From what I can see, the Blues have adopted a cut-your-cloth-to-measure mentality over the last two seasons. The situations with Stephen Henderson and Gary Dunphy, while conceivably caused by poor administration, are not symptomatic of day-to-day profligacy.
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That's my reading of it as well. I would have a lot of sympathy with the view these two specific issues appear to have been poorly handled, but the day-to-day finances have been prudently managed.
The club has not overspent in recent years. In fact, that's played a large part in why we've been down in the FD for so long. Before these exceptional items came along, I would have argued we were a model of sustainability. The very sad part, from our point of view, is that this prudence now largely counts for nought, as the monies owed to Stephen Henderson in particular have overtaken matters.
My posts elsewhere will I hope point out what I feel on these issues, but there is a difference between monies owed that arise out of an unplanned dispute (and therefore wouldn't form part of your budgeting) and wilful, planned, unsustainable overspending on, for example, players.
They're hardly day-to-day expenses, are they? I'm not saying the club doesn't owe the money and shouldn't pay out. But if someone is on minimum wage and meeting their regular bills only to find out their child needs expensive dentist work that they can't afford, you wouldn't accuse them of being reckless. Or maybe you would.
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The disputes with Stephen Henderson and Gary Dunphy were only concluded in the last six months. Maybe you think that the club should have kept sums which amount to a multiple of annual turnover in the bank in case they lost these cases. If you believe that, fine. I don't think that's reasonable but we can agree to differ. I don't see any megabucks deals being done this season with the current squad that prevented them settling with either party and given the numbers who have gone through the turnstiles at the RSC this season, that's just as well.
Now before anyone says it, I don't think the club should kicked the can down the road as they seem to have done with Stephen Henderson. They should have sat down with him and said that come the next friendly payday they'd be able to see him right. They seem to have hoped the problem would just go away, which was foolish and wrong.
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deisach.
Will United be sticking with the current managment structure do you reckon?
Genuine question.
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Last edited by gormacha; 21/06/2013 at 2:13 PM.
I don't think it costs a lot. Your position, on the other hand, seems to be that Waterford United should spend zero on wages because they owe money to a third party. If Stephen Henderson is going to be paid using the money saved from the current wage bill, he's going to be old and grey(er) before he sees it all.
Is Breen doing his badges ATM? I think if you're currently a coach on a course for a full FAI Coaching badge then you can be appointed manager ala Darius for DundalkFC last year.
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