rule and hetherington?

How is paying his wages detrimental to income? The board will have a set budget for wages in their P&L report of which paying 1 head coach is a part of. So if they sacked him then signed a new coach, which they will probably pay a signing on fee as well as the new coachs wages, then that falls outside of the budget.

Its not as easy as 'the fans are peeved off so let's get rid' many things would have to be taken into account from a financial view. As if the above happened something else would have to be sacrifised.

OK, we are prepared to sacrifice Kath then

It's detrimental because current income is less than it should be and likely to fall again

I would hope there would be something in the budget for "contingencies".

I also hope the club will have reserves which it can call on if needed.

It is hard to say it is less than it should be unless you know what the GPC target for this season is.

And even if it was the club wont/can't blame the coach for that. The only way he would be considered is if the every pass had refused to renew or buy one for the current season.

It will have reserves but they won't be included in the budget. That will be money put to one side for emergencies.

Emergencies such as the need to replace the Head Coach mid-season?

No a real emergency along the lines of the club have a libel matter and need to pay legal fees.

You're trying to make this more complicated than it actually is. At least we are some way down the road to removing our discount shelf coach, yours has only just been installed

It's easy to say it's less than it could be like the game against your lot which was attended by 3700 less fans than the corresponding fixture last year

That is 1 attendance figure, which again the coach can not be put to blame, the game was on sky on a cold evening and we didn't bring the amount we ususally would.

Oh I understand where you're coming from, and lord knows our board are experts at absolving the coach from blame for all manner of things. But providing they are looking at the whole picture, there will come a point in this situation where it becomes apparent to the board that paying off the remaining time on Agar's contract is the most financially prudent thing to do.

12500 for our opening game of the season against leeds is extremely low irrespective of teh weather, sky and the slightly lower tahn average leeds following. How do you know it's not due to the coach? Plenty of people in the east stand were moaning about agar. Posters on here not going due to agar