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Originally Posted by MichaelP
No matter who the manager has been for the last 15 years + . Overnight stays don’t seem very successful when you look at games we have stayed in hotels for.
What I couldn’t get was the team travelled down on Monday for a game on Tuesday evening.
It used to be that if we had a game in midweek we wouldn’t bother with Hotels but if it was a weekend game and involved a lot of mileage a hotel the night before would be a given.
Now even at the cheapest calculations if you take into account the accommodation and food that all staff would need it’s a big part of the yearly spend.
Say you have 2 players to one room. = £50 for the room x 8 rooms for a squad of 16 players that would come to = £400
Then you of course have management so say Manager / coaches / Physio etc say another 4 rooms = £200
That comes to £600.
Plus meals and drinks could quite easily have not much change from £1,000 from match preparations as opposed to travelling on day and that’s based on the cheapest accommodation food possible booking in advance.
If you then x that be say = 15 games = £15,000 !!
Now if we were successful then it could be argued money well spent but when more often than not it isn’t . Then the money would be much better spent somewhere else?
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Agree with the above. May be I am bad minded but I have often thought that some players could be up half the night having a bet playing cards and thus not getting a proper nights sleep.
Please tell me I am wrong that they are too professional to do anything like that?