A few random thought following on from the 'tinpot cup' comment:
Anything past the 1st round of the FA Cup counts as unbudgeted income.
If we'd made it to the 3rd round and drawn a big team , how much unbudgeted income would that have been?
With the prospect of a cup run helping to speed up their payments, I wonder if the unpaid staff were looking at the FA cup as 'tinpot'?
And if you weren't prepared to try and rescue a replay in the last 10 minutes for the sake of the fans who'd put up with that shite, Carl, why couldn't you have had a go to try and progress further and earn a bit more for those poor sods who are going into another Christmas period still up to their eyes in hock? A cup run could have made a huge difference to so many people, but as far as I could see, Fletcher did nothing to try and rescue a draw.