Rob wrote:We've never had the lowest budget in the league post Haslam. Cox did have his budget rightly cut as we were going nowhere, but it was still a decent budget, Darren posted the figures a while back.
Your wrong again Rob
Paul Cox's budget of around £1.6 million in 2013-2014 was cut in half in 2014-2015 to around £800,000 and we had one of the lowest budgets in League 2 for that season and in 2015-2016.
Here is an extract from my previous post:
"The playing budget was only around £600,000 in JR's early years and prospective managers in May/June 2011 including Paul Cox, Justin Edinburgh, Richie Barker, Dave Penney, Paul Hall, Marcus Law and Ronnie Moore were told the playing budget would be around £650,000. It increased to around £1 million after Paul Cox's first season in 2011-2012 and further increased to £1.6 million in 2012-2013. There were then promotion bonuses paid on top. The budget stayed the same for our first season in the EFL in 2013-2014 but was then cut in half to around £800,000 in 2014-2015.
Paul Cox and Adam Murray did very well to keep the Stags in the league in 2014-2015 with the £800,000 playing budget. Paul Cox had to sell our best player Sam Clucas to the Spireites to help the club raise money and he had to recruit players from overseas with no EFL experience like Alex Fisher and Fergus Bell. Micky Moore was Paul Cox and Adam Murray's assistant manager and he describes keeping the Stags in League 2 in 2014-2015 as one of his finest achievements in football. The Stags were 19th when Adam Murray took over as manager and we finished 21st. The Stags had a better record under Paul Cox for the first 17 games. The Stags were arguably lucky to stay up as we lost eight of our last nine games and only finished up with 48 points. The game we did win was a 1-0 home win against Tranmere Rovers who along with Cheltenham were terrible that season and ended up being relegated.
Total Wages for Club (including non playing staff)
2011-2012: £1,344,256 (Paul Cox finished 3rd in National League)
2012-2013: £2,328,070 (Paul Cox won National League)
2013-2014: £2,071,080 (Paul Cox finished 11th in League 2)
2014-2015: £1,486,334 (Paul Cox and Adam Murray finished 21st in League 2)
2015-2016: £1,464,626 (Adam Murray finished 12th in League 2)
2016-2017: £1,884,466 (Adam Murray/Steve Evans finished 12th in League 2)
2017-2018: £3,762,389 (Estimated)* (Steve Evans/David Flitcroft finished 8th in League 2)
2018-2019: £5,015,644 (Estimated)** (David Flitcroft finished 4th in League 2)
2019-2020: £5,706,953 (Estimated)*** (John Dempster/Graham Coughlan finished 21st in League 2)
2020-2021: No information provided in accounts filed at Companies House.
* = £1,600,221 for 6 months from 1st July to 31st December 2017 + £2,162,168 (50% of total wages for year ended 31st December 2018).
** = £2,162,168 (50% of total wages for year ended 31st December 2018) + £2,853,476 (50% of total wages for year ended 31st December 2019)
*** = Total wages for year ended 31st December 2019"