i think this is called balancing the books. its what business s have to do in the real world. the fact is that no team in superleague (to my knowledge) is bringing in enough money to spend the full salary cap and are instead going cap in hand to their sugar daddies or racking up huge debts. hardly an impressive business model.
personally think more clubs should be run this way. it used to be called cutting your cloth to suit

Great news.

Really glad Wakefield have managed to see this off.

Now hope the club cab move on and progress on and off the field for the sake of the fans if nobody else.

seconded!
Amazing just how petty and negative RL fans can be.......we should all want the same thing....the Game to flourish and grow....and we should do anything we can to help achieve it.
For example, look at me....

I am agreeing with a cottage burning, sheep worrying, over quota, supporter of a team full of aussies that stole Widnes place in Superleague...all for the good of the game

Who says we had to sell players? How much where the squad paid last year i am assuming you know this? Maybe we didn't want to spend up to the 1.5 maybe we knew we had a hefty tax bill coming? too many questions to make so many assumptions and you should never assume anything.

You need to do a little more research.

I don't actually think that the only reason Atkins went was to pay this one bill...

but either way, I don't see anything wrong with deciding how much you can spend, and only spending that amount. Wakefield are doing pretty well with other people's cast offs, so why would we want to hang on to players that want to go elsewhere for more money.

Good accounting if you ask me (and it's been a long time since anyone has been able to say that about Wakefield)

How can having a tax debt of £350K+ and going down to the wire in the courts with the tax authorities be deemed good accounting. It is great news for the club/fans that the debt has been paid.

if the money came from the funds realized from the sale of BV then thats a real worry.

SL needs as many clubs as possible who can SUSTAINABLY spend the full salary cap

i really hope the clubs gets a new ground soon

if fax and leigh can get their acts together they could easily be like widnes a few years down the track and knocking out SL clubs like cas, salford etc for a SL spot

How the hell have Hull KR sneeked under the radar with all this talk about sub standard grounds? "New" CP is on a par with Cas at best!

It's a decent point, but its probably that it would be much easier to redevelop New Craven Park than it would Wheldon Road.

Yea... Just let the gale from the North sea blow it down and then rebuild it from rubble.

look what hull kr have managed to achieved in their short time in SL compared to both cas and wakey.

their ground is improving, they spend full salary cap, they have a good away following.

it mightnt be the best ground in SL but it is improving.

hey Lizzie Dripping,
you forgot they're £3 million in debt!