pezza70 Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slf Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 i think going part time is a backward step. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cagey Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainstand Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
templeofsaints Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUZZ Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cagey Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
208saint Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazel1884 Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 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!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainstand Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 To be fair, i wouldn't mind working 2 hours a day. getting more than most full timers in any profession would get!!! 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Spoons Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 Got to stay full time. The alternative is to accept we are just a wee team with wee hopes. Please Geoff keep thinking big! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finners Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 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" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maradona Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainstand Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
208saint Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Wallace Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maradona Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 if you were part time the best youth players wouldn't come! What??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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