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J Lyman Stone


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Isn't it about time to have a salary cap in this league to stop teams overextending themselves and then having the farce of events that have taken place over the last month. The maximum wage bill in this league should £500,000 a season and no more.

I cannot believe the contracts that Eastleigh are handing out, something is badly wrong with that.

At least I read that the bloke from Torquay says that the terms offered are much lower as they don't have the money, some sense there.

Have read that allegedly the debts of Hereford are in excess of £1 million.

Welling are doing the right thing and we should never pay over the odds for some overrated mercenary.

 



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What contracts are Eastleigh handing out?



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2 years to a Football League Centre Back yesterday plus a few others.
Must be paying some fantastic wages for players to drop down from Football League. It is said that you need crowds of around 1700 to 2000 to sustain a low League 2 budget, do not know where some of these teams get their money from!!

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Why a salary cap? The argument would be that of a business. If a business wants to pay higher sales to recruit what they see as the best staff then surely they should be able to do whatever they like? I agree that it's crazy the amount of money being thrown around but a salary cap would be impossible to regulate.

Other than Rushden for a few years (but look at them now) long term success for teams that have been bankrolled beyond sustainable levels is almost unheard of.

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Given financial non-compliance in this league seems to now lead to double relegation I suggest the best regulator is that the rules are enforced absolutely on the deadlines suggested.

That way, if you can sustain it, good luck. If not, you are out. No bleating, no extensions and no messing everyone else about.

 

You can't say you don't know the risk. Take the consequences if you can't make it work. The rest of us just have to stick with what we believe in rather than get drawn in and  ambition has to be defined as prospering as best you can on the resources you can generate. 



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Yes that is the case...have rules and stick to them...maike them clear at the start of the season and anyone (yes including us) who defaults KNOWS the penalties and has NO recourse

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I can't see why J Lyman Stone is worried about what Eastleigh are able to or want to spend.
The only people that should be concerned should be the Eastleigh fans.

During the season no one cared about who was earning or paying what, at the end of the day its about 3pts or 1pt
And everybody has to play the same teams.

Welling did well against Forest Green last year who aren't short of a few pennies.

Eastleigh will not be unaware of the financial situation or penalties that have happened to Salisbury or Hereford.


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I am not concerned what Eastleigh or any other club spends, but feel that the Conference have let themselves down this summer and agree with the other posts here that if you have rules and they are broken then they should be enforced without any hesitation. A salary cap may be a way forward but there may be some other ideas. I think this league has been too slack and what has happened this summer has happened before a few times.

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There is too much money going out of this league. Supporters are charged too much. The whole thing is unsustainable. Meanwhile clubs who try and do it properly struggle to survive. The greed of the PL has permeated down the football pyramid. Eventually it will all end in tears and we will have to start again.



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World's gone nuts.

www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/sport/davids-in-greenwich-talks-18816/

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Ron Manager wrote:

I can't see why J Lyman Stone is worried about what Eastleigh are able to or want to spend.
The only people that should be concerned should be the Eastleigh fans.

During the season no one cared about who was earning or paying what, at the end of the day its about 3pts or 1pt
And everybody has to play the same teams.

Welling did well against Forest Green last year who aren't short of a few pennies.

Eastleigh will not be unaware of the financial situation or penalties that have happened to Salisbury or Hereford.

 but when it all blows up in their face as we all know it will be they will looking for sympathy and expecting exceptions from the rules

spending beyond your means is basically cheating as you get a leg up over other teams at this level that are spending sensibly



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J wrote:

 but when it all blows up in their face as we all know it will be they will looking for sympathy and expecting exceptions from the rules

spending beyond your means is basically cheating as you get a leg up over other teams at this level that are spending sensibly

 Which is why, if the begging bowl comes round, if it is for the likes of Gosport and Godalming with storm damage, fair enough, if it is Hereford or Salisbury, sorry, its your problem, you fix it.

Might been seen as heartless but it might help to get the message through.

As for them getting a leg up, only if it works, otherwise a potential double drop. You just have to rely on them getting stuffed by the AGM if you are in the bottom three. You either have no rules and everything is decided on the pitch or all the rules and no stigma about getting reprieved at the AGM.

 



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Agreed re: Hereford and Salisbury stafford. No sympathy. They are both moaning about new owners shafting them and going back on promises made etc. Fact is, if their houses were in order, they wouldn't have had to have sold up desperately at the last minute to those new owners in the first place.

I sympathise with some of the long standing fans, not with those all to happy to take the pi55 when Salisbury beat us, only to then expect me to put into a bucket to bail them out just a few weeks later. Good riddance.

Gloucester I sympathise with. Some amazing pictures of their old ground on google images with flood waters literally touching the crossbar.

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I see Hereford are officially screwed now, along with the Southern Premier who will be a team short.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-27903507



-- Edited by WingsTillIDie on Thursday 19th of June 2014 11:50:11 AM

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WingsTillIDie wrote:

I see Hereford are officially screwed now, along with the Southern Premier who will be a team short.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-27903507



-- Edited by WingsTillIDie on Thursday 19th of June 2014 11:50:11 AM

 Possibly not. May be Conference South who are one short if Salisbury get dumped to the Southern...



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Hereford have been accepted today into the Southern League, having met the criteria (whatever they were) set:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27923995



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