Full time/Part time
Posted: 09 Jan 2024, 17:24
Firstly, I don't know how much a player earns at this level, but I suspect that it's not great.
Week in week out we play part time teams with better players than us. Is it because financially not worthwhile to play full time? Any decent tradesman should be able to earn £1000/£1200 or more a week. And you can probably double that in London. Can our wage structure match that, I think not. Obviously if your only bright enough to stack shelves at a supermarket then full time footie is a no brainer.
There must surely be a large enough pool of talent whithin a couple of hours of Torbay to create a team capable of winning this league.
Compared to the rest of the league we have a much larger fanbase and pay considerably more to get in, so it's pretty obvious that we must have more cash than the others, possibly excepting Yeovil, to splash out.
Just because a player is part time there is no reason to pay them any less than a full time player, after all we're paying for talent and whether they train full time or part time matters not.
2009 Burton Albion won the National league (or Nationwide Conference as it was then ) as a part time club and still had some part time players in league 2.
The question is........... Did we make a mistake staying full time or should we have gone part time or a mixture of full/part time?
Week in week out we play part time teams with better players than us. Is it because financially not worthwhile to play full time? Any decent tradesman should be able to earn £1000/£1200 or more a week. And you can probably double that in London. Can our wage structure match that, I think not. Obviously if your only bright enough to stack shelves at a supermarket then full time footie is a no brainer.
There must surely be a large enough pool of talent whithin a couple of hours of Torbay to create a team capable of winning this league.
Compared to the rest of the league we have a much larger fanbase and pay considerably more to get in, so it's pretty obvious that we must have more cash than the others, possibly excepting Yeovil, to splash out.
Just because a player is part time there is no reason to pay them any less than a full time player, after all we're paying for talent and whether they train full time or part time matters not.
2009 Burton Albion won the National league (or Nationwide Conference as it was then ) as a part time club and still had some part time players in league 2.
The question is........... Did we make a mistake staying full time or should we have gone part time or a mixture of full/part time?