Next season

[Mark44]

Where do you suppose that we will be playing, i think we will be in the ryman premier and i reckon well be going for the play offs next season.

[Barry Scott]

playoffs? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Mark44]

ok nibbler well just have to wait and see.

[A Rebel and a Saint]

have to agree with nibbler theres no way we will get in the playoff whatever league were in, we need a ground of our own before we can look to build for promotion mark.

[Mark44]

No we get a healthy enough attendance than some teams with a ground and i think if we get in a higher league we will get noticed more.

[Barry Scott]

you really have no idea the finances needed to run a successful club at this level do you?

[Mark44]

erm yeah, i reckon about £120,000 a year and with us having mcleary on a contract and having martyn deaners sponsorship money and a decent fa cup run we could do it.

[GarySTFC]

To get a successful side at this level you would need a wage bill, for a modest manager, of around £5k a week. This should enable you to get the cream of the playing staff for the foundation for your side.

 

40 week season * £5k = £200k

Match Officials - £150 a game? * 21 = £3,150

Match Travel - £2k as an estimate, probably a lot more than that

 

Match Income - 331 * £6 (mainly adults coming in) - £1,986 per home match

League Matches - 21 * £1,986 = £41,706

 

That still leaves a shortfall of £160k before ground rental agreements if we were pushing the boat out.

 

In our current circumstances where we can generate no revenue from the ground we share at, we're being very sensible on the players budget in an effort to secure football at this level whilst keeping the club afloat financially.

[Barry Scott]

1) Martyn Deaner has said that he's scaling back his sponsorship. He's already ploughed in £2 million and got precisely nothing back.

2) Income from other sources would only total about £20,000 (advertising, raffle, golden goal) at a generous estimate.

3) Conference South teams have only noticed a slight rise in attendances. Just looking at Ryman Premier attendances (discounting AFC Wimbledon), there's only a drop-off of 20-30 people per game.

 

taking all this into account, we would need to average 600 people per game in order to get out of the Ryman Premier League.

[Mark44]

ok, dont see why not, if every person who came brought one extra person along.

[Ian]

Quote:

Mark44 said:
ok, dont see why not, if every person who came brought one extra person along.

We're not having any more kids. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

[Mark44]

I dont see why not though, if we can do it it would be an amazing achievement.

 

Anyway we need to catch them at an early age before tv corrupts their mind into supporting whoever is top.

[GarySTFC]

Problem is, Martyn asked for this seasons ago for everyone to make that extra effort to bring in a person through the gate. Since then, our attendances have actually declined for a number of reasons - lack of publicity, lack of on field league success, lack of advertising - whilst there are things we can all do, a lot would need to come from the club at a time when they clearly feel they have better things to concentate on.

[Mark44]

i agree, we have a lot of potential as a club but i dont think we will get anywhere.

[grandad]

Which goes against what you said about play offs next season ! Easily swayed opinions.

[Mark44]

no i think we will make the playoffs i think, ow my head hurts.

[A Rebel and a Saint]

true grandad

ive tried to get people to come down on matchdays a but a lot of people work on saturdays or just cant be bothered.

[Mark44]

i usually get two or three to come along

[BFR]

Why flush money down the toilet on trying to reach the playoffs when we would not be able to gain promotion to the Connie South, due to groundsharing and no fixed plans for a stadium within the borough?