Are we really broke or just coy ?

[Teddybear]

Chartering your own plane to Girona and back not signs that we are broke is it?

 

[Pintor75]

Chartering your own plane to Girona and back not signs that we are broke is it?

We travel in style these days!

 

[dingledog]

Chartering your own plane to Girona and back not signs that we are broke is it?

I'm guessing that chartering a plane probably cost less than a weeks wages of some championship players.

 

[Rodley]

Will COH be ‘Capital Over Hype’ or ‘Can’t Outspend Huddersfield’?

Not sure chartering a plane provides any evidence of either.

 

[Frank the tank]

I must be getting old because I dont recognise the world i live in anymore

 

[dingledog]

just looked it up, about $10,000 per hour, so roughly $40K return. A lot to us mere mortals , but nothing to a football club.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Chartering your own plane to Girona and back not signs that we are broke is it?

I haven’t seen any signs that we are broke. What signs have you seen? Someone give us a list so it can be very easily demolished.

 

[Shawy24]

I haven’t seen any signs that we are broke. What signs have you seen? Someone give us a list so it can be very easily demolished.

1. We haven’t signed anybody reight good and expensive on a 5 year deal.

2. Er er …. As above.

 

[DifferentClass]

We travel in style these days!
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Crab Airlines luxury fleet.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Chartering your own plane to Girona and back not signs that we are broke is it?

It's not as luxury as a preseason tour to St. George's Park though, is it?

 

[Frank the tank]

I haven’t seen any signs that we are broke. What signs have you seen? Someone give us a list so it can be very easily demolished.

pathetic isn't it

 

[Shawy24]

We travel in style these days!
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Now THOSE are proper Engines.

 

[HuddersfieldBlade]

We travel in style these days!
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Did you do this at mates rates The Crab?

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

just looked it up, about $10,000 per hour, so roughly $40K return. A lot to us mere mortals , but nothing to a football club.

That maybe the cost in the US, but for comparison I know to charter a small plane from Edinburgh to London costs £15-20k. A bigger plane going slightly longer distances I think you’ll looking at around £100,000k which as you said isn’t a major expense to a football club.

 

[The Crab]

Did you do this at mates rates The Crab?

I charged extra, that’s one of my executive planes…

 

[HOT CURRIE 10]

Chartering your own plane to Girona and back not signs that we are broke is it?

 

[Dkc]

Where did the plane fly from? Presume not Donny as there is no ATC or passport control. If it was Leeds, Manc or E Mids it would still presumably be a hassle going through security etc.

But I guess it is an indication that we have a bit of cash. Ryanair or Easyjet would have been well under 10k to get everyone there and back.

 

[LBA_Blade]

I wouldn’t be surprised if a sponsor or similar paid for it or gave mates rates as a blades fan.

 

[Dkc]

I wouldn’t be surprised if a sponsor or similar paid for it or gave mates rates as a blades fan.

Yeah I presume at least one of our owners will have a private plane or a stake in one.

Retford can handle international private flights, and is almost as close as Donny.

 

[Brian Blessed]

I wouldn’t be surprised if a sponsor or similar paid for it or gave mates rates as a blades fan.

Dozy's airline company? Maybe it finally actually managed to purchase a plane.

 

[SB_90]

as ruben selles said in his FH pod interview. We’ve got money for transfers but like most clubs outside the top flight, it’s not unlimited money pit

It’s a bit like this for me. you’ve got 6 weeks to buy a car and £10,000 to spend. If you spend it all in week 1 on a decent 7/10 or 8/10 car, what do you do if your perfect 10/10 car becomes available in week 5 or 6? You’re stuck. That’s why the club might hold back a bit. It’s about waiting for the right deal, not just rushing to spend the budget because you have it burning a hole in your pocket

 

[Gin&Juice]

The lads who have taken us over are all successful in their field, none of them are stupid. So I expect a similar sensible approach, instead of munnneh throwin.

Little hints:

The grounds had quite a bit spent on it over summer.

This scouting system and signing random lads from Bulgaria won’t be done on the cheap, a skint club wouldn’t be signing them for development.

 

[Aston max]

We travel in style these days!
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Hey I once had a lovely holiday in crete after flying in one of these !!

 

[BigBed]

Hey I once had a lovely holiday in crete after flying in one of these !!

Did you parachute in to your hotel

 

[KMC-1889]

what’s the difference between being sensible with cash and being broke?

I’ll never understand the clamour to spend money on players we don’t even know if the club are interested in.

 

[Bell4]

Crab Airlines luxury fleet.

Yup



#destinationnotassured

 

[Bladesman]

They probably made a mistake breaking cover dropping 10mil on Cannon not long after arriving. Now other clubs have probably added a few quid on anyone we are looking at.

 

[iBlade.]

Folk look at what is happening in Birmingham, often with envy and compare that with our situation. Let them get on with throwing everything at it, it will bite them on the bum eventually.

 

[Champagneblade]

what’s the difference between being sensible with cash and being broke?

I’ll never understand the clamour to spend money on players we don’t even know if the club are interested in.

I don’t know if we have some fans who just want the excitement of signings but I want to see the club spending money responsibly. I don’t want to see us wasting money on agents and changing for the sake of it.

We need a handful of players, not 7 or 8 or more and a total rebuild. That would be ridiculous.

Some fans will be saying things like “we need three centre backs”. We’re not getting three centre backs. You may not be massively into Robbo but as a first back up he’s perfectly fine for the level. We won’t be signing 3 potential Premier League centre backs. That’s totally unrealistic.

“We need to replace Souza”. No we don’t. For a start we don’t even know how many midfielders Selles’ system is going to require. Then at this level I’d make a strong case we don’t need a dedicated DM. We already have Hamer, O’Hare, Arblaster, Peck, Davies, Shackleton and Brooks who can play midfield.

Me, now we have Bindon, I’d like 3 players, max 4, all of which can be serious contenders to start. An additional right back would be one of them. Then the rest will depend how Selles wants us to play. It could be a winger or two and a striker. Who knows?

But let’s not just piss money away for the sake of it. Spend when we need to and replace if required.

 

[redandwhitewizard]

There is still time to sign players but at the moment it smells like they're trying to get promotion on the cheap. At the moment we're largely back to that point where we had nothing on the bench to change a game.