Costs of running a non-league football club

[Eddie Killick]

Fellow Pilgrims might be interested in this message on Hyde`s web-site. Before anyone talks of buying new players perhaps they should read this. Makes you think what David Newton might be forking out to keep us afloat.

http://www.hydefans.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=893

[Tony A]

Everyone at the last forum knows how much David Newton puts into our club. If all our fans knew, they would think twice about criticising the management for not bringing in expensive players. We have to work within our means.
Our Chairman and managers have a very difficult balancing act to perform, and they do it very well. There are lots of clubs who wish they had our set up (apart from the ridiculously high ground rent).
Thanks must go to Mr Newton for being a first rate honest Chairman.
We as fans must continue to support our club through good and bad times, or lose it.
Lets have a big turnout next Saturday to end the season in style, regardless of results. 

[dubai camel]

To be fair recent gates of over 1000 does suggest the fans are standing by the club and chairman when the season is already well and truly over.

Few doubt the Chairman's commitment, or the fact that we have budget limitations.

The issue is the comparative budgets. Would love to know how our budget stands up to others in the league, yes we have more fans, but equally we have higher rent and more full time staff.
Be interesting to see how the budgets pan out...

[Maxross]

Facinating article that highlights the hidden costs invloved in running a business.  If every club published this information in a fan friendly format it would be a positive step for football. 

It could be used to identify clubs who are sending beyond their means and It would also help to scrutinise the perfomance of managers.

[Scouse Pilgrim]

Just a moment there.  Mr Newton is not a charity.  He is a businessman who has made a decent living from quite a few local house buyers over the years. Nor is he "forking out" money to BUFC. He is loaning money to the club to be repaid at some future point.  Is this wise?  for those of you with selective memories Mr Sotnick allegedly did the same and Mr Evans apparently remortgaged a house that had no mortgage on it to help the club.  Look where that got us.

Presumably Mr Newton also obtained the option to purchase the Tattershall Road site if, and when planning permission is obtained. His organisation was also the main club sponsor under the last bunch of feckless prats.  A previous club sponsor, a large local employer in the town, withdrew its money when it was discovered Mr Sotnick was not paying the shirt manufacturer as it did not want to be associated with such business practices.  What did Mr Newton do?  His company was still the main club sponsor when the club went into administration.

Sorry. Shopsoiled goods.  

[Gus]

Shop soiled?

I think the employer you referr to has done their best in the past to halt expansion in this town in case it might conflict with their own interests.

Now fcuk off and rattle your cage somewhere else.

[Scouse Pilgrim]

aw Gussie-poohs you're such a wag! 

Welcome to the world of commerce and politics! Any decent CEO or freemason should be aware of external threats such a competitors trying to encroach on its market share and find legal and legitimate means of minimising the risk of these.

You are clearly not either!

Of course some business entities enjoy a comparative advantage if they own all of their capital assets and have an efficient overhead base. Perhaps you ought to suggest that to your cronies at BUFC? 

PS. Why don't you ask Tesco from whom they bought the land behind the old whippet grass track?

[Bartmac]

Looks like Mark is back amongst us!!

[Old Pilgrim]

Welcome to the world of commerce and politics! Any decent CEO or freemason should be aware of external threats such a competitors trying to encroach on its market share and find legal and legitimate means of minimising the risk of these.

... And Boston hasn't been the same since! We COULD have had a bypass by now - your business still doing OK?

[Gus]

There is a letter from a serving councillor in The Standard this week about a bypass, and in it he mentions the fact that this was stopped by local businesses in the past.

How short-sighted as most towns say they are better for having a bypass.

Oh, and wasn't a certain company trying to sell out in the last few years because of how badly they were doing?

[dubai camel]

The bypass conspiracy theory ....

Opening up Boston in terms of better transport links has been stopped (or never seriously promoted) as this might encourage industry to locate here, thus competing for local labour and driving the price of said labour up. Better to restrict employment opportunities to get labour cheap to serve the agricultural industry - piece work and minimum hourly rates.

So goes the theory, as verified by the drinkers of the private club near the central park for many a year.   :dan

[Shoddys Lane]

The bypass conspiracy theory ....

Opening up Boston in terms of better transport links has been stopped (or never seriously promoted) as this might encourage industry to locate here, thus competing for local labour and driving the price of said labour up. Better to restrict employment opportunities to get labour cheap to serve the agricultural industry - piece work and minimum hourly rates.

So goes the theory, as verified by the drinkers of the private club near the central park for many a year.   :dan

Well said that man, and don't forget the Main Ridge Mafia.

[Old Pilgrim]

I don't believe it! It looks like some Bostonians are waking up at last!! One of the few things not to have changed in the town in recent years is the control in the hands of the 'few'