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No that's one thing Staveley has in abundance bottle

It was always going to happen. If you want success, which the owners do, then constant improvement is the way, especially as there are less constraints than the men's game

What a load of shite, there is a reason a release clause is put into a contract.

I noticed on the NUFTV highlights on YouTube that a couple of the players were crying at the end of the game. Was wondering if they had been told it was their last match.

A team which has finished 16th is no way going to get those figures quoted by Dokko. I presume he hasn't watched Sunderland recently and is being bought in by the usual mackem shite. Burnley offered £13 million for Clarke, which is about right for a 23 year old who hasn't played a minute of top flight football. As for the other fees quoted, not one is worth anywhere near 10 million.

These could be in serious trouble next year

Even more empty seats than usual cue official attendance of over 40,000

It's the reason I'm still convinced it will be a new stadium, together with the fact that there will be lost revenue and a lot of season ticket holders affected, whilst work goes ahead

It's been happening for years throughout the entire season

The Molly Malone song is an Irish one originating from Dublin

It's a song about folk in the day going from Newcastle to attend a place in Gateshead. The fuckers used to sing Geordies in the 80s also

Going to be interesting the next five year's I would imagine

No doubt they are counting tickets giving to school, universities and businesses, as no way 5,000 plus people are paying for tickets and not attending each game. Their accounts on ticket revenue back this up also.

Yes because the actual attendance will be given to the emergency services. Every club does it this way, but they don't exaggerate their figures by 5,000 plus

That is true mind just fines.

No what I'm saying is that they are stating crowds of 40,000 based on tickets sold, which their fans are defending. When there is at least 5,000 plus fans below (some midweek games 10,000 or more) the actual attendance of people in the ground. Read my original post, I said you can accept a few hundred even a max of 1,000 people not attending for varying reasons, but no way 5,000 plus. All you have to do is look at their accounts to see this is bullshit.

Nearly all of the euro teams are totally fucked financially.

So 5,000 plus fans are fucking it off for most of their games? and it has been since day one also. It has been every season also even when they were a premier league team. No sorry your totally wide of the mark in what you're saying.

UEFA rules I imagine will fall in line. It's all down to increased sponsorship/commercial deals anyway. There is fundamentally a requirement to increase revenue.

It does until we reach the 5 x lowest premier league club level though. We're currently at 250 million. If it's running alongside the 85 or 70% rule, then it does still impact the spending. This allows us to close the gap quicker, whilst the 'big 5' can't increase their levels of spending.

Currently, we still were able to use the likes of Sela though. I'm pretty sure there will be increased sponsorship deals this summer.

It does help us, in that we can certainly increase revenue to enable increased spending. Roll on the summer new sponsorship/commercial deals.

It's not just end of season though it's all their home crowds (apart from Boxing Day one). As for the 80s, I was there every game and it was widespread throughout football and not just one club, as football was in a massive decline at that point.

Exactly right

They keep going on about tickets sold to try and defend their bullshit attendances. I'm sorry, but there is no way that 5,000 plus fans (in some mid week games there is nowhere even near 30,000 are there) do not attend after forking out money for a ticket. Maybe a few hundred, at max a 1,000 will not turn up due to varying reasons. It's plainly obvious that they are counting tickets which are given away to schools, universities or businesses within that total. 5,000 plus not turning up after paying cash to attend my arse. By the way anything over 25,000 isn't a bad crowd in the championship, but for the majority to try and defend utter bollocks is laughable.