And as schumi quite rightly put it things dont work like that. A contract is a contract and while the season is still going on the players have to be paid each week simple as that.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
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And as schumi quite rightly put it things dont work like that. A contract is a contract and while the season is still going on the players have to be paid each week simple as that.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
I think the issue of pay is a distraction. The bigger issue is that 10 or 20 thousand people are being inconvenienced and the two teams competing are having their schedules interrupted for the sake of a small number of officials. It puts the FAI's priorities into perspective.
I think it should be at the player's own discretion. But if they knew they'd be playing again in two weeks they're hardly going to go on a mad one in Amsterdam for the weekend. Players are people too. You'd expect them to have a bit of cop on and take their job seriously. I don't see how two weeks off would really induce a malaise in their exercise. They are, after all, athletes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
On the financial side, aren't all clubs that remain going to be budgeting with the FAI Cup final in mind. i.e. they know they have an extra week to pay the players for so it's not as if they can't readjust their financial projections. Maybe they pull the plug on a proposed PR stunt or wait til after the Semis to look at transfers. Surely all of this falls into competent accounting?
Your point simply isn't valid, I'm afraid, superfrank. schumi's reasons are correct - you can't tell the players to go away and keep fit for a week any more than you can tell them to go away during the week, keep fit and only pay them for 90 minutes' work. It's utterly unfair to even suggest they go off and train for the biggest game of the season for nothing because the club wasn't expecting it to be put back another week.
You can readjust financial projections all you want; that doesn't necessarily change reality. It's very short notice to be asking for an extra week's wages (on top of the two extra which were already needed), which is the biggest single expense a club has. By definition, it's very hard to cut that much money out of your budget at short notice. One promo does not equate to one week's wages.
Obviously, though, a sensible club wouldn't have budgeted to get to the Cup Final in the first place, so by virtue of reaching it, they'd have exceeded their budget enough to cover the extra three weeks' wages. That said, I know it's a major concern for us if we reach it.
Why should they have to?Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
Because of FAI incompetence!!I think I would be sending the bill to Merrion Square if I was the Treasurer of any of these clubs!!
Thats all great ..... if you pay players €20 a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
All the same Frank, you should write a book on economics, i'd wager it would be very enlightening