Off-field redundancies - have there been any?

[Gamble92]

Quite right too.

 

Would be really difficult to stomach the idea of players paid a total of 3 or 4 staff's yearly salary in a week are responsible for people potentially not being able to eat, pay bills or even lose their homes, just because of their pathetic efforts on the pitch. 

[promised land]

1 hour ago, Bayfox said:

Mate of mine works up at the training ground in a part time capacity with the younger age groups and was classed as casual, he's actually been taken on as permanent staff this summer so it seems it's business as usual. Think if we didn't go back up things may change.

 

However I suppose its false economy in a way. Having spent all that money on the training ground. To let the pitches, golf course facilities etc run down and get in a poor state benefits no one.

 

And 55 staff may sound a lot but I guess if you have the catering staff for 1st team and academy sides, along with the coaches at all levels, green and pitch keepers etc there's a separate landscaping team as well I believe it would be a small team for each area.

 

There used to be 4 green keepers for the 9 hole course but since relegation I’ve been told by someone up there it’s now 2.

 

Be interesting to know how many actually play the course weekly as most players are members at proper clubs. Maybe it will open as a pay and play?  

 

 

[Bluearmyfox28]

21 hours ago, lcfc_forever said:

Tanner said there had been minimal, the club are like a family and protected staff as much as possible as they did during the pandemic: 

 

The only area he mentioned a reduction is related to match day staff.

As much as it’s nice on paper to be a “family club” it’s also one of our biggest downfalls, Rudkin being a prime example.

[lcfc_forever]

18 minutes ago, Bluearmyfox28 said:

As much as it’s nice on paper to be a “family club” it’s also one of our biggest downfalls, Rudkin being a prime example.

Yeah, it's that thing about a core strength at different times being a weakness. 

 

Rudkin was there when we had unparalleled success as well, but last season was such a fiasco there should have been more accountability. 

[Bayfox]

4 hours ago, promised land said:

There used to be 4 green keepers for the 9 hole course but since relegation I’ve been told by someone up there it’s now 2.

 

Be interesting to know how many actually play the course weekly as most players are members at proper clubs. Maybe it will open as a pay and play?  

 

 

Interesting. 

 

I cant imagine many play it. Would have given them a bug but playing the same 9 over and over was never gonna happen.

 

Yeah I know, madders, barnes, jonny and a few others such as Thomas and nacho basically spent half the week at Birstall, beedles, Blaby etc 

 

The amount of photos that crop up on my Facebook or arrive via what's app from people who have bumped into them playing was unreal for a while. 

 

Well until the madders, barnes, kdh, Thomas car pool discovered the grosvenor anyway 😅

[iancognito]

Tanner mentioned on one of his end of season musings that all redundancies or "efficiency savings" would be made on the football side not the BTS staff.

[Holly B]

9 hours ago, promised land said:

There used to be 4 green keepers for the 9 hole course but since relegation I’ve been told by someone up there it’s now 2.

 

Be interesting to know how many actually play the course weekly as most players are members at proper clubs. Maybe it will open as a pay and play?  

 

 

Many a true word said in jest 

 

Maybe not pay and play but big corporate golfing days on the horizon to bring in some much needed cash apparently 

[Sly]

Seagrave gets used for various other operations, so is an income stream. To run at these level, you need the people. 
 

Long term, if we attract one player who sells for £10,000,000 rather than them joining Forest or Derby, then it’s worth it. 

[Daggers]

10 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

 

…Training is zero …

I don’t think it’s even possible to train someone who thinks it’s OK to put a slice of lemon into red wine

[Lillehamring]

8 minutes ago, Daggers said:

I don’t think it’s even possible to train someone who thinks it’s OK to put a slice of lemon into red wine

Port and lemon drinkers may beg to differ... 

[Daggers]

Port is just a snob’s MD20/20. 
 

 

[Vlad the Fox]

12 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

Vaguely know somebody who works (ed) in the community programme at some level and they said to me back in April they'd be out if we got relegated and there was plenty of tension about it. Only a friend of a friend really but assume they have now left.

I know a couple of people who worked in the community programme and they said to me that they would lose their jobs if we went down. I’ve not seen them since the end of the season so don’t know if it happened but I know they were applying for other jobs.

[Vlad the Fox]

24 minutes ago, Daggers said:

I don’t think it’s even possible to train someone who thinks it’s OK to put a slice of lemon into red wine

It could have been a customer request, when I worked behind a bar I once had a group of Germans in who wanted guiness shandy. ****ing guiness shandy, that was a right ball ache to pour, they’d then stare in wonder as they watched it settle. 

