by Snowflake Royal »
11 Dec 2023 07:58
Brogue Horsham Royal fwiw 2022 accounts says average of 249 including 39 players.
Indeed. 2020 we had 500 staff. But we have a lot less now, however the biggest drop in numbers is match day staff and 2021 (which is the year the 2022 accounts are reported on) was a year still affected by covid. So it’s very tricky to get a representative figure today. Match day staff will be up but then we may have cut our cloth after relegation. But ultimately it’s all still very small numbers really when we are talking about 7k split between either 500 staff or 250 staff £35 or £14, meh . The fundraising would have needed to have raised hundreds of thousands to cover the wages of the unpaid staff. So the whole thing was silly in the first place. But assuming the staff get paid in full this month star had a choice - split the money 250 ways or choosing to go the path they have, which is to put on a Christmas party for all. The staff apparently haven’t had a Christmas party in 3 years. I dunno perhaps they have made the wrong call. I just don’t see it being the massive thing that Twitter are making it out to be.
Matchday staff work about 30 days a year.
Quite a few are probably temps paid by agency, not on staff contracts paid directly by the club.
They should of course be paid, and even a small gap from missed pay can make a difference to people, but, it's hardly the same thing.
Just dividing the total by total employees when that includes players who aren't included, and matchday staff who may or may not be paid by the club and did about 4 day's work for the period, rather than 20 odd, is rather daft.
hardly going to make a difference to them is it? Putting on a party seems like a nice idea and with 7k I reckon they could put on something quite nice. You’d like to think the club could offer the conference centre/ directors boxes as the venue free of charge. 7k would go quite far on booze and food.
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