Town's status as a club in League 2

Quoted from MrFisherman

Why do people talk bollox like this as its always taken from a biased viewpoint and not worth reading

Yet you still read it, AND commented!  Love you too x.

Portsmouth 16391
Plymouth 8798
Luton 8226
Blackpool 7052
Doncaster 6500
Leyton Orient 5332
Cambridge 5262
Grimsby 5057
Notts County 4860
Carlisle 4838
Crewe 4551
Wimbledon 4138
Colchester 4136
Exeter 4008
Wycombe 3984
Yeovil 3936
Hartlepool 3890
Cheltenham 3706
Mansfield 3439
Stevenage 3349
Newport 2731
Crawley 2405
Barnet 2358
Accrington 1834
Morecambe 1572

Above is the list of last season's average home attendances for us and our opponents in League Two next year. I have upped ours and Cheltenham's by 700 to adjust for increased average away support (+450) and increased home support (+250). It's not very scientific as some clubs like Barnet have other income streams, Cambridge have money left from Man Utd away, etc, but it's a crude way of showing how much we are able to compete. Each additional 1000 average home punters per game over a season is worth roughly an extra £250-300k to a club's seasonal playing budget.

So, size of club measured in home support is important. The list makes us eighth (7th if Plymouth go up) and should be a good marker of expectation for next season..

We averaged 5100 in Slade's "nearly" season so I think 5000 is achievable as an average, I can't see that many away teams who are going to bring over 500 though, Most of the teams with big support are in the far south or west coast, both long journeys, Donny, Cambridge. Notts County and Hartlepool should bring a few. I can't see more than half a dozen 500+ away crowds though.

Quoted from GrimRob

We averaged 5100 in Slade's "nearly" season so I think 5000 is achievable as an average, I can't see that many away teams who are going to bring over 500 though, Most of the teams with big support are in the far south or west coast, both long journeys, Donny, Cambridge. Notts County and Hartlepool should bring a few. I can't see more than half a dozen 500+ away crowds though.

If it`s a Saturday Pompey will bring 500+

We'll need all the support we can get because the wage bill is going to jump if we want to attract better quality players to the club. I think the average salary in League 2 is £65,000 to £85,000 a year, which is a jump from what we pay now. I think it is around £40,000 to £50,000 average at the top end of the National League. Of course, we will now have League money coming in and hopefully the attendances will increase. We must have done alright financially last season too, so i think we are more than capable of not only competing, but doing rather well if PH gets the signings right.

Quoted from ginnywings

We'll need all the support we can get because the wage bill is going to jump if we want to attract better quality players to the club. I think the average salary in League 2 is £65,000 to £85,000 a year, which is a jump from what we pay now. I think it is around £40,000 to £50,000 average at the top end of the National League. Of course, we will now have League money coming in and hopefully the attendances will increase. We musthave done alright financially last season too, so i think we are more than capable of not only competing, but doing rather well if PH gets the signings right.

League 2 players on average earn 70 k ish ... wow
I wonder how many players in the dog and duck actually do earn a grand a week any stats out there

According to Sporting Intelligence on Twitter as recently as yesterday the average League Two wage is £40,350PA. Obviously younger players will get a lot less than more senior players who can perhaps demand the £1kpw money but I'm lead to believe that the average isn't that much more than what we were paying on the 10 month "year" contracts in the Conference (top earner around £1kpw, average £700).

Quoted from LH

According to Sporting Intelligence on Twitter as recently as yesterday the average League Two wage is £40,350PA. Obviously younger players will get a lot less than more senior players who can perhaps demand the £1kpw money but I'm lead to believe that the average isn't that much more than what we were paying on the 10 month "year" contracts in the Conference (top earner around £1kpw, average £700).

These figures look more realistic

Quoted from LH

According to Sporting Intelligence on Twitter as recently as yesterday the average League Two wage is £40,350PA. Obviously younger players will get a lot less than more senior players who can perhaps demand the £1kpw money but I'm lead to believe that the average isn't that much more than what we were paying on the 10 month "year" contracts in the Conference (top earner around £1kpw, average £700).

Perhaps the use of the word average is misleading as like you say, the younger players and YT's will bring the overall average down but for the top players, even in non league, you would be looking up to the £1000 a week mark and in League 2 i would suspect £1000 up to £1500 a week for the top performers. There will also be teams that have much smaller wage budgets that also bring down the overall average in any given league. PH mentioned that some non league sides that you wouldn't suspect are paying surprisingly large wages and even said that one player went from league 1 to the national league for a better contract.

FGR must be sick looking at that. One of their fans told me that they have several players on 3k per week!