[SemperEadem]

3 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

It could have been a customer request, when I worked behind a bar I once had a group of Germans in who wanted guiness shandy. ****ing guiness shandy, that was a right ball ache to pour, they’d then stare in wonder as they watched it settle. 

That the most un German drink order ever.

[Gamble92]

5 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

It could have been a customer request, when I worked behind a bar I once had a group of Germans in who wanted guiness shandy. ****ing guiness shandy, that was a right ball ache to pour, they’d then stare in wonder as they watched it settle. 

That's abhorrent 

[Daggers]

12 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

It could have been a customer request, when I worked behind a bar I once had a group of Germans in who wanted guiness shandy. ****ing guiness shandy, that was a right ball ache to pour, they’d then stare in wonder as they watched it settle. 

I would have left the building. No one should have to suffer work conditions that abhorrent. 

[Vlad the Fox]

13 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

That the most un German drink order ever.

 

11 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

That's abhorrent 

 

3 minutes ago, Daggers said:

I would have left the building. No one should have to suffer work conditions that abhorrent. 

 

 

It was an absolute ****ing disgrace, I was getting close to a Basil Faulty style tantrum by the end of the night.  

[tom27111]

2 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

 

 

 

 

It was an absolute ****ing disgrace, I was getting close to a Basil Faulty style tantrum by the end of the night.  

 

I once served a Spaniard who requested a Guinness shandy.

 

But instead of lemonade, he insisted I used a bottle of lemon Fanta. 

 

This was in an Irish pub.

 

I think the regulars were too shocked to kick the shit out of him.

 

 

[Vlad the Fox]

2 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

I once served a Spaniard who requested a Guinness shandy.

 

But instead of lemonade, he insisted I used a bottle of lemon Fanta. 

 

This was in an Irish pub.

 

I think the regulars were too shocked to kick the shit out of him.

 

 

Back in my youth I was on the holiday with some mates in Majorca. One night I had a really bad throat so asked for a brandy and peppermint as I  wanted to stay on it but thought the pep cordial would do my thought good. The barman was insisting with me it was not good and not to have it but I insisted has I’d served it back home and it was a drink if uncommon. Anyway in the end he gave up and poured it for me and it was ****ing rancid, I stood at the bar making out I was enjoying it while he stood looking at me in disgust. What he had served with my brandy instead of a peppermint cordial was a peppermint liquor  

 

And no it didn’t make my throat any better. 

[tom27111]

I had a mate who wasn't technically an alcoholic, but he drank way too much.

 

If he ever had a bad cold, he'd still come out drinking, but instead of getting on the beer he'd say "just get me a bottle of Reef, mate. Vitamin C innit?" 

[Daggers]

3 hours ago, tom27111 said:

 

I once served a Spaniard who requested a Guinness shandy.

 

But instead of lemonade, he insisted I used a bottle of lemon Fanta. 

 

This was in an Irish pub.

 

I think the regulars were too shocked to kick the shit out of him.

 

 

If he was Spanish he’d have athked for a Guinneth Thandy. I suspect you just misunderstood him, or mithunderthtood (en español).

 

He’s somewhere on a Spanish football forum right now, telling people about the time he ordered a toastie and a nice pint or sometching and some cvnt poured him a stout with fizzy pop top.

 

“Yo thera muy polite y yo not complainado un poco,” he’s telling them.

 

*yes, my insomnia has kicked in tonight and I’m very bored

[sylofox]

7 hours ago, Vlad the Fox said:

 

 

 

 

It was an absolute ****ing disgrace, I was getting close to a Basil Faulty style tantrum by the end of the night.  

Really is not that hard. Just like pouring black velvet you flatten the lemonade by pouring it backwards and forwards between two glasses. Its then easy to pour.

[blue army 1988]

I really hope no one has lost their job because of relegation.

 

 

 

 

With the exception of the bar staff in the 1884.

[Vlad the Fox]

1 hour ago, sylofox said:

Really is not that hard. Just like pouring black velvet you flatten the lemonade by pouring it backwards and forwards between two glasses. Its then easy to pour.

Like I said, a right ball ache  

[OntarioFox]

22 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

Vaguely know somebody who works (ed) in the community programme at some level and they said to me back in April they'd be out if we got relegated and there was plenty of tension about it. Only a friend of a friend really but assume they have now left.

Likewise a friend of mine in the media department. The crew they'll need in the Championship is a skeleton of the requirements for the global reach of the Premier League.

 

I called it months ago that he and a few others I know would see their jobs on the line. He's now handed his notice in and is moving elsewhere to seek work. Jumped before he was pushed apparently as he fully expected to be made redundant before the Cov game, and wants to find work at another club rather than miss the boat ahead of the new season.

Edited 19 July 2023 by OntarioFox