Haythornthwaite whinge

TKL_Seasider

TKL_Seasider

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It is always useful for people to get an idea of numbers, so Fylde have a wage bill for playing staff of somewhere in the region of £1 million a year with national insurance.

Very little of that is offset by attendances. Match-day crowds and sponsorships pay for non-playing staff, such as the manager, and running the stadium in simple terms. I pretty much fund that £1 million, which is £20,000 a week
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Or he could do us all a favour, shut them down and sell the site to Sadler as a BFC training facility, let Flyde go back to being a community club in Kirkham

www.thetimes.co.uk

Continuing to pay my AFC Fylde players full wage would be obscene

What I am facing, and I am sure what a lot of other owners like myself are facing, is a moral dilemma. It is something I feel very strongly and passionate about. It is always useful for people to get an idea of numbers, so Fylde have a wage bill for playing staff of somewhere in the region of £1
www.thetimes.co.uk www.thetimes.co.uk
 
Cant read all the article as it asks to subscribe. But.........
You are an employer Mr Haythornthwaite, you have a responsibility to your employees.
 
Without being able to read the full article it isn't possible to know what Haythornthwaite has fully said, or if he has offered any support.

It does though seemingly contrast starkly with the likes of Neil Clifford, the CEO of Kurt Geiger has given up his (no doubt considerable) salary until all this is over, has promised to pay all staff full wages as long as they can do so, and urged them to become part of the neighbourly volunteering scheme launched by Age UK during their paid leave. The company has also launched "Small Acts of Kindness" on its social media channels, with store managers donating £100 gift cards to 55 NHS critical care workers in each of their local hospitals, with Clifford personally donating gift cards at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. And offering all NHS staff 50 percent discount for a full year after all this is over.

His words were very different to the likes of Tim Martin, Richard Branson etc:

We’re focusing on survival and showing as much kindness as we can to our staff, to our customers and to the NHS. People feel helpless and we want to do whatever we can do to bring some joy to people for the next three or six or eight weeks that this crisis continues. It is about humanity. In a way, coronavirus has been like pressing ‘control, alt, delete.’ The world is going to be a different place when we emerge from this. It will be a kinder place and we want to be on the right side of that.
 
Very little of that is offset by attendances. Match-day crowds and sponsorships pay for non-playing staff, such as the manager, and running the stadium in simple terms. I pretty much fund that £1 million, which is £20,000 a week.

So now he cherry picks what he puts his 20k a week into not the running of the club just single's out the players wages.
What an arrogant tosser I bet the fans are happy about that so much being in it all together no way would many an owner come out with a statement like that.
 
He makes a serious point about football not being a major priority, but then undermines it with some questionable "facts". I doubt that average wages in L1 are 4k pw, for example. And his point about the bigger clubs and the the FA doing more / showing leadership is fine too.

I don't like the lack of empathy for some of his staff though. He seems to think that those people who earn him money directly are more important than the football players who don't. But nobody forced him to buy the club, did they? I hate to think how much more Mr. Sadler is suffering, but you don't see him bleating, do you?
 
Just close the club down if he’s fed up of bankrolling it. Get back to renting a park pitch and sell the set up to the mighty Pool for us to use as a training centre.
 
Surely he can't continue for long throwing those sums of money into a black hole.
Someone needs to tell him, that based on the performance of his team this season, he is wasting an awful lot of money.
 
Jeez, the govt. will pay 80% of wages upto 2.5k a month.

And no player nor staff should be on more than that at Fylde and if they are, the poor mites can't moan, can they?
 
20togo said:
Seems his statement is all about me me me.
This is an oft quoted phrase on here by a few.
"Some posters noticeable by their absence".

Can anyone defend his words?.
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I picked up on this the other day and was criticised for having a pop at Fylde. Give them time.
 
Bispham_Seasider said:
Without being able to read the full article it isn't possible to know what Haythornthwaite has fully said, or if he has offered any support.

It does though seemingly contrast starkly with the likes of Neil Clifford, the CEO of Kurt Geiger has given up his (no doubt considerable) salary until all this is over, has promised to pay all staff full wages as long as they can do so, and urged them to become part of the neighbourly volunteering scheme launched by Age UK during their paid leave. The company has also launched "Small Acts of Kindness" on its social media channels, with store managers donating £100 gift cards to 55 NHS critical care workers in each of their local hospitals, with Clifford personally donating gift cards at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. And offering all NHS staff 50 percent discount for a full year after all this is over.

His words were very different to the likes of Tim Martin, Richard Branson etc:

We’re focusing on survival and showing as much kindness as we can to our staff, to our customers and to the NHS. People feel helpless and we want to do whatever we can do to bring some joy to people for the next three or six or eight weeks that this crisis continues. It is about humanity. In a way, coronavirus has been like pressing ‘control, alt, delete.’ The world is going to be a different place when we emerge from this. It will be a kinder place and we want to be on the right side of that.
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It's down to all of us to use our consumer power for good and reward those who have done the right thing and bypass those who haven't, once all this settles down.
 
I’m sure the money he spent on his Brexit signs and ‘independence night’ party at Bradleys could have kept someone on a full wage for a week or 2.
 
The good thing is agents and players will remember this (as well as some of the abuse he's had from former players and the way they've been treated) and a bit like we were under the O's, they will become a toxic club no one will go near 👍 (and to think some wanted him to buy Blackpool - he always came across as a pillock on the Radio Lancs phone ins in the 90's).
 
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