League 1 it is then

[DCFCArmy]

It’s quite funny Forest fans are desperate to try and wind us up about trips to Accrington and Cambridge etc

The thing is I couldn’t care less, I’d sooner play clubs like this than the Man Cities who just monopolise the sodding game and your gonna smashed by 5 or 6 against most Prem sides anyway

Leeds are bragging about being big time yet they are 16th and their best hope is to be a middling premiership club it’s tragic to be honest

Leicester will soon find themselves slipping back at some point because sorry to break it to you but you ain’t in the bubble, once those owners sod off and hand over to a fleecer you’re finished and back in the championship eventually

[ramAnag]

Of course it is and of course it is.

Hmmm. Sounds like you’re condoning parasitic professional practice to me. I honestly expected better and I don’t think I’m being ‘selective’ either. I’ve never, touch wood, needed serious surgery either but I recognise the need for surgeons. It’s just that I know I couldn’t do what they can whereas with accountants...even on the occasions when I did have full responsibility for whole school budgets (I know you’ll gasp at that ) I managed to get the books to balance with the aid of nothing more than a secretary and a calculator. Really wasn’t that hard.

[Andy_Faber]

Hmmm. Sounds like you’re condoning parasitic professional practice to me. I honestly expected better and I don’t think I’m being ‘selective’ either. I’ve never, touch wood, needed serious surgery either but I recognise the need for surgeons. It’s just that I know I couldn’t do what they can whereas with accountants...even on the occasions when I did have full responsibility for whole school budgets (I know you’ll gasp at that ) I managed to get the books to balance with the aid of nothing more than a secretary and a calculator. Really wasn’t that hard.

thats not accountancy, thats bookkeeping. Please don't demean professions you don't unerstand

[Trickytreesreds]

It’s quite funny Forest fans are desperate to try and wind us up about trips to Accrington and Cambridge etc

The thing is I couldn’t care less, I’d sooner play clubs like this than the Man Cities who just monopolise the sodding game and your gonna smashed by 5 or 6 against most Prem sides anyway

Leeds are bragging about being big time yet they are 16th and their best hope is to be a middling premiership club it’s tragic to be honest

Leicester will soon find themselves slipping back at some point because sorry to break it to you but you ain’t in the bubble, once those owners sod off and hand over to a fleecer you’re finished and back in the championship eventually

No one has to wind you up.
All that has to happen, is Derby lose a match and you're handing out the 7.62mm for the firing squad.
You can paint the don't care picture all you like. The only time you've been seen on here, is to have a rabid rant like a madman, then disappear for weeks on end until you stop frothing at the mouth.

Now it's a doesn't matter and I'm pleased scenario? cOMEDY GOLD
Please continue, it's really quite funny.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Hmmm. Sounds like you’re condoning parasitic professional practice to me. I honestly expected better and I don’t think I’m being ‘selective’ either. I’ve never, touch wood, needed serious surgery either but I recognise the need for surgeons. It’s just that I know I couldn’t do what they can whereas with accountants...even on the occasions when I did have full responsibility for whole school budgets (I know you’ll gasp at that ) I managed to get the books to balance with the aid of nothing more than a secretary and a calculator. Really wasn’t that hard.

I used to help my 4 year old with Jolly Phonics, without even a secretary. He ended up being able to read very well, so I'm sure I'd make an excellent head teacher. Really wasn't that hard 😃

[ramAnag]

I used to help my 4 year old with Jolly Phonics, without even a secretary. He ended up being able to read very well, so I'm sure I'd make an excellent head teacher. Really wasn't that hard 😃

Lol. Touché...well almost.

‘Demean professions I don’t understand’? You justify the £350 an hour then, AF...that’s what I really don’t understand and I very much doubt I’m alone.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Don't understand, or just seethe with indignant jealousy? The more you go on about it, the more it sounds like the latter. That green eyed look does you no favours!

[ramAnag]

Don't understand, or just seethe with indignant jealousy? The more you go on about it, the more it sounds like the latter. That green eyed look does you no favours!

I’m not really ‘going on about it’, and I’m certainly not jealous. We all make our choices and I understand that...but as you and Andy seem to have adopted the roles of the ‘accountancy twins’ I’m just asking for some justification of the fees charged by accountants if Quantuma’s £350 per hour is in any way indicative. That’s all.

[Geoff Parkstone]

I'm going to have to bore you with repetition then.

1. It's a rate set by the market. If customers weren't happy, then the price would fall. If beer was £50 a pint, you wouldn't buy it, if it was £3 you would.
2. In the context of football it's cheap. As noted above, at its extreme of £4m it will cost less than the transfer fee for Buttercup (let alone his wages)
3. If it saves the football club from a date with the grim reaper, do you care about the cost? You're not paying it. You have spoken at length about the massive community value of the club - are you now saying it's not worth saving because a few blokes get paid a lot to do it? How is that different to player wages....equally disproportionate to the wage of the core supporter.
4. Compare it to the quantum of money spunked away to get the Rams in this mess...a couple of percentage points.
5. I could go on, but I doubt it will do any good. Your sense of fair days pay for a fair job seems to have been put out of joint. I doubt I can fix that for you.
6. Basically can someone justify the rate - let me answer a question with a question: does anyone need to?

[Andy_Faber]

I’m not really ‘going on about it’, and I’m certainly not jealous. We all make our choices and I understand that...but as you and Andy seem to have adopted the roles of the ‘accountancy twins’ I’m just asking for some justification of the fees charged by accountants if Quantuma’s £350 per hour is in any way indicative. That’s all.

Because that's what the market will stand, pure and simple. If these fellahs are seen (by those who are in the market, not we mere plebs) to have done a bad job, their market value may well fall. Capitalism in action.

Edit: I was going to make some of the same points as GP but I'm watching the snooker so CBA. However, not only was my number 2 the same as GP's number 2 by was going to use the same 'player' in my narrative...