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Does anyone know roughly what our wage budget is for the new season?

Huddersfield's is supposedly £3.2m according to the new chairman (the greetings card magnate!)

He does say that based on estimated crowds of 11,000 they will still be making a substantial loss.

I just wondered how we compare.

Somewhere around £2 million I believe.

Don't forget most of their crowds are ST holders as their ST prices are cheap. That's why they'll make such a big loss this season.

Not sure they are very cheap this year.  Last year they had ST for £100.  But pretty sure they are around our prices.

It's £199 for the 3 other stands and £299 for the main stand I think. Or something like that. So on the whole still cheaper than a lot of teams in this league.

Great for the Hudders' fans so long as the man propping up their club stays interested.

I wonder what would(will) happen when he gets bored and takes his cash elsewhere...

Apparently he's a life long Huddersfield fan though Hertha. That must count for something right?

Isn't that bloke at Newcastle a life long toon fan though?

That's the point i'm trying to make.

Oh.

Yeah. And Willie Carson was a Swindon fan...

Yeah but I think this bloke has some money to throw at Huddersfield! 

 for us and I'm just guessing
20 playing staff at an average of 2k per week is 2 million. Plus manager and assistant 300k the pair. Plus coaches,physio etc 300k. Plus admin - 50 FTE staff? Average of 5-600 per week total 30k per week 1 to 1.5 million pa.
total about 3.5 to 4 million
money in 4k at 279 about 1.2 million
then say extra 2500 * 23 * 22  for non-season ticket = about 1.3 million
that makes 2.5 million ticket revenue
that's a deficit of 2 million without extra revenue, conferences,profit on players, shop sales
sounds about right?

Looks like an exam question Ron  ???

he was a spurs fan originally I believe

I'd be hugely surprised if there were 50 full time staff.(non-playing)

I think our wage bill fulctuates between £2m and £2.5m, from memories of looking through the accounts a year or so ago.  I forget what Pizza I'm ordering these days mind.

You can blame everything on silent migraines though, or use it as an excuse.

aaah so cut the admin staff down to 25 and we're looking at the 750k pa loss
(and you all get a GCSE in footballalology)

From the latest (2008) Swindon Town accounts;

Total Wage Bill = £3.9m
- Playing / Coaching Staff # = 63
- Admin Staff # = 124
- Selling Staff # = 108

Sales (Turnover) Total = £3.78m, made up of:
- Ticket & Match Day Revenue = £2.34m
- Football Association / League = £0.65m
- Commercial Activities = £0.57m
- Other = £0.23m

:)

Ashley??!!! Are you having a laugh?

Spurs fan from Peterborough.

Apparently that isn't true.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1034320/I-hate-Spurs-insists-Toon-owner-Ashley.html

He would say that standing next to her...

I thought that wasn't strictly true, and he was actually a lifelong fan of Stirling Albion

To be fair, I had heard he was a Chelsea fan before all the rumours of him being a Spurs fan.

He just wanted a Premier League club.

Apparantly Robinson has failed his medical. Terrible shame

Oh that is a shame.

Fitts said in the paper that we are unhappy with Watford, is that because they accepted Huddersfield's bid as well?

Sounds a bit like Akinfukwit.

If You read some of their boards they are so deluded in this whole "galactico" thing that right up until today they were still posting about should be going for Cox not Robinson as well as Lambert and Kevin Phillips!!!!!. You can see clarke being under severe pressure if they loose the first few games

Could you imagine the thisis board, and here to an extent if we were in their position though? Reckon it would be far worse, and to be fair they've had it shit for as long as i can remember, must be due a good season with lots of expectation. Still think they'll balls it up though.

I think they were very active last summer as well.

Could be the Newcastle of League 1.

Do Huddersfield have a forum? no link on the links page.

What, full of them selves, believe they are a big club and bang on about how we just dont understand being fans because they feel it so much more than us.

Oh and still shit?

http://downatthemac.proboards.com/index.cgi

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