pineapple stu
08/09/2019, 7:57 PM
I think we're on to at least three different threads at this stage, so feel free to split!
Just for clarity, I wasnt suggesting that UCD should merge with another club, just wondering whether AFC were independant enough from the college for it to happen. Similarly if someone decided to pump some money in to the senior football side of things whether the college would take exception to not having a significant say in what goes on.
I don't think the club could make that decision. Though there's no interest in it anyway. I don't think the college have any active say in the club bar general governance (though they did have to give the club the go-ahead to start playing non-students back in the early 80s).
Ironically, the advent of the national underage teams probably impacted UCD's budget- the teams don't come cheap and that's more pressure on the senior budget.
Well it impacted on everyone's budget in fairness. But if three extra teams costs, say, E75k, that'd all be from the first-team budget really. But if you have three teams with wages budgets of, say, 400k, 200k and 100k, then introduce three new teams and their first-team budgets reduce to 325k, 125k and 25k. So obviously the drop from 100k to 25k is the most severe, and that's what we're seeing now.
At least the FAI are giving that travel grant of E700 or whatever it is though. :rolleyes:
Just for clarity, I wasnt suggesting that UCD should merge with another club, just wondering whether AFC were independant enough from the college for it to happen. Similarly if someone decided to pump some money in to the senior football side of things whether the college would take exception to not having a significant say in what goes on.
I don't think the club could make that decision. Though there's no interest in it anyway. I don't think the college have any active say in the club bar general governance (though they did have to give the club the go-ahead to start playing non-students back in the early 80s).
Ironically, the advent of the national underage teams probably impacted UCD's budget- the teams don't come cheap and that's more pressure on the senior budget.
Well it impacted on everyone's budget in fairness. But if three extra teams costs, say, E75k, that'd all be from the first-team budget really. But if you have three teams with wages budgets of, say, 400k, 200k and 100k, then introduce three new teams and their first-team budgets reduce to 325k, 125k and 25k. So obviously the drop from 100k to 25k is the most severe, and that's what we're seeing now.
At least the FAI are giving that travel grant of E700 or whatever it is though. :rolleyes: