Bohs accounts

I'm nit-picking slightly here, but are the bar staff part-time? €104,880 on wages between 4 people, working 17.5 hours per week, works out at just under €29 an hour.
Operational expenses look very high also. €15k on stationery and postage, €15k on phones.

It's absolutely frightening reading....how can any Bohs member justify the spending??.....any club can do what has happened here....spend money that you don't have! :eek:

Does not make good reading for bohs.
Hopefully they can survive in some form or another because a rivalry is no use if there is only 1 participant.unless your roy keane or course!
maybe a spell in the "discover ireland" league will do them good and give the members/fans a real sense of perspective on whether or not they actually want a club to support.
Rovers have a ****e team at the moment but none of that can undermine the pride and satisfaction we have in knowing our club is on a safer footing and we are on the road to where we feel we belong. success.

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Originally Posted by Jersey Cow

It's absolutely frightening reading....how can any Bohs member justify the spending??.....any club can do what has happened here....spend money that you don't have! :eek:

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Simple answer ..... They cant !!

If i was a member for any length of time and knew what was going on now i'd be losing the rag. The board have basically stuck two fingers up at the whole membership.

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Originally Posted by A face

Simple answer ..... They cant !!

If i was a member for any length of time and knew what was going on now i'd be losing the rag. The board have basically stuck two fingers up at the whole membership.

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How have the Board done that?
It's one member one vote. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that not enough members either cared enough to exercise their duty or that the majority of members agreed with the way things were being run.

It's not as if these accounts are a surprise!

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Originally Posted by A face

Simple answer ..... They cant !!

If i was a member for any length of time and knew what was going on now i'd be losing the rag. The board have basically stuck two fingers up at the whole membership.

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What you don't seem to realise is that the majority of their membership are as clueless as their board. At their members meetings there are a handful of sane ones who voice their disatisfaction but they are usually shouted down and out voted by the majority of the members. Originally I thought the whole "Bohs fans are clueless" thing was just a Rovers in joke but most of them really are clueless. Take a look at their forum - they're probably still talking about champions league qualification like they were a few weeks ago. They're still singing we are invinciple every week and has anyone heard any sack the board chants coming from the terraces? No didn't think so.

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Originally Posted by HulaHoop

has anyone heard any sack the board chants coming from the terraces? No didn't think so.

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Well we can safely say that you weren't at the Bohs match last Friday.

Interesting to note the cost of running under age teams. Rose from 15k to 130k. Put this down to A-League i'd say but it shows for the smaller teams like Sligo: How much of a challenge it is to put a team in this league. 115k a season: This is 10% of our turnover. And with a grant of 24k from FAI to run this team its still not viable imo.

I hope to god that the figure of 428,555 includes Connors settlement because if this is not true that is shambolic. What are they thinking?

Anyone notise how gate reciepts dropped a massive 20%plus (110k) in a double winning season. TV income down 50% and sponsorship hit too. If they didn't get that extra 400k last year in prize money they would be ....

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Originally Posted by Inside Man

Interesting to note the cost of running under age teams. Rose from 15k to 130k. Put this down to A-League i'd say but it shows for the smaller teams like Sligo: How much of a challenge it is to put a team in this league. 115k a season: This is 10% of our turnover. And with a grant of 24k from FAI to run this team its still not viable imo.

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No way running a A championship side costs that. If you can't run it for under the 24k there's something badly, badly wrong.

I'd be very interested to know what the 115k was spent on..

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Originally Posted by Inside Man

Interesting to note the cost of running under age teams. Rose from 15k to 130k. Put this down to A-League i'd say but it shows for the smaller teams like Sligo: How much of a challenge it is to put a team in this league. 115k a season: This is 10% of our turnover. And with a grant of 24k from FAI to run this team its still not viable imo.

I hope to god that the figure of 428,555 includes Connors settlement because if this is not true that is shambolic. What are they thinking?

Anyone notise how gate reciepts dropped a massive 20%plus (110k) in a double winning season. TV income down 50% and sponsorship hit too. If they didn't get that extra 400k last year in prize money they would be ....

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Gate receipts drop is because we had Sunderland and Wolves friendleis in 2007 and Sean Connor's court case was in December, our financial year ended in November.

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Originally Posted by Inside Man

Interesting to note the cost of running under age teams rose from 15k to 130k. Put this down to A-League i'd say

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That is not alarming, because i dont believe it. That sounds well dodgy and this WILL be all over the papers this year. I hope to god its not during the season.

Shels win the league and go bust
Bohs win the league and go bust

And people say that wont send out a bad message.

As a City fan I can't really talk as we have our own problems but going from one month where the club were FOOKED and looked like they would be part time and not able to pay players to then go and bulk up your squad with new players and keep the old ones:confused:

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Originally Posted by A face

That is not alarming, because i dont believe it. That sounds well dodgy and this WILL be all over the papers this year. I hope to god its not during the season.

Shels win the league and go bust
Bohs win the league and go bust

And people say that wont send out a bad message.

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What happened the other 2 clubs to recently win the league?

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Originally Posted by A face

That is not alarming, because i dont believe it. That sounds well dodgy and this WILL be all over the papers this year. I hope to god its not during the season.

Shels win the league and go bust
Bohs win the league and go bust

And people say that wont send out a bad message.

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might as well add us to that/came out of it slightly better than shels but not a whole lot

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Originally Posted by stamullendrog

might as well add us to that/came out of it slightly better than shels but not a whole lot

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You're out of it are you? :eek:

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Originally Posted by Dalymountrower

Diverting and all as this must be for some of the posters on here who will never get to see a set of audited accounts for their own clubs, apart from the faux shock/horror the reality is that Bohs is an asset rich club but one which has been negligently administered in the past four to five years (as if you all didn`t know). If it was to continue to be administered in the same manner we would be out of business by 2013. We will have a largely new Board in the next few months which should stop the haemorraging over the next two years.
Any company with assets conservatively at 25-30 million and cumulative debts at 5-8 million tops would be considered as very healthy in the current economic climate .
With improved skill mix and better governance at Board level we`ll come out of this stronger and still considerably richer than any other club in the league. And yes, we are invincible

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With that logic do you work for Irish Nationwide by any chance.........will you come down from that cloud you are on and back to reality.

You say your debts (that can be called in at anytime by your creditors especially so in current climate) are estimated at Eur 5-8 million, which is scary enough having a Eur 3m window of discrepancy and an alleged
Eur 25-30m so called asset that no one wants to buy now or in the forseeable future.

It is staggering beyond belief that you and the board do not see an issue with that.

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Any company with assets conservatively at 25-30 million and cumulative debts at 5-8 million tops would be considered as very healthy in the current economic climate .
With improved skill mix and better governance at Board level we`ll come out of this stronger and still considerably richer than any other club in the league. And yes, we are invincible

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Originally Posted by SkStu

we laughed at Rovers when they made monumental f*ck up after monumental f*ck up after monumental f*ck up. We laughed at Shels too. We just laugh at Pats anyway.

Enjoy the moment lads. :ball:

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To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemoeller:

In Ireland they first came for the Shelbourne,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Shelbourne fan.

Then they came for Drogheda United,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Drogheda fan.

Then they came for the Cork City,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Cork fan.

Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up

:(

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Originally Posted by thischarmingman

In Ireland they first came for the Shelbourne,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Shelbourne fan.

Then they came for Drogheda United,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Drogheda fan.

Then they came for the Cork City,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Cork fan.

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bloody barstooler.

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Originally Posted by thischarmingman

Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up

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There's always Pineapple Stu.