Christies Child wrote:DTSJim wrote:Christies Child wrote:A wages and expences bill of £1.2milion for 30 odd players in season 2009 / 2010......surely better to reduce that to say £875K on a playing staff of circa 18, thereby being able to pay more for a better quality of player.
Maybe then we could afford players like Donaldson as an example.
Resisting the urge to have a go at you as usual I'll have a go at engaging with your argument.
One thing that keeps jumping out at me as you continually repeat this argument is that, we currently have a squad of 30 and are nevertheless down to the bare bones of the side. Were we to have a run of injuries in the side with a squad of 18, we would be dangerously depleted and having to rely on emergency loans.
I think we all know that the squad size is likely to be reduced, but I would suggest that 18 is a little extreme.
All SV's should welcome constructive debate.
So what would be an acceptable squad size remembering that the wage bill WILL be reduced as those who attended the Shareholders AGM already know?
I'm well aware that the wage bill is going to be reduced, one thing I think you should bear in mind is that the average wage in this league is likely to be going down as well, meaning that these short term contracts which are regularly bemoaned may actually work in our favour.
Essentially, even keeping a similar squad in terms of size and quality will likely moderately reduce the wage bill which means that the reduction in squad numbers is unlikely to be as drastic as you hope.
