0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Leeds chairman Ken Bates has turned up the heat on manager Simon Grayson by insisting the club's current position of seventh in the Championship is not good enough.Bates has also confirmed \"heart-searching\" discussions have been taking place among Elland Road staff this week in a bid to propel the Whites up the table.United headed into the international break on the back of a 1-0 victory at Leicester City, the win coming on the back of a horrific 5-0 home defeat to Blackpool.Leeds are out of the play-off spots only on goal difference and while Bates was pleased to see United bounce back from the Blackpool loss he wants more from Grayson and the players.Bates told the Yorkshire Evening Post: \"Well you have got to commend it, but you also have got to do soul-searching on why we have lost the games we've lost and why have we drawn the games we've drawn.\"And, without being too critical, the fact of the matter is we have lost games rather than been beaten. We have given away the points rather than them being earned by the opposition and that's something that we've had too much of and it's got to stop.\"There are discussions going on this week, heart-searching in the backroom to decide what we can do to improve the situation because we should be higher than we are.\"Well actually, Uncle Ken, if you'd done the decent thing and not robbed your creditors of what they were owed, you're probably about nine divisions above where you should be. :angry:
Uncle Ken ought to have a look at this;http://www.thescratchingshed.com/2011/11/simon-grayson-a-bargain-at-56320-per-point/I'd send it to him, if I didn't think he would ban/sue/excommunicate/execute me.
So the only money you spend each week is the money you give to Mrs Benaldo?
However, after you take out the wages (which includes players, kit washers, the people in the club shop, groundsmen, the bog cleaner) then what's left to play with the 3 million? What's the SMC rent? How much is the electricity? The gas? How much is a football?
Quote from: \"RoversDave\" post=198007So the only money you spend each week is the money you give to Mrs Benaldo?She's earns more than I do by a long way as it happens.However, after you take out the wages (which includes players, kit washers, the people in the club shop, groundsmen, the bog cleaner) then what's left to play with the 3 million? What's the SMC rent? How much is the electricity? The gas? How much is a football?Thing is, what you're saying is that the surplus is making up the difference. I'm just questioning that. I just have a sneaky suspicion that Rovers kind of trundles along without needing much financial input to keep it alive at the moment. Getting it moving up the league and better players perhaps is another matter, but as for turning over enough to pay for it's existence, maybe JR might be over egging the truth? Just maybe?
Quote from: \"benaldo\" post=198010Quote from: \"RoversDave\" post=198007So the only money you spend each week is the money you give to Mrs Benaldo?She's earns more than I do by a long way as it happens.However, after you take out the wages (which includes players, kit washers, the people in the club shop, groundsmen, the bog cleaner) then what's left to play with the 3 million? What's the SMC rent? How much is the electricity? The gas? How much is a football?Thing is, what you're saying is that the surplus is making up the difference. I'm just questioning that. I just have a sneaky suspicion that Rovers kind of trundles along without needing much financial input to keep it alive at the moment. Getting it moving up the league and better players perhaps is another matter, but as for turning over enough to pay for it's existence, maybe JR might be over egging the truth? Just maybe?One day when I work out how to do it, I will put up the full accounts for Patienceform but suffice to say for the year to May 2010 the company's income was 9.8 m and they made an operating loss of just under £1m.