stevoraith Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 Unless Hibs fail to get through their European tie this week…. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastie Russell Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 13 hours ago, SirJimmyofNic said: 55k pays a players wages for the season or 2 or 3 loanees Would be concerned if we have even 1 player on wages within 10k a year of this. regarding the prize money have Viaplay already coughed this up to the SPFL ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 (edited) Folk have a mental idea of what the players earn. Do you honestly think we don’t have players on £45k a year? That’s a little over £850 a week. The majority of the squad will be on at least that amount. Edited July 31, 2023 by Hank Scorpio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAITHROVERS84 Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 12 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said: Folk have a mental idea of what the players earn. Do you honestly think we don’t have players on £45k a year? That’s a little over £850 a week. The majority of the squad will be on at least that amount. This. It would surprise me more if people thought we’ve nailed every top target by offering £280 a week. Im sure back in the day someone was bankrolling big Marv to the tune of £5k a month. Go even further back and guys like Stevie Crawford I’m sure were on £3k a week at the Pars. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossgatesCynic Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 43 minutes ago, RAITHROVERS84 said: This. It would surprise me more if people thought we’ve nailed every top target by offering £280 a week. Im sure back in the day someone was bankrolling big Marv to the tune of £5k a month. Go even further back and guys like Stevie Crawford I’m sure were on £3k a week at the Pars. For some reason it’s always stuck in my head that I read in FourFourTwo once that Crawford - once upon a time - was the highest paid player in Scottish fitba outwith the Old Firm, on £4.5k a week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossgatesCynic Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 10 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said: Reckon there is almost no chance of the game being the Saturday. Hibs and Hearts will both very likely be playing the Thursday. Think one might be lunch time and one tea time on the Sunday. Shite, eh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Just now, CrossgatesCynic said: For some reason it’s always stuck in my head that I read in FourFourTwo once that Crawford - once upon a time - was the highest paid player in Scottish fitba outwith the Old Firm, on £4.5k a week. The figures that came out from Dunfermline were ridiculous. I think wages were well in excess of over 100% of their turnover. The late 90s and early 00s were an absolute embarrassment of a time for club finances in Scottish football. Nearly every club who were currently between the bottom 6 of the top flight down to the tail end of the old first division were in some form financial trouble. You had clubs like us renovating to meet the 10,000 criteria post Hillsborough and others chucking money at players. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastie Russell Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 3 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said: Folk have a mental idea of what the players earn. Do you honestly think we don’t have players on £45k a year? That’s a little over £850 a week. The majority of the squad will be on at least that amount. If that’s the basic wage, before any bonus or add ons (appearance fees, win bonus etc) then yes I would be concerned. if it includes all of the above then I’d be more relaxed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAITHROVERS84 Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 2 hours ago, CrossgatesCynic said: For some reason it’s always stuck in my head that I read in FourFourTwo once that Crawford - once upon a time - was the highest paid player in Scottish fitba outwith the Old Firm, on £4.5k a week. You could well be correct with Stevie Crawford and £4.5k. Mental times at the Pars back then. Remember Goodwillie was a £120k 2 year deal / £5k a month. I would imagine several of our players are on decent dough and new management will look to recoup on via improved commercial activity. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossgatesCynic Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 10 minutes ago, Beastie Russell said: If that’s the basic wage, before any bonus or add ons (appearance fees, win bonus etc) then yes I would be concerned. if it includes all of the above then I’d be more relaxed. There will be a wage structure in place, like any football club. A full time Championship side like the Rovers will absolutely have top earners on anywhere ~£750+ a week as a basic wage. Bonuses will obviously be incentivised over & above dependent on the individual contract. It could probably be worked out from the accounts, based on wage expenditure vs. squad size, what the average wage is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 3 hours ago, RAITHROVERS84 said: This. It would surprise me more if people thought we’ve nailed every top target by offering £280 a week. Im sure back in the day someone was bankrolling big Marv to the tune of £5k a month. Go even further back and guys like Stevie Crawford I’m sure were on £3k a week at the Pars. Think that himself and Craig Brewster were wanting 5k a week each at one point. I'm sure there was a news article about it kicking around. What they ended up on, or what they were on at the time would've been less but not miles away you'd imagine. From memory I think wages were at 120% of turnover or thereabouts. When we were more fan run it wasn't uncommon for players wages to come out, there's some decent money kicking about at this level. