Telford Manager 'Baffled' By Funding Allocation

AFC Telford manager Gavin Cowan says he is 'baffled' by how the National League decided to share out the £10M government grant.

Telford's average gate last season was 1148 and they are set to receive £30,000 per month.

"The National League have taken weeks to come up with a plan, to have such a simplistic and illogical way of distributing the money to me is baffling," said Cowan as reported by the Shropshire Star.

"Don’t get me wrong, if they’d have spent three weeks and come up with some brilliant formula then we can all sit back and applaud.

"But the logic of Brackley, who get 300 supporters, getting the same amount as what we do, when we get 1,000-plus, is baffling.

"Brackley have a money man. I can’t put it any clearer, so they’re going to be rubbing their hands together because they’ll be getting more money than they get through the gate.

"We’re going to be getting less money than we’d get through the gate. It defies belief.

"The decision has taken so many weeks and to be so simplistic it defies logic. We put so much time putting spreadsheets together for what our income was, it’s tough to take.

"I can understand why other clubs feel like this too. But rest assured there will be your Brackleys and other clubs with low attendances rubbing their hands together."