This summer ... hopefully! If we're paying all these ex players just a quarter of what they were on, then taking Kells as a sample we're shelling out somewhere in the region of £200-300K A WEEK (8 ex players and 3 ex managers I make it from the last round up) thats a million pound player per month! Your right of course, it would be an ever decreasing circle. But if we keep the players signed (Not on loan) we could start next season with something like (I've signed Casper for this BTW!!!!)
Casper Richardson Lewis Heath Marques Westlake Derry (Or probably Douglas if rumour city is true about The Mole!) Nicholls Beckford Blake Cresswell Subs: Howson Johnson Rose ? ? This would surely be enough in League 1?!?!? > The only problem with all this Tim, is that it is pre-supposing that we > retain the current bunch of self abusers - sorry, players - that we have > now. Most of them will not fancy the drop and the lower league (and > presumably lower wages) if they could negotiate themselves a better > paying contract at, say, one of the Championship survivors, they would > do so in a heartbeat of course. > > What are we left with then? The league one version of journeymen? When > is some money going to be spent on players? > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Leslie > Sent: 21 February 2007 13:32 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LU] QPR 60 second report from Row Dubya > >> During the match I did ask the obvious question: just what do the > players >> do >> the rest of the week because it doesn't show on the pitch. And I know > that >> we have had injuries but there was no team spirit on show and v. > little >> commitment until the last few minutes. Caspar and Howson were the >> exception >> to the rule here, there were others who just got on with their job and >> there >> were others who had just turned up for the appearance money. >> > > This is what I was on about in the earlier post, r.e. The possible (Not > that we want to find out!) merits of going down. i.e. Clear the crap. > The > general standard to me appears to be very good lower Champ/Upper League > 1 > players. With the signs of one or two decent players sprinkled in. Now > ... > Go down, play effectively the basis of the same squad but start to build > the new team from there, with people like Casper and Howson. Ultimately > resulting in a team that would be (and with the right investment it > SURELY > would be) too good for League 1. We then come back up with a squad that > we > can improve on, but is effectively FAR better than the one we've got now > ... I dunno, it just seems to be fire ighting these days and no real > forward planning due to the state we're in. > > > _______________________________________________ > the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list > administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions > of contributors. > Leedslist mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > maybe if I can work out a reason I can get home > _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist maybe if I can work out a reason I can get home
