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You make a good point SS but I don’t think Neil is one for turning, he appears very very involved as does his wife and family, Thornbury Surfacing is a leading light in the industry and that alongside Neil’s passion really do add up to a long solvent relationship. Hopefully!!
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Sandell's Sandal wrote:
These sort of discussions appear every now and then and other posters say how we are better run than other clubs in financial terms. However Reginald has highlighted that we are solvent due to our "Sugar Daddy" but surely that means we are also in a risky position.
The nation is facing real economic problems with a potential recession. Maybe our benefactor might find himself in a position where he has to reduce or even withdraw his financial backing.
He has already cut the budget for this season, hence why Mike Cook left. I have no problem with that as you can't just keep spending and spending.
I think the owners of the club have done things the right way and trimming back the playing budget this season and using the academy (ideally) will have us on a strong foot.
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For the record, I was not remotely using the phrase Sugar Daddy to refer to Neil... who is the exact opposite. I used it in a rather derogatory way for those Chairmen for whom the ownership of a football club is essentially a vanity project.. and we can all think of them.. They are usually unrealistic in their ambitions, and short-termists who throw money at a club and when they get bored/disillusioned/impoverished, leave the club in the lurch with ruinous player contracts and a burden of debt. Unlikely to be seen standing on the terraces at a Play-Off game or painting the breeze-block retaining walls blue at either end of the TSS on a hot July morning...