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 51 minutes ago, CrossgatesCynic said: There will be a wage structure in place, like any football club. A full time Championship side like the Rovers will absolutely have top earners on anywhere ~£750+ a week as a basic wage. Bonuses will obviously be incentivised over & above dependent on the individual contract. It could probably be worked out from the accounts, based on wage expenditure vs. squad size, what the average wage is. Exactly this, work it back. Our top earners will be on in excess of £1k a week basic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Toun Clock Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Aye Crawford was on an absolute fortune, certainly at the latter end of his first stint before he went down south. Him and Brewster were regularly up the scoring chats behind the likes of Larsson and the other OF strikers at the time. I recall Crawford's wages being discussed, could all be BS but he was on a really good basic weekly wage, thousands, then had bonuses for appearance, goals, assists. A good game for him could see £5K p/w. Absolute madness! I'd imagine he was the highest but looking at that 2003/04 team when we finished 4th in the SPL and got to the Scottish Cup Final, there would have been big hitters in there. Darren and Derek Young were the next big things to come out of Aberdeen, turned a new deal down to join us. Barry Nic, Brewster would have been on good money. Skerla was a Lithuanian international. Then boys who had been involved for years like Shields, Thomson, Bullen, Mason, Dempsey, even Noel Hunt and he rarely got a look in due to Crawford and Brewster's partnership. No wonder we nearly went down the pan! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 For anyone to wanting to experience how bad the commentary on the stream was on Saturday: https://youtu.be/uN2r1eX1hqo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted July 31, 2023 Author Share Posted July 31, 2023 18 minutes ago, Broken Algorithms said: For anyone to wanting to experience how bad the commentary on the stream was on Saturday: https://youtu.be/uN2r1eX1hqo Fucking hell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuma Power Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 52 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said: Exactly this, work it back. Our top earners will be on in excess of £1k a week basic. Especially when you take into account that we still have a few guys that were signed/given new contracts by the previous manager and may well have add-ons built in. Once you factor in 'McGlynnflation*' some of our longer-serving players may well be on £1k+ a week basic. (*credit goes to whoever came up with this term first on the thread!) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountryBumpkin Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 £1k a week seems pretty fair in this day and age for players at the top of this level. I always feel that for some people, they equate the value now to that of years ago, a bit of "back in my day". Same with ticket prices for grounds. On another note, I see we've got hospitality available to book for all home games this season on Fanbase already. A nice change from last year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirJimmyofNic Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 7 hours ago, Beastie Russell said: Would be concerned if we have even 1 player on wages within 10k a year of this. regarding the prize money have Viaplay already coughed this up to the SPFL ? I read a while ago that the viaplay money for the whole competition was paid and had been banked 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirJimmyofNic Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 On the subject of our potential prize money, even if it's not spent on any more players, it'll go a fair way towards the costs of bringing the infrastructure to where they want it to be 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Roughly speaking, the salaries of the 35-36 employees (average number during the year) of the Club should be coming from the £878,238 line items in both the 2021 and 2022 Club accounts report. That would be employees of Raith Rovers Football Club LTD, both years we had about a total of 31 players on the books of varying amounts of time. The actual, player years, probably totaled around 26, and probably accounted for the vast majority of the salary expenditures. £1,000/week, or £52,000/year, would eat that up pretty quickly. But £500/week, or £26,000/year would pay 26 salary years at £676,000/year…leaving just over £200,000 for the other team employees. However, we have lowered costs for some of the loanees and loaned players, while there is the downside of performance bonuses. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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