wilsdenrover

Not with a bang but a whimper.

A Pyrrhic one?

Thankfully for your neighbours it’s more likely Jackson has misused the term ‘board’ 😁

I appreciate that, I was just pointing out that ‘director’ can mean different things to different people/organisations.

Fingers crossed by the final whistle you’ll know the answer.

From a regulatory point of few it says to ask ‘relevant questions’. I think asking if the captain is available for selection (and if not, why) would be relevant but ‘digging any deeper’ might not be. But, as you say, VI (or the press officer if we have one of those) could have covered this without the club’s preemption.

I don’t think he qualifies now but not because he played last week. Having taken another look at the regs I’m even more certain of that: His current club is now in a lower band - the fact his last match (if he hadn’t played) would’ve been in a higher band doesn’t change the one his club are now in. I could be wrong - where I’m definitely right is with thinking things would be far simpler if the regulations made absolutely clear when the change of league quality takes place (re relegation/promotion). In terms of the exceptions panel, whether they’d agree that relegation counts as an ‘exceptional circumstance’ is anyone’s guess.

Rovers’ directors ‘as seen by’ the EFL: https://www.efl.com/governance/owners-and-directors-test-public-register-of-directors/

Our overall salary costs in 23/24 were 31.69% below the Championship average. If we use the median instead of the mean (to strip out the parachute clubs etc) our costs were 15.61% below the average. Clearly some of the difference could be number of employees/other employees but a large part of this will be attributable to the players’ wages.

Earlier I reckon.

‘That’s from before my time at the club but I’ll look into it’

I didn’t think he would but I’m impressed that he has.

He should ask those questions anyway. If his story becomes the club not answering his questions then so be it.

Do we think they’ve started negotiating with the players who are out of contract in ‘27 yet?

Lowe is the owner’s eyes and ears, Pasha is their arsehole?

As is always the case, how much you spend is only part of the equation. Ensuring the signings integrate into (and improve) the team is at least as important.

Aretha Franklin - Chain Of Fools

Just to come back to this (I’ve a bee in my bonnet!) In my opinion, the head coach’s bonuses (and KPIs) should be linked only to results on the pitch. Was any explanation offered as to why the club believes otherwise?

Not that I’d ever work for them, but I’d want every promise they made me to be contractual.

Thank you - so can we add him to the list of people where results aren’t the most important thing to them?

‘Compete with Ryan Hedges’ How about we sign someone clearly better than Hedges? It wouldn’t take much… Also, how does VI’s quote in anyway suggest we’re closer??

He hasn’t been told what to think yet.

Would that still not be contractual though even if it’s conditional? Of course hitting a condition on playing minutes is pretty easy when you’re the chap who picks the team…

Smacks of a conflict of interest to me (for VI).