hobgoblin wrote:

To me this was not unexpected, just the timing a bit strange as I thought it would happen during the closed season. Cook must have been an expensive package with all his hangers on, I have said this previously on this forum. After reading a post on Facebook by the Dover Chairman I did a few sums prior to yesterday's match and worked out that we earn about £100,000 a season from gate recites and according to the Dover chairman it costs between 4 and 5 hundred to run a team in this league, so the other three hundred must be coming from the pockets of the chairman and board which aren't bottomless. As a club to survive in this league we must budget carefully and have realistic expectations, yes we would all like to get in the playoff's but promotion would kill this club as the travel costs and lack of support would surely be too much. I expect Cook is more ambitious and would love to work at a higher level so had different expectations than the Board. Good luck Mike in the future, you did a good job with what you had to work with. My money is on Horgan to get the job . By the way stone wall penalty was stood no more than 15 ft away and he was pulled down. Ref had a shocker their 18 was holding and bullying Mo all the time and nothing was done.

Not far off, the club has said that it costs 7k a week to run (dependant on playing budget)
So over a 40 week season around 300-400k.
But the Chairman is not putting in that sort money. The bar must make up large portion of that shortfall.
We need bigger gates to progress, hence my previous comment on marketing, promoting the club etc..
Despite  what some blue tinted brigade might say we need to improve in this area.
Also ask for help…ball boys…do we have any?

Last edited by Wellard (10/4/2022 8:45 PM)

I agree with a previous poster - if we by some miracle got promoted, it would kill us.  If players go with Cook ultimately (perhaps he fancies the Bath job, surely it’s only a matter of time before a vacancy comes up there 😁) then good luck to them.  Whoever gets the job (and I’m sure there’ll already have been some applicants even at this early stage), they’ll have their own contacts and will come into the job knowing exactly what’s on offer.  A manager and a trusted assistant is all we need, not a bench full of hangers on.  

All the best to Mike, obviously has his reasons but, in my opinion it’s good that this has been cleared up now rather than become a messier situation closer to next season.

Of course a lot of these players are his players, but if we can get a manager in soon to work with them, cast their eye over them and convince them to be a part of a new project, it would be beneficial.

They seem a tight-knit group and it seems a good dressing room, so they might be keen to hang around without Cook.

Although we’re in a play-off fight, we could also use these matches as an early pre-season to build a core for 2022/23.

HisLordship wrote:

Dispatches from a Covid sick-bed ( No,he  did not attend the game on Saturday).
As to trying to arrest the hemmhoraging of support, His Lordship can only agree fully with young Simon "The Voice" in his plea for those with a marketing idea or a bit of energy - or both - to move off their keyboards and offer up those same energies  in active support.  His Lordship and The Bearded |Wonder are more than happy to. Perhaps an informal, end-of-season or close season get-together where anyone with something to contribute, however small, meets up with Simon.  We introduce ourselves, hear from Simon what the Club does currently, what is successful, what has failed.. and then offer up our own suggestions so as to arrive, hopefully,  at  a modest and realistic "Fans' Plan"  ( correct apostrophe BTW for anyonone marking this.. naming no names)  that can be translated into simple practical action. At the very least, we'd come away from it with a much better understanding of the Club's strategy and tactics.... which would, in turn, better inform  our discussions/interactions on the Forum.

I hate seeing the widening gaps in between spectators around the ground. An informal meeting with Simon is an excellent idea by his Lordship. Hopefully we can make this happen before everyone disappears over summer, otherwise come the new season we'll be no further forward.

Not sure what to make of all of this.
What we have to remember is that we are playing at the highest level of non-league football.  I say that as the level above is basically an extension of the football league. Even at NLS level we are playing against several versions of full-time clubs so just being competitive is an achievement. 
Doubt he will end up at Bath as despite league position their manager is still well regarded as gates are high and he has made a fair amount of money for them  through player transfers.