OK.
hope our s/l application wont cost so much

Widnes will have good liquidity.

Obvious they will lose on year 1. That will soon be re-couperated.

No championship club get anywhere near a 1m turnover, hence the reaon they are one shoe in. Fax will need to double their gates to get anywhere near this!

Why, your gates aren't double ours?

He's an Arab compared to our owner!!

snowy is a leigh fan, he's not trying to get involved in any bickering between widnes and fax and whose dick is the biggest, but merely pointing out that halifax (and any other heartland championship club) have to increase their attendances to widnes' level to even stand a chance of an application to sl to be successful

Spot on , Quite simply all non SL clubs and the RFL should be making the doubling of all clubs attendances the biggest priority

Unfortunatley the RFL dont have a clue , or they dont want strong heartland clubs outside SL

Take your pick

What is needed is personnel as in ' workers ' on the ground , something for them to work from and then money to allow the clubs to offer good deals or preferably free entry

Plus a dozen other things

I wont be holding my breath

In the Championship this year 6 clubs have provided the best , closest finish to any RL [ and possibly any sports ] competition ever in living memory

3 other clubs in this comp have also provided upsets to those 6 clubs

Only Leigh and Donny [ for obvious reasons ] have failed to step up to the mark

The majority of Money SO'C has pumped in is what he WANTED to!

I.e. the new seats... internet cafe areas inside stadium for players add the debts paid off that's all taht cost gone after 1 season! So you take that away next season and you'll prob find we'll be looking healthier than any other side in this league!

Also the hiring of TO'C, Sacking and hiring coaches etc comes into it all. The club now has everything already set in place (bar players arguabbly) so nothing else is needed next year whereas say Halifax now need to finish that stand... 100k? And run youth team... ours was 250k? So see how they start to add up etc!

The shay stadium isn't owned by Fax, we rent it.

would hope we dont lose equivalent to our turnover in developing a youth team!

lets see

:s Most football clubs are either in debt or operate at a loss. It how they substain it. Rugby league is different because of the cap but some will still do this.
I think thats right about RL anyway.

Plus if widnes win the 150k in the final, they'll be laughing.

again, this is all boring diatribe

The same thing that happens when warrington's or huddersfield's or Barrow's, We cut back. But we would still be the biggest club outside of SL with the biggest Salary cap.

SOC made it clear he was going to spend £1M or therabouts on infrastructure. He did it, its done.

This seasons figures will be more telling. Read into it what you like, the real scary thing for you should be that in a disappointing season where we were knocked out of the playoffs in round 1, out of the norther rail in the Quarters and finished just in the playoffs we managed an income of Near £1M.

No one in this league could do the same, time to raise your game boys.