I vaguely recall that there was some discussion on here a year ago about how there *was *some financial implication about whether we finished xth or yth. 100,000 quid per place maybe? ( My memory is awful!)
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:38 PM, David Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed we're up to 11th, follow our recent successes. So I thought that > must be a worth a bit of prize money, finishing 11th rather than 15th. > > So I tried to find out how much each team gets in prize money per place in > the league. I can't find a list anywhere, and indeed I found one thread in > a forum from 2013 that said only the first and second placed teams in the > Championship get any prize money at all. > > Why do the first and second place team need prize money at all, when > they're going to get millions and millions in the PL, in appearance money, > parachute payments if/when they get relegated for instance? > > And wouldn't a tiered prize money structure give some meaning to those end > of season games where neither relegation nor play-offs is on the cards if > prize money is at stake? If each place in the league was worth say > GBP250,000 then keeping on trying right to the end of the season, and > therefore in the process entertaining your fans (paying customers that is, > and isn't that what it's all about ), would surely happen? > > DRB > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER
