If that's the case then it looks like they have likely said not at this point then thankyou. Unless you come back with a huge offer for both us and the club.
Exactly right i think.
Repeating again what Danny said that namely staff have a value as much as players do and if any unbelievable offer is made that either they or the club can't turn down then a move could well happen, but it's not what they are looking for, they want to stay and continue the mission.
Now obviously West Brom and their ilk can pay many times what we can but Danny knows it will be a fairly hostile environment in comparison. Prima donna premier league players earning millions, a board who expect promotion only and will sack you if you're outside the top two at Christmas, fans who'll want you sacked if you lose two games in a row etc etc
So for Danny and Nicky it will be about weighing all that and a big but brief pay packet against what they have at Lincoln.
Whilst for our board, how would they rate an unbelievable offer?
How much are Danny and Nicky worth to us?
The football fortune that Danny talks about, the lengthy successful cup runs, well we have hardly had such things ever, just a 3rd round of the cup once every 15 years maybe. The earnings in last three seasons are therefore all down to Danny and Nicky and the board would have to assume not likely to be repeated for a long time.
Player trading has also taken a big upturn under them. Major sales with Raggett and Woodyard and Waterfall and even Green.
In previous seasons we had to pay off players to get them to leave.
It is likely we will see 2 or 3 big sales this close season too. So again that player acquisition and trading one or two on for big profit is something the board cannot expect to continue at anywhere near the same level without the Cowleys
Then there is us lot. We've always had big big turnouts for key games (cups, play offs, promotion games, relegation games and so on) but i cannot remember near sell out crowds for game after game after game all season long ever.
They have basically tripled out attendances.
Will they fall right back down post-Cowleys? I don't think so but I'd expect them to drop to somewhere in the 5000 to 6000 level.
So overall for the board to value the Cowleys staying vs a post-Cowley era, there must surely be a value per season of several millions to keep them. If the board then took a ten year ahead valuation of the Cowleys, it could easily be anything from £30 to £50 million.
So for me, any "unbelievable offer" has to at least make a major dent in that kind of figure if not match it, for it to make any sense for the board to consider accepting it (in the event of Danny and Nicky not accepting any such offer otherwise that is).