The stadium that bankrupted a football club

fmttmadmin said:
Boro estimate that a club needs to pay out £21/22m per year on players wage bill to compete in top six.
Every year they analyse all the competitors and so arrive at this figure from stringent research.
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The problem is they reached them dizzy heights last season but this season they are competing to survive
 
fmttmadmin said:
Boro estimate that a club needs to pay out £21/22m per year on players wage bill to compete in top six.
Every year they analyse all the competitors and so arrive at this figure from stringent research.
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So that Boksic poster was right all along?

"Success is dependent on wages and the role of the manager is, at best, overstated"

Or something.
 
theredrooster said:
She has some good football related videos on YouTube does stuntpeg. YouTube advertising must be paying out a canny whack mind to fund her jetting around the globe visiting footy matches.
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Yeah, I'm a fan of Stuntpegg, she supports Bolton Wanderers so she's not a glory YouTube supporter like so many of them are.

Her videos covering football derbies from around the world are great.
 
Rofesleg said:
So that Boksic poster was right all along?

"Success is dependent on wages and the role of the manager is, at best, overstated"

Or something.
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Not saying that. The manager is obviously very important. The wage level is often overlooked.
 
Rofesleg said:
So that Boksic poster was right all along?

"Success is dependent on wages and the role of the manager is, at best, overstated"

Or something.
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I’d say we’ve disproved that theory with the likes of Strachan, Monk, and to a lesser extent Pulis.
 
BlackHallRocker said:
OK I didn't realise the club received compensation with the Derby affair, All the same I don't agree with the pricing these days there is no value for the money he is asking I could understand it in the Ravenelli / Juninho days with high wages and class football but not now
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It's high wages for mediocrity now, and has been for quite some time. There's more freeloaders than enough involved, all wanting their slice of the pie and the fan has to stump up or say no thanks and look elsewhere for their football.
 
parmoboy said:
Came across this video the other day, found it to be a good watch.

Always had a soft spot for Darlo, such a shame that one man could essentially kill a football club.

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Reynolds should've done further time for what he did to that football club. A genuine tragedy befell football on Teesside when Darlo went under, and football in the region has yet to recover from that loss - you only have to look at history repeating itself at Hartlepool to see that.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
It's high wages for mediocrity now, and has been for quite some time. There's more freeloaders than enough involved, all wanting their slice of the pie and the fan has to stump up or say no thanks and look elsewhere for their football.
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Depending on the fixtures and work ill sometimes take my son to a Hartlepool game then the next game we will be at the Riverside . To be honest we get the same level of enjoyment from watching either team all be it ones a bit more of an expensive day out than the other.
 
Ok. I have been watching her videos for quite a while. She really is quite funny.
Being the sexist pig that i am, I feel compelled to report that I find her strangely very fit but in ways that I am not totally sure about. Football shirts really put me off but there is something about her. Maybe it is her dark Italian side.
I am sure this would all come as a nice surprise to the lass, coming from a middle aged old perv on a Boro messageboard, but there you go.
 
Whats Darlo's catchment area - 100,000 people - to get even 20k home fans is impossible.

Boro's catchment area is 450k and I would say the most home fans we have had at a game was 32.5k i.e. 7.2%

Their stadium should never have been more than 10k with say 2k for away fans out of that.
 
Redwurzel said:
Whats Darlo's catchment area - 100,000 people - to get even 20k home fans is impossible.

Boro's catchment area is 450k and I would say the most home fans we have had at a game was 32.5k i.e. 7.2%

Their stadium should never have been more than 10k with say 2k for away fans out of that.
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Reynolds plan was to charge £5 for kids and £10 for adults, regardless of what division they were in, and he was hoping that he'd be able to attract football fans from Boro, Sunderland and Newcastle, who couldn't afford to go and watch their local team on a regular basis.
 
I've become a bit obsessed with this story since watching the video and have just finished watching this documentary on Reynolds.

What a narcissist he was. Comes across as a nasty piece of work.

 
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