After interviewing Paul Caddis, the Non-League Paper have a long wide ranging feature with Chester’s manager Calum McIntyre. Turning to budgets Chris Dunlavy writes:
“Even Scunthorpe? The Iron relegated from the National League in May, are spending heavily under new owner David Hilton and according to one rival manager have a budget to rival clubs in League One.
God forbid I’d give an interview suggesting a club had more cash than another one, laughs McIntyre. That would be horrendous wouldn’t it?
It’s not my place to talk about other club’s resources and, to be quite honest, it’s boring. Other clubs have got what they’ve got to spend. My focus is on my own resources and how I can use them to build a successful team.
Based on recruitment alone, Scunthorpe will be massive favourites.”
McIntyre’s reticence on finances contrasts with the Hereford FC approach. Josh Gowling regularly stated that he had a bottom eight budget. Notwithstanding the promotion of better resourced Kidderminster and Fylde, Paul Caddis again put on record in his NLP interview that Hereford had a bottom eight budget.This surprised some as only South Shields of the promoted clubs appear to be well resourced.
Given that Hereford’s average attendance is consistently more than double half the teams in the division it puzzles many fans how over the last few seasons top three crowds have been turned into bottom eight budgets given the susbstantial losses which have been incurred.
The full (paywall) interview is at (https://www.thenonleaguefootballpaper.com/features/the-big-interview/442017/calum-mcintyre/