Crowds can go to stadiums in October all being well .........
Re Pembo - I'm sure he's not a sit on his bum man if his performances for Leeds were anything to go by. He was more like Derek Randall the cricketer, all ADHD and overlapping the overlappers. BUT if anyone at the club needs de-furloughing besides financial people and groundsmen it is THE MANAGER. It is a football club after all, that is the entire purpose of the enterprise (apparently).
The potential playing budget is going to be impossible to estimate in any case. We are not going to know how much we can afford. BUT we do know we need at least 20 paid players to function and we know how many we have on the books now. We need to pay our recruits as little as we can get away with, whilst still attracting decent players. Players desperate for a job and keen to progress in football will probably accept a little less ........ but we need to seize that moment. And maybe compensate them for lower pay with an incentive scheme?
The only EFL players I would want would be ex-Academy rejects trying to prove they were Jamie Vardy at Wednesday or Kevin Davies at the Blades. Even if Coddington is good and isn't going to be permanently injured, we have to have a second keeper, that's why one of my suggestions was the 6'8" ex-Liverpool boy who only ever made their U-23 side twice. My trouble is Coddington has never held down a place anywhere and we didn't think he was better than Jalal last season ......... The only way we could keep Jalal would be to assign him a part-time goalkeeping coach role (if we want our keepers ruined in that way!)
The other reason we need Pembo back being paid is, like most clubs, we have to make cuts backstage. How small a staff can we function with? Who do we prune? And what are our aims? Obviously we try to win every week, but realistically do we look to cement our National League place with a view to a future promotion bid, having perhaps invested in a few young and improving players? What sort of club do we want to be? Are we happy to be the stuck-in-the-mud club that finally couldn't really envisage anything higher then EFL One and followed similar recruitment routines year-in-year-out, or do we try to be a bit different, produce players, climb higher if we can, but always remember we are part of a community, so fans can feel a part of it, and be proud of any progress that is made ....... and that we have a future. Like AFC Wakefield we could dream our club could fly, but if the most we were ever to achieve is the equivalent of a bunny hop, that's okay if it's our bunny hop and no one is telling us that is all we could ever have.
Re Pembo - I'm sure he's not a sit on his bum man if his performances for Leeds were anything to go by. He was more like Derek Randall the cricketer, all ADHD and overlapping the overlappers. BUT if anyone at the club needs de-furloughing besides financial people and groundsmen it is THE MANAGER. It is a football club after all, that is the entire purpose of the enterprise (apparently).
The potential playing budget is going to be impossible to estimate in any case. We are not going to know how much we can afford. BUT we do know we need at least 20 paid players to function and we know how many we have on the books now. We need to pay our recruits as little as we can get away with, whilst still attracting decent players. Players desperate for a job and keen to progress in football will probably accept a little less ........ but we need to seize that moment. And maybe compensate them for lower pay with an incentive scheme?
The only EFL players I would want would be ex-Academy rejects trying to prove they were Jamie Vardy at Wednesday or Kevin Davies at the Blades. Even if Coddington is good and isn't going to be permanently injured, we have to have a second keeper, that's why one of my suggestions was the 6'8" ex-Liverpool boy who only ever made their U-23 side twice. My trouble is Coddington has never held down a place anywhere and we didn't think he was better than Jalal last season ......... The only way we could keep Jalal would be to assign him a part-time goalkeeping coach role (if we want our keepers ruined in that way!)
The other reason we need Pembo back being paid is, like most clubs, we have to make cuts backstage. How small a staff can we function with? Who do we prune? And what are our aims? Obviously we try to win every week, but realistically do we look to cement our National League place with a view to a future promotion bid, having perhaps invested in a few young and improving players? What sort of club do we want to be? Are we happy to be the stuck-in-the-mud club that finally couldn't really envisage anything higher then EFL One and followed similar recruitment routines year-in-year-out, or do we try to be a bit different, produce players, climb higher if we can, but always remember we are part of a community, so fans can feel a part of it, and be proud of any progress that is made ....... and that we have a future. Like AFC Wakefield we could dream our club could fly, but if the most we were ever to achieve is the equivalent of a bunny hop, that's okay if it's our bunny hop and no one is telling us that is all we could ever have.