Full time or Part time football next season

[pezza70]

If we dont get promoted to the SPL for next season, is there any chance we will go part time next season?

Just wondering how the finance's will cope with another season of divsion 1 football again next season

[slf]

i think going part time is a backward step.

[Cagey]

We are going to be in financial trouble this season after being knocked out of every cup competition in the first round & paying big wages to the likes of Scotland,Savo & James so I think going part time could be highly probable.

[mainstand]

We are going to be in financial trouble this season after being knocked out of every cup competition in the first round & paying big wages to the likes of Scotland,Savo & James so I think going part time could be highly probable.

absolute nonsence! The Club will not have budgeted for any more than the first round of the Cup and as such will not be in financial trouble. As for the big wages do you honestly think we are paying thes guys anything like the sums we paid dodds etc. I think you will find that the overall wage bill for this year will be lower than last.

As for the initial question no we won't be part time, We already have a number of players on full time contracts.

[templeofsaints]

Fully agree - no club worth it's salt (other than the Euro mentality of the OF) budgets for a cup run.

Besides we did make the semi of the Challenge Cup :)

[MUZZ]

Tbh, eventually it's going to get to the stage where we have to ask if it's worth having a full time club.

when it gets to that, we will end up like we were in the mid 80's. on a very slippery slope to the bottom. need to stay full time to have any chance of getting near the SPL again

[Cagey]

We are going to be in financial trouble this season after being knocked out of every cup competition in the first round & paying big wages to the likes of Scotland,Savo & James so I think going part time could be highly probable.

absolute nonsence! The Club will not have budgeted for any more than the first round of the Cup and as such will not be in financial trouble. As for the big wages do you honestly think we are paying thes guys anything like the sums we paid dodds etc. I think you will find that the overall wage bill for this year will be lower than last.

As for the initial question no we won't be part time, We already have a number of players on full time contracts.

I don`t think we are paying these guys as much as Dodds etc but I am pretty sure they are amongst the highest paid in the league & with the crowds we are getting & likely to get worse I do think we will struggle to balance the books this season.

Clyde`s top earner is

[208saint]

If we dont get promoted to the SPL for next season, is there any chance we will go part time next season?

Some of the players look as though they have went part time this season

[Hazel1884]

If we dont get promoted to the SPL for next season, is there any chance we will go part time next season?

Some of the players look as though they have went part time this season

To be fair, i wouldn't mind working 2 hours a day. getting more than most full timers in any profession would get!!! :roll:

[mainstand]

If we dont get promoted to the SPL for next season, is there any chance we will go part time next season?

Some of the players look as though they have went part time this season

To be fair, i wouldn't mind working 2 hours a day. getting more than most full timers in any profession would get!!! :roll:

I was hearing last week one xecond division team who are part time earn between 2 and 4 hundred a week whilst one player was on 6 hundred up until last season.

[Mr Spoons]

Got to stay full time.

The alternative is to accept we are just a wee team with wee hopes.

Please Geoff keep thinking big!

[Finners]

we should stay full time because part-time is a big step backwards.

I have had a conversation with some people at st johnstone and they say if we stay in division 1 for then next 3 seasons then we will have to go to part-time. BUT it is a "last resort"

[Maradona]

Im not sure may sound daft but part - time could be the way forword for use if we were part - time I would give our youth a better chancew of breaking into the first team BUT im still not sure

[mainstand]

Im not sure may sound daft but part - time could be the way forword for use if we were part - time I would give our youth a better chancew of breaking into the first team BUT im still not sure

if you were part time the best youth players wouldn't come!

[Ronaldo]

The most successful Saints team I seen was the one in the late 60's an d early 70's. We qualified for the first version of the SPL then but when we were relegated we went part-time and went into decline for about 15 years during which we had one year in the Premier league (the only one) and consequently got relegated. It took the sale of Muirton Park to ASDA (now owned by Walmart) to give us the necessary financial push to get to the Premier league again plus we gained a new stadium. We went full-time in 1990 and have been around the Premier or hopeful of the Premier since. That's where we want to be and bigger crowds again. Part-time football is pointless.

[208saint]

Im not sure may sound daft but part - time could be the way forword for use if we were part - time I would give our youth a better chancew of breaking into the first team BUT im still not sure

First half dozen words were certainly true :***: :***: :***: :***: :***: :***:

[Jimmy Wallace]

I would rather have a team of part-timers who want to play football than a bunch of overpaid full time diddys. I can't believe we would be doing any worse at the moment with a pt team. Ronaldo makes a good argument for not going part time, but on balance I think Division 1 has far too many full time clubs (not to mention those in Div 2 (Partick and Gretna) which is just ridiculous).

[Maradona]

Im not sure may sound daft but part - time could be the way forword for use if we were part - time I would give our youth a better chancew of breaking into the first team BUT im still not sure

if you were part time the best youth players wouldn't come!

What???