Ticket prices.

Quote: batleyrhino "Except businesses need both regular and occasional customers so we can’t really take that approach.

There will have been careful scenario planning with estimates based on different attendances at different prices. GH has had a pint where he thinks they can make the most profit, but that’s also largely dependent on the product on the pitch too.

It’s a careful balance with many variables, if the team improves then attendances will be higher, poor performances or results and attendances will decline. Just goes to prove people come for the rugby not the stadium.'"

Agreed, you'd get 15,000 in a shed if Leeds were spanking everyone every week.

It's a multi-faceted business though isn't it: the improved facilities are an investment in the next 50 years or so. They help us attract, in theory, better players, better sponsors, international fixtures (which help raise the profile of the venue and the brand, helping with better players and sponsors..). Better options for revenue with hospitality and catering.

Getting it right on the pitch is far more variable, and much harder to control. Being probably the richest and best-organised club in England doesn't automatically guarantee sporting success, as some fans seem to expect.

Our current side (and particularly last year) reminds me a little of this classic 1996 team, for those that remember! Except we don't have a tough core to the pack (a la McDermott, Newton, Morley, Mercer). Probably 5/6 players in there that you would put into a truly competitive side.

Leeds: St Hilaire, Golden, Iro, Bell, Hassan, Kemp, Holroyd, Mercer, Shaw, McDermott, Newton, Morley, Hulme. Subs Hughes, Field, Fozzard, Tuipulotu.

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