I would like to ask Mr Carter about what he said yesterday. We were spending beyond our means ??????????
This cannot be on playing staff as we are probably one of the lowest spenders and we are well under the salary cap. We have all been let down badly once again. How much over spend on staff to player ratio. It is a complete joke and we have all been let down badly once again. Course I will buy my season ticket as Wakefield is in my blood but once again we have been let down badly once again! Overspending beyond our means they haven't got Wakefield at heart ! COMPLETE UTTER DISGRACE WE ALL DESERVE BETTER !

The people at the top were living beyond their means. I smell a huge rat it makes me sick

He kind of answered that by saying some of the players were paid way over the odds in his opinion.

Also, although I agree with your point, it is difficult to see how the overspend happened, but also, you don't know what your income is until the league is well under way

You sign players on contracts based on what you forecast to be your income.
Problems with that include, contracts come before season ticket offers - often people will wait to see what the team is before buying the tickets
Home games may not be spread evenly - we know that having Leeds, Bradford and Cas at the end of the season caused earlier cash flow issues.
You don't know when you are going to be on Sky. I think you get a £20k from Sky if you are on tv but that might be more or less than you would get if not on tv
Weather - !
Form of team - !
And of course Sponsors not able to pay

It isn't easy to do

To my mind it's simple. We have not generated sufficient income. Giving away season tickets last year did not help, even next years are underpriced, whatever team we manage to put on the field.

Most clubs are skint that is acknowledged. Most cannot generate the income to cover expenses, so expenses need to be cut. Biggest expenses are wages which equates to the salary cap being too high and players paid too much.

I am afraid rugby is becoming just like football and Dr K will not help this. Those with sugar daddies will survive those without will just have to cut their cloth accordingly. Just like football is the championship a far better league with a more level playing field?

If what we keep hearing about business plans is correct, then maybe the problem lies in the number of season tickets sold, rather than the cost (which is known from the outset, and factored into the plan). That said, it was the magical 10K crowds that were supposed to determine whether or not we could spend the full cap, not whether we could pay the cleaners.

We have a business plan drawn up for Newmarket as well, apparently, should we ever get there. God help us if the same persons were involved in drawing up both.

I think he's intimating that people other than the players have been taking too much, you don't need seasonal forecasts to set wages for admin staff who are permanent and as such should have their wages set on the basis of the guaranteed income as in Sky payments, so it begs two questions :-

1. what percentage of the wage budget was paid to non playing staff ?

2. who determined what those wages were?

One point he made about looking after the accounts until November, then getting someone in to doing them and taking his eye off the ball.
Is this around the time we brought in someone to take over the finances because of the CCJ's we were receiving?

Does that mean that he was in charge of dealing with the finances at the time of last Octobers 'oversight' with HMRC which lead to a winding up petition being issued?

Look lets put all this in a nut shell!. All superleague teams except Leeds Wigan and the bank rolled teams are in financial difficulties to say the least.
This is not of their making and should not be blamed, the start of these problems goes back to the introduction of superleague and the blame lies firmly at the door of the RFL.
It was their pipedream to copy football and make the game a full time global sport and if us supporters of the game are honest we know that this would never work. The game belongs along the M62 corridor and big full time football wages are not affordable.
It is my belief that the teams supporting this move originally (indeed instigating it) would be Leeds and Wigan the only ones at that time because they could afford it, well maybe they will end up like the old firm teams Celtic and Rangers and play one another half a dozen times home and away whilst the rest go back to reality pre Superleague.

We have tons of commercial staff why when we were in trouble financially we keep hiring? a 1500/2500 salary per month will take its toll on the club. I think our playing staff budget is about right. Don't get it.

How can you say the playing staff is about right?
We don't know how much they are paid but Carter does, and he says some are over paid?
I'm thinking he has a better idea?

All businesses are duty bound to control their costs and although its easy to be wise with the benefit of hindsight.
WHY have we as a club not managed to control our costs.
The new management need to be ruthless and if something is not needed within the business, get rid and lets work with the essentials and then build up from there.
We know that the Eric France deal went pear shaped but, how much brass did they actually hand over and how long did we wait before realising that they weren't paying ?

Ok for example I am with a big company worldwide a marketing manager will be pocketing 60k a year. Wakey marketing manager on a big figure. Someone who coaches cheerleading on a big figure plus match day cash. Longo, Fozzard etc etc. They had the best interest of club to heart??? MY FOOT ! Don't make me angry it makes me sick.