Gillingham FC Forum

So how many do we think will travel that way for an evening match and one that it televised? Some might have Wednesday's off so be able to make a trip on a Tuesday but a Monday? Lot's of moaning on social media about it but there would no doubt be a lot more had it been a home game and many couldn't go. It's not really new that games are moved for TV purposes so there shouldn't be many complaints but I hope we put on a show, we are generally woeful when the cameras are out!

I think 160

The club said on Wednesday that we had sold 150,so I would say anything up to 170 fans.I have seen the coach the fans are travelling on,and it is a very nice one! It has EFL Writing for Christmas written all over it,with the matches of all Christmas games that are coming up.Also there is a PS3 at the back of the coach with Fifa on.

What, are Sky paying for our fans to go up there????

Shoutingman! Haven't seen you about lately! Have you given up on Lucky League? Not too late to make a surge up the table and its bonus round time on Saturday!

OK I've submitted one for tonight.

Good to see you back (the next round is open now too ha ha ha).

And we think our finances are bad.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/38314682

But this time next year Bolton won't be wallowing around in 17th place in the Third Division which my bet is where we will be, playing Port Vale for the hundred and fifty sixth time, they will be in the almost big boy division playing Leeds and Swansea, Sunderland and QPR, getting gates of 15,and 20,000, having a cup run, and making money again, and where will we be , bah humbug.

Losing £800,000 a month?! I heard they were £1.8m in debt so that is getting bigger by the minute. If so Chicago, they will be bust before the end of the season not in the Championship in the next one! That new owner cannot have the funds to resolve that debt otherwise he wouldn't have had to go halves with a former average player to buy the club for what is a pittance really. And yet they beat us with players I heard were on £29,000 a week - how could we compete with that? Something clearly is still very wrong with the rules if a club can be losing that sort of money given that these rules sole intention were to prevent this kind of mismanagement.

Don't tell me you heard it on Facebook !!

The £1.8m in debt and players on £29,000 yes on the Gills page and I am not standing by any level of fact on that but the losing £800,000 a month is in the BBC link Elgrande provided and it's that that I was adding the information to if it was correct.

Ok, so lets agree that one figure in three is based on fact , the others have about as much credibility as £350 million a week for the NHS.

Ha ha, that figure was more mythical than unicorn poo! I did say "I heard" and this forum is a discussion board where quite often we speak about things we have no direct or inside knowledge of. We all have views on the clubs and the team but none of us are in the room during discussions!

However I have to concede I have no idea why I wrote £1.8m as I meant to write £180m!!! That is the figure I have spoken to others about! A quick Google search brings up a BBC article from last year that says they had lost £172.9m and if losing £800k a month will easily reach that higher total. Their chairman said they still had players on high salaries from the glory days which will end in the summer (not sure if that's £29k a month but sounds logical) so whilst I was gossiping on hearsay, it was actually correct!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/32138946

Oh well at least we won't have to worry about that happening at GFC, our top players are earning 4,296 pounds a month so I heard , it was in a "Jen u ine" post on Facefart, written by someone called Scally , so while Bolton kick our ass 4-0 and get promoted to the Championship were just happy were not going to go into debt, were going to be happy playing Port Vale in Division Three for the 3,529 time in the year 2026, BUT WWOOWW HHOOO, WERE NOT IN DEBT.