chambta wrote:Dave Wayne wrote:But what is your opinion on it chambta ?
Do you think it is morally correct to use government grant funding to bring in new players, and then use further government funding (furlough) to pay players you no longer deem suitable ?
Surely the correct thing to do was to pay your existing players first ?
Rules may not have been broken but it isn't really in the spirit of what was intended. Do many other NL clubs have players on furlough while bringing in new signings ?
The club probably feel that having been deprived of the appropriate amount of ‘public’ money already through the farcical NL divvy up of lottery monies, that being creative here is fair game.
I don’t have any particularly strong feelings on it either way as it stands. When there’s detail and reasoning behind the headline I’ll conclude whether I think they were right to do this or not.
Morally right and technically and or legally correct will never be bedfellows in business nor in professional sport. Does anyone on here have that strong feelings about what has happened that they won’t fly British Airways again, Ryan Air or walk into a Wetherspoons for a pint. The behaviour of the Church Benders is not different to many a business. Wasn’t that long ago that the way we were questioning the use of furlough in relation to our grounds staff?
We are in uncharted waters and if this means clubs have to bed the rules to stay afloat then so be it. In a year or two years when the dust settles and inquiries are concluded, will anything be changed should this happen again? Hopefully.
Still, it won’t stop be typing the message, ‘Same old Spireites, always cheating’ and pressing send to my Spireite friends.