It's aboit time (although it will obviously never happen) that the present and previous management stopped issuing these partial briefings, glossed with spin, and just told us the bare facts.
For example, "we need £1m to finish the season". WTF does that mean though? For example, and using hypothetical figures and a simple example, if our total wages bill was £2.5m then we would need about £1m to finish the season. It wouldn't exactly be a shock.
On the same figure, using home games as a yardstick, you'd need income which was the equivalent of about £200K a home game, over the season. (of course you don't get your income in nice weekly chunks, for example you get a large slice one-off in season ticket sales; but still, on average).
In this simple example, yes you would "need £1m" but it would just be stating a fact and no surprise; and equally you should be able to cover it from your regular average income as well.
Of course I understand that there are any number of factors, debts, bank overdraft issues, image rights tax bills etc etc etc., all I am saying is that it is totally disingenuous to use the phrase "we need £1m to finish the season" to imply that there is something surprising, wrong or not above board about that. OBVIOUSLY any SL club needs a large sum of money to finish a season.
I mean, how much do Wigan need "to finish the season", if you added it up? Or Wakefield? Do they all actually have all those funds NOW, up front, in credit, in their bank?
I am totally sick of this doublespeak and name calling. It does sadly look as if the "investors/benefactors waiting in the wings" hinted at by both factions were just wishful thinking. I continue to hope that we won't go into administration, but my remaining hopes wouldn't be high enough to clear your average ant, and if we do then that will be in my terms a total disaster for the club.
And no doubt whichever way it goes, we can confidently expect the continued yah-boo he-said she-said blame game to continue through the local press.
