Burnham & Martin Deaner

[Guest]

Our spys were at the Lowestoft V Burnham Match Last night...

 

Burnham won on Pens ..matty miller was the burnham 's scorer to take into extra time and pens... Andy Deaner was on the bench...

 

and Martin Deaner was in the stand ! watching....

 

Burnham had hardly any supporters there 1 or 2 maybe...

 

chris Sliski

 

 

sad really...

 

 

but there through to play Wealstone away in the next round ....

[BFR]

I wouldn't knock Burnham for not taking many fans last night Chris. If we had to go to Wroxham on a midweek night it is fair to say the support we took to the game on Saturday would be decimated.

[GarySTFC]

It's a bit galling in some respects that he'll travel all that way to see his boy sit on the bench, but wouldn't come to any of our matches last season.

[Guest]

Gary got what I meant..it was not about the support , but the fact that Martin Deaner did not even come to our match agaisnt Walsall last year, but would travel to Lowestoft... sad..not the fact Burnham had no supporters there was not the point...but even at home on Saturday only 110 people attended...inc about 50 from Lowestoft ! so being away made little difference anyway.

 

chris sliski

 

 

BTW

 

good luck to Burnham in the next round..

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

Only staying with Slough for financial reasons - the opertunity to make money out of developments attached to a new ground.

 

As I stated in a previous post, will the lack of income from a cup run now influence if he will stump up money for the wages which in reality were subsidised by the cup money last year?

[GarySTFC]

Being as though cup runs are not budgeted for, I don't see how failing to have a cup run will make any difference? Any revenue generated doesn't amount to as much as people think. Gate money is split into three pots after expenses, and it's not as though we're generating revenue from the bar/tea hut either.

[Martin]

I think though what Staines is suggesting is that last year's "profit" from the cup run was swallowed up by the wage bill which meant ultimately that Deaner had to fork out less money. There will be no "profit" to work with this season.

 

However, this year we have significantly reduced our wage bill in any event so the practical effect may be negligible

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

Martin - that is what I meant.

 

I would think that the Trust needs to prepare its self ready to take a larger role in the "Financing" of the club.

 

I hope Martin maintains his links, but with Andy at Burnham and still no progress with the council how long will he continue to put his hand in his pocket - if it were me I would need to have a good reason to continue to invest.

[GarySTFC]

Unless I've misread something, isn't a new company running the club as of last summer though?

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

But still being funded by Mr Deaner

[defrancog]

I thought that this was not the case. What was happening was that he would "take care" of the debt of the previous company so that the new company would not be saddled with the debt when it took over.

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

The club would struggle to cover the whole cost of running the team unless the wage reductions of the close season were drastic - which looks like they may well have been.

 

If we knew the truth then we would have nothing to speculate about - how boring would that be!

[GarySTFC]

But then how many clubs at this level know the way their club is run financially? Not too many I'd bet. Financial stablility is what we're after I think.

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

Probably only those run by a trust!?

[Matt]

I for one assumed the same as Staines - that although a new company has been formed, the wages are still basically being funded by Martyn Deaner, as per his promise of this summer (to continue funding for at least 2 more seasons wasn't it?)

[Rebel Kay]

I'd have travelled to Lowestoft to watch my son play too, or potentially play even.

 

I'm sure he had his reasons for his very low profile last season, probably to avoid the questions and abuse that he would have got if he had come maybe we shouldn't get on his case too heavily just yet.

[Ian]

It's been stated that the new company set up to run the football side of the club will be financed by Martyn. How much he's putting in is not down to us, it's between Martyn, Roy and Bernard.

 

As far as time goes, it's been stated that Martyn will fund the new company for the next two years whilst the assessment of the site at Colnbrook is made. That's always been the message, I don't know why people think there's some great secret they're not being told.

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

I dont see the issue at all- he went to se his son play- big deal, hope he had a lovely time...

[Roger Rebel]

I used to go anywhere to see my son play, which was more than could be said for some of the other parents. And i would still like to know what was going on when the Thores got there hands on the club, and why we were so much in debt.

[Guest]

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