Dont forget folks we are not out of the woods yet, the debts have to cleared off and the players have taken pay cuts to sign for us.
However we all need to do our bit too and keep on supporting the team and the club, we need the fans more then ever, to back and commit to LISA, TOUCHDOWN CLUB, LOTTERY or even just by attending all the games that we can get to, supporting events the club put on. Money will still be tight all season, I wouldn't want another scenrio like last September to happen again and hit us at the business end of the season.
Its important this is remembered, before we get too excited by things on the pitch, for the happenings on the pitch to stay good, we all need to pull together.

Basil cost £90k with house etc
Paul cost £35k
Higson £15k
Hill £28k
Mills, Nash £?
Reserves £50k
Back office £50k

We've taken £200k + off costs, that equates to close to our entire gate income from last year and we have a more balanced team this year imo.

Lets get excited otherwise lets not bother. Lets get very excited because thats why folk will come to watch and sponsor.

Did you make those figures up? Theres SL players that dont get paid so much!!

The club didnt pay for Basils House though did they.
Ok lets just ignore that if we dont get 2000 through the turnstyles as budgeted what will happen.

Does it help you to get through life thinking about the nagatives all the time rather than the positives

Its 2012 who gives a luvv, the world ends in December anyway.

Well if them figures are true I'm not surprised we went T!TS up.

And well done to the current board if they have stuck to principle of only paying out what we plan to bring in.

For me, we have a better all round team than we had last season - certainly a lot of options available (i.e.people who can play in a variety of positions)

I must have misunderstood Lynda's post.

I thought she was saying that we shouldn't get complacent, as a result of the excellence we have seen on the pitch. I thought she said that we mustn't sit back and think everything is now rosey. I thought she said that we must keep on supporting the fund raising activities/organisations.

Remember, if this team was to win everything, we will have blown our wage budget for 2012. We must all keep working hard at it, to avoid another September 2011 catastrophe.

Just like Lynda said!

Isn't 1,800 the break even figure?

yep you definately miss read it alan

Alan I think you understand what I meant was no matter how good things are on the pitch if we fail financially then come Sept it could all implode again, we have to help in anyway we can to try and stop that happening. Anyone who thinks it cant happen is being silly.

Lets all be negative then shall we.
Why wait till september lets just shut the place down now eh

thats what he keith freer said at the meeting. anything over and we start to pay back what we have borrowed

Completley disagree with this. I feel we should get excited because it's been an incredible pre season and we've got ourselves a good looking squad together. Putting a downer on things isnt helping anybody.. Like the previous post we have made so much money in losing Millward Hill Paul etc. So we should be ok!

If you can't get excited about a new season then it is time to pack in, why are people obsessed with pouring cold water over optimism.

i get excited everytime we play. This year will be better than last year!

I take it by that Alan, most of the players are on large bonus payments that is why they have signed.

People who think all the players have come for peanuts and all that jazz need to get real.

Nah come on,who's said that?

No - it's simply that we haven't budgeted to win every match - so, if we win them all, we'll be down on our budget, because we'd have to pay winning pay every match, rather thyan losing pay on the 'x' matches we have budgeted to lose.

I'm with you Lynda. There's nothing wrong with being excited by what we've seen on the pitch, but we mustn't be lulled into thinking our problems have been solved, or that 'the next person' is sorting them. We've all got a part to play.

Come on guys - give Lynda a break.

The title of her post is "Before we get too excited". The emphasis on the word "too". It is great to be excited and enthused, as I am sure she is, about what we have seen on the pitch so far.

BUT, it is simply good forward thinking to make sure the foundations are going to be strong enough to ensure that what happened before does not happen again. Some people and some organizations love to operate in "firefight mode" - always dealing with emergencies and never planning long term.

Some fans will only care about the results on the pitch as soon as they get the slightest hint that the panic is over. Look how LISA membership declined when people felt Arthur was bankrolling the club (as he was in the end).

The fact remains that the healthier our finances are, the quicker we will be able to achieve our aims on the pitch. All successful organizations are NEVER satisfied with where they have managed to get to, they never rest on their laurels.

The need to raise funds and keep rattling the tins in various ways may well be turn out to be a permanent one - no it shouldn't have to be that way but its a fact of life, especially in this economic environment.

Now is the not the time to get "donation fatigue" or think we have reached the end when we have only just started - and now is certainly not the time to take a pop at Lynda who has moved heaven and earth (as have others) to get to where we are now.

It isn't just about whats going on on the pitch.
After the last 6 month why can't people feel optimistic about whats going on off the pitch?

How did those that were collecting outside the ground on Friday night get on ,well done by the way for doing so