TW1Bee
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Yeovil Town
Serves them right for beating us. Couldn't see this happening to us if we had won.
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Owlsmoor_Bee
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On the contrary, I can't bring myself to feel anything but great respect for what they achieved last season on the smallest budget in the league.
Yeovil Town
they will should make a profit this season with the £2.5M they get.. it was always going to be tough for them and I also have respect for them.. but as for Donny, I can't stand them!!
ladbroke
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Yeovil Town
I agree with owlsmoor, and would also add that although we may have the squad to compete adequately in the championship, I think this season has done us nothing but good in the sense of sticking together, learning and building for the future. No disrespect to harry but you know we'd kept him if we went up - but other than 6 weeks did he really set our team alight? We've done well - a year in this division won't hurt..
Yeovil Town
Have to agree. Remind me of us in the past. They over achieved, they got promoted, fair play to them, they were a good set of fans and players when they were promoted unlike doncaster. I envy them but i dont begrudge them. We will have a far nicer year next year than they have had this year anyway
fencer/bee
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hanworthbee
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what have they done with the extra money then? their budget has gone up more 6 times yet seem to have made no significant squad improvement?
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As much as 19th May hurt me, Yeovil earned respect for what they achieved on the budget they had. They are that sort of club that no one really hates. They will be in league 1 again next season though.
Garybaldbee
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Even a six fold increase in their budget would mean that they are woefully under resourced at Championship level. It gives me no pleasure to see them struggling this season, predictable though it may be. They are a well run small town club who proved that there is still at least some scope for romance in the game and the minnows to achieve against the odds. If it hadn't been for the fact that they beat us I would have been delighted with their success last year and I only hope for their sake that relegation this season doesn't completely destabilise the club and send them into a spiral of decline, as sometimes can happen.
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Sorry, but losing, like winning, becomes a habit. Bet on them now starting season 15/16 in League Two.
hobbsy
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Either MD or Cliff Crown said at the fans forum that the minimum survival budget for the Championship is £10m
whyteleafebee76
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Yeovil Town
In the grand scheme of things that sort of loss with the low gates they get is not actually that bad. To me that looks like they are running a pretty tight ship....although any sort of loss is never good.
wanderer paul
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Yeovil lose £500k. Brentford lose £5 million. Both 2012/13 seasons.
If a fighting budget in the Championship is around £10 million, that's near enough double what it is now, our losses for the first year in the Championship could be huge just to stay up. Although the money received in sponsorship & tv would be around £6 million? But £4-£5 mill would still have to be pumped in to the club to give it a chance to stay up. It's going to be interesting to se what will happen - if we go up!
If a fighting budget in the Championship is around £10 million, that's near enough double what it is now, our losses for the first year in the Championship could be huge just to stay up. Although the money received in sponsorship & tv would be around £6 million? But £4-£5 mill would still have to be pumped in to the club to give it a chance to stay up. It's going to be interesting to se what will happen - if we go up!
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mhead bee
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Yeovil Town
And also huge disappointment that they are unable to make it financially viable to play in that division, it is a dagger to the heart of all small teams.
kevalutonbee
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Yeovil Town
If that is the reality for L1 teams in the Championship are we heading headlong into a situation where The Championship will effectively be PL2 because the parachute payments are becoming so big for so long the only teams that can survive there will be the ex Prem teams or somebody bought up by a sheikh or a Russion oligarch
amersfoort bee
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Yeovil Town
I thought that Yeovil were actually the team of the season last year based on what they had achieved. I've actually been to see them a couple of times this season and have cheered them on (but they still lost).
wanderer paul
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The accounts are for last season in league 1. It will be interesting to see what their accounts are like for this season in the Championship, next February. Have they trebled or quadrupled their budget in the Championship? What is their income? Brighton's accounts are the ones to look at, now they are scary.
badgerbee
Mafeking Avenue........gets you there!!!!
Yeovil Town
Live just down the road from Yeovil and before last season I used to go and watch them (in the home end) 4 or 5 times a season.........and (sort of) cheer them on.........just haven't been able to face it though this year.........and I must admit, after the stick I got from the locals, I can't help but enjoy their struggles!!!!
The Pipe
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Yeovil Town
Personally I hope they avoid the drop and we get promotion as it would be nice to have one local game next season !!
Ealing Bee
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Know exactly what you mean [bold], but from a wider perspective, Yeovil should actually be a Role Model for other small teams.
For having just Googled it, I now know that the population of Yeovil is only 40k. And quite honestly, it is hard to see how a team from a town of that size could ever hope to compete on equal terms over any length of time with the likes of Leeds U, Sheff Wed, M'boro, Brighton, Reading, Leicester C, Forest and Ipswich etc.
Their fans might not thank me for saying this, but if they can secure a long-term place in either of the bottom two Divisions of the Football League, that will be quite an achievement (imo).
The Pipe
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Speaking to their fans down here, whilst not appreciating your comments Ealing, they are pretty level headed, are enjoying their time, hoping against hope that they can stay up but are realistic about the future and accept that in reality they are a league to high
Brentford 4 Life
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On the other hand they are the only club in Somerset, which is quite a big area, so the catchment area is pretty large.
Ealing Bee
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Yeovil Town
Fair point, but even then the total population of the entire county is only 900k.
And a good proportion of those are rugby-loving farmers.
Or fish.
Newport Pagnell Bee
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Yeovil Town
There's an awful lot of cattle & sheep plus loads of flooded fields in their catchment area.
Wise old Bee
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Yeovil Town
I quite like their supporters, although in their non-league days there were some serious mentalists amongst them. There were a lot of clubs who it would have been so much worse to lose a playoff final to. I thought their strikers might have done better in Div 1 though. I always had respect for Doncaster who have always tried to play decent football but then they appoint Paul Dickov who was presumably appointed under the violent gobby scotsman rule that so many clubs seem to apply when looking for a manager.
badgerbee
Mafeking Avenue........gets you there!!!!
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Don't remind me......
Had a 2 hour drive back down the A303 in amongst them all after the game......
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