No one in this league is paying £175 to £200 standard match fee per player - No chance
They'll be clubs at the top end of Nat 2 not paying this amount
£200 x20 players
x26 games = 104K
With that 104k, you'd also need to pay for coaches, kit, training facilities, travel, physios, registrations, fines, equipment and anything else. Add that all up and you'd have a senior budget of anywhere from 150-200k per season. Do you honestly think that the majority of Nat 2 clubs are shelling this out? I would have thought the majority would be half of this, as where does that amount of money come from year on year?
I'd be surprised that any club would be dishing out £100 a game as standard in this league (that's 40k)!
Imagination and Chinese whispers distorting realism