Premiership kiss of Death

[Yorkshire Canary 118]

Unless your club is one of the big 3 or 4 the cost of players and staying in the premiership is a bit like what has just happened to the banks a timebomb waiting to go off. Look at the bottom of the championship now bottom 3 all premiership clubs in the past 4 years plus others like Palace, Watford and Barnsley  not too healthy either. Remember others too like Bradford, Swindon and Oldham. The only way for smaller clubs to play the premiership game is to go up with a championship squad keep a championship wage structure and come down with no debt loads of cash and lucrative parachute payments

[lucky green trainers 0]

[quote user="Yorkshire Canary"]Unless your club is one of the big 3 or 4 the cost of players and staying in the premiership is a bit like what has just happened to the banks a timebomb waiting to go off. Look at the bottom of the championship now bottom 3 all premiership clubs in the past 4 years plus others like Palace, Watford and Barnsley  not too healthy either. Remember others too like Bradford, Swindon and Oldham. The only way for smaller clubs to play the premiership game is to go up with a championship squad keep a championship wage structure and come down with no debt loads of cash and lucrative parachute payments[/quote]we went up with mainly a championship squad - and largely loaned some quality in while in the prem - but went we got relegated - we continued paying PREM wages to these average champs players - while worthy jettisoned the quality loannes in!!!so yeah - we had the chute money - but burned it on paying champs players prem wages...the baord paying on the recommendation of worthy...ha ha///you couldn''t make it up...[:''(]

[The Fish Seller 0]

[quote user="Yorkshire Canary"] The only way for smaller clubs to play the premiership game is to go up with a championship squad keep a championship wage structure and come down with no debt loads of cash and lucrative parachute payments[/quote]go up with a championship squadCheck. keep a championship wage structureCheck. come down with loads of cash.Check.lucrative parachute paymentsCheck.come down with no debt.And this is where it all went horribly wrong.We made a huge profit and still managed to get deeper and deeper into debt.

[Mr.Carrow 376]

[quote user="lucky green trainers"][quote user="Yorkshire Canary"]Unless your club is one of the big 3 or 4 the cost of players and staying in the premiership is a bit like what has just happened to the banks a timebomb waiting to go off. Look at the bottom of the championship now bottom 3 all premiership clubs in the past 4 years plus others like Palace, Watford and Barnsley  not too healthy either. Remember others too like Bradford, Swindon and Oldham. The only way for smaller clubs to play the premiership game is to go up with a championship squad keep a championship wage structure and come down with no debt loads of cash and lucrative parachute payments[/quote]

we went up with mainly a championship squad - and largely loaned some quality in while in the prem - but went we got relegated - we continued paying PREM wages to these average champs players - while worthy jettisoned the quality loannes in!!!

so yeah - we had the chute money - but burned it on paying champs players prem wages...the baord paying on the recommendation of worthy...ha ha///you couldn''t make it up...[:''(]
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Player wages in the season after relegation were £3m higher than when we were promoted whilst income was nearly double thanks to parachute payments and bigger gates.  And that`s not including the multi-million pound profit on players in that season (money received for players less money spent).  The "all the parachute/transfer income was blown on ridiculous player wages" argument is a baseless myth.

[lucky green trainers 0]

[quote user="Mr.Carrow"]

[quote user="lucky green trainers"][quote user="Yorkshire Canary"]Unless your club is one of the big 3 or 4 the cost of players and staying in the premiership is a bit like what has just happened to the banks a timebomb waiting to go off. Look at the bottom of the championship now bottom 3 all premiership clubs in the past 4 years plus others like Palace, Watford and Barnsley  not too healthy either. Remember others too like Bradford, Swindon and Oldham. The only way for smaller clubs to play the premiership game is to go up with a championship squad keep a championship wage structure and come down with no debt loads of cash and lucrative parachute payments[/quote]we went up with mainly a championship squad - and largely loaned some quality in while in the prem - but went we got relegated - we continued paying PREM wages to these average champs players - while worthy jettisoned the quality loannes in!!!so yeah - we had the chute money - but burned it on paying champs players prem wages...the baord paying on the recommendation of worthy...ha ha///you couldn''t make it up...[:''(][/quote]

Player wages in the season after relegation were £3m higher than when we were promoted whilst income was nearly double thanks to parachute payments and bigger gates.  And that`s not including the multi-million pound profit on players in that season (money received for players less money spent).  The "all the parachute/transfer income was blown on ridiculous player wages" argument is a baseless myth.

[/quote]thanks mr.c - i seem to remember we splashed out on the likes of thorne and jarrett - and on the jouneymen who tried in vain to ride to worthy''s rescue in the autumn - as he realised his squad was too thin - and playing simon charlton in centre mid wasn''t working out,,,opps...ouch!!!but to pay the likes of flemming and drury over the odds...crazy///

[canaryfan68 0]

In my opinion its not down to the premiership as you only have to look at WBA as they seem to be run in a sensible way. Where are problem is at the top of the club and the running of it it, for some time we have been looking at Charlton as a role model until they started to self destruct. Why does the board have no idea how to run this club apart from into the ground!

For too long now we have had the same amount of debt when we should have been chipping away with it,unless we don''t want to get rid of it because it acts as a way of keeping potential suitors away from buying the current regime out!