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Most costs would be flexible as you wouldn't need increased staff for instance throughout the season. It's just the initial outlay that perhaps would be more expensive in that regard especially as ideally you'd need to appoint a Head of Ticketing with experience of managing the operation...

The club's entire operation is based on short-termism. That hasn't ever really changed.

Far easier and safer to forecast budgets when you have a foundation of customers you definitely have for the season than relying on consumers that might rock up once in a while. I can definitely see why they do it.

It's an interesting suggestion but I can't imagine it's overly cheap to set up. Far more staff needed, distribution/postage costs, printing and paper costs etc. It could quite easily be done and if done right would surely be more beneficial in the medium to long term, but there'd be an initial...

I find it very difficult to believe they haven't received any serious enquiries other than those headed up by Hoffman during their tenure.

Frankly the entire cock up is hardly surprising, yet still disappointing. I'm sympathetic to the fact that the pre-booked events are completely out of their control but common sense should prevail and pre-warning given. It's common curtesy. Not to mention on my end it's slightly embarrassing as...

Player sales are fundamental to sustaining the club, but if little to no reinvestment is going back into the squad and only frees or loans are being picked up then there is no model in place - it's a sinking ship with Boddy and Robins standing on the bow with a few buckets.

The funny thing is last season I received emails in advance if the box was at even risk of being booked up which I'm fine with. As long as there's an alternative in place - i.e. Birmingham I was given a table upstairs, Hull I was given a few tickets to the boardroom and there was something...

That was the model in L2/L1. The model in the Championship doesn't work unless a sizeable sale is made which really is entirely unsustainable given the size of the shortfall now. I'd imagine it comes to around £4-5m to bridge this season (excluding the recent cashflow issues caused by pitch...

Sell assets, replace with frees and loans:

Given conceding has been the issue rather than scoring goals I'd suggest it's probably not wise to drop a defender from the back line.

What have they actually addressed? Except confirm in a statement that they can't afford to operate in this division. The excuse for the lack of notice regarding the boxes being out of use was also utterly pathetic.

If anything box-gate is proof of this. They've had months to provide sufficient warning yet they seemingly can't even be bothered to extend common curtesy to their higher paying customers.

The club's core priority has always been to survive in this division. I think Boddy may have actually slipped up and alluded to this last season in one of the forums. The 'incremental progression' narrative is nothing more than a soundbite really and is impossible to achieve without some...

True, but he's still the far more superior GK. Really it's a case of does Robins feel he can play through his bad run of form or does he genuinely need a break to get his head right. Wilson is just as much of an accident waiting to happen.

No because unsurprisingly it sounded like a car crash, as I suspected it was going to be. As it stands the increase in wage budget isn't necessarily a positive. Not while there are still multiple players on the books that are still here on a permanent basis because seemingly no other club wants...

It's not really tin foil hat stuff. Another sale will either be made over the next couple of days or at best in January. The cashflow problems of this month have been plugged through the Hyam sale but there's the glaring overheads that the club simply can't afford without another injection of...

I think that's the issue though, Hamer's peak value certainly was vastly overestimated. Albeit O'Hare probably would've gone as Burnley hadn't sold Cornet and McNeil when their interest had cooled, but whether they would've come back and agreed to the club's majority of cash up front demand is...

It's not really an improvement though is it, or rather it's an improvement by default. Bonuses for players and management staff as well as increases for Robins, Adi, Hamer, Godden, O'Hare, Allen and Hyam who has now left. The contracts of Hamer and O'Hare are also apparently unsustainable. The...

If there's truth to the rumours that he's being sent back to Palace I can't think why we brought him in either.