Is relegation worth £500k ?

[Scoffers]

Well, if it's more than the £500k we've received for Darren and Danny, then what is the bloody point selling them?

Even with the two DCs we couldn't manage to score more than once, and without them, we have less chance of creating chances, and less chance of stopping goals.

Just doesn't add up for me i'm afraid.

 

[chez]

But the £500k could stop us going to the wall. I dont want to get relegated but if thats what it takes (£500k) then I'll take it to stay in business.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Well, Cullip asked to be transfer listed and somebody came in for him (probably because he told his agent to put his name about) and Currie ain't worth 250 grand of anyones money and we need it so we did the right thing and let him go.

Relegation isn't a disaster, the club being unable to operate is.

 

[fatboy]

Well, Cullip asked to be transfer listed and somebody came in for him (probably because he told his agent to put his name about) and Currie ain't worth 250 grand of anyones money and we need it so we did the right thing and let him go.

Relegation isn't a disaster, the club being unable to operate is.

Are you sure Cullip was on the transfer list?

 

[Dawsey]

According to the official site he put in a transfter request on Wednesday

 

[MidlandSeagull69]

Are you sure Cullip was on the transfer list?

Thats the way it works in football, a club show's interest in you, so you ask for a transfer request so that negotiations can take place on a players personal terms, then the interested club has to agree a price with club.

players can request to be transfered at any time, also a manager can place them on the list.

 

[Titanic]

I don't believe Danny Cullip would have made ANY difference to that game.

Darren Currie might - if he had his crossing boot on - but not based on his last performance in the stripes.

 

[disgruntled h blocker]

I don't think relegation would cost us £500k, unless Sky revenue increases a lot in the Championship in relation to League 1.

We aren't currently in the situation where we really financially benefit from gate receipts from being in a higher league, as the demand is inelastic due to the size of the stadium - when we get Falmer (or whatever) relegation will cost us, through fair weather fans voting with their feet and watching Baywatch on a Saturday afternoon instead.

Relegation hit Derby and Sunderland more in the pockets than it would the BHAFC as their budgeting was based on expected gate receipts set at premiership level attendances, not the 10-40% drop which they experienced in a Division 1.

Where lower leagues does save money is player salaries - we need for example better players in the Championship than League 1, so us getting relegated may mean that it is financially easier to sign players of an appropriate level to the league as a whole – if we don’t want to get promoted.
Sorry if I've bored anyone! And no, I don't want to get the club relegated!

 

[Brovion]

Scoffers where did you get the figure of £500,000 from? Especially as the club says it costs more to play in the Championship than League One.

 

[Halftime Oranges]

i hope we survive

 

[Scoffers]

Scoffers where did you get the figure of £500,000 from? Especially as the club says it costs more to play in the Championship than League One.

We have sold Cullip and Currie for a combined amount of £500,000 - now that these two are gone, we are more likely to get relegated.

So although we've gained half a million from selling them, if we go down as a result of doing that, how much will it cost us? If it's anywhere near the amount we've received, then it's a false economy. Of course, you could argue that we might have got relegated vene with those to staying.

 

[dougdeep]

If the question is relegation or liquidation? then the answer is obvious.

 

[Happy Seagull]

Staying in business is more impotant than staying up. It costs less to run a league one club than it does a championship one. I also don't think we missed Cullip too much last night, and we still created quite a few chances without Currie. Lets see how we do over the next few games before we start nailing ourselves to the cross.

 

[Yorkie]

We all felt terrible at Grimsby 18 months ago when we got relegated.

We said we had no chance of getting back in div 1 (as it was called then) as Ingimarsson, Beasant etc etc had left and no players were coming in.

Look as what has happened since then.
Even 12 months ago some were saying our season was over.

We're going through a bad patch but we've got some money to help out the debt, we've got players who are playing their hearts out and we will get more points before May come round again.

 

[Scoffers]

I am heartened by everybody's positive thinking.

I suppose whatever happens, the Battle For Falmer in February will decide our future more than anything else

 

[Donny Osmond]

IF we go down as a result of the 2 sales then average attendence would need to drop by over a thousend to cost us the £500,000.
(Not including saved wages)

 

[Brovion]

.....
So although we've gained half a million from selling them, if we go down as a result of doing that, how much will it cost us?

Er, that's precisely what I was asking you, I think you've just plucked the half-million out of the air. Negative, ill-informed comments like that, whilst understandable, just re-enforce the image of Brighton fans being unrealastic whingers.

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

IF we go down as a result of the 2 sales then average attendence would need to drop by over a thousend to cost us the £500,000.
(Not including saved wages)

I think the crowd attendance would go down by more than a thousand if we went down,so IMHO I reckon DK and the Board have taken one hell of a gamble

 

[dougdeep]

The board needed the money to pay depts. They had no choice. Anyway, real fans would watch their team in any division.

 

[Beach Hut]

I still think there will be a hardcore of fans whatever - around 5,000 and if we have some success wherever we are the numbers add up.