ME in slight / pop at club again....surely not !

It would surprise me if we keep our better players. If the reports are accurate and the players have been asked to take a 10% pay cut , it's likely that both agents and families will be pressing for a move. Many of the squad have already been through troubled times and loyalty to the club must be stretched. For the new signings it must be a kick in the teeth.
It will be a massive task for FC to keep team spirit high.
Any club with room under the cap can cherry pick
One question I have is whether the cut is a straight 10% or whether there is scope for an "incentive"-- that is if the income streams improve during the season ,players salaries have first call.
Incidentally what dent will the 10% make? I know it depends on how near the salary cap the club are but I don 't think that amount has been (or is likely to be ) published.
Finally is it proposed to cut ALL wages including coaches and admin staff?

Seem to remember salary bill (including off field staff) last year was quoted somewhere between 160k-200k per month. Cant imagine its much different this year. So a 10% cut would equate to between 192k and 240k. Puts a decent dent in 400k if staff accept it. Maybe Robbie saying we may only need to lose one or two players wasn't that far off the mark.
Wonder if they've considered asking players to take a 10% cut on basic pay but increasing win bonus so that if they win matches it negates the cut. More wins we get the higher attendances are likely to be which would pay for extra expense.

A good idea and point, more wins = more bodies in the crowds, if we can get up to the 12k attendance figure the extra income generated would and should along with slight cost cutting erase the 400k figure, have to say lucky this has been found out in ore-season and not 2 month before the end of season when there would be little we could do about it.

It's all cut this and cut that, may maybe we should be looking on how to make up the 400K and giving ourselves a chance at staying up.
its catch 22 if you start cutting the squad you get poor performance's which means poor gate receipts, better try to make up the 4K

LOL????????

My apologies. I did not realise I was having a discussion with a five year old.

By quoting what the club said? How is that a pop at the club?

I am fairly sure that if the chance of sponsorship (of any meaningful amount) was available then we would have got it secured by now.

Also, as an aside, given that the club have already released the home shirt for next season, I wouldn't have thought that any potential investors would be too keen on the idea of their logo not being on the shirts that have already been sold. Another "barricade" up there perhaps?

haha, I held back from detailing how you must live in a grey house, with grey walls and a grey windows as every one of your posts carry a tone of boredom and misery?

Cheer up Mystic, it's not too late to change the big man's mind, a succession of good deeds and I'm sure you will be off the naughty list!

You can't , Wakey are still using them

From today,s T&A
The Bulls squad are poised to meet with players’ union League 13 today as they seek answers and advice regarding the club’s latest financial crisis.

If we have to cut players I would rather we cut any of the backs before Sammut. Gale seems the obvious choice. Wouldn't have thought we would be getting Evans back now.

Has 400k gone missing from the club or have the previous regime just set budgets that were 400k to much for the season and that would be what we would be down by if we were to continue with the current budget?