The star says Moore is a millionaire businessman, is that correct?

lets hope he doesn't follow David Hughes' guide to running a Rugby league club then, or he wont be a millionaire for long

Most adjectives in the Star relate to more physical attributes, so would guess "millionaire" is the only financial one they have for businessmen. However from the club's viewpoint it's more how much of their wealth they are prepared to put into the club with no or low expectation it will ever come back out again. I think the euphemism is "pledge" to the cause.

His assets can no doubt be added up to whatever you like, but that doesn't mean he has diddly squat available to throw at his hobbies.

I'd say there were around eight clubs with sufficient financial backup to to feel secure. However, eight clubs is not really sufficient to make a decent league competition, so some of the 'also rans' are necessary to 'fill out' gaps in the fixture list. I certainly can't see fewer than ten clubs for a competitive league without duplicating fixtures too much and twelve is even more realistic minimum for a sensibly organised competition.

We don't have any big 'money men' behind us but, being in one of the largest cities in England, we do have the advantage of a large potential audience, much larger than most of the obvious rivals so, all things being equal, it's likely that with gates even averaging around C5k, we'd be able to pass muster as a middle ranking side, in SL.

Of course, you never know the future. In a couple of years it may well be that there are a dozen financially backed clubs, or it may be down to half a dozen, no one knows - we just need to keep chipping away.

I think the ability to fund a successful Superleague club is one of those areas where "size does not matter". Only 4 of the top 20 cities per the 2011 census even have a RL team. A gate of 5k is over 3k down on last year - or another £500k less funding from our current position.

So while Bradford is the 6th largest city in the UK by population - I think it is also likely that since the glory days the number of reasonably well paid jobs in the city has fallen and more HQ or professional organisations have fled to Leeds - or even further afield. The hard core Bradford RL support is a much smaller % of the population than it is in say Wigan or Hull ( If you push through the merger

I must agree there my friend. It's a false economy to reduce staffing levels that are already cut to the bone.
Why not raise a new reduced 6 game season ticket at a reduced cost for Xmas. Say £90 for 6 games, if they got
1000 supporters equals £90k. And if we are to assume this figure of £400k was to be saved over the year or £37k per month.
The first £90k would go a fair way to buying them time to get their act together, plus they would be earning from the season starting.

One of the Unique Selling Points of Odsal, is the fact that it has the room that other stadiums don't have. So even 25,000 supporters would not be a problem. So sell e'm cheap and stack e'm high as the supermarkets do.

The share option and our £650k back would also help. Note that, I believe , 2014 is the last year of the current SKY deal, so we don't really know the amount of compensation, or in fact if the contract has been re - negotiated as yet?

Wasn't it "selling them cheap" that was fairly instrumental in getting you into the current position?
People value what they pay for, dumping a product onto the market devalues the product.

The SKY deal doesn't run out till the end of 2016 season

The Stadium devalues the offering to the paying public. Is it right that Odsal is just a past memory and any attachment to it is now outdated and probably very costly.

Having the money to be able to afford to invest in a SL club takes more than a million....ask Ken Davy or David Hughes. Dr K at Salford is going to discover how expensive a hobby it can be.
rlhttps://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/jun/28/number-1millionpound-homes-up-thirdrl
323,684 Properties in the UK valued at a million+.....adding another 1,500 to that number very week... Millionaires are ten a penny nowadays.

As I've said elsewhere, when the season tickets were sold cheaply, they were TOO cheap. The board at the time clearly thought that people would be turning up every week and spending money to cover the short fall from the reduced ticket prices. That didn't happen. But a reduced priced ticket for a fixed number of games is something I think would be a winner. I know several people who can't go to every game due to other commitments so something like this would appeal to them.

This sort of offer is usually - as in the Bulls offer last season - well into the season due to the risk of season ticket holders down trading, so the consequent reduction in sales value is more likely to be greater than the gain. For each full season ticket holder down trading you would need at least three casual uptradersons.

The club should really push the 2 home pre season friendlies as 'balance the books' games. Contact all 11,000 previous season ticket holders asking them to come along to help the cause. If they charge £20 and get 10,000 at each game that's the full 400k. Not sure if we would need to split the gates with the opponents but even if we did that would still wipe off half the deficit. Just a thought.

I agree, sounds like a great idea... almost sounds to good to be true though...

I think someone said it would take 3500 to break even on cost, not sure if this is the case or not.

I would certainly pay £20 if it was going to help and in return watch 80 minutes of rugby even if it was a friendly!!