firstly

City awarded 23 playing contracts since relegation, when they knew that their income was going to fall. As I believe the club are still running at a loss it is clear that the new board have not cut income to match expenditure.

Second, the club have said that promotion will see the wage bill rise by 35 per cent (we don't know if this sum incluldes new deals / replacements for our big earners whose deals end this summer; namely JC, Doc, Rusty & McV). So even when we are continually running at a loss the trend of wage-increases goes on.

What really cheeses me off is that NCFC can predict, pretty accurately, their annual income, and yet they still overspend it on a regular basis.

The gamble paid off in 03/04, agreed; but it singularly failed to pay off in 05/06, 06/07, 07/08 and 08/09. So why are we still rolling the dice?

Posted By: jayson blair on February 17th 2010 at 13:30:54

Message Thread

The squeeze goes on (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 12:42:36
- Good idea. Extra money for the club. Almost all other ticket booking places charge a fee. (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 12:54:25
  - It wasn't really buried either was it? (NCFC) - camcan, Feb 17, 12:55:46
    - NO. Agenda driven. Maybe JB is Neil D. I'll slip in a question and find out. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 12:56:45
- I don't really understand you (NCFC) - camcan, Feb 17, 12:51:20
  - You might not worry (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 13:20:20
    - just comparing it with other ticket sales (NCFC) - camcan, Feb 17, 13:26:23
      - not sure that footy can be compared to normal businesses (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 13:59:51
        
        My constant argument (NCFC) - camcan, Feb 17, 14:10:03
  - it's very simple (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 13:13:04
    - Commercial business in trying to make additional funds from customers shocker. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 13:24:08
    - Other than getting rid of Jamie Cureton (NCFC) - camcan, Feb 17, 13:18:53
      - firstly (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 13:30:54
        
        At first. Secondly. (NCFC) - camcan, Feb 17, 13:38:40
        
        I really don't understand (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 14:14:39
        
        I'm not actually disagreeing with you on this point (NCFC) - camcan, Feb 17, 14:35:21
        
        fair enough (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 14:42:37
        
        Agreed. Maybe they should try and increase their annual income in order to be competitive (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 13:34:05
        
        firstly (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 17, 13:33:01
        
        Secondly. The vast majority of theose contracts awarded post relegation were done pre McNo (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 13:36:37
        
        Or certainly before he had been able to exert the full force of his Mcnastiness (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 13:38:23
        
        McKnife was appointed on June 12th (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 13:54:56
        
        12th June is a fact no doubt. (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 14:10:48
        
        igoring the inaccuracies (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 14:21:03
        
        All I can see is, at last, a decent CEO with a grip on reality. Yet you have a (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 14:26:18
        
        if the board (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 14:44:26
        
        Well on the outside looking in, they appear to have taken a bit of a gamble that we will (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 14:50:58
        
        last season our debt was manageable (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 14:56:27
        
        It was described as manageable (NCFC) - camcan, Feb 17, 15:04:38
        
        the phrase "manageable" was used (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 15:10:13
        
        try reading what I write (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 14:33:33
        
        I have read what you write. It reeks of a personal agenda against McNally, which I can't (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 14:42:55
        
        jafski's Real Madrid interview in full (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Feb 17, 14:56:15
        
        Were you the quiet guy who sat in the corner making notes? (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 14:58:37
        
        Busted! (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Feb 17, 15:01:47
        
        Is that What You Went To School For ? (n/m) (NCFC) - Arganth, Feb 17, 15:03:47
        
        I had to look that up (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Feb 17, 15:07:23
        
        yet again, read what I write (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 14:51:57
        
        I fail to understand why us doing it... (NCFC) - Arganth, Feb 17, 14:59:17
        
        Theatre Royal only charge for posting tickets (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 15:06:57
        
        See, I read it differently... (NCFC) - Arganth, Feb 17, 15:27:15
        
        that would be reasonable (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 15:44:46
        
        Playhouse charges ?1, UEA ?1.50. (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 15:12:43
        
        fail. (n/m) (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 15:19:55
        
        Booking on line. ?1 or ?1.50. Don't even get to talk to a lovely box office person. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 15:23:52
        
        Indeed. In fact you could say that we were stupid not to already be doing it. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 15:01:45
        
        Yes. We do. This is our list of contracted first team players left after last season (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 14:57:55
        
        Semi? Dejan? Matty? (n/m) (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 15:42:30
        
        "After the dead wood had gone and pre-first contracts for youth team players." (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 15:47:01
        
        Apart from the Semster obv. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 15:51:24
        
        yeah, obviously. (n/m) (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 15:56:01
        
        So it's just little old me and you down here now. (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 16:03:13
        
        no no no no no no no no no no no no non niet nada (n/m) (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 16:23:45
        
        OK. No further questions. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 16:25:02
        
        That is exactly what I meant. (n/m) (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 15:02:23
        
        Nothing. To. Do. With. McNally. (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 15:08:30
        
        or sign one less crap player (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 15:13:22
        
        I'm sure that they never set out to buy a crap player. (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 15:18:35
        
        Oh and I see that Jamie has now left the building. Good work. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 14:13:25
        
        secondly (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 17, 13:35:25
        
        thirdly (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 17, 13:37:47
        
        Fourthly. None of that shit is McNobby's fault. He's the Red Adair here. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 13:39:20
      - I think they prob have reduced tha playing budget already. (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 13:25:35
        
        your example is probably accurate (NCFC) - jayson blair, Feb 17, 13:36:20
        
        Theo. Mistake by Gunn. Hard to blame McNobby for. (NCFC) - jafski, Feb 17, 13:43:39
        
        lot of probablys in there (NCFC) - camcan, Feb 17, 13:42:32
    - To be fair (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Feb 17, 13:16:30
- It will soon be too expensive for me (n/m) (NCFC) - Larry Hagman, Feb 17, 12:47:13

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