Quote: atomic "I'm not sure what is meant by non playing staff.Surely the plight of any relegated side is to get back in contention asap,losing non playing staff won't assist that goal.
Yes central funding will be less and thats a good excuse to get rid of somebody. Manual investment is required to get back to top filght,not sacking everyman and his dog.The question is who is willing to make that investment?'"
Typically any team trying to get back into SL will look to invest as much of their money in the playing side as they can/want (two very different things I suppose).
To that end they will look to try and trim their budgets elsewhere so it's the non-playing staff that face the axe. Marketing and social media people, office and admin workers, community staff etc. People that remain will be asked to pick up this or that bit of the job that so and so used to do.