So realistically, are you happy that none of the fees received from Wharton (initial sale or sell on received) goes to increasing the transfer budget?

The Masher Paradox

In that case they should appoint John Eustace

But I thought people would only lose their jobs if venkys left?

I never ever get the whole NDA thing. You literally sign an NDA before joining any company?

David Essex - Silver Dream Machine

No doubt she'll have to sign the usual ( keep your gob shut on this shit show ) NDA and get a better pay off with the stuff she probably knows 😉

+ notice pay (for Lesley the statutory minimum for this would be 12 weeks). I imagine she’d rather be keeping her job though.

Very true and capped , unless you can agree an enhanced package If you were made redundant on or after 6 April 2025, your weekly pay is capped at £719 and the maximum statutory redundancy pay you can get is £21,570. If you were made redundant before 6 April 2025, these amounts will be lower.

The week's salary isn't your actual weekly pay either...it's capped..

My father in law who has been going since the late 1950s hasn’t renewed, for him it was the TV factor. He has Sky and he has a fair drive to games, so the fact he could see two thirds of our home games on TV made it a much easier decision.

I would Imagine Rovers will get the new home kits within the next 2 weeks. I would imagine they will be on sale end of June/start of July

The 2027 thing is a quite unbelievable stat… well, it would be anywhere else. ‘A slow build’, indeed.

well in all fairness, half the squad is out of contract next summer, so everybody who is left will all be needed in the first team squad, leaving a loan manager as quite superfluous And the rest of the squad (apart from O'Riordan & Atcheson) are out of contract the summer after, which presumably means they can sack everyone else at that point, to save a few more quid

We currently have no first team players contracted past 2027, so no surprise there.

Yes - a real downside of the ever changing kick off times is for many this messes up transport. Is it worth (on these forums somewhere?) seeing if there someone near you who would carshare to matches? I live in Swindon and I did that years ago on here and someone messaged me and I was able to get to a few more games.

So many football clubs have delays waiting for their new kits - you'd think the suppliers would produce some in advance, rather than try to make them all over the summer?!

I won't be going to most games this season, because of altered kick-off times that i cannot make due to public transport.

As the WSL are increasing (perhaps understandably) the requirements, the the costs will have jumped - which against our very poor attendance figures is the nub of problem we presume? Yes, poor comms from the club, they should have shared the position / challenge. Now, the 'Supporters Coalition' has called for action, presumably many don't want to see the team disappear. So perhaps the middle ground would be if there is a big jump in the costs, then the club could match whatever extra 'raise' through extra season tickets etc. People understandably want to rally around, so let them.

For next season only - some proper long term thinking going on there.

It's only 1.5 weeks pay for any years worked over the age of 40, 1 weeks pay for anything before that. No idea how old Leslie is or the annual salary for that position so like you say guesswork with circumstances. Hopefully they have looked after her with an enhanced package but probably unlikely under this regime.

I’m not, no, as it makes no material difference to the team, kind of the point of selling players.

When Glen said he'd had confirmation long serving staff had been made redundant, she was the first to come to mind.

You have to wonder what benefit this has. I've seen her on countless Instagram posts from past and present players and it seems like she is loved by everyone. Another tone deaf decision by the club. Another question for Waggott at the next forum "your wage has increased by almost 100%, whilst long serving staff are made redundant, explain that one."

Reading into it the ‘disappointing news’ makes it sound like it wasn’t her choice either