JT1867 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Weren't Rovers fans saying their player budget last season was £60k? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brazilianlex Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 6 hours ago, CoveRangers1922 said: Informative post. You can see how having a "regular job" to supplement the footballing wage is better financially for many part time players than going full time for a club in a division or two higher. It's got to be a difficult decision for players who potentially could be playing for a full time club. The lure of full time employment in the sport you love and the prestige of playing for a more senior club versus the money/stability of playing p/t and holding a regular job that you can do after your footbaling career ends. It's been in the press than Mitch Megginson turned down Championship/SPL sides to play p/t and keep his well paid job purely because the higher league side couldn't match his overall wage. I'd think this is fairly common. Sure this was the case with Rory McAllister and Martin Bavidge of Peterhead. I think the championship teams story was put about by megginsons agent to try and get some bids in. His form this season is basically a decent league 2 strikers form. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom & Gerry Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Do players at this level have agents? I’d have him in my team any day of the week 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoveRangers1922 Posted October 5, 2019 Author Share Posted October 5, 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, Brazilianlex said: I think the championship teams story was put about by megginsons agent to try and get some bids in. His form this season is basically a decent league 2 strikers form. I agree with you on the form this season. He has scored a couple and does work really hard but he himself has been critical of the chances he missed. This might/could/hopefully change at any point. A lot of our goals have come from our midfielders. Mitch is playing as lone striker and our other attacking options are; John Robertson Martin Scott Jordan Brown. They’ve scored 0 league goals between them but admittedly barely had an minutes between them. Jordan Brown hasn’t played at all. Are they good enough for top of league 2 - certainly not as good as Mitch. Other teams in the leagues have better striking duos. I don’t want to sound harsh on Mitch as he’s doing a good job and more than likely will start a purple patch of lots of goals Edited October 5, 2019 by CoveRangers1922 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB_Bino Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Do players at this level have agents? I’d have him in my team any day of the week It’s a mixed bag, I know a few players on a personal level who played at this level. A couple did and a couple didn’t. I’ve never asked how much they earned at their clubs as it was never any of my business.I always find it funny though because you continually hear or read supporters saying “how can we compete against their budget”, “we/they should be doing better with their budget”, “he’s getting XXXX playing for them”, “they offered him XXX more to sign for them” etc etc, and actually nobody really knows but comments such as these get banded about on an almost weekly basis.I’ll be 40 next year and have been watching football since I was 7, I can honestly say that I have never known a teams budget and with the exception of what 1 player got at a club he played with, I couldn’t tell you how much people earn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzza81 Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 When the hell did Jordan Brown become a striker? After Considine just about headered his head clean off did he reincarnate as a striker? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Snuffleupagus Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 17 hours ago, JT1867 said: Weren't Rovers fans saying their player budget last season was £60k? Yeah, but that went out the window when he had to punt Brogan's entire squad to let Harper recruit guys who could play football. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infirmary Street Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 6 hours ago, CoveRangers1922 said: I agree with you on the form this season. He has scored a couple and does work really hard but he himself has been critical of the chances he missed. This might/could/hopefully change at any point. A lot of our goals have come from our midfielders. Mitch is playing as lone striker and our other attacking options are; John Robertson Martin Scott Jordan Brown. They’ve scored 0 league goals between them but admittedly barely had an minutes between them. Jordan Brown hasn’t played at all. Are they good enough for top of league 2 - certainly not as good as Mitch. Other teams in the leagues have better striking duos. I don’t want to sound harsh on Mitch as he’s doing a good job and more than likely will start a purple patch of lots of goals Are you for real?! You’re top of the league, unbeaten with 22 points from a possible 24, goal difference of +17 - but your strikers aren’t up to it??!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoveRangers1922 Posted October 5, 2019 Author Share Posted October 5, 2019 2 hours ago, Infirmary Street said: Are you for real?! You’re top of the league, unbeaten with 22 points from a possible 24, goal difference of +17 - but your strikers aren’t up to it??!! We play one striker up front and the others get no game time. Mitch is doing well but I wouldn’t say he’s head and shoulders above other strikers in the league. A lot of our goals you’ve eluded to have come from midfield (Glass, Antoniazzi, Masson, Fyvie). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 14 hours ago, Thom & Gerry said: Do players at this level have agents? I’d have him in my team any day of the week a certain City player got an agent when we were still in the Lowland League.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom & Gerry Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgin proud Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 On 04/10/2019 at 13:39, Super Elgin City said: Have heard figures upwards of £500 per week mentioned for some players in the league. no many apart from cove 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgin proud Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 On 04/10/2019 at 13:39, Super Elgin City said: Have heard figures upwards of £500 per week mentioned for some players in the league. no many apart from cove 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgin proud Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 reckon 80 per week be average apart from the top players and cove. signing on fees thing of the past win bonuses maybe push it to 100. On 13/08/2019 at 22:30, elgin proud said: woosh On 22/09/2019 at 23:09, tamthebam said: I was feeling smug but now you've put doubts in my mind...! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pastmaster Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 According to the last published accounts for Albion Rovers ( to end June 2018) the wage bill was £145K 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 On 05/10/2019 at 09:04, BB_Bino said: I’ll be 40 next year and have been watching football since I was 7, I can honestly say that I have never known a teams budget and with the exception of what 1 player got at a club he played with, I couldn’t tell you how much people earn. It's not that outlandish that quite a few folk will know their clubs player budget. If someone's a shareholder / committee member or whatever or knows someone who is, there's a decent chance they'll have seen what the budget is. Of course, it might not be the current season but these things aren't a total mystery. Plus, i reckon a lot of folk could have a pretty good go at roughly ranking the budgets within a league. Nobody's seriously sitting there thinking Albion Rovers might be paying more than Cove Rangers because we haven't seen official budgets. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pastmaster Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 You should be able to get the accounts as published on most clubs by looking on Companies House - here`s the link to Albion Rovers - https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC010466 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Vaughn Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 I'd be very surprised if the total player wagebill for any L2 club (other than QP for the time being obviously) was appreciably below £100k - is that a reasonable minimum budget for this league?I know the player budget for two clubs in L2 and your statement is correct for those two clubs. Actually you are a bit low. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 23 hours ago, tamthebam said: a certain City player got an agent when we were still in the Lowland League.... I've known QP youth players to have agents. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Elgin City Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 no many apart from coveWouldn't be surprised if our top players were on that.I know most of our players are on £250ish a week. I think only the younger ones would be on under £100.Adds up to quite a hefty outlay on wages alone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.