Another owner's statement.

voyeur said:
I think perhaps we are one of the clubs caught up in a sort of 'corridor of uncertainty? Not enough fans attending to finance a strong push in th Championship, no big money owners/investors attracted to us like Bournemouth or Wrexham. But enough fans and investment to get into the Championship and flirt with the bigger richer clubs. Working to find and develop players and create a togetherness that allows us to mix it with them, some of the time at least. It may just be a matter of time before Derby, Bolton, Pompey return to tier 2. As they recover from financial mismanagement.

All of the Prem clubs bar Luton ( they have hit the jackpot though with no Oyston theft likely) and a lot of the Championship clubs now have a much higher level of finance than us. Most have appreciably bigger fanbases too. 14 cubs are averaging over 20000 this season, and only one is below 15000. Could we average over 15000 in the Championship? Maybe, at a push. We'v been close in the last decade, thanks to Holloway and cheap season tickets. We can do bottom half of that division if we get our shit together, but we can also drop out if we don't. We are not that different fron PKE or Rovers, really, of course. A bridgeable gap.

Perhaps SS will build the club into a more attractive asset. Finished ground, good training facilities, bigger fan base. In the meantime, we are in that corridor, with the money and the noise, Watford and Stoke on one side, and the financial prudence, Exeter and Lincoln and peace and quiet on the other. I guess the likes of Barnsley, Rotherham, Charlton, Posh and Wigan are in the corridor with us.
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Good post
 
I dont see anything wrong with Sheff owners request. Just so long as he vows to return it prior to him taking any wages out in the future.
 
The problems at SWFC have been quite a long while in the making. The current owner has made them significantly less financially secure than they were when he arrived, and reading between the lines it looks as though his family may have (eventually) decided to rein him in. Which is sensible for them, but leaves the club in a pickle.

It is almost impossible (in my view) for the EFL to respond effectively to a set of issues like these with the powers they currently have, which tend to be reactive in nature and quite closed by design. They were snookered the moment they allowed him to pass an O&DT.

If Chansiri makes good on his threat to pull the financial plug, then sanctions will surely follow. Which mean this season will be a write off (it probably already is) and they might find themselves badly placed for a tough season in L1 next year. Following where Reading have already led, possibly.

For a club with their tradition and huge support (which it is), it is a crying shame. I feel for their Supporters Trust in trying to lead a fan base that deserves so much more.
 
He's either deluded or extremely disengenuous. Let's say they get 24-25k in the home end on a match day. What percentage of those are hardcore/season ticket holders, and are also adults with sufficient income to just gift away a week's family food shopping for nothing in return other than a warm feeling of having helped a millionaire pay his company tax bill.

Nowhere near 20k is the obvious answer.
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
The more I see of the way our own fans are behaving recently (Social Media stuff mostly) the more I can sympathise with owners who essentially decide to pull the plug on funding. It is a tough one though, because you are allowing what is likely a very small percentage of fans to spoil it for the majority and some owners might be looking for an excuse to shirk their responsibility.

On balance I would probably fall on the side that any owner ought to know what they are getting themselves into and have a thick enough skin to understand that they will get some flak if things aren't going well. That said, I also think we need to do something to tackle the whole Social Media free for all (across the board) and start making people far more accountable for their actions.
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Your 2nd paragraph is the important one. Being an owner of a football club is meat and drink to the hard of thinking. Either you understand that and ignore the gutter filth or you drown in it. I'm confident that Simon Sadler has a thick enough skin to survive the pond life.
 
basilrobbie3 said:
It is almost impossible (in my view) for the EFL to respond effectively to a set of issues like these with the powers they currently have, which tend to be reactive in nature and quite closed by design. They were snookered the moment they allowed him to pass an O&DT.
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They really need to look into a system whereby clubs are allowed to overspend, so long as that money is, pound for pound, is added to an escrow account as well. That way, if an owner decides to cut his losses, hide behind UK Ltd company, go into administration and leave the community to pick up the pieces, the money is released from escrow to clear the debts and put the club back to square one.

Investment into a business and sector is welcomed in nearly every industry apart from football, where the the authorities see asset strippers like the Glazers and Oystons as good, compliant owners but owners like Man City’s and others who invest in the infrastructure and community, as well as player are seen as problematic.

It obviously needs the man power to regulate, but so does the current system which is not deterring impulsive owners gambling with a clubs future, like Chansiri and Mel Morris.
 
PETER SPRUCE 1 said:
BFCX3 i always think anyone who calls people by their surname is showing disrespect ,his name is Simon Sadler ,why not call him that, i worked for a guy who owned a quite big timber merchants ,his name was Roger , but some employees called him Rog, i maybe old school but think people should show respect a little more ,after all the guy has done for this club in his short time tenure, the least we all should do is call him by his full name.
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A tad OTT Peter this is a fans message board he isn’t talking directly to Mr Sadler and in the main is very supportive of him.
 
Hazi said:
Lost or milked be the question
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£25m wage bill (none of that to the owner) on £11m turnover for 2021, TBF they've brought that down massively for 2022, but even then £12.5m out of £16m turnover isn't going to leave much left for anything else.
 
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