DurhamGills
Vital Squad Member
Looking at this from a different angle Durham do you believe the squad quality has increased this season. We will forget those who resigned and look at the departures and arrivals.
Hess V Parrett
Martin V RCC
Wagstaff V Hanlan
Morris V Rees
Nugent V Fuller
In terms of Quality or anticipated salary can we argue that any of those who left would be on lower salaries than those we signed ?
I think its that basis that people argue that the budget has been reduced.
To be fair to Scally our average attendance dropped 12% on the previous year so some sort of reduction in outgoings is perhaps justified.
Bottom line though is that although it can't be proved for all the reasons stated in the posts above it would APPEAR that we are signing players of lower wage demands and it follows they will probably be of lower quality/experience or more of a gamble
You can do that for so long but people might stop paying league one ticket prices to watch league 2 / non league footballers. It will be interesting to see how the average attendance pans out this season.
http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/aveeng.htm
Cant argue with that BUT SL did say he wanted to go for younger players and they normally have a lower base cost plus some of the players you are comparing with have had more than one contract extension as their experience and performance built up with us.
I doubt the salary of players vary by much club to club (with exception's like Sunderland) as agents represent numerous players so tehy have a good idea of what other clubs are paying.