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Potentially a lot of money as just demonstrated there plus share of the gate with a plum away draw.
However, this the FA Cup and as the FA Cup this is a competition where clubs should be striving to do well not just for the money but for the honour and prestige. We are known has a club who can make upsets in the FA Cup. It is in the clubs DNA and I hope we never forget that. Winning in a fourth qualifying round fixture and waiting for the Post on Monday to see the draw is a cherished memory.
Actually thinking about in the days when we played many more games in a season if we entered a competition we did the best we could without much swapping and changing and resting. All the cups and competitions potentially gave us honour and prestige and going into school after winning the Lancashire Junior Cup or Floodlight Cup competition meant something and put some pride in your step.
What the hell ever happened?But for winning tonight, the club get only £27k plus whatever they take on the attendance (let’s guess at 5000 @ £10 = £50k minus operating costs) – and their reward is a trip to Bournemouth with a split of a ‘bumper’ 10k attendance, a probable defeat, the travel expense involves, and the risk of injury to players.For a club like Fylde, I’d agree that an FA Cup run is a golden goose, but for us, focusing on promotion, I think it’s a distraction we could do without.
I agree on the winning becoming a habit though, and I would like the manager to use it to give some fringe players game-time.
I became Club Secretary at the non-league club local to where I live these days & no-one (certainly at that stage) wants a home tie because you are guaranteed to lose money (unless you win).
As the away side, your travel expenses are covered and if you are travelling beyond a certain distance, the home side also has to cover the away club’s hotel expenses too. On top of that the away side is then entitled to half of the gate receipts minus operating costs (stewards, floodlights, officials fees etc..). If the home side makes a loss on gate receipts v expenses the loss is split 50/50 & taken from your travel/hotel expenses.
The travel expenses for the away team are not allowed to be included as an expense for the home team when calculating its matchday profit/lossBack to the point with Latics & this tie, it’s pretty much the same arrangement all the way through the competition so if they get through their only worry is injuries/suspensions coz financially Latics will make some money out of it unlike a normal away league game.
Unfortunately my team lost in the Prelim Round so all we got out of it this season was the £1,500 prize money for the extra-prelim round win & next to nowt in expenses for a 20 minute trip down the road to the team that knocked us out!!
Potentially a lot of money as just demonstrated there plus share of the gate with a plum away draw.
However, this the FA Cup and as the FA Cup this is a competition where clubs should be striving to do well not just for the money but for the honour and prestige. We are known has a club who can make upsets in the FA Cup. It is in the clubs DNA and I hope we never forget that. Winning in a fourth qualifying round fixture and waiting for the Post on Monday to see the draw is a cherished memory.
Actually thinking about in the days when we played many more games in a season if we entered a competition we did the best we could without much swapping and changing and resting. All the cups and competitions potentially gave us honour and prestige and going into school after winning the Lancashire Junior Cup or Floodlight Cup competition meant something and put some pride in your step.
What the hell ever happened?It’s no longer 1960?
Football is a business now Donny.
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