The DTB have history in repurposing/reallocating/spaffing funds so I wouldn’t trust anyone telling you where the women’s funding comes from.

Semantics swiggy. Doesn’t hide the fact that we have been pretty poor since January.

Doesn't women's funding come from the DT anyway? Assume that's the logic behind the opt-out stuff

RK that article was 4 games into the season

ST price hike will cover the women’s team funding. Selling Currie will cover a small % of the operating loss. As we desperately try and replace dinosaur amateur tinpot with actual experienced and capable professionals working more than half a day a week our costs will increase.

Ticket income is about 40% of overall income last time I checked, probably smaller now? Where did you get 10-20% from? Don't forget, that if prices go up by that much, numbers will be down, so I doubt that will source much more income

Unless it's a quantum leap in budget for the next level up in women's football (which is possible, I guess), the women's budget would make a very small dent in men's budget.

"Our aim SHOULD BE promotion" is not the same as promising promotion.

With ST going up 10-20%,playing budget will go up,unless they use it for bonds

That's very much the conundrum SW - you put it much better than me :)

9 points clear and if Norwich win their last 3 games they can catch us but we have a massively superior goal difference so basically yes

Norwich drew, so they would apparently have to make up a goal difference of something like 25 in remaining fixtures. So, in practice, yes.

The women, should they get promotion, will want additional funding to allow them to offer a decent challenge next season, the men’s team will require an increased budget to make us competitive and Michele will want her pound of flesh to pay the bills, who do we think will come out winners here?

Even papers must admit the women are up

Are the ladies now promoted?

Oh, found it. We won 2 - 0

Any news on how the women got on today?

To be fair the 3 game Curtis suspension has killed us if we could have got a result yesterday then having Curtis back and rested for the last 2 would have been huge. Think we were too reliant on the Balmer long throw yesterday especially as Bugiel is the only stripier who can head the ball

Yeah,don't expect too much next season,now the players looked bored with our style of play,probably why many have gone off the boil.

Bit like Hotel California .."you can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave"

I'll stick my neck out and say we won't be challenging next year. We have a £2m loss before fee income to make up, so don't expect a competitive playing budget

Still the only team to have knocked Coventry City out of a cup competition this season ;)

They could say that an improvement on last season is the first priority and then we will hopefully try to push for a playoff place from there. :-)

Surely most managers will say that promotion or playoffs is the “aim”, unless they’ve only just got promoted the previous season, in which case they might say that they’re looking to survive and then build… The alternative is just to say “I dunno Jeff, we’re just gonna take every game as it comes and see what happens…”. Imagine the reaction if they did that… 🤪

I couldn't spot the date of that article, but i bet it was sometime around July when the ST sales were going on