lordsummerisle
Well-Known Member
As tight as any owners since we got relegated from the top flight.
So as it stands, on October 12th 2015, SISU remain as tight as a nuns crutch?
Whilst staying at Wychwood Park in Cheshire sometime last season, I spotted the Sheffield United squad who were there from mid-morning in readiness for a night game against Crewe. They must have a generous budget as the distance from Sheffield to Crewe is not great, and the hotel is a 4 star De Vere venue within a gated community - not exactly slumming it.
Good luck to those that have the budget to do it.
The costs, whilst great to you or I, aren't actually that great to a club and despite football generally 'having a lot of money', they do push back on costs as much as they can and know exactly what they should be paying for.
There's a number of ways you could look at the cost though...if a club does spend circa £50k per annum on accommodation (which would probably be par for L1/L2 side - some will, some won't), that could pay a decent youngsters salary for the same amount.
Not surprised considering Shefff Utds owner is Saudi Prince Abdullah, Mr Extravagant.
Great idea terry. What is sisu paying fishface to do exactly because it certainly isnt to benefit the club in any way
Do you know what the options are if a team elects not to have an overnight stay? Do they drive straight to the ground or is there an arrangement with a local school/club for some sort of training facility and refreshments prior to the match?
There's no proof in what you are saying.There's only Walsall, Burton and perhaps Port Vale where journeys take under an hour, we all know what the M6 is like and there are a number of games around the Manchester area and another group in Yorkshire, my beef is any cost to an over night stay should not come out of the manager's budget, thats tight enough, especially as we are exceeding the wish for attendances every home game.
Do we not get a cut of away revenue?
whether or not you agree with where the money is coming from, it is clear that we are spending every pound wisely - Exactly what we didnt do in the past - and the reason why we ended up with a couple of dodgy Hondurans, belgians, swedes etc
just wondering that if we could go up, and TM had an extra £5m to spend, could he create a squad that could be comfortable in the championship
Pretty sure we don't get anything significant, its possible we get a small percentage (5%?) of away tickets sold.
Yea, there was talk at the time of getting opposition teams to do the same price for when Coventry fans go away but it seems nothing came of it as other clubs obviously don't want to lose out on revenue.Really? Wow...
I wasn't aware of that. If that is the case, you'd wonder why Cov are one of a few clubs on that "shouldn't pay less than £20 for an away ticket" brigade. If we're getting all money (or majority) from away ticket sales for home games, then we'd be ripping off the away teams coming to play us!
Especially as they have the persona of being tight!
As tight as any owners since we got relegated from the top flight.
Tony Mowbray has highlighted travelling up Friday night for the Fleetwood match was a big help to our victory
We 100% should be travelling the night before for MOST games./QUOTE]
Why? Is there any proven connection between staying in a hotel and playing well?
On the face of it you would think that staying in a hotel overnight prior to a game would benefit the team but do I not remember a time when we were due to play at Spurs and the team bus broke down on the way resulting in the players getting on the tube for the rest of the journey. We won the game! Perhaps it is down to mental attitude over personal fatigue!!!!!!
We 100% should be travelling the night before for MOST games./QUOTE]
Why? Is there any proven connection between staying in a hotel and playing well?
Man Utd under Alex Ferguson enough proof?
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...manchester-united-squad-arrives-lowry-9906191
recent home game v newcastle
Simple sack Fisher with no pay off as he has been a disaster divert funds to hotel stays, win win as that disaster leaves the club and TM gets what he needs.
Man Utd under Alex Ferguson enough proof?
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...manchester-united-squad-arrives-lowry-9906191
recent home game v newcastle
One example is hardly a proven connection! And that is Man U, not relevant to us at all.
I'm sure I could find plenty of examples where a team had not stayed overnight in a hotel and had still won handily.
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