Some probs with the maths there though:

1. You need to deduct VAT from the attendances receipts - about £1/3m

2. You need to add 12.8% NIC onto the players' salaries - about £200k.

You are down to £1m left already.

glad things are sorted for wakey onwards and upwards

i never said you sold players to pay off the tax bill.

its not 1995 anymore, as much as a keighley fan wishes it were.

there is enough money, you just have to cut back on what you spend.

I know it would mean the sport regressing to some degree but if a club can generate £3M to £4M then they could still operate to a good standard.

At present we have clubs spending more than the business model suggests they should and that's fine as long as nothing goes wrong.

What would happen to the Giants if Ken Davey pulled out tomorrow or Salford if John Wilkinson pulled out there.

Understood. And when you think that Hudds and Quins each lost well over £1m, and all bar Hull FC lost money (Leeds was unusual and they can stand it, and Bulls was effectively break-even after several years of profit so you can exclude them both too), then you can see that even WITH the TV money the game is - as Peter Hood said last year - "built on foundations of sand". Scary.

You're right, but the problem then comes that we either cut down on squad sizes, which obviously means less strength in depth or we reduce the wages of all players and accept the fact that more top players will go to Union.
In my opinion we need to develop and expand the sport into new areas and try and eventually get all clubs to an average crowd of around 9 or 10,000. Only at that level (in my opinion) will a club really be consistently competitive.

i think Wakey forgot about that last year

If I'm being really honest, I couldn't be @rsed to work out the tax and NIC

yeah lets drag SL down to wakeys level.

if you cant compete with the top SL clubs, give someone else a turn to do it.

im sure a few clubs outside SL will do better.