HangletonGull
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- Apr 10, 2023
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Didt lewes fc almost fold about 10/15 years ago or am I dreaming it
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[Football] Lewes FC.
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keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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When the women got relegated we lost a lot funding and sponsorship decreased. We don't have rich benefactors which is how most of the teams at this level pay for stuff.
We may have to have a lower budget than we did in some previous years, but from what members of the board have said this year's budget will be more than last year's(that was tiny compared to previous years though).
We've got new experienced coaches though and players are signing. And the men are playing at a division above than they were before Equality FC started
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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If memory serves, there was some chancer with his eye on the Dripping Pan prime real estate around that time. Then the club got registered as a community asset and he quickly lost interest
Super Steve Earle
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If you already knew a bit, perhaps you could make a personal contribution to the thread from ground level?
jackalbion
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- Aug 30, 2011
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From my understanding it’s based on the funding model of the club, could see this coming for a while. The ‘woke‘ headline nonsense really does not get into what is causing the problems there at all.
Wait, is equal pay "woke" now?
FFS they really ought to publish lists of this stuff, it's impossible to remember what is and isn't woke at any one time anymore.
FFS they really ought to publish lists of this stuff, it's impossible to remember what is and isn't woke at any one time anymore.
keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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They emailed owners a few weeks ago asking if people could buy season tickets, merch, life memberships or donate. This was to cover the close season.
They had a break even budget last season and expect to this season.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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And from the Lewes FC forum the Telegraph source Barry Collins only spoke to them because they ran a story on him 6 years ago when he resigned and it was inaccurate. Most of the comments they have included are from 6 years ago he says.
You'd have to wonder why they chose to do that, or why they have such interest in a 7th tier football club
You'd have to wonder why they chose to do that, or why they have such interest in a 7th tier football club
…as opposed to starting threads to have a pop at the Labour Party?
I was (more so on the women’s side), but much less so now. @keaton summarises the funding issues and good to hear that it maybe isn‘t as bad as being reported. Completely agree with you on the survival of the women in T2 - Durham aside, they were competing with clubs linked to much higher-ranking men’s teams and with the women’s game in a spiral of increasing spending were never likely to be able sustain competing at that level. There were significant divides within the club though (a couple of years ago anyway) - a % of the board were far less enthusiastic about progression of the women’s team. Much of the funding of the women’s team came from FA grants (including several staff salaries) but there wasn’t much transparency (even to ‘owners’) on the relative total costs of the two teams so it’s difficult to know exactly where the money is/was being splashed.
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cjd
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Were the admission prices for both the men and the womens games the same ?
Yes - was actual playing budgets that were equalised, but my sense was the club were very happy for it to be published as ‘equal pay’. Personally always thought it was daft anyway - why would T2 and T7 squads necessarily be due the same pay
SweatyMexican
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- Mar 31, 2013
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Allowing girls and women to play football at all I’m sure they’d label as a ‘woke’ opinion back in the day.
People playing football is woke.
Which would be a great argument if they then generated the same money from gate receipts etc, but they don’t
- Oct 17, 2008
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But people earn more based on the revenue they bring in. Top Camogie players earn a fraction of the salary of top footballers, because nobody watches or gives a shit about camogie.
In Lewes’s case, it isn’t so much the attendances which are fairly equal across both teams, but all the other expenses incurred with running two professional clubs simulataneously when all the other expenses are taken into account.
It was hugely ambitious and well meant, but completely impractical from a business perspective.
cjd
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Thankyou.