Now here's a thought...

... The one thing which keeps bugging me about the accounts is how high our wage bill was last season. I'd assumed the club had budgeted for a mid-table finish last term - but frankly, it looks awfully like they were gambling on staying close to a Premiership wage structure in order to go straight back up.

So what I just can't understand is, how could they have let things drift under Worthington for so long? As soon as last season's problems became evident, we just could not afford to mess around: it's imperilled the next goodness knows how many years.

Now, of course I can't prove this, and it might well just be a load of hot air. But when Worthy finally got the bullet, I heard the figure ?800,000 bandied about all over the place, so much so that I assumed it was gospel. Today, we actually discover it was just ?600,000. OK, bear with me: but that figure is 75% of what I expected it to be - and Worthington was sacked at the end of September.

Surely it couldn't be, could it, that everything we were told last season about the 1-year rolling contract was in fact a pack of lies, and that NW was actually sacked with 9 months (75% of one year) remaining of a three-year contract (paying 800K a year) initially agreed by an over-excited club in Summer 2004? THAT would explain why he wasn't dismissed a year ago: we just couldn't afford to pay him off at the time.

This is just a theory, and is almost certainly nonsense: can't help but wonder, though... Any thoughts, anyone?

Posted By: thebigfeller, Dec 1, 16:54:44