Traffic Issue?

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If staff live away from this town by choice, then they should pay for the mini bus & driver !

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If your employer offered you a years contract and then expected you to move home would you? Being out on a geographical limb we already struggle to attract the right calibre of players. A lot of players in their mid/late twenties and beyond have families. The financial realities of short term contracts at this level dictate the behaviour.
Alas it might not be "rocket science" but it is never quite as simple as it seems...

Quoted from barralad

[quote=3172]
If staff live away from this town by choice, then they should pay for the mini bus & driver !

/quote]

If your employer offered you a years contract and then expected you to move home would you? Being out on a geographical limb we already struggle to attract the right calibre of players. A lot of players in their mid/late twenties and beyond have families. The financial realities of short term contracts at this level dictate the behaviour.
Alas it might not be "rocket science" but it is never quite as simple as it seems...

Well mate - perhaps the long-term strategic answer to this particular topographical-demographic conundrum is simply to take the fantastic new stadium idea to the extreme and build the Youngs/J Fenty Superbowl Arena somewhere near Doncaster...or Milton Keynes maybe.  They have excellent transportation links.

Only joking.   Or am I?

I'll get me coat.

It would be a valid point if it weren't for the fact that many people on here are expected to move house potentially every 3 years, or even less. The military have a habit of pesky postings to the nether regions of the country and moving house isn't really a choice. It's a necessity. Footballers are paid, dare I say, more handsomely than most airmen, sailors and soldiers so yeah, make them move to the area their employer is and if they can't or won't, don't employ them.
Town have a few local guest houses that they use to house the younger or single players, I remember Ryan Bennett saying he had done great times as a young player in those digs, perhaps we offer a relocation package that isn't as attractive to some more senior players? Who knows what goes on in contract negotiations?!

Quoted from Biccys

It would be a valid point if it weren't for the fact that many people on here are expected to move house potentially every 3 years, or even less. The military have a habit of pesky postings to the nether regions of the country and moving house isn't really a choice. It's a necessity. Footballers are paid, dare I say, more handsomely than most airmen, sailors and soldiers so yeah, make them move to the area their employer is and if they can't or won't, don't employ them.
Town have a few local guest houses that they use to house the younger or single players, I remember Ryan Bennett saying he had done great times as a young player in those digs, perhaps we offer a relocation package that isn't as attractive to some more senior players? Who knows what goes on in contract negotiations?!

That couple of sentences encapsulates the problem for me. The military provide accommodation for not only single servicemen but families. The support networks are there. As you say many postings are a minimum of three years. Players signing contracts for one season at the fifth level of English professional football who have families will not want to relocate but, instead will stay in the Midlands etc. where there are several clubs within easy reach. I honestly believe that expecting players to relocate would signify the end of any possibility of ever getting back in the Football League

Quoted from barralad

I honestly believe that expecting players to relocate would signify the end of any possibility of ever getting back in the Football League

not relocating hasnt exactly worked out as yet has it ?

Maybe this season.....(again)....

Quoted from moosey_club

not relocating hasnt exactly worked out as yet has it ?

Maybe this season.....(again)....

Fair point-and I'm trying not to appear like a smart-ar*e lawyer here but I'm sure a while back we adopted such a policy-which didn't work either! We're all doomed I tell you!

Quoted from barralad

Fair point-and I'm trying not to appear like a smart-ar*e lawyer here but I'm sure a while back we adopted such a policy-which didn't work either! We're all doomed I tell you!

I'm sure Newell and Woods insisted players lived in or around Grimsby, definitely Newell anyway?

I don't give a monkeys where they live as long as we get promotion.

When I was a bricklayer I worked in London for a year and never moved lock, stock and barrel down there, so wouldn't expect players to move here for a years contract

Quoted from barralad

Fair point-and I'm trying not to appear like a smart-ar*e lawyer here but I'm sure a while back we adopted such a policy-which didn't work either! We're all doomed I tell you!

as its Panto season....

Oh no we didnt...

Quoted from moosey_club

as its Panto season....

Oh no we didnt...