Biggs":227bfiuo said:oddball":227bfiuo said:In out first season in the CCC as it was .....the club spent very little on players yet reaped a fantastic income on Season Tickets which were around 12K,and attendances which averaged around 16 K and provided a nice little income for the directors and their share holdings.If only the board had re invested that income into the playing side....now fast forward to this season..top 6 attendances yet bottom half budget.....you explain....
Spent very little on players... apart from Akos Buzsaky, Nick Chadwick, Stevie Crawford, Bjarni Gudjonsson, Mathias Kouo-Doumbe, Keith Lasley, Lee Makel, Steven Milne and Scott Taylor (thanks GoS)
Taylor was £250k, Chadwick was £100k, can’t find the fees for the others but wages and signing on fees alone would be substantial.
And back to the present day, it’s been explained several times that there are clubs with lower attendances than us but bigger budgets due to wealthy benefactors and non-football income that we don’t have (yet).
Why do you think matchday attendances = budget?
Do you really consider £350,000 worth of signings "substantial"? Hourihane had six months left on his contract, had told everyone at Barnsley he was 110% leaving and they still got £2,000,000 for him.
The signings you mentioned, apart from Buzsaky, were poor players at Championship level, you seem to be reeling them off like they were all club legends and went on to stardom like Paul Mariner.
AN easy way to gauge what fees in the Championship were like at the time, think of what the club for received for Norris, Ebanks-Blake, Gosling, Halmosi etc. I think it was over £8,000,000 worth of player sales.