Sounds more likely....I hope.

That's the one area where the cheap pledge tickets caused us some problems. With standard prices there would always be more walk-ins spread throughout the year for home games. The cheap tickets made sure that apart from away fans, the majority of ticket income was pre-season. There were many other benefits to the pledge ticket deals but this was not one.

That is where the overdraft comes in useful. Damn banks!!

Are we still blaming RBS for this?



As I understand it:



1) We owed them £150k



2) We asked them to increase that.



3) They said no, and cut the facility.



4) We then announced that we need £1m to survive the season.



Weren't they proved right? They may have acted in a very heavy handed manner, but would we have been better off if they'd lent us another £100-200k?

Would this loss include the "extraordinary" payments being made to another club rumoured to be a round £300,000 PA. If so this would have been around break even which would be a reasonable year.

Good point



Might be worth remembering why were making these payments - maybe through an article in the T&A

Overdraft facility was agreed with Nat West and much higher than £150,000

Written agreement was in place to reduce over a "reasonable" period (many months)

Substantial headroom was achieved in mid March way ahead of agreed schedule at which point bank pulled the plug

VAT for last 2 seasons not an issue. Check accounts and do the math

2011 accounts will show a profit

Business model after November shows neutral income and expenditure

So why do we urgently need £1m?

To get through to November

But there are two problems - getting through to November is certainly one, but to assume because a business plan balances everything will be fine is naive in the extreme and lets face it hardly any business plans see the light of day which aren't good. The problem is while the costs next year are pretty certain - there is always less certainty about income and those little or not so little skeletons which com out of the Bulls cupboard, you need to have some contingency apart from begging from the fans.

The costs are controllable as the vast majority are football related.

Forecast income can be based upon many things that may or may not be certain, naivety would be for the club to forecast the uncertain, which I am sure they would not, after we have committed our hard earned cash to the pledge.They will need to cut their cloth to their forecast "guaranteed" income rather than being overly optimistic.

Just my assumption.

Positive looking cash flow forecasts and business plans are also useful tools for encouraging external investment, for example if you were wanting to shift your shares in a business.



It's up to the buyer to be able to spot any potential flaws or holes in the logic.