same as suggesting that a budget is good enough for the play offs, it is a metaphor, not a written contract condition
All new managers go through this rhetoric designed for one purpose, to please people like us. A player might say I've signed for the manager, or the manager sold me the club, or the club is a sleeping giant, and I defintely wanted to be part of it. Frankly all of it is cliched nonsense right up there with timelss classics like it was a game of two halves
Would a manager ever get a job, if he even whispered, I think with that budget we will get relegated? Of course he wouldn't
"We are away at Chester we have no chance, I dont know why we are even bothering going!" That would go down a storm with the supporters wouldn't it?
If Drury had won say just two more games, would it mean that gates were guaranteed to rise? Of course it wouldn't. If gates had risen by the same relatively small percentage they have dropped since his arrival, would the chairman automatically give him extra money for the budget, again the answer is very doubtful. Attendances whilst vital are not on there own a measuring stick for how well a team is doing. We could have had Halifax and Chester on a sunny saturday afternoon and the attendances no doubt would have been far more than 1000 which would then paint different picture, but it wouldn't be down to Drury either just circumstances.
"If" the budget has been cut after it was previously agreed that in my eyes would be wrong
