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Really it is not rocket science. At the start of a season you work out your minimum income and don't spend more than it. If you have a good year you make a profit, if you have a bad year you break even.
Quote: Joff "Yup, future feeder clubs to SL. When SL becomes more multinational, the small time heritage clubs can choose to be feeder clubs or join BARLA.'"
Well if you want to talk small time and heritage then you can add Huddersfield, Castleford, Wakefield, Salford and Widnes to the list. We will be left with perhaps 6 independent and fully professional clubs in the UK. Is that what we really want? Frankly, I don’t.
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: mapleyther "Well if you want to talk small time and heritage then you can add Huddersfield, Castleford, Wakefield, Salford and Widnes to the list. We will be left with perhaps 6 independent and fully professional clubs in the UK. Is that what we really want? Frankly, I don’t.'"
In the current sports market place, a league that involves 4k gates at Widnes, Wakey and Salford cannot and will not deliver a decent TV deal.....without that deal, the game will wither and die.
Hard choices need to be made. Wakefield......either merge with Castleford or at least share a new stadium. Widnes.....sorry, but natural selection is doing it's job there as it is in Salford......both clubs need an injection of major cash or a shot of strychnine ......Huddersfield can either step up their game or join another merged super club........if we continue to let the tail wag the dog we will be dead as a pro sport inside twenty years.....
Quote: Call Me God "In the current sports market place, a league that involves 4k gates at Widnes, Wakey and Salford cannot and will not deliver a decent TV deal.....without that deal, the game will wither and die.
Hard choices need to be made. Wakefield......either merge with Castleford or at least share a new stadium. Widnes.....sorry, but natural selection is doing it's job there as it is in Salford......both clubs need an injection of major cash or a shot of strychnine ......Huddersfield can either step up their game or join another merged super club........if we continue to let the tail wag the dog we will be dead as a pro sport inside twenty years.....'"
You know it won't happen , same conversation in 10 years time
I enjoyed watching Wires when a lot of the players were semi pro and we played in a crumbling wreck of a ground with an often godawful team. If the game goes semi pro again it doesn't mean it will cease to exist or people who have enjoyed it all their lives will stop liking it. RL attracts some drama queens.
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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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