Interesting article from the BBC regarding Bristol Rovers and League Two wage demands

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£1,500 per week is the going rate then ?

That is not a bad wage for League Two, but how many clubs in the division are actually paying that sum. Surely Argyle will not pay that much or do they.

Fag packet sums time.

20 players @ £1500/wk = £30,000/wk = approx £1.5m/yr

Argyle's turnover is about £5m. SMCP allows 55% of turnover to be spent on players.

55% of £5m = £2.75m

That £1500/wk doesn't look like it is out of the ball park.

So that's what passes for "an interesting article" in Swilly is it?

Average wages in L2 are around £50k but obviously the bigger clubs, of which the Gas are one, will be at the higher end of a range. I doubt you Gargs pay that well, Harry Potter likes his pound of flesh, but you have the double whammy of being perceived as being one of the bigger clubs and being located in the absolute back of beyond, that explains why you struggle to attract decent players.

Yet we still managed to finish in the play off positions. Riddle me that.

What was it again, 6-1 over the two games?

If we can't attract any decent players, what does that make City's players?

X Isle wrote:

What was it again, 6-1 over the two games?

If we can't attract any decent players, what does that make City's players?

If we were as big as Exeter we'd have a quality, highly-paid player like Clinton Morrison up front instead of fat, lazy, useless, cheap-ass Reuben.

Lord Tisdale wrote:

So that's what passes for "an interesting article" in Swilly is it?

Average wages in L2 are around £50k but obviously the bigger clubs, of which the Gas are one, will  be at the higher end of a range. I doubt you Gargs pay that well, Harry Potter likes his pound of flesh, but you have the double whammy of being perceived as being one of the bigger clubs and being located in the absolute back of beyond, that explains why you struggle to attract decent players.

Looks like Tizzy may have uncovered another gem-Cheltenham fans wax lyrical about your recent signing;

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ejh wrote:

X Isle wrote:

What was it again, 6-1 over the two games?

If we can't attract any decent players, what does that make City's players?

If we were as big as Exeter we'd have a quality, highly-paid player like Clinton Morrison up front instead of fat, lazy, useless, cheap-ass Reuben.

Yes you did very well to beat us, make the play offs, then get butt fecked on national television.

I think we have a squad which can challenge for the play offs, let's face it, if your shower of shit can get there anyone has a shot.

Lord Tisdale wrote:

ejh wrote:

X Isle wrote:

What was it again, 6-1 over the two games?

If we can't attract any decent players, what does that make City's players?

If we were as big as Exeter we'd have a quality, highly-paid player like Clinton Morrison up front instead of fat, lazy, useless, cheap-ass Reuben.

Yes you did very well to beat us, make the play offs, then get butt fecked on national television.

I think we have a squad which can challenge for the play offs, let's face it, if your shower of shit can get there anyone has a shot.

If the playoffs had ended at 0-3 you'd have a point. But we scored two and dominated the second half to make the return journey an interesting one.

There, despite two sloppy goals again, we finished strongly. After Brunt got the first, it was only a top class save from their rookie keeper to deny Ansah that saved them from a ten minute bombardment for a goal.

Embarrassing defending for sure, but far from 'butt fecked'. One of the Championship sides (Brentford) lost 5-1 in one single game - that's one way to undo 46 games of hard work!

As for our shite squad: Alessandra (now League One), O'Connor (now League One). Our other best players (Reid, Hartley, McHugh) retained. Loans gone back up the pyramid. New signings from the Scottish Prem. And yet we are a poorer bunch than your non league journeymen and kids? Don't make me laugh!!

Lord Tisdale wrote:

ejh wrote:

X Isle wrote:

What was it again, 6-1 over the two games?

If we can't attract any decent players, what does that make City's players?

If we were as big as Exeter we'd have a quality, highly-paid player like Clinton Morrison up front instead of fat, lazy, useless, cheap-ass Reuben.

Yes you did very well to beat us, make the play offs, then get butt fecked on national television.

I think we have a squad which can challenge for the play offs, let's face it, if your shower of shit can get there anyone has a shot.

But you didn't last season. Why is that?

Lord Tisdale wrote:

So that's what passes for "an interesting article" in Swilly is it?

Average wages in L2 are around £50k but obviously the bigger clubs, of which the Gas are one, will  be at the higher end of a range. I doubt you Gargs pay that well, Harry Potter likes his pound of flesh, but you have the double whammy of being perceived as being one of the bigger clubs and being located in the absolute back of beyond, that explains why you struggle to attract decent players.

I do not live in Swilly, Stoke Village is where I am.

Fair play to Bristol Rovers for getting back into the Football League at the first attempt (a rare thing), I really thought they would be down in the dumps for a couple of years or more. Now they are back, they are being tipped to be up in the higher reaches of L2.

As usual, Pompey and Luton are tipped to go up and speaking of Luton, they have had a busy pre-season with an entire team being signed. Good for them, let us hope they f... it up again like they did last season.

Let's get realistic here. Argyle, Rovers, Luton and Pompey are always going to be amongst the pre-season favourites for promotion out of this division. There's hardly anybody else that can hold a candle to any of the four in terms of potential and tradition in the division and the bookies shape their odds on such things if other obvious factors such as financial meltdown or spectacular recruitment don't apply. If any of the 4 fail to get promoted then they only have themselves to blame but all 4 of them will be promoted, maybe not this year but eventually, as sure as eggs is eggs.

VillageGreen wrote:

Lord Tisdale wrote:

So that's what passes for "an interesting article" in Swilly is it?

Average wages in L2 are around £50k but obviously the bigger clubs, of which the Gas are one, will  be at the higher end of a range. I doubt you Gargs pay that well, Harry Potter likes his pound of flesh, but you have the double whammy of being perceived as being one of the bigger clubs and being located in the absolute back of beyond, that explains why you struggle to attract decent players.

I do not live in Swilly, Stoke Village is where I am.

Fair play to Bristol Rovers for getting back into the Football League at the first attempt (a rare thing), I really thought they would be down in the dumps for a couple of years or more. Now they are back, they are being tipped to be up in the higher reaches of L2.

As usual, Pompey and Luton are tipped to go up and speaking of Luton, they have had a busy pre-season with an entire team being signed. Good for them, let us hope they f... it up again like they did last season.

Rovers lose their court case;


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Shame, hope they can win the appeal, always good to see a club with a bit of ambition trying to build a 21000 seater stadium even though their gates haven't averaged 20k for decades.