76030_1540929970.jpgJESUS WEPT HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg
Quote: Clearwing "Disappearing over the horizon, more like.'"
As I posted a while back, it took soccer eons and billions of dollars to get a foothold over there and when it did, it was mainly because of the Hispanic population. Union has tried and thus far had lower than average results, but their most recent attempt at establishing a comp also failed abjectly, but they do have a sport that is played in colleges......something we don't.
Building from the top down doesn't work and I suspect money and patience will run out pretty quickly unless a US TV firm picks up the rights and pushes hard.....and if and when we get a team in NTC, we really need someone better than a PE teacher from Huddersfield at the helm!
Quote: wakefieldwall "In fairness I think you'd struggle to find anything other than a massive stadium in the US. The attendances at the recent world cup were a bit hit and miss, many more than 5k at England v Lebanon?'"
most of the soccer stadiums in the MLS are now 20-30k purpose built rectangular stadiums. RU have used the 25k Red Bull Arena in New York.
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HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. 
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