Harry Pickering

[K-Hod]

They’re far more interested in trimming the wage budget so they look good to Venky’s, than a higher league position.

The enemy of Rovers, those tossers.

[KentExile]

24 minutes ago, DutchRover said:

Is our new arbitrary wage cap League 1 or League 2 level do we think? Might give an indicator where Suhail wants us to reach...

If it is the £10K/week mark, then its well above top end of League 1 level, which isn't much more than half of that (not including teams like Birmingham last season etc), however it is on the same sort of level as Huddersfield, Rotherham and Plymouth when they were last in the Championship - note they all went down with that level of wage budget

No doubt if and when relegation occurs, they will again cut their cloth "accordingly"

Edited 5 hours ago by KentExile

[Rogerb]

19 minutes ago, KentExile said:

If it is the £10K/week mark, then its well above top end of League 1 level, which isn't much more than half of that (not including teams like Birmingham last season etc), however it is on the same sort of level as Huddersfield, Rotherham and Plymouth when they were last in the Championship - note they all went down with that level of wage budget

No doubt if and when relegation occurs, they will again cut their cloth "accordingly"

Wasn't £10K/per week the ceiling when we were under embargo in Gary Bowyer's time around ten years ago. What you could get for that ten years ago vastly exceeds what you can get now.

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, KentExile said:

No doubt if and when relegation occurs, they will again cut their cloth "accordingly"

Would have to go some to compensate for the loss of the Championship TV deal, plus substantial ticket money, plus loss of sponsorship etc.

[Rogerb]

46 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Well if that's a strategy keeping him out of the team, it's inordinately stupid even by our standards. Going to be a lot harder to sell someone who is on a good wage if they can't make it into our very average team during a defensive crisis.

Who do we think is going to pick up these high wages for us? We might shift him this way but it will be for a minimal fee and with us covering a chunk of his wages.

Pure speculation on my part but he is approaching 150 appearances for the club perhaps there is an element of avoiding paying an appearance bonus at play.

[bluebruce]

54 minutes ago, Rogerb said:

Pure speculation on my part but he is approaching 150 appearances for the club perhaps there is an element of avoiding paying an appearance bonus at play.

Maybe, it would be another strange one though as usually a new contract would reset appearances essentially...ie it would be when you make 150 appearances after signing the contract.

[47er]

Whatever the reason its poor do. Pickering should have played last  Saturday and is clearly being frozen out.

Probably because we can get a decent fee with which we can buy 2 or 3 players with it from Luxemburg and St Helena.

[Exiled_Rover]

2 hours ago, Rogerb said:

Pure speculation on my part but he is approaching 150 appearances for the club perhaps there is an element of avoiding paying an appearance bonus at play.

He's incredibly slow and probably about 5'8" - so he doesn't have a position in our new formation. 

[47er]

1 hour ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He's incredibly slow and probably about 5'8" - so he doesn't have a position in our new formation. 

That new formation didn't do much on Saturday. Is he better than any of them is the question.

[Ghost7]

Never rated him.

[47er]

13 minutes ago, Ghost7 said:

Never rated him.

Btr are there players who played on Saturday who you'd rate worse?