Speedway
03-06-2014, 09:36 AM
Back of a fag packet calculations time.
Let's start with a premise that by the end of June, our weekly wage bill for existing contracted players is:
1. Stanton £500
2. Harris £500
3. Away an' chew yer toes £750
4. Robertson £1,000
5. Euan Smith £500
6. Jordon Forster £500
7. Lewis Stevenson £500
8. Callum Booth £250
Total - £4,500 a week or £234,000 per annum.
Let's also say that we keep wages at last year's 49% of turnover figure based on a vastly reduced turnover this time of £5.5m
Not all wages are player wages so let's say that 49% (£2.7m) can be brought down to the £1.9m as quoted on this board.
So £1.9m bucks to blow and £0.234m already blown leaves us with £1.67m (rounded up) to spend.
8 players already on board. Let's factor in some youngsters to take that up to 13 players at £250 a week each = £65,000
Still leaves us with £1.6m bats to play with and let's say we want a squad of 27, requiring 14 new signings.
£1.6m divided by 14 = Contract offers of £2,200 per week per player.
Leann will never offer that will she?
Is this the board's masterplan?
Are we the new Gretna?
How soon is Now?
Let's start with a premise that by the end of June, our weekly wage bill for existing contracted players is:
1. Stanton £500
2. Harris £500
3. Away an' chew yer toes £750
4. Robertson £1,000
5. Euan Smith £500
6. Jordon Forster £500
7. Lewis Stevenson £500
8. Callum Booth £250
Total - £4,500 a week or £234,000 per annum.
Let's also say that we keep wages at last year's 49% of turnover figure based on a vastly reduced turnover this time of £5.5m
Not all wages are player wages so let's say that 49% (£2.7m) can be brought down to the £1.9m as quoted on this board.
So £1.9m bucks to blow and £0.234m already blown leaves us with £1.67m (rounded up) to spend.
8 players already on board. Let's factor in some youngsters to take that up to 13 players at £250 a week each = £65,000
Still leaves us with £1.6m bats to play with and let's say we want a squad of 27, requiring 14 new signings.
£1.6m divided by 14 = Contract offers of £2,200 per week per player.
Leann will never offer that will she?
Is this the board's masterplan?
Are we the new Gretna?
How soon is Now?